The Prescott daily news., 1910-03-14
An nAeroplanc Elopenent
 A Story of 1853 By JASON HUDSON Copyright. 1Mn by Ansrtoan Pysss
 Association.
By JASON HUDSON

uon only to occur in these days when
 our wealthier classes have money.
 Miss Anita Beriton loved a 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 a cool bill
 lion. Follansbee should have seen the
 lmpropriety of asking for 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
 CTS side, and the Dutchmen who set
 lied New York were proverbially obsti-
 nate and stupid.
 One would suppose that the Beritons,
 who owned railroad starting from | New York. running to New Orleans
 and thence arorrf hc Pcc'fc coast
 and back through {, ,anada. might afford
 to let their daughter marry a poor
 man. l'ut Il panic at the time of the
 courtship had reduced their dividends
 to 2o 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- CT, sympathized with her daughter, but | Beriton swore 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 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 H, New York.
 when Mrs. Beriton proposed ride. One of the family aeroplanes was call ed and in few minutes lit upon the roof garden. Mir. 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- ceed southward along the coast for brief trip to Annapolis. They were moving at moderate pace of some sixty miles an hour. when Spindleton cast a glance to the right and. seeing machine coming toward the party, cfapped on double speed.
 MT. Beriton's fears had proved to be we'll grounded. Mr. Van Damn FollaAsbee was out in . machine of . new pattern and was bearing down upon them. It was evident that Fol hnsbee was 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 over cities. bays and rivers. but his aeroplane was gradually gain cd upon by Foilansbee Towering over Philadelphia. Spindeton endeavored Co descend. but Follansbee glanced down like bird and reached a plane beneath him. Spindleton then rose and made 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 him over Chesapeake bay. In a few min utes more the pursuer had the party over Fortress Monroe. flying due east
 The race was won. Spindleton was not prepared to cross the ocean. and there was no way for him to get back except by encountering Follansbee Spindleton elowed down. and Folans- bee glided up beside the Beriton aero plane 4 conference took place. after which Mrs Beriton and her two daugh- ters stepped from their own aeroplane into that of Mir. Follansbee
 Meanwhile MT. Beriton had left the roof of his office building downtown in One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street. intending to go home. Soon aft CT rising he saw in the direction of his mansion an aeroplane starting, and. seizing a glass he always carried in the smoking room of his capacious bird-car, brought 1t to bear on the one 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 fl and just starting for the one occupied by the Beritons.
 Mir Beriton noticed that Foilansbee's aeroplane was of kind he had not raa,, hafora IT wos of tho bird tvY,a