Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-03-17
BIG AEROPLANE
. GIVEN TEST
VIII Be Shipped to San An
tonic for the Military
Manneuvers
JAPAN IS MUCH INTERESTED
Already Owns Eight of the
Machines and is Negotiating
for More

Washington, March l7.-W'ith repra-
sentatives OF the war and navy de-
partments and military and naval at
taches OF number of foreign coun-
tries looking on. the aeroplane just
purchased by the war department to
BE- used on the Mexican border ma.
Ineuvers, was given a successful dem
lis what Curtiss designates as his
military type" Aviator McCurdy
made Two ascents. each time circling
several times on the big lot south of
the state. war and navy building So
close did he sail to the building. that
the whir OF the propellers was plain
ly heard in the Office Of the secretary
of state. Among the most interested
spectators we're the japanese military
land naval attaches. Japan already
owns eight machines and is said TO be
negotiating for several more. The
machine will be sent 10 San Antonio
in few days
Rockies Didn't Travel in PuImans.
San Antonio, Texas, March 1.-THE
story has gone out to the world that
the soldiers mobilized at Fort Sam
Houston rode from the various camps
throughout the country to this city in
Pullman cars According to the dis
patches they travelled in all the pomp
and splendor of men going out for
| good time with specially equipped
| trains. But the soldiers themselves
tell quite different story. why, we
had to sleep standing as we came to
San Antonio" said private from At
! lanta, Georgia. I'VE did not have
respectable passenger coaches, our
train was largely made uP of Jim
! Crow cars and we were crowded in
so thick that there was not seat room
! for all. If the railroad company calls
that a Pullman, I'll take mine on the
soft side of a rock in preference, pro-
yiding there is room to lie down. The
fact is this Pullman story is one OF
the little white ones" that the gov
eminent and the railroad company
send out in an endeavor to make
good with the people. The car | rode
in ives so CID = sque;Ihed IN eyqsy
Joint and would have gone into a pile
of kindling if the wheels had left the
track. The fact is there was nothing
about it fit for service except the
trucks. 1t was a car that the com
pany had used for negro transporta-
| tion for number of years"
We received our orders to move
at 10 o'clock at night. We got ready
to entrain at 12 O'Clock the next day.
; But there was no chance at that hour.
Not car was furnished us until 9
O'Clock the following night. AT II
: O'Clock at night the train left Atlanta
: twenty-five hours having elapsed from
the time of the order until our com
: mand started on it's way. The rail
i roads may talk about Pullmans, hu
many of the cars used to bring sol
L dlers to this place were dilapidated
y antiquated old coaches unfit for serv
: Ice, unsafe, and unsanitary. | pre-
sumo some of the soldiers rode in
: Pullmans, since | noticed a numie,
OF coaches in the yard here. But my
notion is that the soldiers who go
this kind of service wear straps, an(
do not have to do guard duty NJ
:. more such Pullman as we had for me
Y With Uncle Sans consent, I'll max,
d such trips on foot hereafter, in pref
i erence."