Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-17

From COW punching on the Texas
plains II mechanical engineering. then
into the autcnobiie game to finish his
career there as driver OF ia cling cars,
but 10 leave it FOX the more thrilling
sport of the atr-such in brief is a SEN
, terce sketch Of the recent years Of
R.ber- c. ST. Henry. the aviator. who
is TO fly here in a hiplane on Saturday.
July 90 Lucky Boz he is called. per-
chance because of the way in whi2h
he has fired with death in his hazard
Gus e.nployments but has escaped uM-
scathed
st. Henry is row flying in the cities
Of the northwest; having become one
Of the party OF professional flyers en-
ployed BY the Cur;iss Exhibition Com
pany,
Is From School of Flying.
1t was early last winter that ST
Henry left the automobile racing cir
cults 10 take up aviation. When Glenn
Curtiss. head OF the curtisS company,
announced that ne would establish q
schoo, al san Diego. Cal. 70 train army
and navy officers to fly. 81. Henry was
the first pupil to apply. With the men
of the government service ne studied
under Curtiss all winter. In The spring
ne was employed by the latter and since
then much Of his time has been spent
in the air, He viii come here from
Fargo. n D, where he flies on July IS,
20, 20. ana u for the North Dakota
State Fair Association.
Exhibit ons in Many Cities.
Practically all Of the time since he
became a professional flyer. ST. Henry
has been giving exhibitions il the
northwest. He has appeared at EdnlO.l-
ton, Regina. and Saskatoon. Canada;
Fargo, Devils Lake Bo:iineau, VIII
liston, \. D.; Miles City. Mont. and
other cities.
A party Of four and possibly FIVE,
will come TO this city with the BIZ
plane l. will include Mr.. 81. Henry
and his wife, and two c7Achanicians.
In addition, probably. R. II. Young, road
manager OF the company, will come
here from Bessener, Mich
Has Had Lively Career.
ST. Henry is Texan. He was born
in FL Paso twenty eight years ago. For
q few years Of his young manhood he
chased long horned cattle over the
plains. but t!lirst!ns for excitement he
determined TO become locomotive en-
gineer With this intention he went
TO work in the Southern Pacific shops
a e. Paso. To speed his progress he
took up mechanical engineering at San
Francisco.
AT about this time the automobile
industry began 10 become prominent
on the Pacific coast. st. Henry be-
came interested and secured a place in
an automobile factory ar Kokonlo. Ind.
where he was employed in the motor
department He spent several years IN
automobile factories, and from that
en- Employment branched into the auto-no-
bile racing. and drove cars in nlanv
Of the larger city events. also abroad
aust One More Life"-Mars.
When the Freeport aviator fell .
his death in Chicago a few nights ago.
J. c. ("Bud") Mars comment was
Just one more life sacrificed in try
ing to cope with the air" Tie next
LAY Mars himself fell several hun
Gred feet 20 the ground beneath his
wrecked Cu-ttss biplare at Erie. Pa.
The earlier dispatches announced
that Mars was fatally injured but
later kilograms from Erie are TO the
effect that the expert aviator bids fair
TO recover and will be able 20 leave the
hospital in about ten days.
aviators in the rnploy Of the Cur
tiss Exhibition COMPANY. Mars hai
made one successful fight at Erie and
was attempting his second when ne
lost control Of his machine and dashed
10 the ground. Ms Mars vas in the
audience and saw he- husband fall!
She was overcome by he shock and
was also taken to the hosnttaI. Thou
sands Of people We're Witnessing the
fight when. suddenly the big machine
made dip downward Mars was seen
to jerl. at something in an effort to ra-
gain control, but the attempt was ru-
tile and an instant later the btplane
fell to the ground. The aviator uncon-
scious and bleeding, buried beneath the
wreckage
The two most recent accidents-the
ones n Chicago and Erie occurred at
com arativel[- small distances in the
air. and within the distance of 400
feet. called for in The contract with the
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