New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-28

IA = o DOUBT Ensign Chevalie-, L. s. ~, is
" bu. an everyday human being, like
"a anybody else. He swims like dolphin,
20 be sure Us everybody knows who
ever .,icd 20 play water polo against him; runs
or die a. any rate, in his cirdepath days-like
the startled hind; and he turns aeropane into
a seat.cn, being as blithe and carefree as him
self
SKY, earth and water appear to be equally his
home and he brings 10 each q well made, well
tanned body and quick vivid glance and smile
which few popular novelsts, without the sternest
scg-restraint, could describe without saying
something about a faun or a Greek god. But the
army and navy-not TO speak more specifically Of
the aviation sQuad-are full Of young men who
would put our ictionists 70 similar strain, so it
is doubtless true that young Chevalier is but a
regular American from Ogdensburg, n. y. Yet
al the moment Of writing this find 1t somehow
difficult to feel So
Chevalier and ! were birds together this morn
ing, or, rather, he was the bird and I was the
helpless passenger. We have been to another
world and back, and though have ducked him
under water since and tried to drag him back to
earth as much as possible he still seems little
apart and respendent touched with the radiance
of that thinner, upper ether.
DANGLING 1000 FEET ABOVE THE TROPI-
CAL OCEAN.
You 20 along living for an or two and
learning more and more about navigating d
strange and interesting world, then one bright
morning find yourself dangling in space couple
thousand feet above the tropical ocean. Super
Dreadnoughts below are mere pumpkin seeds
or blue floor, steamers and "kickers" plough
ing shoreward from the batteshiDs no more than
anats drawing little V-shaped wakes behind
them Human beings have all but disappeared,
L ttle masts, towers and domes, all ones whole
usual up-and-down world fattened to a map re-
mote and ereepily silent
Poised there, as it seems, roaring and beating
against a-hIrricane that-snatches the words from
your teeth and filings them far astern before the
man at yo1r side can catch them, with the empty
world yawaing below you, you could not be more
helpless under water or on the moon. None Oh
YOUR experiences will help you now. You may
,rov how o try a case or write a play or get 70
Co,oress q. make a million dollars, but that will
mot helm in the least to bring these great sway
IN, planes down the long hill Of empty air to that
far-of, cool ocean floor.
THE DEBONAIR AVIATOR ENTIRELY SUR
ROUNDED BY HALO.
Only this smiling young man can do that, lean
ing hack as much at as if he had picked just
YOU up in his runabout at some suburban station
He motions down with one hand, and slowly win
q dreadful list-gracefu as a gull, no doubt from
below-the great planes swing over and down
ward. Oh. yes, he'll get you there all right; IT'S
all in the days work. but he can scarcely DC eA-
pected to appear quite commonplace Tor announcer
twenty-four hours, at any rate!
A part Of this glamour results, no doubt from
the peculiar construction Of AS have been up
in the air with Orville Wright at Dayton, Iou"u
and round the old COW pasture where the Two
brothers worked so long and quietly making MS
tory, before history took the trouble TO pay any
attention TO them.
In the Wright machine the seat IS piaceu %
far back that one sits, it were, on inc lo"ei
plane-bas the comfortable illusion, at any I"'e
Of something solid underneath, as II one Wei1
aitting on the edge of roof. There IS Ver'i'"'
ktanchion TO grip with your right hand; there IS
or was in that machine diagonal guy wiz
which passed across the passengers chest anu
held him in as firmly the strap holds oeOy
in It's peranbulator. You couldn't fall of II you
wanted 70.
4 YaS saying boats" used BY the nasg ayiatofs 2.
Vera Cruz are even more eOnsOliHg. Pilot ana
passenger sit side BY side in sort Of deekeo'oYef