Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-23

Miss Anita Beriton loved poor man,
and her father desired that she should |
wed rich one. Young Van Damn
Follansbee had but beggarly ten mil
lion. while the old widower Plankin-
ham Porkenpaker possessed cool bill
lion. Follansbee should have seen the
improperly Of asking for a girl he
could not support in the style to which
she had been accustomed, but he came
Of an old Dutch family on his moth
er's side, and the Dutchmen who set
tied New York were proverbially obsti-
nate and stupid
One would suppose that the Beritons,
who owned a railroad starting from
New York, running to New Orleans
and thence around the Pacific coast
and back through Canada. might afford
to let their daughter marry a poor
man. But panic at the time of the
courtship had reduced their dividends
to 20 per cent. and they felt unusually
poor Mrs Beriton. who had married
her husband when he was a brakeman
on one of the railroads which he after
ward united in the circular coast line
system and became that systems own
er, sympathized with her daughter, but
Beriton swore a round oath that he
would have no beggars in his family.
On the morning Of June 10, 1885,
Miss Anita Beriton was sitting with
her mother and a younger sister In the
spacious roof garden Of her fathers
residence occupying the four blocks
between Five Hundred and Tenth and
Five Hundred and Fourteenth streets
and avenues D and 81, New York,
when Mrs. Beriton proposed a ride.
One Of the family aeroplanes was call
ed and In a few minutes lit upon the
| roof garden. Mr.. Beriton, fearing that
| his daughter Anita might in some of
these rides elope with Follansbee, had
given orders that August Spindleton,
driver of his own choosing, should
at all times conduct the machine, and
on this occasion Spindleton was in his
accustomed seat
Mrs. Beriton and her two daughters
entered the machine. which rose. light
ly circling upward for a thousand feet
when Spindleton was directed to pro-
coed southwark along the coast for a
brief trip to Annapolis They were
moving at a moderate pace Of some
sixty miles an hour. when SpindIetor
cast a glance to the right and. seeing
machine coming toward the party
clapped on double speed.
Mr.. Beritons fears had proved tt
be well grounded. Mr. Van Damn
Follansbee was out in a machine o.
new pattern and was bearing dow1
upon them. 1t was evident that Fol
lansbee was intending to get int
communication with Mrs. Anita Beri
ton.
Spindleton was true to his employer
He drove his machine at it's best speed
passing over cities. bays and rivers
but his aeroplane was gradually gain
ed upon by Follansbee. lowering owe
Philadelphia, Spindleton endeavore
to descend. but Follansbee glance,
down like a bird and reached a plan
beneath him. Spindleton then ros
and made a bee line for Baltimore
But Follansbee. evidently with the de
termination to drive him out to sea
got to the west of him and forced hir
over Chesapeake bay. In a few mir
utes more the pursuer had the part
over Fortress Monroe, flying due cas-
The race was won. Spindleton wa
not prepared to cross the ocean. an
there was no way for him to get bac
except by encountering Fol1ansbe,
Spindleton slowed down, and Follan
bee glided up beside the Beriton acre
plane. A conference took place, afte
which Mrs. Beriton and her two daugI
tiers stepped from their own aeroplan
into that Of Mr.. Follansbee
Meanwhile Mr.. Beriton had left til
roof of his Office building downtow
in. One Hundred and Twenty-fift
street, intending to go home. Soon af
er rising he saw in the direction of b
mansion an aeroplane starting. ant
Selling a glass he always carried
the smoking room of his capaciou
bird-car. brought it to bear on the on
just setting out Discovering that il
!, occupants were his wife and daughter
with his own aviator in control, b
i, was about to lay aside his glass whe
he saw another aeroplane hoverin
near his home. Bringing his glass
bear on this machine. he saw Follans
bee alone in it and just starting fo
the one occupied by the Beritons.
Mr.. Beriton noticed that Follansbee
{ aeroplane was of a kind he had nc
5 seen before. It was of the bird typ,
and on it's prov was a sharp ran
1 The merchant was at once filed wit
). apprehension. 1t was plain that Flo
lansbee was bent on some course col
nected with the Beriton family, BIT
g it was impossible to imagine whs
D that course would be. 1t was not I
be expected that he would run dow
!. the Beriton car and thereby precipitat
Che girl he loved to a distance of SON
}. 500 feet. Nevertheless he was soon
full chase. Mr.. Beriton directed b
aviator to follow the two aeroplanes.
Unfortunately for Mr. Beriton's su
l cess in overtaking the others, his c;
!, was equipped with several apartment