The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1910-06-17

! stripe OF brown against the silver Toll
of her bilge On the seward side ran
the darker line of toy aeroplane-a
matter of appearance more than use
and slung beneath by a gossamer ma
| celle, steady as the deck of a liner,
hung her roomy car, the engine room
/ astern, the three great screws half In
visible, like the vibrant wings Of bees.
| She veered to the north and stood In
1 land as If to cross the Little lagoon,
| that beautiful salt lake which for ten
miles lies within sound of the gulf
surf, but separated from it by. a little
| wilderness of dunes, then by males
| tic swooping movement she threw her
whole vast sweep Of broadside open to
| their gaze. The captains DINNER eye
now made out the woman and the two
men OH her deck, while Theodore Car
sons, keen for such sight and armed
with the glass, observed that the wo-
man wore broad hat Of vivid red, a
scarf of the same color and-a woman
would have told him-a pique gown.
They bette moor" said the fisher
man. "They's norther comm out.
What they dom now Miste' Theodo'?'
why" said Carson. studying the
aeronat With the glass and clipping
Off his sentences as the astounding
evolution of the incident far up there
In the blue rendered every utterance
obsolete before It, was finished. why.
they have thrown Off a package Of
it's mechanism-of some sort-in OPP.
Grafton, and They're making tow
of it. They're reversing and rounding
| to. See them drift off. They're ex-
cited and ali aback about something.
Heavens. See that thing shoot up.
It's some sort of helcopter. believe
and the girls alone In IL. captain.
Alone. I say. Why did they She's
lost control--she's lost. It's shooting
over this way and coming down 1t
WILT will My God. My Geds'
The thing parted from the great
aeronat was little speck topped With
broader, mushroom shaped simmer
which Carson knew for~the revolving
blades of a helicopter. that insidious
toy that promised so much for the con-
quest of the air. Then, as though re-.
leased from the pull of gravity, 1t shot
skyward. leaving the silver airship far
below. as a fly might speed from a
floating bubble The two spectators
drew their breaths sharply In. theiI
hearts frozen In fascinated apprehen
sion.
They saw 1t rise skyward like a
hovss do nj thny shu1darnI a thQ
| abyss that yawned between 1t and the
earth; saw 1t struck by the far adyanc-
| ed loftier vanguard of the north wind
| predicted by the fisher captain; saw It
hurled southwark before the blast like
feather.
The Condor had n name She was
| the Roc, owned by Mr.. Finley Shayne.
| and her home port was Shayne's Hold.
| in the Catskils. Those who are IA
| miliar with the scope. power and spec
tacular success Of Mr.. Shayne's opera
lions in aerostatic power stocks in the
| latter part of the first quarter OF the
/ present century will surmise that the
| OF aviational construction up to that
time
| This fatefu morning she had moor
ed in the aerial harbor at Mobile. In
her berth hard by the lift near the
BIenville statue. Mrs, Shayne. ma
tive Mobilian, pleaded indisposition,
but went out to see some old houses
dear to her youth. Mr.. Shayne and
their guest. Mr. Max Silberberg, had
insisted upon the presence of Virginia
Suarez. Mrs. Shayne's niece. on trip
down the bay In the Roc to witness
the demonstration of a new flying ma.
chine, and she had yielded. The In
ventor. Wilmer. suspicious, foxy.
middle aged man. proved Objectionable
to Miss Suarez because his thumbs
turned back so far that the sight of
them made her feel creepy, and as he
gesticulated freely while dcnouncing
all devices for aerial navigation except
his his thumbs were much in evidence
| Virginia wished Wilmer at her side.
crooked thumbs aud all. for no thumbs
or voice could he SO offensive as the
unrelieved presence of Mr.. Silberberg.
the head Of the Federated Metals con
Germ, controlling the copper gold and
silver output of n continent.
She felt herself thrown ut his head
by her aunt
| $50 you think, Aunt Marie she had
said. that Mr.. Silberberg Is one OF the
great ones of the carth?"
| Most certainly" rejoined Mrs.
Shayne, HE Is retaining and inereas-
Ing the enormous wealth and power
he inherited. To do what he is do
| ing takes great man. Your uncle
will tell you So
Silberberg made the hay OF court
ship In the sun of opportunity Vir
| ginia pondered on her aunt's standard
| of greatness
where's Uncle Finley" she asked
I'VE are getting a long way south g
Giving the helicopter n private ex
animation replied Sllberlerg 1t IL
n happiness IL me That he Is. Rut the
inventor wsiii,i L, Wild If he kn.w the
sort Of rSs'ft MS IRE i.us m1r,ire Is
| alone with
"wihl 'nnntcd VIRGINIA Listen
tNth HtAs
Above the pulr OF tie screws came
the angry voi g OF the inventor Ia the
ena iHe foDi.I auus,as IL i.oc's second
engineer t.r slilir rsiiii,k der, eatory
10 Lelico.arrs Already BE- was quite
wild enough Virginia thought
why dcni wc Try his mae hiDeT'
she asked Must We 90 out over the
gulf: ISM the bay big enough"
MIR. Shnyne wants u pick NJ a spc
cinlist nj the fort. replied Siibefberg
the mau who wrote up III. Chinese
war aer3siaia Hes here ~ snnle
aeronautiral tlsintss for the nrtny "
| The ioe .ir.ied ,a the west a. ayoii
the Inhibited passage over II = bat
, terles and stood east along the ~ eli
| Wiener abandoned his quarrel and
came forward TO make the test. lie
set the hellcoptcr Oh the deck, where
II stood unsteadily on Its slender banl-
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