New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-10
Loses Control and FIutterS Down
Three Hundred Feet Into
Picket Fence.
BOTH MEN ESCAPE INJURY
Flyers and Sheriffs' Men Make
Peace, Though Grand Jury
Hears Parson and Others
-Ovington to Fly To- day.

of the Nassau Boulevard aerodrome
yesterday and Earle L. Ovington, the
pioneer aerial postman, was moving
| heaven and earth TO get his Queen
Bleriot ready for its transcontlnental
| fight the Rev. Robert Rodgers, of
! Brooklyn: Swift Tarbel. son Of Gage
TarbeH former president OF the Garden
City Estates, and several other residents
Of the Garden City neighborhood ap-
peared before the Nassau County grand
Jury with the evident intention Of tesi-
fying in the matter Of Sunday flights
Mr.. Rodgers was the man who. with
Bishop Burgess. Of Long Island. precip-
itated the agitation which ended day
before yesterday in a free fight between
Sheriff De Motifs men and the friends
NJ Miss Matilde MoisanL who had in
dulred p seemingly innocent desire TO
fv from the boulevard TO her brother
field. at Mineola.
At about the same time the directors
Of the International Aviators Company,
of which Alfred j.. Moisant is the head.
we're discussing whether they should take
anv action against the officers Of the
law who dared 10 lay hands on Miss
Moisant on Sunday without warrant
Both factions let it be known later IN the
dav that their blood had cooled. and
tacit agreement allowed the matter TO
stand where 1T was.
Opposes Sunday conmerciaI'sn''
When Mr.. Rodgers arrived at the
bisbop's house last evening he was in a
conciliatory mood. "Our aim he main
tanned was against commercialism OF
the aeropIane on Sunday. 1t seems rea-
sonably certain now that Sunday ayia-
tion for commercial purposes is done
with. and We do not intend 10 molest any
one further. Any individual flyer has
apparently as much right 10 use the air
on Sunday as an automobilist has 10
use the highways. We shall, however.
continue 10 see that Sunday laws are not
broken"
A representative OF Mr.. Moisaut said
# had been decided to take no step
against the Sheriff and his men for their
part IN the Sunday episode. He wanted
! it understood. though, that if Miss Moi
SAINT or any Of the other Mineola avia-
tors took il into their heads 20 ny on
Sunday they were going 10 fy. IF the
| Sheriff had a warrant IN his possession
he could arrest them.
1t was called to Mr. Rodgers's attention
by some citizen aroused from lethargy
by the agitation that golf was played
every Sunday on the Salisbury links,
Just back of the See House at Garden
city the seat Of the Long Island epis-
copate Mr.. Rodgers remarked that he
was unaware that charges were made
for Sunday playing, and that he would
take no action until a complaint was
made 70 his society. I'VE cannot reform
the world" he explained dolefulIy.
Tom" Sopwith's little accident occurred
while he was showing the beauties Of
the Long Island landscaLs from above
10 Nelson Doubleday, son of Frank
Doubleday, the publisher. They We're
in Sopwith's Rurgcss-Wright, when the
aviator noticed that something was
wrong win the ele'a''hs coH''"
Sopwith's Control Gives Way.
Sopwith figured that the ground was
the safest place 10 make for in such an
emergency. and he had come within fifty
feet Of it when the control gave way
and the bipI3ue dropped. It's descent
was in,peded bv uickot fence that
bannened to 1e underneath. but by rare
rood fortune neither of its occupants
was hurt. AIr. Doubleday observed that
h. didn't know there had been any fall
untiI he felt the bump
The rest If ,hc afternoon was diIeI
with cUasuodie Hichts Us Clifford Web
SER and philip Ward Page. two Young
eiers who have Burgess Wright
Ibetveen them. and Fred Schneider, IN
Ir.s own machine. Earle Ovington's ex-
uerinnce In the air on sunday had shown
Itb4. there Nay something wrong w,tA
his nonoyiaac so be spent the day putt
ting il airyhip-shape again. Il wasn't
cui,e ready whom darkness fell. but Cl-
scek Governors Island Dy moonlight IL
took some hours Of persuasion from his