Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-22

SeiOW me. My eyes NOT bctnu ,c.u.
nTnn u1med to watching from an aero
ms Capt. Viewer, nIthoupb he - ~.
re MS Held glasses. He couId teII
hothinH up there, as the motor
- SO ana the aeropIane hummed
until IL wns deafening.
1 could see, dimly the trenches
t,utiIned t,' In some places. I could see
the smoke of the firing guns conI,.
see Dlack masses, which I knew were
men drift along, come together ara
orlft apart again. ''''''
| a BREATH-TAKING wHIRI.
hnt tried to see details of the fight.
out we were too high. While in tho
ar no enemy aeroplane engaged ne
helther were we fired on. or go
pose L would not be telling the story
as capt. Weber confessed that he hod
sfhail sIn experience in lodging, as vet
with guns SfuiPPec'
| we swooped and ducked and dived
at a nVely rate and. after one partic
Hia5ly breath-taking whirl, / real
wes ,Tee Una onat l. had "looped the loop" I
was finished I asked Capt wever 4,
ena5 was what he had done, and he
| sald yes. 1t is not so yery terrifv
| ing; as 1t is over before YOU know
II, but IT leaves you. for few min.
het. hhoe. win strange sensation Of
1
your head and heels, as though von
| were not quite sure which beIon1eG
| where. ei0hseu
we were In the air three hours alto
s suner ana new over miles of terri
would have given anything for car
era, out ] knew I would not be per-
mltted TO take any pictures out OF
the country, so there was no use
| making them uee
! We
an hour' sometimes more. had
thought at that height it would be
very cold, but the heat of the motor
made it, at times. uncomfortabiy
COMING BACK TO EARTH
when we were ready to come down
capt Viewer touched me on the shout
der In warning. l did not know what
was coming so braced myself for
Whatever it would be. 1t was a ouicL
drop from the clouds. When an ayia-
| tor decides to come back to earth he
simply comes. don't know how far
we dropped. but when got nv breath
ana could see again, we were gliding
along smoothly within a short dis
| tance of the ground
when we lit we bounced along for
hundred feet or SO before we rolled
easily. AS soon as the aeroplane
touched the ground. Capt Viewer
touched my coat as though to tell me
10 hurry ana get 1t off. / obeyed
| him. When I first took of the hood
| could not hear for a minute or so,
Just as soon as the machine STONED
] jumped out, grabbed my coat and
hat and hurried away as fast as /
| could.
We landed about n. M, and. as 1
was hurrying away, 1 saw we had
! landed in golf links. had to walk
back to Munich. of course, but I was
so glad of my experience that 1 did
not mind that.
had gotten away without any per-
SON suspecting that n stranger, and
an American at that, had taken n
trip in a German aeroplane over the
firing lines.
For fear that may be thought in.
discreet In exposing Capt. Viewers
kindness, I want to say that, only
two weeks after I flew with him he
was killed in the very machine in
which he had taken me. Both he and
the machine were broken to pieces. I
never would have betrayed his kind
ness had he lived, for l know what
1t would have meant to him had the
government found out what he did
(To Be Continued.)
Copyright, 1917, Pittsburg Press)