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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-26

arm, but never notice II az the time"
Are you very exh!liarated when you get
up 10 great heights and depressed when
YOU come to EARTH"
Il notice that a great many avators
have told in their interviews OF the effect
on the spirits OF great attitudes ! have
only been up 5000 feet-that ism very high
and my only sensation has been one OF the
keenest enjoyment The sweeping up from
the earth is the most tremendously ex-
hiliaratng feeling My. It is great. | never
have any depression afterward. In fact
. the sensation get Is very much like that
YOU nave in a motor car when you are
Swimming along absolutely regardless Of
speed law only It is thousand times more
intense
Il suppose you pity us poor worms when
YOU get UP there. the earth looks like a
pncushion. and nothing seems like any
| thing"
The young aviatress has a very musical
! laugh. She runs up and down the gamut
of the scale two or three times before she
says
'I am not the least bit romantic, and
am 80 busy watching my machine that
| don't get time to have any of these tire
| bursting thoughts. l don't DeneNe nave
any temperament / am content to enjoy
the physical sensation of flying OF course.
I enjoy the success. too Its fine to be
successful. Its simply great. but its the
soaring that really does it, OH that soar
ing up-up-up."
Miss Quimbly looks ecstatc. look dis
appointed
Not a little bit Of day dream about
visiting other worlds Of losing yourself In
space and never returning. OF being In the
! clouds when you meet your soulmate?'
well, you are sure to be that. anyway
aren't you?" inquired Miss Quimby In the
tone Of one who doesn't need the informa'
ton she asks. LAS for day deaming. you
can't do much Of that, II your oil runs
i out three minutes, II you lose sight OF you'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-26
Kate Carew Flashes-n Mnd-Through Air with Harriet Qumby
American Woman Who Increased Her Fame the
Other Day by Winging Her Way Across the
English Channel Tells of Her Experience
Flying Is Only Side Issue with Her.

Then" she repeated, in a sort Of dazed
way. "Oh, yes, where was !, let me see.
in the air over the French coast. Well. l
came down to about FIVE hundred feet to
reconnoitre finally landed in fishing
village called Eguihen, near Hardelot.
didn't want TO tear up the newly ploughed
! fields. so chose the beach. A lot OF Aneri-
can people who were there met me and
had a rousing old welcome. They were ter
ribly proud Of me. as were the people
| ir London"
Miss Quimby tells Of her successes in Q
very modest way, not belittling nor over
emphasizing them. 1t seems to me TO show
a pretty good fibre Of character to be able
to come back TO business desk and take
up the daily routine of work after an ex-
perience of that kind, and not have ones
| head turned.
| Did you take out any insurance.
An aviator cannot insure himself, but he
can his machine. The rates are so ire
mendously high l trusted to my luck again
and didn't bother"
| In the early days OF Miss Quiubys
flights at the Mosant School, Garden City,
where she was crack pupil, her n1ascu-
line rivals used to speak of her as "one OF
the grass cutting squad" the term Of re-
proach levelled against those who were
content TO touch the top of the lawn 50
l inquired:
Did you meet with much incredulfty
when you announced your intention OF
crossing the Channe?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-26

phone Miss ouimby catches her breath
the first she has drawn since our start-on
and explains: 1T does take such a lot OF
red tape to get my machine through the
Custom House"
Just before she hangs up the receiver she
invites the Collector Of the Port 10 test the
machine himself.
I'm bring you up from seagate YesT
Whatever the response II lends color TO
her next statement.
Isn't IL amazing, Men always make ex-
cuses. / don't know whether they don't
trust women as pilots or whether they arc
really afraid. but they won't go up. had
a very competent mechanician whom /
really wanted TO take up with me. l be-
lieve he knew / intended to ask him and
for a long time he avoided giving me the
opportunty. One day he said: Miss Quinn
IN, hone YOU won't ever ask me to 60 up
with you
Why? said |. rather provoked.
"I am afraid of falling under the fasci-
nation
Your Aunt Kate interrupted here to say,
81 don't blame him bit
Failing under the fascination OF hying'
continues Miss Quimby. unperturoed by
my interpolated compliment.
Looks as though awaiting invitations
were going to tax mems imaginations more
than s o'clock teas. picnics and afternoon
bridge parties do.
What excuses DO they maker l ask
curiously.
Usually wife is afraid to have him ny
Sometimes he accepts. oh, so eagerly. but
before the time some important business
matter comes up and to his great regret
etc.
And women are really eager?"
"Awfully so. not bit afraid. Personally
have never felt symptom Of uneasines'
CT that kind"
Not even when you take out a ne"
machine? Aren't you afraid that u ma!
develop . strange kind Of ttckl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-26
MISS oUIMsYs FLYING COSTUME

90, is made OF a sort Of wool-backed
satln-the men reporters called II sd''ii
hacked in wool in their dispatches | Sc
lected Il because II is pliable ana warm
wear a blouse, and the lower part is SOL
OF cross between boomers and rlding uous-
ers. II is plum colored and has hood at
tsched. I put on two extra coats lot the
Channel crossing, and at the last moment
felt some one strapping hot wafer pol-
,le 10 my waist. Some one else put news
nspers between the coats was mighty
clad Of those newspapers. not so much Ioi
the warmth, but because when | landed the
Gre, thing did was TO look about for some
naner on which TO write the cable ais
matches I wanted 10 send 10 my parents ana
N NV paper. I couldn't find any. and
er,,v wrote on the margin Of the news
papers"
"It is too bad your father and mother
were not there to see your Channe! eros
sng," say sympathizingly
yes. but perhaps it is just as we'll
says Miss Qumby in her most practicsI
tore. II they had been I don't believe
they would have allowed me TO go up
What is the distance you crossed?
"onlv thlrty-ive miles from shore to
shore I started from the Dover aero
dronoe at o'clock in the morning SET
Nv course over Dover Castle. / sTuck
some gusty little winds right away ana
lacked down for the tug that was TO tol-
,ov intending 10 steer my course by lts
trail Of smoke but was soon IN tog
tank. and IN spite OF the warnings had
roceived-orders | might call them-not
N 20 very high. I Just had to mount over
+, went up 5000 feet, and simply could
nov believe my eyes when, in what seemed
an awfully short time, I say the French
coast"
Didn't you have any special sensation on
tina, trim II couldn't have been just
case Of watching your machinery then"
~ had a tremendously weird feeling "hen
was lost in the fog. ! have no bump OF
locality: for the first time I used my COM
pass"
Miss oulmby interrupts herself to sho"
me small. metal incased compass with
the girlish remark: Isn't that the cutest
thing you ever saw
7 allowed that It was. | didn't want 70
have any controversy on the subject. l
wanted TO get across the Channel, having
started Then" I said, quite impatiently'
recalling her to her duty as aviator.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-26

"Of course, no two machines are alike
and you have 10 be cautious when you
! handle new one, but the same rule APP
| plies to a horse, a motor, cycle. One can
| be very very cautions without being III
| the least biz afraid For instance. the
| machine I used TO cross the Channel was
| q new Bleriot | had determined II IL be-
haved badly when | got up way | should
| not attempt TO make the crossing, but II
was as easy as sitting in an arm chair. In
thirty seconds had climbed l.500 feet
Miss Quimby has the perfect poise and
J self confidence which | have been told is
| the state Of mind OF all avaitors who have
never met any serious setbacks. Wonder
| ing about this. ] inquired:
| Have YOU ever had any accidents
| None TO speak of once at Garden City
nv running gear was wrenched off the
forks and one of the wings were broken.
but | wasn't scared II had been l sup
pose there would have been a serious mis-
hap. I kept my seat and turned on the
power. Mr.. Thomas Spworth. the English
AVIATOR had a similar accident In ooth
cases the machines were badly damaged
Can you mend your own machine|
"Oh. can make little repairs tinker
with it a bit l am not much or a
mechanican. / have had some preliminary
experience running a typewriter. bicycle
and a runabout, but / don't think could
exactly qualify"
Miss Quimby has delicate physique her
hands and arms certainly do not give the
impression OF great strength. Looking al
them 1t seems hardly possible that they
can guide one OF the great air birds which
in the hangers. look as If only Samson o.
an Amazon could successfully compete
with their resistant force.
you must be lot stronger than So'
Look" is my deduction.
1T does not take hardly any strength ex
cept in coming down. There is som'
pressure, then. Afterward l Will be con
| scious Of the. feeling Of strain on lyrf2rs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-26

ste.rne gear, YOU will come plunkins
doun 10 earth with dull, sckenlng thud.
nav dreams don't seem worth while with
such an awakening
II suppose all your senses get very
sharpened?'
yes. particularly your hearing ! ma
that I can tell all about my machine pet
ter by the noise II makes than IN any other
way. Just as long as the regular thuo'
thud continues, you know everything Is
all right The slightest vibratory change'
and YOUR attention is excited. What does
that mean You listen and wait. with
every nerve on edge until you find out.
Then YOU might as we'll be in the engine
room OF an apartment hotel watching the
motor" I inquired.
"Oh. not exactly. l am conscious all the
time of the crowds and the spaces, the
enthusiasm and the throb Of human life
underneath. but it is a far away sensa-
tion-the other is the nearer.
Does that knowledge of thousands OF
people watching make you want 10 90 III
tie circus tricks that amuse the people ana
endanger your life?"
NO. 7 don't believe in being reckless
lust wave my hand or my handkerchief.
perhans when I have done more hyins l
shall feel more confident.
I tried again vainly to trap Miss Qulmoy
into admissions concerning her double
lfe"-that existence lived partly IN tne
clouds. partly on the earth-but ! couid
not She refused TO take any imaginary
flights. She ignored the idea that to the
true sport there could be anything in
voIved but the love of the air game. she
was absolutely blind TO any psycholoslc
intent She seemed full Of the joy OF Nv
ing OF the mere touch-and-go OF existence
but 10 all else indifferent.
made a tack 10 windward Of the sub
ject
LAS a Journalist you must have written
lot How can you do that unless your
ina gination is stimulated all the time?
"Oh. yes. l have written screeds; some
fiction, too
am quite sure that Miss Quimby hash
felt her stories yet. She is too near the
scene Of action TO get a perspective.
have heard men OF action and OF the pen
saw that you cannot live a story and write
about IL at the same time. Distance ana
time must act as solvents.
Ibid you have different sort Of costume
than your ordinary flying one to cross the
Channel"
NO: Just the same"
And that?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-26
pEPLoREs MILITANT sUFFRAoIsM.

Yes. I saw one refined looking woman
take I'D a huge stone and throw II through
a plate glass window. I felt that stone did
as much harm TO the cause as TO the glass.
II does seem as II they might set the vote
quietly, as the women OF my state, Cali
fornia, did
She interviews me on the subject:
What is your opinion OF the ants? DO
you believe their opposition is anything but
pose? What do they do it for? They
simply cannot be sincere, can they?'
Possibly 10 please the men, l venture.
1T must be-" says our only avlatress, on,
so sadly, deploring the means not the end.
Not to be in a moving picture exhibit
argues the latter day celebrity unknown.
Il suppose you were klnemacolored?'
II saw the pictures before / left London.
There is $50 feet Of film They will be
shown here soon. The little tug that was
going 70 pick me up spoiled lot Of the
photographs OF course. ii had 10 do some
thing 10 earn the money. II II wasn't any
thing more than 70 have its picture taken"
Your future plans" have TO make
ready 10 go for there are impatient appli-
cants and Miss Quimby has reached her
fourth breath.
oh. ! may try a 'cross-country fight.
| think that sort of awaiting should be en-
Outraged but I have nothing definite IN
mind
She gives me 4 propeling handshake ana
| glide away in the direction indicated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-26
SURPRISED THE SKEPTIcs.

did /? l don't believe any one thought
I intended to do anything but 90 up and
circle a bit in the air. | can hear their
laughing now as they said O., old girl.
You can't fool us Up to the final moment
when l started they didn't believe was
going"
Are there any new inventions you be-
lieve Will make a difference in aeroplaning
in the near future?"
II hope a good hydroplane attachment
will be made soon. 7 believe that is the
greatest awaiting need. With one Of these
perfected it will be possible TO start from
the water just as easily as we do now from
the land"
l spoke of an invention l had read OF
lately. by which it would be possible TO
leave the steering gear when the machine
was going steadily.
Il don't know anything about that. 1t
sounds all right"
Anything else?"
II think there should be air stations, but
7 suppose they will come in time. No doubt
lots OF Improvements will be made as soon
as the initial cost becomes less
| inquired If she thought it would be
good real estate investment 10 buy up
mountain tops, but she did not put herself
on record in this matter.
And its future?'
"I have no original ideas. l believe u
will be used in wal that 1t will soon carry
! mail. passengers-there is practically no
! limit. | should say, 10 its possibilities.
Miss Quimby is such a fine example OF
| the woman engaged in the so-called mas
culine avocations OF profession and sport,
without having lost any Of her feminine
charm. that l ask concerning one OF the
mooted questions Of the hour.
Are you a suffragette?'
II believe in the suffrage for women
naturally Unfortunately l have happened
TO be in London two or three times dur
ing suffrage riots and | have actually felt
apologize"
You think militant methods do more
harm than good?'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-26
EXPECTS WOMEN TO BE AVIAToI

Certainly | do Really, it does not re-
qUlre so much courage. l have never met
a woman who did not want to fly. ! don't
know whethersthev lack caution, whether
they are more reckless and don't care what
becomes Of them, but they arc certainly
keen about the fascinating air game"
Then, why haven't more Of them at
tempted it?"
4 suppose one reason is the expense. At
the present moment It IS a sport outside
the possibilities Of the many"
Being a journalistic person myself and
no, having been able out Of my abundant
salary 10 save enough Tor many aeroplanes,
nv questioning glance toward the pile Of
manuscripts was a sufficient interrogatory.
/ "Oh, ! was lucky ! am a great believer
/ In luck. aren't you? just thought along
those lines-that is that / wanted to fly
! and the first ! knew there I was flying
The opportunity came and I took It, I
! have backing you know
Miss Quimbv does not explain whether
her awaiting IS done under public or private
enterprise.
Did you meet many women aviators on
the other side?"
Miss Quimby's smile resembles that Of
one Of her scarabs. read in It that in
Europe the feminine flyers are taken less
seriously than here
II has been. apparently. very busy
homecoming for Miss Quimby. Many tele-
phone and other interruptions have punctu-
atcd our hurried talk Now a clerk an
nounces that Collector Loeb is on the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-26
It Sounds Quite Easy and Simple-This Flying
Over Sea and Land-as the Noted Aviator
Describes 1t, and Fear Is Stranger to Her
When She's Navigating the Atmosphere.

quent smile. good teeth and fine, keen eyes
Her gown was Of a material that looked
Ike the old-fashionod grosgrain silk. very
modish, with the new shirred trimmin z
about the edges. A blue feather boa and a
reseda felt hat with an awaiting perk for
line and some cord and balls for trimming
completed her costume. The worsted balls
Kept getting in her eyes. and when she
wasn't doing anything else she pushed
them away II was great relief TO learn
that this was her Sunday best bonnet and
not her awaiting one, for she might steer
an aeroplane and keep those balls out Of
her eyes, but she could never do both at
one and the same time
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-26
MATCHING SCARABS.

She wore a schoolgirls outfit Of bangles,
rings and earrings. most Of these adorned
with real scarabs. Her short sleeves dis
played a bangle for every year. and over
her lace collar and jabot perfect flock Of
these esoteric bugs wandered at will when
ever her hands sought TO arrange these fin-
ishing touches.
We match scarabs for a second. read the
Biographies written on their backs, deplore
the number of false bugs on the market
and congratulate ourselves on having simon
pure Egyptian Thoroughbred, blue book va
ricty.
Ply this time we seem 10 have known
each other always
Miss Quimby does not look bit Oriental
in spite of her scarabs; in fact, she has a
very piquant French appearance, and l
TASK:
You don't seem quite like an American
girl, are you?"
"On, yes; ] wouldn't he anything else.
My mother came from New York. but both
she and my father are of New England
stock. / was born in San Francisco
The genealogical datum, intimate as il Is,
does not explain the southern hue to her
complexion. I inquire:
do YOU get sunburneG awaiting"
She twisted wandering flock Of scarabs
or her fingers and pushed the worsted balls
out Of her eyes.
zone doesn't stay up long enough at a
time to have any effect of that sort I
think must have inherited my COM
pleXion.'
do YOU inherit your courage. too"
I thought if Ouir1bv mere WAS one of the
famous Forty-nners that might explain
daughters adventurous spirit.
Not from father Daddy is very scared
about my flying. He doesn't like it at all,
and / couldn't persuade him TO go up with
me but my mother is awfully keen on the
sui ject. She wants to fly with me"
do YOU think that women will ever have
the courage 10 become aviators?"
The Detroit times., 1912-10-08
GARBAGE RECEIVING
STATION COMPLETED

The city's new barn and garbage
receiving station at the foot Of Twen-
ty-fourth-st., has been completed and
is ready for business. The building
is of brick and concrete and cost
about $16,500. The garbage receiving
station now owned by the city at the
foot Of Nineteenth-st. will be aband-
oned. Il was purchased from the old
Detroit Sanitary Co.. and rented to
the Detroit Reduction Co. for S75 a
month.
The latter concern In required, un-
der its agreement, to provide the re-
ceiving station, but the city put up q
building because quarters were need.
ed for the 76 horses used in the de-
partment. At the side Of the new
building there Is a concrete runaway
for freight cars and crane rigged
up to hoist the garbage boxes from
their trucks and load them on the
freight cars.
The reduction company will con-
tinue to pay SIS month to the city
for the facilities thus provided. The
building proper, however, Is devoted
TO stalls for horses, blacksmith
shop, an ONCE. and feed storage
space. The building was erected un-
der the supervision OF Surt. John J..
Knight
The Detroit times., 1912-10-08
CREAMERIES In ABSOLUTE
\, CONTROL OF MILK TRADE

up In price. The public made nothing,
the peddler lost.
The creameries can lower the
price OF milk 10 such an extent that
the peddler can't afford TO follow
them. They can get all the trade.
They can put the peddler out OF bust
ness whenever they want to.
Another thing: Inspection by the
Board OF Health Is lighter on farmers
who sell to creameries than to those
who sell to wholesalers. know two
farms across the road from each
other. One sold 10 a creamery, the
other to a wholesaler. The inspector
told the creamery man to clean up.
He told the other that he would have
to put In more windows: he punched
holes In his cans; he laid out a big
bill OF expense. After the inspector
had gone. the farmers compared
notes.
"'He told me to put In more win.
dows.' said the second man.
That's funny, said the creamery
seller. You've got twice as many win.
dows now as ] have. All / have to
do Is clean up bit.
That's the way II goes. The IN.
spector always asks the farmer where
he sells his milk. II he sells to
creamery, the inspection Is light. II
he sells to a wholesaler. he has TO
toe the mark.
II can't sell tainted milk. In the
creameries, a man opens the cans as
they come In and makes an examina-
ton. II the milk Is all right, II goes
into bottles. II it's tainted, II goes
into Ice cream. II it's Sour, II goes
to the cheese factories.
IF / have to go out OF business,
I'll become carpenter. A carpenter
In this vicinity can get 40 cents an
hour aud work 10 hours day. He
can get that even IL all he knows how
to do Is to handle a hammer. 1t looks
better to me than the wholesale milk
business"
The Detroit times., 1912-10-08
CT. FUNKE WILL BE
BURIED TODAY
Head of Wholesale Grocery Firm
Was Well-Known German
Citizen.

Funeral services for the late
Charles F. Funke. head OF the firm OF
Charles F. Funke & Co., Wholesale
grocers, will be held Tuesday after
noon, at 2 o'clock, In the family home,
No. So Alfred-st.
Mr.. Funke. who died Saturday, was
one OF Detroit's most prominent Ger
man-American citizens and mer-
chants. He was born In this city 81
years ago, six months after his par.
ents came to Detroit from Germany.
After leaving business college at the
age OF 16. Mr.. Funke became con-
idential clerk for Herman Barrie, gro
Ger. at Macomb and Beaubien-sts., and
at 23 entered business for himself as
retail and wholesale grocer, event
ually catering to the wholesale trade
only. In 1888 Mr.. Funke admitted
Frank ]. Knittweiss to partnership.
In January OF the present year. Mr..
Funke retired from business life. ow-
ing to falling health, after Al years
of activity.
Mr.. Funke was a man of deep re-
ligious conviction and. In 1885, he
founded a mission for men, on the
order Of the famous Jerry Macauley
missions, in New York, at st. Aubin-
ave. and Sherman-st., purchasing
the little Methodist church at st.
Aubin and Jefferson-aves. and moving
It to the former corner. For two
years, Mr.. Funke devoted almost his
entire time to the mission, holding
nightly meetings and three services
on Sunday. The work was carried on,
under the direction OF an advisory
board which included such we'll
known men as the late Rev. George
B. Duffield, Millard T. Conklin, the
Rev. william Dave, David Preston,
Frank ID. Taylor. d. A. Waterman,
Charles Buncher and the late Gen.
eral Luther Trowbridge.
During this time, Mr.. Funke fre-
auently took the derelicts who came
to the mission, into his own home.
giving them practical aid and physi-
cally and spiritually setting the men
upon their feet again. Ultimately MT.
Funke turned the building, rent free,
over to the Salvation army when that
made its first appear
ance in Detroit.
In 1871 Mr.. Funke married Miss
Mary Moore, of Newport, VT, by
whom he Is survived, with one daugh-
ter, Mrs. Frederick C. Funke. The
interment OF the body In Woodlawn
will be private.
The Detroit times., 1912-10-08

F. f. Titus, Prohibition candidate
for congress in the first district, Is
an active canvass and says
he expects TO make good showing
in the election. He points out that
one OF his opponents, Ezra p. Beech
Ter. running on the Republican ticket,
was formerly member Of the Pro.
hibition party.