New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12

the ground at a VOID Of command and maneuveT in
hattie formation above a hostile fleet ana lhcre must
I've courage also; for the coward never HES III peace Oh
in wa--not in an aeropldne. ,-,
Whether Fogartv was a coward or not seeneu nkeiy
,e,er 70 ho known Hanging to the tail OF a iomping
,. ,,,ononlane IS no test of courage. Impulse may
,rge man TO take hold diearmake himaird TO 60
sWhen YOU had her going, sad MS com 'o'S' YOU
should have twisted her tail. . az A. ell
AN so | would said Fogarty' grnnihg' Il 'nc ut"
hadn't been so busy twiStln Fogarty
one morning when Fogarty was SUM- tHt tbn o "
~ the Gavroche his brother fcrs mounted 'hTi S"so
,no h;r1s and qided into the air and away foSirY
stood wrench in hand and watched them Use above
,L ;nncioeing fence and he chocred them faicWeh
,nheard and unheedcd. No one was thinking 1i ~
qartv. Like trail of wild geese they dSappearea Faln
er with his net Of high eXPGsveS oIyIT rto the v
laid one hand gently on the little Gavroche ana Grew
tbe other across his eyes He would have liked to nave
gone with the "bys. . - ,,. ave
may be bum tlier; but Oo''in''i'' w"
of ve!' ,c -, r,r,,, would
tinker from one end OF the war to the othor' lo n
war promised to be short The aeToplahe nee. amd
m be enemy some forty miles of Nlonauk loint' anu
id h thc bio red bplanc Of the ADM al, made directly
for them at a height of thousand leet. Inf 49, 49,
dnnadno,ghts were bcchng smoke from every I t
hut the smoke was neither the black smoke oil soil O
nov the thin gaseous smoke of anthracite II PouicI
fr,,, The tunnels in smooth columns OF rusty req Sl,S
bgb IN fine air where it seemed to disappear but WG
eth thousand feet up and half mile away ne req
bnlane entered the region of this gas. ne Aul'Idi
coughcd once and then his head TELL forward III i o%
and the splitting cylinders OF his motor See'Ieu " o
sleepy too Slower and slower came the eNpo'loS ',tI
the red flagship foated gently to the surface Oh VIC
occan Instantly a boat shot out from the nearest
battcship and in five minutes the Admiral aWokc 10
End himself a prisoner aboard the foreign man OF war
In half an hour not OF the gca man-b DIS was elI
of all the fleet that had passed proudly Owe the hcad
of Mike Fogarv and his little Gavroche. There was
but one acropane left III the United StateS-and lhat
could not fly fifty feet! ,uo. ,,.,-.od
In twodays the great field at Hampstead was deserted
and the rows of hangers stood empty The maclmiStS
were hurried TO the great aeropanc factory IN ONO the
recalled to their regiments the cook tents cared
ovav Only Foqartv remaincd-Fogarty Commander
Of Nrship Number Thirteen forgotten by Washington.
DIT Fooarty was busy. He slept beside his little
ID Gavroche in the hangar and worked as ne hild
meyer worked before. He was learning to hop,skp!
Dav after dav he took his seat IN the low puii' 'aN
roche and cut her loose-"cut her loose literally loT
he was alone. and il needed all his Irish ingenuity to
devise plan by which he could give the propeller the
necessary turns to start the engine ana sun De IN 'he
ecat when She started He tied the little GavrochG to
most with rope while he started the MOTOR ana Wheh
ali was running well he took his seat gSpcd the Stee-
ing wheel and cut the rope .
Dav after dav he bounded oughly over the grass ana
broke something! Now il was
a propeller blade now plane,
now the engine itself; II all de-
pended upon the Gavroche