The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-10-12

ACOALlEuOO IEOin toSO ohO't
meantime the ship is to be practically |
rebuilt and put in prime shape for the
second venture.
The feature of yesterday was the |
crowds which assembled TO witness the
prone airship. 1t was estimated that
between thirty and forty thousand Wis |
tied the tract where the ship lay low. |
These came on foot, by street car and
automobile. the vicinity probably being
traversed by more persons in the one
day than ever before since it was ira
versatile by human foot. The scene re-
sembled that of a county fair, with pop
corn vendors. sandwich men and ice
cream cone dispensers reaping har-
vest
Even the schools were dismissed at
o'clock in order that every child in In
diana Harbor and East Chicago might
be given an opportunity to see the
strange device. This was inspira-
ton of superintendent Canine during
the morning and even he failed to cal
culate on how universal would be the
response to the opportunity offered the
children to inspect the first airship that
had ever sailed into northern Indiana.
/ The children were wild with delight.
| Pandemonium broke loose in every
/ SCnOOl NaTu III the CITY lllc tAC
children were given their freedom and
not only from the Harrison and McKin-
| ley, which were comparatively near the
lairship, did the youngsters start out
! on a wild stampede for the scene, but
| even from Indiana Harbor they fiocked
| in troops. Three quarters of the at
| tendance from the Lincoln school and
| the Washington school ran pel1 NELL
all the way. They stopped not for
| street cars, but ran-literally all the
] way, lest they might miss vision of
| the ascent which at that time was ex-
| pected might take place as early as ;
| o'clock and in any event not later than
! four
Thousands Of adults also visited the
i scene They came from all over the
county. many who owned automobiles
making several trips to the spot in or
der to bring their friends in relays to
Il view the biplane. Fully a score of au-
. | tomobiles stuck in the sand when Ven
turesome drivers made the attempt to
run their machines too close to the air
ship. But there was always willing
crowd to put their shoulders to the
! rear of the machines and give them q
r hoist up onto the firmer roadway. May
| or Becker of Hammond in the John Q
Bowers machine was one of those who
4 was held up by the sand. John Kan
/; radt and Mayor Becker lent such will
ing and sturdy shoulders to the real
of the machine that when the latter
finally did start 1t went with such G
rush that Hammond's chief executive
! lost his balance and fell sprawling IL
3 the sand. 1t was a soft fall, however
and Mayor Becker took it in the utmos
good humor, laughing with the crowd
Nor did the fakirs miss their oppor
}. tunfty. They we're out in force ant
1 did a thriving business. Almost ev
erybody was ready after their arriva
); to devour a sandwich or two, especial.
81 If they came on foot. for it was lonl
"A and tedious walk through the sand, an
ST the children who had pennies and nick
els gave them up for popcorn and pea
/, nuts and ice cream cones.
D Much of the day Ely and Glenn Cur
/. tiss remained on the scene. The avia
% tor appeared more or less nervou:
smoking cigarette after cigarette a
fast as he could consume and ligh
10 them. Newspaper men from Chicag
e. and New York and other Intermediate
5; points stood about, waiting for tn
% | start to be made and when they tire
z; of this they went over to the poolroon
g. and cigar stands and saloons and shoe
e, dice Mrs. Ely and the staff photogra
e; pher for the New York Times matche
lcl pennies on the street corner at Oh
sr cago and Forsyth avenue to pass ava
0; the time, and to the unconcealed inter
DC est of the spectators.
r When it was finally announced tn;
the flight was definitely abandone
there was general disappointment
r though as the day wore on the great'
part of the crowd had become PARTIAL
- reconciIed to the abandonment of tt
. enterprise, which it was seen an no,
) or two before the decision was impen'
ing The mechanicians had been wal
:, ing for some parts that were needed
make the repairs, and as o'clock a.
, preached and these had not arrived
y became evident that the flight for TIL
= lafternoon at least would have to
- | abandoned.
Aviator Ely was asked by tt
9 TIMES representative, noting his e
co., joyment in smoking, what he did VIII,
3, he was up in the air flying at the ra
of seventy or eighty miles an hot
about lighting his cigarette.
R. "O1d man." replied Ely, I never thil
sP of the weed when 1 am flying. I ha
IN so much to occupy my attention tn
lie smoking is the furthest thing from 4