The Washington herald., 1916-11-12
Seen and Heard by George Miner.

New York, Nov. II.-As most business men
know, fairly well organized and quite vigorous
effort is being made to secure the South American
trade to the United States. Ever since there was
any trade down there Germany has controlled the
bulk of it. OF course, many American business
men consider South America as an open field.
They are making expensive and elaborate arrange
ments to go down there and grab it.
Mr. John Barrett, who is reckoned to be an
expert on South American business affairs, has
just returned to this country from brief tour of
England and France He went abroad for the
especial purpose of getting foreign viewpoints of
the effect OF the war upon the commercial and
economic development of South America.
In little talk I had with him today he said
that he was convinced that the general financial
and manufacturing interests of the United States
would be making grave mistake if they counted
upon any general let-up of British and French
efforts to take care of their interests in South
America after the war
He said the general impression among the
business men he met abroad was that there was
plenty OF room for all in the commercial field in
South America and that they would be anxious to
cooperate with, rather than to antagonze Ameri-
can interests there and that they were of the
opinion that competition would be most unfortu-
nate.
Hunting ducks with airships is the newest
form of sport. 1t is said to be very exhiliarating,
but is also pretty low-down trick on the ducks.
There is law against hunting game birds from
motor craft and of course, that law applies to
a motor airship as we'll as to a motor boat, but
these modern Nimrods have way of getting
around that by going outside the three-mile limit
where the Federal jurisdiction does not operate
There are no game laws the high seas and once
beyond the three-mile limit you can hunt with
Maxim gun if you like and there is nobody to say
you nay.
Mr.. E. K. Jaquith, the son of a Chicago banker
is the man who has started this airship hunting
fad down on the New Jersey coast. 1t has become
so popuar that he is going to introduce it at Palm
Beach this winter.
"Airshp ducking has many advantages over the
old way" said Mr.. Jaquth. you don't have to lie
perfectly still for hours stretched out in sneak
box or behind until you are numb with
the cold waiting for the duckts to come your way
You can go after them. The machine has almost
as much speed the ducks when in full swing
l have often given chase to flock just to hear
them squawk and hit the high places for speed
MY method is to go out beyond the three-me
limit and lie quietly on the water until flock is
sighted OF course use hydro-aeroplane. We
follow them with glasses until thy settle. Then
we approximate our distance start down or up
at right angles to their feeding point and then
gradually mount into the air, describing an arc
that brings us close to them. If we are lucky
enough to have clouds get right over the
flock. The whrr of the propeller will usually
flush them from the water.
Mine times out of ten the ducks start right out
with the wind and gradually soar into the air. We
going in the same direction and with the
speed already attained generally can get almost
among the ducks before they get under full swing
The passenger bangs away and if he is any kind of
shot generally gets two or three before they
outdstance us.
"The most difficult part of the game is to re-
trieve the birds. At first we seldom picked up
our game because it was hard to sight them down.
have overcome that by carrying buoys painted
white. AS soon as the passenger fires and duck
falls l cast out some of the white buoys The
speed with which we are travelling and the speed
of the duck as it strikes generally brings the buoy
and the bird down in the water within a hundred
feet or so of one another With the buoy as a
finder we are then able to course back and get our
birds.
Cunning from flying boat is much more in
teresting than target casting which was the only
fun outside of the exhiliaration of flying that my
passengers were able to enjoy before"
An announcement by the Hughes National
College League of the has durpo