Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-04-07
CHAPT i.
The Man With Wings.

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For many hours-Cayley was too
j much of a god today to bother with
i the exact number of them-he had
q been flying slowly northward down a
q mild southerly breeze. Hundreds Of
& feet below him was the dazzling, ter
Hbe expanse of the polar ice pack
which shrouds the northern limits of
i The Arctic ocean in it's impenetrable
fei Of mystery.
A compass, a seXtant, bottle Of
milk and a revolver comprised, with
the clothes he wore, and with the
hmmering silken wings of his areo-
plane his whole equipment. His near
est base of supplies, if you could call
It That was 20-pound tin of pemmi-
can. hidden under stone on the
north east extremity of Herald island,
800 miles away. The United States
rescue station at Point Barrow, the
extreme northerly point of Alaska,
the place which he had called home
for the past three months, was pos
aOly half as far again away, some
Where of to the southeast.
But for these past weeks of I'M
broken arctic sunshine, he had fairly
lVed awning. The earth had no OBJ
Tucti0nS and the air no perils. To
day. with his great broad fan-tail
drawn up arc-wise beneath him, his
paneS pitched slightly forward at the
precise and perilous angle that only
!lSt did not send him plunging, head
uSt down upon the sullen masses Of
ice below, he lay there, prone, upon
Ne sheeD-skin sleeping bag which
padded the framework supporting his
Two wings, as secure as the great full
mar petrol which drew curiously near,
ald then, with a wheel and plunge,
"eo away, squawking.
teF all practical purposes Cayley
Ido learned to fly. The great fan
UFen air ship, 100 feet from tip to
up which had long lain idle on his
'Sneh at Sandoval, would probably
never leave its house again. 1t had
uOue woman service. Without it's
yO"eTlQ Dropellers, for the last re-
S.1fCe, Cayley would never have been
aOIe 10 try the experiments and get
%s practise which had given him the
I'll LOT his natural element. He had
Sa'sfo"n it. He had no more need
" y, MOTORS or whirling fans. The force
~ S'S'ily, the force of the breeze and
VI I9 perfectly co-ordinated muscles of
L S.S OWN body gave him all the power
-e needed now.
q. ,'""Ps the succeeding generations
VIZ, humankind may develop an eye
,0,S" can see ahead when the body
q wing prone, as a bird lies in it's
s ;,S"' layley had remedied this de-
,, t,,|.| with a little silver mirror,
o'IE 'oncaVe, screwed fast to the
d., s"s''ace which supported his Shout
has, instead Of bending back his
sral 1' VI trying to see out through his
s iiny''"S, ne simply cast a backward
~ T,a.'Ne INTO this mirror whenever he
N I.y.S 10 look on ahead. 1t had been
Co, ,',Ne Qerplexing at first, but he
h. S'o see better in it now than with
Wy unaided eyes.
st, ,.Io now, a minute or two, perhaps,
s,, s, mat tulmar had gone squawking
NV. @'' ne gIanced down into his mir
sbo' and his olympian calm was
+. Nen with the shock of surprise.
n, MAat he saw, clearly reflected in
TSo, D'lie reducing glass, was land.
dar,' was a mountain, and a long
,o.a line that must be a clifflike
ba aaa it was land that never had
lta NJ marked on any chart. In abso-
nv, oesrees of latitude he was not,
IA me arctic explorers view, very
tba Iot'n. Over on the other side of
A. world they run excursion steam
h., very summer nearer to the pole
lie wan st this moment. Spitz-