Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-05-13
AVIATION day
AT Army BASE
Birdmen Sail Quietly Southwark
Below the Border.
THE WAGON TRAIN.
In Preparation to Moye---CoIumbus
Women Having a Riot in Art
Cake Baking
Especial TO Evening Capital. by Jean
Cabell o'Neill, Columbus, n. NJ,
April 90 1916.


April 20, 1916
This is aviation day at the Column
bus army base for almost before some
OF Us We're out of the blankets, pair
OF birdmen sailed quietly up from the
south and came calmly to rest in the
field reserved for the aviation start
aud finish.
The observer and pilot had rather
brilliant and very successful flight and
brought TO the waiting newspaper men
much copy, some from far to the
southwark very recent, for it
takes time to get news from five hun
dred miles below the bonler If the
Mexican telegraph is used into Juarez
to lei Paso, understand, the toll is Sl5
an hundred words, so most of the
matter comes through toColumbus just
any way the correspondents can get it
out, usually by the courtesy of the
army couriers I'M relays.
The matter today was OF that char
acter the last lap of two hundred and
seventy miles. This flight was prob
ably made in less than three hours.
very near record time for this altitude.
Handy had we finished enthusing
over the successful arrival when an
other ilier, bringing observer and pilot
blew in" They seemed TO be riding
the gale. for they came at great clip
until the planes showed almost broad
side to the onlooker.
Then a few minutes later truck
and trailer started for the same field
loaded with long box looking some
what like giants coffin. to be follow
ed by another and still more, the
number not necessary to mention, for
reasons of diplomacy" but very
satisfactory number was totaled. On
opening each coffin disclosed Cur
tiss fiier, and they are rapidly being
assembled So we will have very
pretty feet of newly Matched birds
soon ready to try their young wings In
this atmosphere of ffty-seven vari-
cites OF badness.
There is wagon train in prepare
ton for the move to the southwark
and many of the women of Columbus
are having very riot of cake-baking
TO so with this train for the boys of
the companies of the Thirteenth Cav
airy, who were their defenders during
the memorable raid of March 9th.
There have been a good many stories
of the needs of the soldiers for sweet
stuff. Much may be an exaggeration
but il is a fact that in this dry air
and altitude one almost suffers for
sweetness. There is an ever present
thirst and add to that a desire for
candy and cake, such as mother used
to make" and one becomes homesick
unless one has the price of both,
But there is no famine of sweet stun
in Columbus for Ell Paso, very enter
prising town, is about seventy miles
away, and there the candy factories
are working over time. Therefore. il
is hoped the sentimental girlies of the
north and east will not waste their
money ami time sending unknown sol
diers candy and sugared notes. For
the American soldier is a very sane
person, and has little sentimentality
in his nature and presents, and loving
notes from strange women bore him
or provoke him to mirthful disgust.
/ was talking to a fine young in
fantryman today, and ] had an inter
esting sidelight on his point of view
as TO women. He said he believed
girls never meant TO no wrong. but
they were so soft-hearted. they would
do anything to please fellow they
IN h. -,
run double straight so some tender
hearted girl would do the same and
if fellow would just think when he
asked girl to drink, how he would
like another man to be setting up the
drinks for his sister. he did not be-
lieye any girl would ever have a
chance TO learn the taste of booze. he
warmed up to the subject, on which he
had evidently spent some thought
and declared that he did not believe q
woman ever drank in the first place to
please herself, but Just because she
thought il pleased the boys she was
with. who would think her a sport
There is probably a tremendous diff
ference in the fighting men of the
United States and in France. The lat.
ter seem to have an almost inordinats
craving for sympathy and for the in.
| terest of the people they have left be-
| hind The most pathetic appeals ap.
| pear from time to time in the French
papers from soldiers in the trenche:
begging for letter or comfort pack
age" or even bundle of cigarettes
pleas not to be forgot while they arr
fighting far from home and friends
are often responded to so heartily a,
10 bring forth warnings from officer;
to stop sending packages to certain
| soldiers who were so supplied that tn
| mail service was temporarily crippled
This belief that the French soldie
| needs petting has even spread to thi
country, and appeals have recently ap
peared in New York papers askinl
that American girls adopt for pur
poses of correspondence. sobiier o