The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-02-10

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~munication with the mayor and with
Washington. But the restlessness OF
the prince would not suffer him to re
main for long in any n place. Now
he would circle over the Hudson and
East river; now he would go up high,
as II to peer away into the blue dis
tances; once he assembled so swiftly
and SO far that mountain sickness
overlook him and the crew and forced
him down again, and Bert shared the
dizziness and ausea.
1t dawned upon Bert that hardly a
third of the feet was visible. The
others had gone upon errands he could
not imagine, beyond the compass of
that great circle of earth and sky. He
wondered, but there was no one to
ask. AS the day wore on about a
dozen r~eappeared in the east with their
stores ~replenished from the hotilla and
towing a number of drachenfieger.
Toward afternoon the weather thick
ened, driving clouds appeared in the
southwest and ran together and cen
ed to engender more clouds, and the
wind came round into that quarter
and blew stronger. Toward the even
ing the wind became a gale into which
the 10Y tossing airships had to beat.
All that day the prince was negotiat-
ing with Washington, while his de-
tached scouts sought far and wide
over the eastern states for anything
resembling an a%eronautic park. A
squadron Of twenty airships detached
overnight had dropped out of the air
upon Niagara and was holding the
town and power works.
| Meanwhile the insurrectionary move
ment In the giant city grew uncon-
trollable. In spite Of five great fires
already involving many acres and
spreading steadily, New York was still
not satisfied that she was beaten.
At first the rebellious spirit below
found vent only In isolated shouts,
street crowd speeches and newspaper
! suggestions; then 1t found much more
definite expression In the appearance
In the morning sunlight of American
flags at point after point above the
architectural cliffs of the city.
The German sense Of ~correctltude
was deeply shocked at this outbreak.
The Graf Won Winterfeld Immediately
communicated with the mayor and
pointed out the ir~regularity. and the
fire lockout stations were instructed in
the matter. The New York police were
speedily hard at work. and a foolish
contest in full swing between impas-
stoned citizens resolved to keep the
flag flying and irritated and worried
officers instructed to pull it down..
Then hard upon that came the des-
| perate attempt of a party of young
clubmen from New York who, inspired
by patriotic and adventurous magma
lions, slipped off in half a dozen motor
cars to Beacon hill and set to work
with remarkable vigor to tmprovise a
fort about the Doan swivel gun that
had been placed there. They found 1t
still in the hands of the Disguised gun
ners, who had been ordered to cease
fire at the equalization. and 1t was easy
to infect these men with their own
spirit. They declared their gun hadn't
had half a chance and were burning
to show what it could do.
They were actually loading the gun
when they were observed by the air
ship Preussen, and the shell they sue
ceeded In firing before the bombs of
the latter smashed them and their
crude defenses to fragments burst over
the middle gas chambers of the Bingen
and brought her to earth. disabled.
upon Staten Island. She was badly
debated and dropped among trees, over
which her empty central gas bags
spread in canopies and festoons. Moth
ing. however, had caught fire, and her
men were speedily at work upon her
repair. They behaved with a conf
dence that verged upon indiscretion.
While most of them commenced
patching the tears Of the membrane.
half a dozen Of them started off for
the nearest road In search Of a gas