Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-15
GIRL S FLIGHT SHORT
Katherine Reed OF Washing
ton Paid With Check.
IT WAS NOT CERTIFIED
So Grahame.White Curtails Trip
and Takes $50 Cash.
BAND PLATED TIMELY MUSIC
Aviator obdurate When Magazine
Writer Wants More Of Ride /
for Her Signature.
IT WAS NOT CERTIFIED
RAND PLAYED TIMELY MUSIC

BOSTON. September. 1J.-Couleur de
Rose--as Jimmy Martin the brains Of the
Harvard Aeronautical Society is affection
ately called by his fellew-students be-
cause of Jimmy's love Of the coior--was
| busily tying what appeared TO be q nose
bag filled with selected ground nuts to
the ears of the Harvard aeroplane, the
Ground Hog, early yesterday afternoon
at the Squantum aviation meet when
word flashed through the hangers that all
flying had stopped.
| "Hora fugit," snapped Couleur de Rose
impatiently.
| He realized well that several men and
some women and children from Boston,
who had hurried between the rain drops
by walking perfectly erect, were at that
very moment sitting on one end of the
grandstand Wiping the mist from their
spectacies the better to see a whele after
noon Of exhibition flights.
| Miss Reed Flies and LtghtA. =.
! 1t was difficult to believe back there
in the hangar Of the Ground. Hog that
not even the favorite son Of Harvard
and the Back Bay. Claude Grahame-
White Of England, was not aloft. Only
few moments before Claude had taken
wing with a passenger after Sid Mac
Donald, the Engiishmans Scotch man.
ager, had taken check from the pas
senger. Miss Katherine Reed, maya
zine writer frem Washington, D. c., IN
payment for the ride.
Nevertheless now only Hera fusit.
And on the lower surface OF each plane,
another member Of the Harvard Aeronau-
| tical Society in the hangar was explain
| ing In English to a group of Back Bay
neishbors who had made a l1asty pill.
| erimage out to Sauantum for long last
| look at the Ground Hog upon hearing
| the report that Walter Wellman is think
! ing Of making his air: dash to- Europe in
| heron the lower surface We shall letter
in classic script that may be distinguish
ed exeh xs = ceasor dc mess i y2s st
| phrase in the Latin, Ubi bene. ht 5patria!
out motto Which being ffesiy ,.trans-
lated, means ITO. he'll WITH Yafs...'a
Grooming ef7egsund Hse aesa On.
But couleur sds. ko,., nov. hssiie pei
| petuum with Iispatience. Rtft fhA he
had work to. do about the Ground, Hog,
| when if he we're over afsyh9sstartins line
| he would positively insist upon the avia-
| tors awaiting -sas.4~ 's'a.-'s'
| "Questo vento,'' Couleur' de Rose ran
on in Italian with some show Of irnpa-
thence. non criba la ,bisds::" He was
| right at that.
| "Essayez. m sius.' screamed Couleur de
| Rose at the aviators across the field
| trailing off into French in his just anger
And as the Latin tongue seized him again
| BY his side Barrett Wendell. quickly
delving into a pocket. drew forth the con-
tracts which say just how often the avia-
ApRc Aey 1A ~ o,fco he III a
receive for doing it,
"Habien cartas,'' Barrett called over
his shoulder In Spanish to CouIeur de
Rose az Barrett dashed away toward the
| distance inanii11ate fliers, ~ cafien bar
bas." Other thoughts he added, too, did
| Barrett, but distance now drowned out
all but that single first phrase, Let writ
ings speak and boards (mouths) be ST.
lent
Why Miss Reed Did Not Fly Far.
Even before this however. Grahame-
White srasped that he was being urged
to continue. his flight. !, His passenger,
Miss Reed. was doing the urging as she
sat In the Englishman's Farman machine
stubbernly and insisted upon staying
right there until he took her for fight
longer than the short spin once around
| the course which he had Just given her
| Miss Reed, 1t seems, was quite con-
WINGED that her check for 500, which she
| had just handed the Englisfman's man.
ager, Sid Macdonald. entitled her to q
ride OF at least twice the distance. in
asmuch as Grahame-White had taken
several others around the course more
than once for the same sum on days
when it was impossible to pick up more
generous fares.
The air jaunt had begun beautifully.
As last request, Miss Reed before
climbing into the .biplane, had gone to
the leader of the Sailantum Brass Band
to request that while she was flying his
artists would play the Blue Danube
| waltz.
| Just play it. d. she pleaded. "Play
| 1t for me: / love 1t sou she added pref.
THY. And no artist OF the Sauantum
Band that heard was base enough to ex-
| plain to the fair passenger that through
| out the meet the band has played God
| Save the King and the British Grena-
diers' so much that they are bit rag
sed on the ,viennese waltz.
Timely Airs Played by Band.
| But as a compromise the artists, just