Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-01-23

Our Old Friend Taylor Also
Dubs 1t the "tiospital Camp
of the Sick and BivoIac of
the Dead"


its gnest assets in the military eclat that
it gets from the Navy anchorage afforded
by its fine bay. She can almost any
day find social lion in Captain Tom or
Lieut.. Dick. or even Corporal Harry, if a
little pushed to it. You should have read
the roar that went up from the leading
daily paper of the city. (which. it might
be said incidentally, seems to be the
palladium of all the liberties OF the free
and easy set of S. d. when President
Wilson called down the Carabas club for
its ribald mockery of his Administration S
policy toward the Filipinos. You could
not have failed to see that here indeed
the Chief Executive of the Nation was
treading on somebody's especially pet
corn; that here in S. D., as hardly any
where else in the country. there was a
special element to be defended; to have
the wounds of that Presidential repri-
mand well salved. Little sympathy in
deed does the Dove of Peace policy get
in this quarter, for we need the gun boats
to draw the idle rich crowd and build
city. One that shall be not only as beau
tiful for natural situation and as salu-
brious for climate as the Naples it is SO
often likened to, but also as rich and as
rotten.
But here am again, up against the
beautiful economic order OF our twen-
tieth century civilization.
And why should when there are so
many other interesting and more popu-
lar things to write about? For instance.
herein S. D. bay. on North Island, we
have the greatest aviation feats of the
world pulled off almost daily. 1t was
here that Beachey entertained the crowd
on Thanksgiving day by doing loop the
loop stunt in a flying machine for the
first time it was done in America. and it
is here that we have everyday perfor-
mances of somewhat less daring sort by
members Of the U. S. aviation corps OF
the government station on the Island.
Yesterday from the windows OF our room
we watched flight over the city and
across the bay, made at height OF about
5000 feet, that was done with all the
steady grace and beauty Of bird.
Travelling 20 miles an hour as he pass
ed, the birdman checked his speed and
settled down upon Point Iona, then rose
again in flight and settled upon the wa
ters Of the bay. skimming over the sur
face as nracefully as a kingfisher look
ing for an unwary herring.
But lest my readers suppose that when
we revert to aviation we are up entirely
out of the atmosphere Of the exclusive
society circles Of S. D. let me tell them
that the latest thing is flying machine
ferry between the North Island Aviation
Camp and the Hotel del Coronado. and
that the carrying of pretty girls in short
flights between the two points is the fad
of the hour. The second day OF the in
auguration OF this ferry service the local
press reported as many as 25 young
ladies' holding reserve seat tickets SO to
speak-that is waiting their turn-for the
trip in the air ship. always knew the
dear girls would do almost anything for p
chance to sit alongside pair OF should
er-straps. but upon my word | didn't
think so many OF them had the nerve
that this displays. I'm proud of them
1t excuses a whole lot of friyolities with
which they seek to kill time. In fact
can forgive them about everything. ex-
oept it should be initiating that eastern
LADY of leisure" who was reported the
other day as dressing her poodle IN FASH
ionable attire and giving dog party for
it. What dog-goned shame that any
woman could be so shallow. G. H. T.
San Diego, CAL. Jan. IA, 1914