The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-04-08

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Copyright. 1910. by American Press
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1t was the old story with q varia.
ton only to occur In these days when
our weather. classes have money.
Miss Anita Beriton loved a poor man
and her father desired that she should
wed a rich one. Young Van Damn
Follansbee had but a beggarly ten mil.
lion. while the old widower Plankin.
ham ~Porkenpaker possessed a 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 a 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 vas 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. MI. Beriton. fearing that
his daughter Anita might in some of
these rides elope with Follansbee. had
given orders that August Spindleton.
a driver Of his own choosing. should
at all times conduct the machine. and
on this occasion Spindleton was Id his
accustomed seat.
Mrs. Beriton and her two daughters
entered the machine. which rose. light
~ circling upward for a thousand feet,
when Spindleton was directed to pro
coed southwark along the coast for u
brief trip to Annapolis. They were
moving at a moderate pace Of some
sixty miles an hour, when Spindleton
cast a glance to the right and. seeing
a machine coming toward the party.
clapped on double speed.
Mr.. Beriton's fears had proved to
be well grounded. Mr.. Van Damn
Follansbee. was out in a machine of
q new pattern and a bearing down
upon them. 1t was evident that Fol-
lansbee vas intending to get into
Communication with Mrs. Anita Beri-
ton.
Spindleton was true to his employer.
He drove his machine at its best speed.
passing yer cities. bays and rivers.
but his aeroplane was gradually gain
ed upon by F%ollansbee. lowering owe
Philadelphia. S%pindleton endeavored
to descend. but Follansbee glanced
down like a bird and reached a plane
beneath him. Spindleton then rose
and made a bee line for Baltimore.
But F%ollansbee. evidently with the de-
Termination to drive him out to sea-.
got to the west of him and forced him
over Chesapeake bay. In a few min
utes more the pursuer had the party
over Fortress Monroe. flying due east.
The race was o S%pindleton was
not prepared to cross the ocean. and
there was no way for him to get back
except by e%ncountering Follansbee.
%Spindleton slowed down. and Follans-
bee glided up beside the Beriton aero
plane. A conference took place. after
which Mrs. Beriton and her two daugh.
tiers stepped from their own aeroplane
into that Of Mr.. Follansbee.
Meanwhile Mr.. Beriton had left the
roof Of his Office building downtown
in One Hundred and 'Twenty-ifth
street, intending to go home. Soon aft
er rising he saw in the direction Of his
mansion an aeroplane starting. and.
selling a glass he always carried in
the smoking room Of his %capacious
bird-car, brought 1t to bear on the n
just setting out. Discovering that its
occupants were his wife and daughters
with his own aviator In control. he
was about to lay aside his glass when
he saw another aeroplane lowering
near his home. Bringing his glass to
bear on this machine. he saw Follans-
bee alone In 1t and just starting for
the one occupied BY the Beritons.
Mr.. Beriton noticed that Follansbee's
aeroplane was Of a kind he had not
seen before. II was OF the bird; type.
and On its Prov was q sharp ram.
The merchant was at once filed with
apprehension. II was plain that Fol-
lansbee was bent on son1e course con.
nected with the Beriton family. but
|it was impossible to imagine what,