Smyrna times., 1911-01-25

1t was the Old story with Varia-
tion only to occur in these days ~hen
our wPalthier classes have money.
Miss Arita Beriton loved poor man.
and her father desired that she should
wed rich one. Young Van Damn
Follansbee had but Il beggarly ten mil
lion. while the old widower Plankin-
ham Porkenpaker possessed a cool bill
lion. Follansbee should have seen the
impropriety of asking for girl he
could not support in the style to which
she had been accustomed. but he came
of an old Dutch family on his moth
er'S side. and the Dutchmen who set
tied New York were proverbially obsti-
nate and stupid.
One would suppose that the Beritons,
who owned railroad starting from
New York, running to New Orleans
and thence around the Pacific coast
and back through Canada. might afford
to let their daughter marry a poor
man. But a panic at the time of the
cOurtship had reduced their dividends
to 20 per cent. and they felt unusually
poor. Mrs. Reriton. who had married
her husband when he was brakeman
on one of the railroads which he after
ward united in the circular coast line
system and became that systems own.
er, sympathiZed with her daughter. but
BeritOn Swore round oath that he
would have no beggarS in his family
On the morning of June 10. 1889.
| Miss Anita BPriton was sitting with
her mother and younger sister in tho
spacious roof garden of her father
residence occupying the four blocks
between Five Hundred and Tenth and
| Five Hundred and Fourteenth streets
and avenues d and II. New York.
when Mrs Beriton proposed a ride
One of the family aeroplanes was call
ed ard in a few minutes lit upon the
roof garden. Mr.. Beriton. fearing that
his daughter Anita might in some of
! these rides elOpe with Follansbee, had
| given orders that August SpindletOn.
driver of his own choosing, should
at all times conduct the machine. and
on this occasion SpiEdleton was in his
| accustomed seat
Mrs. BeritOD and her two daughters
entered the machine. which rose. light
ly circling upward for a thousand feet,
when SpindletOn was directed to pro
ceed sOuthward along the coast for a
brief trip to Annapolis They were
moving at a moderate pace of some
sixty miles an hour. when SpindletOn
CT frio -
q machine coming toward the party
clapped on double speed.
Mr.. BeritOn'S fears had proved t
be well grounded. Mr.. Van Damn
FollanSbeP was out in a machine O1
new pattern and was bearing dowr
upon them. 1t was evident that Fol
lansbeP was intending to get into
communication with Mrs. Anita Beri
ton
SpindlPton was true to his employer
He drove his machine at its best speed
passing over cities. bays and rivers
but his aerOplanp was gradually gain
ed upon by FOllanSbPe. lowering oveI
Philadelphia. SpindletOn endeavoret
to descend. but Follansbee glanced
down like bird and reached a plan,
beneath him. Spindleton then ros,
and made bee line for Baltimore
But Follansbee. evidently with the de
termination to drive him out to sea
got to the west of him and forced hin
over Chesapeake bay. In few min
uteS more the pursuer had the part,
over Fortress Monroe. flying due east
The race was won. Spindleton wa
not prepared to cross the ocean. an,
there was no way for him to get bac
except by encOuntering Follansbee
SpindletOn slowed down. and Follans
bee glided up beside the Beriton aero
plane. A conference took place. afte
which Mrs. Reriton and her two daugE
ters stepped from their own aeroplan
into that of Mr.. Folansbee.
Meanwhile Mr.. Beriton had left tn
roof of his office building downtow
ID One Hundred and Twenty-fift
street. intending to go home. Soon af
er rising he saw in the direction of hi
mansion an aeroplane starting. anC
seizing glass he always carried i
the smoking room of his capaciou
bird-car. brought it to bear on the on
just setting out. Discovering that il
occupants were his wife and daughter
with his own aviator in control. b
was about to lay aside his glass whe
he saw another aeroplane hoverin
near his home. Bringing his glass
d bear on this machine, he saw Follan,
bee alone in it and just starting fc
Z the one occupied by the Beritons.
A Mr.. Beriton noticed that Follansbee
4 aeroplane was of kind he had ne
seen before. 1t was of the bird twp
and on its prov was a sharp ran
4 The merchant was at once filled wit
apprehension. 1t was plain that Fo
lansbee was bent on some course col
nected with the Beriton family. b,
1t was impossible to imagine VIII;
that course would be. 1t was not
be expected that he would run dow
the Beriton car and thereby precipita
II the girl he loved to q distance of SON