The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-06-23
WAS IT DANGER
OR OBSTINACY ?.
DIFFERENT STORIES or WHY
rIm BmDNmr DID
NOT Fly.

NoN NAhs
Why doesn't a monoplanc aviate
when there are thousands Of persons
waitingi is the question which agiiat-
ed many minds yesterday and tho an.
swers have been many and various.
Members OFF the aviation party claim
that Il was too windy 10 navigate the
air and that any nan who would go up
when the wind blew more than twenty
miles an hour, which It was doing at
Kapiolani on Sunday, might as well
shoot himself or take poison, thus dy-
ing in more comfortable manner and
away from crowd such as was present
to watch Mason navigate.
1--WE are going to take tho mono
plane to Leilehua now and pull eff
our flights there, whether Mr.. Scuily
has anything TO do with the matter or
not, was the statement made by Avi,
ator Walker last evening.
"Scully was more anxious to keep
the crowd on the park so that he could
sell beer, than he was to have any air
ship flights he said. 81 went 10
him at ten clock in the morning and
told him it would be impossible for
anyone to fly in the wind blowing and
that he had better announce it to the
crowd. He said he wanted the crowd
to stay so he could make some money
on his near-beer, and that was all
there was to it. went to him several
times and asked him to make the an.
noIpeement.
Mason No "Fake."
Manager Adossides stated that he
had been in the game for the past two
years and he did not believe in taking
extraordinary chances, 1t was always
better to play safe, and a monoplane
could not fly in wind with a greater
velocity than twenty miles.
'People here tell me that Bud Mars
few in "A higher wind than that at
Kapiolani on Sunday. That may be,
for Mars was flying a biplane, which
viii rise easily in wind, but a mono
plane acts Just the opposite. The wind
bears it down.
elf we are in the wrong for not
flying, then we will take the blame,
but / want the people of Honolulu to
understand the truth of the matter.
"MassOn showed by his flight from
Leilehua that he could make good. No
fake would make a flight like chat, and
yet he gets no credit here for the fight,
because he did not get up in heavy
wind before many people later in the
day.
"That fight from Leilehua was a
wonderful one. Mason does not have
TO come to Honolulu to make a reputa-
ton; his reputation is already made
on two continents.
"When he was flying with Paulhan
they would sometimes wait around more
than half of a day when they could
fly as well as not, and the papers never
gave them such n roast as the Homo
lulu papers have done for the episode of
Sunday"
Mixed-Up Mess.
1t is all a mixed-np mess. The avi-
ators claim that they fulfilled their con-
tract in making flight from Leilehua
ON Sunday, and for that reason should
get their money.
W. II. Hogs, in speaking of the
fasco on Sunday, stated yesterday
afternoon that Mason and his mechani.
clan were so busy making money by
matching dollars with each other and
with any of the spectators who had the
gambling instinct that they did not
have time to fly.
"The mechanician disappeared for
nearly half an hour once and could not
be found, but he presently turned up
and said he had made six dollars while
he was away.
"This gambling was carried on in
the presence of several hundred per-
sons, and / do not think it was right. -
'0nly one who has studied aviation
and hydrostatics knows just how dan
gerOus conditions were on Sunday, with
the wind sweeping around Diamond
Head and coming in gusts down the
two canyons toward the mountains. A
flight was impossible, and / told Mr..
Scully so on five different occasions
during the afternoon, asking that he
so inform the crowd. He didn't want
the crowd to go away, however; he
wanted the people to stay to bring a
profit TO his liquor stand.
HE said to me: What is the use
telling the people you viii not promise
highti They are picnicking and en-
ioying themselves. Let them stay
What more could do7
" An aviator, like any other man, has
only one life to lose. If ] had sent
Mason up on Sunday and he had been
killed, his blood would have been upon
my hands. j could not think Of asking
him to face the danger just in order to
give the crowd a thrill of seeing that
young man dashed to death. II was
rather contemplate of Mr.. scully to
say that Mason sneaked away from
the field. He had 10 have some lunch,
He had bis breakfast at three In the
morning, Was II unnatural for him Ia
feel the need OF food at eleyenf"
Beully Denies.
Mr.. seully denies emphatically that
any one Of the ayiatoTs stated posi-,
lively that there would be- no aight