The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-30

ing what awful penalties the winds and
the Jealous ocean would exact. when he
replied: For men must work and
women must weep We have to do II
To get money ia feed thc wives and
children who arc left
Dishcarlencd ] took 10 the air
again. beading Ibc flyer straight west
| My frs, step was upon dairy farm III
eastern New York The owner told me
how many tons OF butter and cheese III
| had made during the season, and when
| I asked what he wanted with So much
butter and cheese he rcplicd: Why
for the money there is in The business,
Sails for New York.
"'Thcn determined 10 see the big
city at the mouth of the Hudson.
sailed down over the beautiful river
and | said TO myself odd llendnck
Hudson. if Won could have had my ma
chine you could have found ont III hNe
honrs that YOU were on the wrong track
for the northwest passage. / landed
on Ellis Island and immigrants by the
thousands were coming ashore from
half dozen big steamers that had
pulled in from the sea tina, morning
| There were Greeks aud Dagos and
Slavs and Russian Jews, the rakings, II
seemed to me. of all Europe, | asked
n policeman what they wero coming 10
|
me they had worked from the cradle NJ
Tor lust their bread and they were com
ing here 10 try 10 make n little money
~ took 10 the air again and my next
stop was on q wheat farm i'll Gcnesce
valley and u Jolly old farmer, who had
been watching me come down, said:
90 Mister, that beats an automobile
does III not Do YOU carry frcight3 II
YOU do | have 1900 bushels OF wheat
would like 10 send 10 New York
"I said: 'What do You want of SO
much wheat
- Wha, do | want with it7' he re-
piled why, | have A son IN college
my daughter is TO bc married right at'
Ter thc holidays. and then | have got 10
be Santa Claus this wear for the finest
grandson YOU ever saw. You sec l need
the money.
Where Bluff Won
He took me 10 the house, gave me
Il hot mincc pie and n pitcher Of cider
and pulled out again. The wind was
blowing gale from the north. and in
spite of me the flyer drifted. 1t blew
harder and harder. and when the sun
went down | made n landing in little
clearing. \ long haired man under a
coon skin cap came out with rifle and
seemed disposed To settle things right
there I told him not to shoot, that !
tried would take him aboard and land
him in hadcs in Just an hour and quar-.
ter. The bmlT worked, After Il little
we got To understand each other. gave
him some cigars. and after making II
clear 10 him that ] was no government
Inspector and lived a long way of he
admitted that ne was making moonshne
whisky. that he had a few customers
distributed through the state that could
~, nffA IA
wanted besides TO stand off the prohibi-
tlon laws | had landed in eastern Ken
tuCkv,
Gle added: 4 hahn t got no cdeca.
tion and it S thc only way l can make
few dollars.
"We Need the Money"
'"Thc wind died down after awhile
and [ started again. | headed north
west. and at o'clock in the morning ]
was passing over Chicago. j descended
low down and was sailing slow, for
saw three men with masks on running
from Il bank | called down TO them
asking them why they had robbed the
bank and one of the daredcyils answered
back: we need the money.
81 turned down n street and pres.
emily saw \ woman IN a 9audy dress
pacing up and down the sidewalk
called down
q Arc you not out pretty late, III
tle one, for winter night like this?'
She looked up and said: | have a
sick baby at home and must get lit
tie money to buy her medicine and
food.
.'I had Just five big silver dollars in
my pocket, and [ tossed them TO her.
then shot up into the air and opened
the motor out to full speed.
"T headed due west My. but YOU
ought TO see the corn ricks IN illinois
and Iowa. I stopped for dinner at q
ranch and asked the man what in the
world the people did with so much corn,
He snid: