Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-06
AIRSHIP AS OCEAN
 DELIVERY WAGON
Package for Passenger Misses Deck of Olympic by
 Few Inches

NEW YORK, July 5.-Not content with establishing a wireless service for the use of shoppers. the Wanna maker store today attempted to fill an order flashed through the air from the liner Olympic. speeding to- ward Europe. by chasing an aero plane after the fast ocean greyhound and trying to drop the package on the deck
 The attempt failed but it wasn't the stores fault, nor yet that of Aviator Tom Sopwith. who essayed to make his biplane play the role Of the first aerial delivery wagon.
 The following message was re ceived from Walter Burpee. the well known seed merchant of Philadelphia, ct the wireless station of the store --On Board Steamship Olympic, July 2. 3.I5 D. n.
 TO John Wanamaker. Broadway and Tenth streets, New York Spring ia eyeglasses broken. Mail ! two by ext steamer. Morley's Hotel | London"
 Realizing that a man without his 1 glasses would be in torment for a 1 week aboard ship the store deter l .rined 10 be up 10 date in the de livery of merchandise and Marconied back
 1 -Order received. delivery will be made by aeropiane.
 Messnegers and telephone girls i were hurried into action by the score. Tn five minutes Wanamaker' had sopwita on the telephone al 1 Nassau Boulevarde and had closed ! g contract with him 70 deliver z l package by aeropiane from the Ores ! cent Athletic clubs lawn at it' | Bay Ridge grounds 70 the dect oi | the Olympic
 One cf the fight delivery automo | piles fthe store equipment wa: cranked up, while a professional chaf feur dashed through the store ana ! collected the articles called for b' Mir. Burpee and ran with them 70 tht automobile. which was sent whirlins across the Williamsburg bridge [; Bay Ridge.
 Aviator Thought His Aairn Good The Crescent Athletic club. whici had been informed what was to haD pen. made arrangements for a clea lawn on which Sir, Sopwith coul' sIight on his arrival from Nassau Boulevard to take the package Everything was ready there a iittl' before { o'clock and before the Olym pic had passed Old Fort William on her way out The fate of tn stores startling attempt was then u to the airman
 Just by the way of pTecaution an other automobile was dispatched i' mighty hurry to Nassau Boule yard to the aero clubs hangers witl
 package containing ruplicate O
 Mir. Burpee's order. It was this pack age which was almost delivered |
 Mr. Burpee.
 Tom Sopwith heard that it wa | coming. He and Richard Sinclair, l assenger who had been inviter [
 a along and verify the delivery 1 aaiteG for the duplicate package. Tn i seroplsne sailed out into the ai
 0ver Nassau Boulevard. From thi Iroint on the story is told by Ai
 SOpgith in his own words.
 ~T3 reopie on the ground 1t ma i have seemed like an easy day for fls
 ing. But it wasn't. The air was chol
 pier today than I have known ofr
 long time We had a little moto
 trouble at the start, but nohing ser
 JUS. ff e meant AD d4AEuA dA tHr' NAN'
 cent Athletic clubs grounds. but tha
 meant the possibility of more moto
 trouble in making e fresh start an
 we had the extra package with n
 a-yw8v go what was the use. W just s-syed up in he air.
 was afraid we were late, bl
 when caught the line Of the ba
 ahead of us and worked along th So edge of the Narrows until ! saw tn
 club. there was the big ship jus
 coming down between Forts Wadl
 worth and Hamilton I went right og
 over her and headed for her whe
 she was between tae forts We wer
 about 600 feet above her. I swcope
 down until when we crossed he ldecks ve were abont 200 feet abov the deck Then I dropped the pacl age. Sinclair let go 2 bunch of ls
 ters
 I don't know what was in tn
 blamed package. but hope it wa
 nothing breakable Then took fs long sweep around and came bac