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DASHED UPON SPECTATORS.

little while after that the wisdom OF
the law was shown. Frey was exhibiting
his aeroulane At Budapest As he made
turn in front Of the grandstand wire gave
way The rudder went free and the biplane
plunged into the crowded stand.
It caught the crowd unprepared. After
the first impact the machine slid back
ward 10 the foot of the stand on the heads
OF those below. carrying its wounded with
it Fifteen persons were found under the
Ryreckage Six women were taken from
under the engine, two of them dying, and
carried 10 q hospital. Frey was unharmed
On the same day an aviator lost control
of his machine while he was flying above
q country fair at Worcester, England Al
though the crowd tried 10 scatter, it was
hacked too closely The aeroplane moved
its way across the field and left fearful
swath. Nearly fifty persons were thrown
down, nine were grayeiy hurt and Two
Unharmed.
The courageous chauffeur who bitches his
car TO save another's life at the risk OF
his own already has his counterpart in the
ranks Of the aviators. Charles K Willard
was flying biplane the other day at
Springfield Mo. Suddenly his engine
STOPPED. He was 80 feet in the air, going
yt fifty miles an hour. AS the aeroplane
swooped downward Willard saw that 1t
was heading toward the crowd of watch
ers. Possibly he could make a landing be-
fore reaching them, but just at the spot
where he would strike If he did there was
G. barbed wire fence.
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A GUARDIAN NET.

To catch the machines themselves proc-
ably stout net would suffice. Imagine
the Polo Grounds tented with netting TWO
hundred feet overhead. the foul lines
marked OFF on il in red ribbons. and Doyle
popping home run into the car Of
dIr:gible lowering outside. Probably. with
the development OF the hydrogen dy, the
rules would have TO be changed to allow
only two bases on ball carried OF in an
aIIslip
Already aeronauJic science has had II,
effect on the English speech. one needs
only TO read the news accounts of Hanii-
tors recent fights to hear the lansuaSe
sroan under the strain To-day the SLANG
Of acroplaneS is on the streets: SchOolbOys
insult one another i'm terms Of ''aileronS
and air lanes. Even proverbs and ven
erabIe expressions are giving way. Who
would speak of a bird s-eye view now
that Hamilton can look down on New
York any time he pleases and tell more
apcut what he saw than all the birds since
the days OF the Phtenixe
Certainly Hamiltons route TO Philadel-
ptia was a straiShter line than any bee
line" that was ever drawn by a bee Ana
il is further from Albany TO New YORK
''as the crow flies than as Curtiss fiew.
And II 'landlubber'' is a clumsy creature.
TO be despised by SeafariuS men. what
name Of contempt Will our air lords have
for the loutish landsman seaman who
does not care for their high plane OF lifes
Moreover. IL the aviator is really
'man-hird" to-day as many writer's seem
bound TO call him. will there not be a to-
morrow when common politeness viii force
us to call women aviators lady birds''F
JOSEPH BOARDMAN. JR.
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You would almost feel ashamed 10 think
Of yourself or your earth plodding friends
while il is having its great hearted fun.
You know that II might be crippled and
fall. and you feel that thai would be a
pity. and might mean death to the man
who is riding il; but you could never dream
that il had viciousness enough in Its make
up TO do any harm TO you
The aviators. however. have known from
the first that they carried the lives OF
others with them as we'll as their own
The cooler heads have had much to say
in warning lately. and the apprentices. for
the most part have taken their words to
heart. 1t is high time.
In Germany where everything is taken
seriously. there are police regulations to
prohibit flying TO the common danger
II Is an offence TO fly over the streets or
buildings Of q city Karl Frey, WeA
known German aeronaut few in a b1plane
over a part Of Berlin. over the great ave
nue. OF Inter den Linden and one OF the
imperial palaces. He was arrested under
the ordinance and fined $50. That was late
in
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Ingenious Efforts 10 Get
Back AH-Niebf Prfx,-
fieees from f6e
Mayor.

Real night workers find themselves
valued members of society just now IN
Lobster Land, because keepers Of certain
costly restaurants and also of certain
cheap drinking kens are petitioning Mayor
Gaynor to restore the all night privileges
-Sacre! What q devil of a Mayor" curse
the restaurateurs softly behind upraised
hands Chosen on a personal liberty
platform. but trying TO put a paddock on
the town at / q. m. curfew law for
New York, 'D'y'ever hear of anything 50
ridiculous?'' And so they start anew on
tie hunt for more signatures to petition
rolls and on the oft-told tale Of countless
honest toilers and molers unable to get
LIQUOR with their victualS al o'clock in
the morning.
Now I'D TO few avs ago hardly any
body knew that LObsteria possessed any
all night workers except the help at the
inns and cafes. the night hawk chauneurS.
some public service employees, half dozen
night drug clerks and the stans of me
morning newspapers. Some of these may
own concealed wealth like the late Cap
tain Kidd; many others, of the servii"T
class. have free food and drink for their
livery; while to the common or garden
reporters and compositors OF the great
II
casionally squander 80 or sG on meal to
celebrate the joys of PAYDAY. Comparing
lobster palace prices and the average wage
Of this class of salaried employees. many
folk thought the gay night restaurants and
these nocturnal workers We're pretty nearly
as far apart as Dives and Lazarus.
But nevertheless the Long Acre night
workers rebelled last week in stormy pro-
sTvR-- Said
teIephoned it and they wrote it. Accord
ingly an investigator started out TO as
certain the dimensions of the protest.
First he inquired OF a prince of Lobsteria,
a man who runs one of the biggest places
and has made a fortune:
Amy night workers eat here?"
sure replied the proprietor, sitting up
and taking notice
How many newspaper men?'
..At least a hundred and twenty-five are
frcquenters OF this place"
Yes" chimed in the press agent of the
house forgetting TO make the figures jibe
in his enthusiasm for the cause. -Four to
ten men from The Herald sup here every
night and six 10 twelve men from The
Times; besides that, parties from The
World The Sun and other downtown pa
pers come I'D TO see us three or four times
z week.
Say said the boss, this is right
where the real journalists live It's their
favorite resort an we make it as pleas
ant for 'em as we know how. Now amt
II shame when hard working newspa-
pcr man ha. been running around town all
night getting stories, or blue -pencillins
stuff at his desk, that he can't come In
here at / or O'Clock in the morning and
buy a bite TO eat and whatever he wants
to drink? ] tell you, the boys are with
MS in this fight Seen the stories in The
Morning -?'"
How many actors sup here? pursued
The inquirer
Five hundred"
What: Actors don't eat in sunmerI"
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HOW THE WIRES SUFFER.

OF all property owners the telegraph and
telephone companies have probably suf-
fered most from the new perils of the sky.
Their wires go everyWi ere. They lie at
the precise distance from the ground that
fits them to ensnare aircraft that have
just gone up or that are just coming down
The common Or unsuccessful airship is in
one of those two states most of the time
it Is aloft. Hardly an aerial wreck is re-
ported in which wire does not play
part And the wires suffer quite often
as the airship. all comic papers to the con-
trary Notwithstanding.
II IS the balloon and the dirigible that
form the worst menace to the unofendins
countryside. The aeroplane If it finds itself
in trouble, may fall and hurt some one,
but fall it does. and gets it over with. II
does not bully a whole country and leave
path of uprooted fences and broken Chin
neys. one of the gas-borne leviathans is
likely to do when it runs amuck. A run
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away dirigfble can check itself only by an
anchor and an anchor lacks discrimination
1t will pick up a railroad bridge. a weeks
wash or a baby carriage with equal salts
faction.
Now these are the dangers OF to-day,
when aviation is squalIinS in its cradle-or.
10 be exact. cnirping in its nest What
will be the dangers of tomorrow. when II
viii darken our skies? Three men have
gore up together in an aero2lane already,
and three are enough 20 institute poker
game and a desire for seItzer- Selrzer IS
carried in bottles that would go throusn
a house if dropped from a height Of two
thousand feet And what would happen il
one of Hamiltons lighted cigarettes should
fall into a gas factory
The comic papers have exhausted them
selves in portrayfng the state of man IN
the days when ne shall have to keep an
eye on the air lanes as well as on the
ordained paths of automobiles. In sober
earnest. IT is likely 10 be many years be
tCre air craft will be 50 safely managed
that the grounding can go his way un-
imperilled- 1t present every fight ana
every descent means Ions brush across
the surface of the ground, dangerous 10
any one who may be in the way The
aercnaut cannot always choose his point
of arrival. and there is no promise OF
immediate Improvement
Who knows how farreaching the effect or
these sky perils may be? Perhaps folk
everywhere will have to give up sitting on
the front lawn. as they have done already
where automobiles are plentiful Perhaps
roof gardens will be abolished. or else COW
cred With nickel steel as shelter from an
chcrs. ballast and pieces OF disintegrated
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close TO the house, l called to my famliy
and sent them running down the hillside
A few seconds later the immense bulk was
right on top of me. An oak tree Juttlng
from the cliff caught her amidshfps, or she
would have cleared and struck the house
Just before she crashed upon the rocks L
remember that tenants of a house fifty feet
lower down the hill were flying with Wild
cries OF Our house is lost. Save your
selves.
LAS the ship struck, the shock Jared the
ground The centre of the craft was hurried
into the trees. 1 was near by A perfect
hail of trunks and branches. with pieces
of telegraph poles, fell all about me- The
airstip had broken In the middle"
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blade, matter of fact. is likely to
be flung backward as in any other direc-
ton.
Two of the modern groundling's perils
have their source exclusively in the dirig7
ihles and their parents. the balloons. Every
airship that depends upon the buoyancy
of gas to keep it afioat must throw over
board a certain amount of its load at in
tervals, to compensate for the leakage of
its gas So sand is carried up as ballast,
in sacks holding from a peck to half a
bushel
When the sand is poured out ii usually
falls in fine shower without injury to
any one. But in aerial emergencies there is
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HE TOOK HIS CHANCES.

He had e. second 10 think; then he turned
his front planes downward and drove the
machine into the fence. II was smashed
10 bits and willard was flung for a heavy
fall He was lucky TO escape with his life
Stiii he could not see why he should be
made a hero for rot trying TO soar over
the crowd and aIight beyond, which would
have been by far the safer course-for him
Charles x Hamilton is surely an aviator
Of experience and nerve He cuts up the
most appalling nnonkeyshines, seemingly
without any thought of his own safety.
There was q tine when he TOOK delight III
driving at spectators TO scare them. but it
Is said that he has given up that branch
Of the sport The rumor is that il was
nc, because he distrusted himself or his
machine, nor because Of the warnings Of
any friendly sky pilot. but because some
one who was well entitled TO opinion
hinted that she did not quite approve.
In the present state Of aviation the
f,rayest danger TO the onlooker. after the
d1sa bie6 airship itself, is the airship's pro-
r,elle5. A stout wooden blade from four
to e!eh. feet long. whirled at terrific speed,
Sc not q thing 10 be despised- No thor
oughiy sure method of fastening the pro-
I,eIier 10 its shaft has yet been devised.
Wien .,le two part company. the propeller
becomes 6 missile that would stir the
1eaiousy of = Lyddite shell. Its best
friends cannot tell which way II may ny.
and ats cutting edge can shear off tent
pole
When the French dirigfble La Repub-
lioue dropped near Paris last fall. killing
the four men of it's crew, il was found that
the accident was caused by Il broken pro-
peller shaft snapped and the blade few
Nusrd slicing through the netting and
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on the terrace of a hotel few yards from
where the air craft struck.
Il saw her coming at d great distance
he says She was rocking from side to
side and turning like a merry-So-round,
first the bow toward me- then the stern
Through a glass l saw that no one was in
the cars. For ten minutes shes came on
descending rapidly all the while. For
time she seemed to lie motionless during
a lull in the storm. Then the wind began
anew. and the airship dipped her bow as
though saluting before hurrying to her de-
struction At that time l could not esti-
mate the speed; aater it seemed terrific
''As l realized that she would strike
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pFPT s OF AVIATION lVOT Only 6r@s AVIATOR
The Number Of GroundHnes Killed and
tUounded Already Au6urs iii for the
Time Hben AfrSbips Shall Become
Nun1ero as Automobiles.

II once you have seen a hard driven
laeroplane alighting-a swoop, check, a
sshock. q leap like a shot rabbits, earth
rHying In showers. q swaying. blind charge
Pat the speed Of a runaway automobile,
'Sweeping a path OF thirty feet in breadth.
half on the ground. half off 1t, the rush
ss,ackened only by the drag OF the skids
at the end-if you have seen II once, then
ycG know why the dangers of aviation are
not all 10 the aviators.
And sou know. besides. why those who
go ont to watch the airships at play SO sell
dom think there may be any peril in il for
them This is the reason: The aeroplane
is such a free, high souled creature, it
seems so plainly to be alive and glad of its
speed, that it dominates every other thing.
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small time for politeness, and the sacks go
overheard unopened.
To have your neghbor's baby Drained by
a sandbag on your front porch is not at all
nice. And. indeed, who would order d
glass of Rhine wine on a roof garden if he
knew that some of Jamaica's unsurpassed
waterfront might be sitting into 1t the next
minute2
The second peril from lighter-than-ai
machines comes from the gas which sup
ports them. When mixed with little air
these gases form explosives of great power.
The danger from explosion was apparently
near when the German dirigible, Zeppelin
II. was wrecked last April. The great air
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ship, after driving for miles before the
gale was thrown against hill in the town
of Weilburg and crumpled into ruins n
hundred yards further, directly in the line
Of it's flight, We're three blast furnaces,
spouting fire forty feet in the air. If the
airship had carried its monstrous bel1yful OF
gas over the hill the ancient town of Well
burg would have been abolished without
any order from the Kaiser.
The Zeppelin II brought down quarter
of a mile Of telegraph line with her. The
damage that such hurtling mass of steel
might do with its impact if it landed on
the roofs of town is viVidly suggested
by the story of an eyewitness who stood
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the silken skin of the envelope and leaving
huge rents where it entered and left the
bag. The propeller found later almost
a quarter of a mile from the scene Of the
accident.
Yet aeronauts can hardly persuade the
people who crowd about their machines
that they are inviting accident Even
when the danger has been explained to
them they seem to think themselves safe
so long as they are not squarely to right or
left of the blades. Sometimes they take
their places well in front, not realizing that
when the aeroplane starts it will bring the
danger zone along with it. Again, they
will stand directly behind the machine and
close to the propeller. imagining that they
have the safest possible position. A broken
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SUSPICIOUS.

Let me show You Love letters OF Wise
Men" said the clerk in the book ens-
poriunl,
Are they sisned?" asked the cautious
hookworm-
Yes. indeed. every one OF them
Then they must be forSeries. Wise men
never sign their names 10 love letters -
Chicago News.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24

Stop your kiddin'. These do. Put this
III your notebook: Five hundred hard
working actors and actresses, dramatists,
critics. theatrical managers. etc. are de-
prived by Gaynor's edict of a night meal
IL q first class cafe, where the cuisine is
the best ever put on Broadway late at
night-a 5000 chef-a''-
And not the night workers alone are
deprived of it, boiled over the press agent
that human geyser of information. Ever
hear how MANI people the trains bring to
New York between 1890 and go at night?
Eight TO ten thousand of whom five thou
sand land III town after midnight They
want TO eat and drink, and SO do the men
who have been at cards or other games
throughout the evening; and the theatre
goers who, with the theatres closing later
and later, don't get here until nearly mid
night, and who find it physical impossi-
hiIity to finish their eating and drinking
by / o'clock"
Withdrawal of al-night license hit
your receipts?' asked sthe visitor, turning
from the press agent to the proprietor.
Cant say yet: it's been recent I
aint complaining of any hardship myself;
I've always managed to pay the rent and
make d living. and | guess | always will.
The real hardshipll come in the fall, when
all the theatres are running full blast, and
thousands instead of hundreds, of actors
to say nothin' of the many thousands of
pleasure s.ekers-ilnd themselves unable TO
ct first class food and liquor at late hours.
, :. sir, Gaynor will certainly hear some
* them"
That is strong talk thought the visitor
as ne left the lobster palace mans Office.
Now for the night workers themselves!'
He espied t~o whom he knew, standing
on the pave.
Going to eat at the cafe de Spain?'' he
called out.
-'Yep-if you pay for itr' came the cheer
full answer.
1t was suggested the party should stroll
down To the palace of Hispanic nomenclat-
ure get bill of fare and find if their
united resources availed to guy supper.
That celery fed ducklng' sounds awful
good to mel" said the copy reader "Of
course, I'd start, you understand. with
little canape Of caviar and wind up with
an ice and a Turkish Coffee
"Extravagant mani" quoth the sub-edi-
tor. Now. I'm content with crab flake
a pitcher of Pilsener and some Gervais
cheese. with Bar le due"
''I find tzz first aid to composition" re-
marked the space writer About quart
of the sparkling stuff Will do me while I
toy with delicate squad Nerac-for the
rest, little cheese, sweets and coffee"
An impromptu bill for the little supper
ti.l fol,
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Gentlemen, / should be delighted TO en-
tertaiI YOU, said the scrbbler. but
ah''---
cut it out" broke in the chaser of com
mas and periods I've twenty dollars In
.my own kick as it happens, but that
pays the rent tomorrow"
II know of an extremely superior place
near 42d street. announced the sub-editor
leu stand or-er-occupy stool at a
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24

Shc-And You have no relatives?
He-None to speak of Not one of them
owns an automobile.-Chicago News
The Huttig news., 1910-04-09

passed the time until nearly II with cigarettes and magazine.
 The car was very close. It was 2 warm night. and before turning in | stood a short time in the vestibule. The train had been stonning at fre- quent intervals, and, fin1 ne the brake man there. I asked the t,o he.
 Ii seemed that there was a of fox on the next car and that not only were we late, but We were delaying the second section, Just behind was beginning to feel Pleasantly drowsy, and the air was growing cooler as we got into the mountains. said good night to the brakeman and went hack to my berth To my surprise, lower ten was already occupied-a suit case projected from beneath, rair of shoes stood on the floor, and from behind the curtains came the heavy, unmis- takable breathing of deep sleep. 1 hunted out the porter and together We investigated.
 Are you asleep, sir" asked the porter, leaning over deferentially No answer loftHcomiHS, lie opened tie curtains and looked in. Yes. the in- truder was asleep-very much asleep and an overwhelming odor of whisky proclaimed that he would probably remain asleep until morning. 1 was irritated. The car was full. and l was not disposed to take an upper in order to allow this drunken interloper to sleep comfortably in my berth.
 You'll have to get out of this" said shaking him angriiy. But he merely grunted and turned over. As he did so, l saw his features for the first time. It was the quarrelsome man of the restaurant.
 l was less disposed than ever to re- linquish my claim, but the porter, after little quiet investigation, of-
The Huttig news., 1910-04-09
CHAPTER III.
Across the Aisle.

No solution offering itself. I went back to my berth. The snorer across had apparently strangled. or turned over, and so after a time dropped asleep. to be awakened by the morn ing sunlight across my face
 felt for my watch, yawning pro digiously I reached under the pillow and failed to find it. but something scratched the back of my hand l sat up irritably and nursed the wound, which was bleeding a little. Still drowsy, I felt more cautiously for what l supposed had been my scarf pin, but there was nothing there. Wide awake now. 1 reached for my trave ling bag. on the chance that had put my watch in there l had drawn the satchel to me and had my hand on the lock before l realized that il was not my own.
 Mine was of alligator hide. had killed the beast in Florida after the expenditure of enough money to have bought house and enough energy 10 have built one. The bag held in my