Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-08-04

defense only and not aid nexcusabe territorial aggandzemen
The great value of aircraft life water illustrated by
the patrol system advocated by National Aerial Coast Patrol
commission acknowledged Let consider briefly the coming
activities of the aircraft on land
One Of the great for aeropane the future will
fighters The time almost hand when giant planes larger than
know Of and with speed greatly above the Of IS 100
miles hour which prevails at the present time will be equipped
TALLY like land fire apparatus Rushing without hndrance through the
air $50 200 miles hour carrying feghng apparatus and
renced remen fully equipped aerial fire departments will dash toward
the buildings fire and extnguh the flames with chemicals long before
the fire department these could get half the blaze In fact
will be done for the that the modern skyaper hard
to the fire gets good start and great and sometimes fatal delay
due to getting up to the fire if it is the upper stories
To the aerial fire department this will difficulty ALL The
,.,,. ru.. sixtieth SEVENTEEN or eightieth story
r " a, ~ WV or the ffty-sevenh floor in the Wool
"S VII -s"0" "o' worth building in New York, will be
just easy for the land fire fighters get up the eighth
ninth floor.
No later Walter Miles, aviator who has Just returned
from umpha tour Of Japan and China while flying Mneo
New York city, that the dwelling citizen fire before
anybody else knew about it. Niles flew the conAagaton and
Unanswered around above the house such that the alarm
communicated to people the street and the fire put out II this
be done merely incident little unt the afternoon
not difficult believe great deal be accomplished by full
fedged fire department.
Aeopanes will also fly at speed from city give
negbong city in distress They will be fire fighters that what
has been called for by appeals they will big and fleet trucks
carrying supplies and little army of helpers.
Suppose for illustration that another disastrous conhagraon should
spring the city of Baltimore when aerial fire departments
reality In half hour aid would be there from Washington nearly sol
miles away hour later the Philadelphia machines would be the
and after another hour the wh and the cng of the New York
contingent would DO heard in the air.
Take another illustration Let imagine repetition of the Dayton
flood The loss Of life and the bitter distress caused by that disaster would
u.,,., .. not be repeated, for powerful Aiers
o"o~ mao'1s u bearing life lines clothing bed COW
MUMMY "'e'' os"'s' erng frstaid packages medicines
and everything needed would hand short time from her
aghboring Ohio and from resouu metropolis like Chicago
or Indianapolis.
These instances might be multiplied at great length and to point
esome detail Indeed there hardly life saving function exercised
land that cannot and will not be done much better and much faster
by air.
Everything will once to be but aeronautics de-
vepng with such remarkable celebrity this and most all other countries
that the germ Of the foregoing suggestions has already passed the nebu
stage and before the present generation has m reward OF
these things will have to pass.