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New-York tribune., 1917-11-04

miles on either side Of the route. Each
leg OF the route is marked with lts
magnetic bearing, both coming and go
ing, and compass roses showing the
magnetic variation in given district
are added at frequent intervals. Inc
bearing from one city 10 another is
determined by projecting the line OF
fight between those two cities and
then transferring this line by means
Of parallel rulers 70 the nearest COM
pass rose. As all the bearings are mag
netic, the pilot simply steers his craft
according 70 the chsrted reading.
A map is also being prepared OF the
airline, or great circle, route between
New York and San Francisco, which
would make il possible for any aviator
20 fly across the continent without los
ing his way.
Photographic maps. It Is on maps
of this type that the military .oper-
ations on the present battle fronts
are based. In the conduct OF these
operations Photographic maps aiG es-
sential. They are re-msde daily. often
several times a day, 10 include the
changes shown by the photographs
taken by the aviators from thei: aero
planes. These Photographic maps show
the eonfguration in the most minute
details, and with the utmost care 40
the success Of certain operations de-
pends upon the exactness OF the srlaii-
est Typographical details.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Thriller Split
For Two Scenes

Occasionally a producer makes the
cost of one peril help pay for another
For instance, the mountain selected
for explosion formed an excellent scene
for staging an automobile, with its pas
sengers, rushing over precipice,
thriller in another play.
On this occasion FIVE cameras To-
cussed on the line Of descent to be
taken by the automobile as 1t went
over the cliff. But the machine did not
20 over in the prescribed manner. IL
had gained such momentum for the
plunge that it dashed out beyond the
cliff against the skyline and sprsng di-
rectly at the camera man below.
was that man. ! didn't pause 10 get
any part Of picture. but grabbed my
camera and ran. Neither did any other
camera register a picture. The auto
mobile rushed entirely out OF the line
Of the film. Another had to be pur-
chased and the scene reenacted. Sec
ond-hand cars at $3.50 10 S46O apiece
were not to be wasted. AS for the
camera man in the path OF peril, he
might sidestep, II he were quick
enough.
II a camera man experiences nerve.
racking thrills on land he doesn't ma
grinding out moving pictures OF NY
Jroplane perils any less exciting. II 10
not pleasurably exhilarating TO poi:e
in midair above the Hudson River, with
no camera work to absorb the attention
and prevent one from conjecturing
what could be the matter with Dalky
engine and lust how hard one would
hit the water from such height.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Attitude Reversed
Over Drugged Girl

A girl who had been FED drugged
candy was found at daybreak in . we'll
known suburban promenade, given
clothing and removed 10 her homo.
Rightly or wrongly, the Sim Fein laid
the incident at the door Of the Amer
leans.
Given sk!lful publicity by the Sim
Fein, this charge was used 20 reverse
the attitude OF this mercurial city into
a furore OF feeling against the Amer
leans.
Only day or two later, foiled Of its
pro-German purposes, the Sim Fsin
was attacking Americans on leave
wherever il could find them.
| witnessed one evening Of this anti.
American hysteris.
II began at the railroad station, whore
a crowd Of some fifty boys in their
teens Kissed and jeered American blue
jackets who had just arrived from this
port When a squad Of some fifty
Americans, some Of whom were accom-
panied by girls. left the station, these
boys followed them in body, booing
and kissing, but maintaining q safe dis
tance. The Americans paid them no
heed until they came on brother
American backed against the doorway
Of disused variety hall, with q great
crowd threatening him.
The crowd Of Americans at once
started through the mob OF Sim Fein-
ers, numbering about 100, 20 rescue
their comrade. The Americans Sc
cured their "matsy" quickly and vent
of with him, followed BY the Sim
Feiners, COW augmented TO about 300 in
number. Throughout this incident
twelvs Of the Royal Irish Constabulary
stood across the street looking on.
Further up the street the Americans
began breaking up into small groups.
Numbers Of them entered corner
"pubs." Others, in the company OF
girls, entered the confectionery shops.
When their number had dwindled TO
about a dozen the crowd Of Sim Fem
ers, by this time numbering near 500,
became aggressively menacing. In .
yelling mob the Sim Feiners chased
the sailors down the street, but at the
corner the constabulary met them with
drawn nightsticks and beat them back.
Along the quays they found three
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04

Procomtal was In the same esqua-
drile with Walter S. Rheno, o. VI.
Chadwick, Leslie Ludlum, Vic Wells,
Granville Pollock, Everett Buckley,
George Miller and Bennet Moulter. OF
these Chadwick is dead, Vic Wells and
Ludlum are in the hospital, wounded; I;
Pllock and Moulter are Croix de
Guerre men, Buckley is dead, and Mil
Ter is out Of service because Of fall.
Buckley and Chadwick sold their
lives dearly. In combat with three
Germans, Chadwick saw two 90 crash
ing down 10 earth, his victims, before
the third got him, while Buckley sue
cessfully fought FIVE Boches for forty
minutes before shot crumbled the
wing Of his machine, leaving him help
less.
Miller, who bears two bitches for
service in the United States Army and
one for service with the Philippine
scouts, did yeoman's work until gas
got him.
visited thi, esquadrille on the day
that wonderful Jack Monroe called
upon Vic Wells to spend part Of his
furlough with him.
You recall Monros's miserable show
ing against jim Jefries in that mem
orable fight ten years ago. You should
see Monroe and hear the stories the
Princess Pats tell Of him. How he goes
over the top, bayonet set. gun strapped
to shoulder. knife in mouth and two
bladed Ak gripped tightly in his hand.
How. when the parapet Of German
trench is crushed in, Jack goes in,
crouched. and starts swinging the ak.
What a difference between prize fight
ing and trerch warfare. II simply i'm
bues one with a something as yet un-
defnable by scientist-unless It's the
spirit that forces one onward-the un-
dying spirit that converts man into a
devil.
Civilization was the last element TO
be absorbed by man in his evolution.
Morality was last to be achieved. And
on the backward trend these elements
are the first 70 be lost-forgotten. And
when, after hours Of esassless, heart
breaking artillery fire, shock, living in
constant danger Of desth-one is told
to 20 forward. one has but to go-ear-
rying the spirit to the enemy-to the
destruction Of that enemy.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Heroine Lifted
By Aircraft Pilot

This occurred in a scene where tne
hero. in his hydroplane, slighted ciose
70 the forward deck of small yaen'
and rescued the heroine from the VII
lain on that craft. The heroine was
grasped and dragged up to the hydro
nLene by the pilot of the aircraft, VINO
understudied for the hero In the res
cue.
second camera man, on snotneF
host followed the movements OF the
bydroplsne and the girli my camera on
the villains yacht. got elose-ups' arc .
third camera, on mountain sac
nicked up the scene from that vantage
I. was necessary to mask myself so
,bat I would not be ''picked UP" IN the
,snge Of the other cameras, and
gsvs thanks that was thin and could
,smsin concealed behind the smoke
s,scL NJ the Yacht. Here ] got my
nicsnr.. with difficulty. But shadows
ronld not be obviated, and when the
nicturs was produced it showed the
hvdroplane sailing; the girl, the yaeht
ard with them the shadow OF camera
The peril Of escaping a hydropiane's
nanoeuvres had bean safely passed.
and congratulated myself that danger
was over, when call came iOi ev
up, Of the hero and heroine on the
bydroplsne, looking down at the Viilain
ranting on the yacht.
r. - up 10 me 70 climb INTO tne
bydroplsns, set my camera, and take
those views, showing also the recsdIhe
forms In the picture as the piano
scared upward.
But the hydroplsne refused TO soar;
rL.,s vas no way TO inform the excited
t,sr.or. hidden in the stateroom, that
or., NV first plates had been made tn.
s~n bsd found his engine balky and
n nor. pictures could be filmed.
nv d,rector was too busy managing
. La ON deck TO glance toward the
tns naIpnnisns. pi Excitement reignsd; sail,
vyp.h.d about and the villain did
S'Ts LIZ .seond yacht had come along
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04

DuoT JEAN PRoCoMTAL, son Of
a marquis and beloved member
OF Franco American Flying
Corps N-lo2, wa, mentioned last week
as having brought down his thirteenth
Hun machine.
The bare announcement read:
"Procomtal, above Houlthurst,
brouobt down an observation ma
chine. His thirteenth"
The announcement gave no Insight
into proeomtal's previous exploits and
activities.
irving 20 pump" information out
Of the members Of ~ various nyins
souadrons regarding their own e1'
n.r,.ness is not unlike shouldsring the
,,sponsibilities OF an examining at
torney questioning a prisoner IN his
own defence.
T learned from Bennett Moltsr o.
p,oeomtaPs distinguished services sna
,hs r,sson for there being on thas
voy.h's breast the English d: 3. y. sna
Victoria Cfcss, the Cross OF s,. nsos'
bs.towed by Russia: the Italian. ser,
bisn and Rumsnisn deeorstsons, sn1
four palms on his Croix de Gusrrs' s"a
The Medaille Militaire. conferred upon
him By his beloved France.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
ried to Get Film
OF Nine Death.

Down rolled the two men thrown
from their precsrious foothod. They
clutched desperately at jutting rocks
and vines as they slid, staying their
fall moment. The other six, pulling
the bleeding hero TO safety, hastened
to drag up their desperately situated
comrades.
Believing I saw all nine men being
dashed TO death, tilted my camera TO
get the scene; kicked over the tripod
on its insufficient support and out slid
my camera. | braced myself on the
ledge, gripping my heavy camera, and
felt its weight dragging me down. Ny
assistant grasped me by the back Of
my collar, clung against the rock wall,
and so we held on, neither thinking
Of saving ourselves at the expense OF
our camera record Of perils until the
life-savers opposite raced around the
chasm and he'ped me drag my camera
up 70 safety.
When an, audience Is keyed up TO
thrills OF excitement over scenes ex-
hibited in the white light Of a screen
and somebody remarks: "Just think,
there were only two fatalities In that
production" nobody stops TO think
whose the fatalities might be.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
All the Work
Goes for Nothing

There was violent ringing Of bells
signalling steam ahead" The noun.
tain camera picked Up the race between
yacht and hydroplane, and that mo.
ment | discovered that I was not get.
ting the scenes expected-the plane
had struck. This was my first adven-
ture on hydroplane and ! thosght j,
would be my last anywhere. II
had been able to work the camera
would not have felt alarmed-it had
grown 10 be habit TO grind out reels in
the midst OF perils-but there | hung
in midair. not understanding what had
happened.
speculated on the way adjacent
docks had become packed with thou
sands Of spectators the moment the
hydroplane began to get in its fine
work, and people thought something
worth while was about TO happen, and
l speculated on the hereafter. A
camera man doesn't have time in land
perils TO speculate on the hereafter.
He must grind, sprint or become the
remains"
Oh, that thrill Of relief as the hydro
plane descended 10 safety Rain
stopped our work, but learned that
my perils we're not over. | must 90
up in the plane again. on another day.
and make the flight picture.
When heroine must be rescued
twice the picture comes high, because
$3.50 was paid for the yacht and $50
for each five minutes OF the hydro
plane and its pilot.
Like other things in life, I. 4. the
unexpected peril that happens. did
not dream that my camera would drag
me over the edge Of Sierra preci-
pice.
Any one who had seen a man pushed
by another over the edge OF ravine,
crash on q rocky ledge and send his
rescuers dashing down to their death,
as did. might also have kicked out
tripod, in excitement, and started
headlong after a heavy camera down
the abyss.
When ! saw the unexpected tragedy
happening instantly tilted my camera
10 get the picture, caught It, and the
peril was upon me.
According TO arrangement eight men
stood on narrow ledge Of the chasm
some distance below the hero. They
held a blanket in which TO catch him,
and the scene was TO be continued at
a spot where he could roll safely into
g romantic conclusion. The men, with
their life-saving blanket, had no part
in the picture as planned, but | caught
the scene of the unexpected accident.
Ny reel took up the Mexican villain.
creeping behind the hero, the stab and
shove over the edge Of the precipice,
and the fall.
This was as far IA that SCENE want
but the hero fell so heavily that he
struck the blanket from the hands OF
two men and crashed on the rocks.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04

Marathon and The-mopyls, Ho-
ratius and tho Gracchi Roland, Ar
thur and Cour de Lion hare lived
through ages because Of tho man
hood they iUustrate-the Spirit that
neuer dies. To-day that Spirit IS
burning again on a thousand bGttte-
feIds, flaming into tragedy, smo,A-
derins through months Of dredriness,
but alpays the same. This Is an at
tempt to save from utter loss some
of the stories Of tho Spirit, gathered
at random and by accident from out
the turmoil and confusion that hare
hidden a myriad like them.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Long Routes In
America Mapped

An American map OF this kind Is the
Sperry seronauticsl map. II was
evolved independently OF the Italian
map and has several improvements
over the latter. In this series maps
Of the air routes between New York
ard Chicago, New York and Newport
News, Va, and Of Long Island, have
already been prepared. In addition to
the typographical information they
carry, it 10 planned 70 show aero
dromes, prominent landmarks and the
landing places for twenty-five to fifty
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Braves Perils on
Yachts, Aeroplanes,
in Undersea Devices
and on Cliff Edges as
part of Days Work
Bv A. L. Ansbacher. Camera
Man. and NJ. w. Mount

w engineer Jump from rushlnC
locomotive ere the speeding
,,rir. plunges 10 destruction, accom-
..nv;ur the thrill of excitement that
tart, every heart Jumping. comes the
thought that danger is over.
never occur. to single gaping in
Sividusl that danger has just begun;
hat the locomotive is leaping headlong
.oxsrd a camera man at the bottom OF
the declivity.
I've been the target FOR such a death
,,cing train. It's the most uncomforta-
Ne thrili Of them all. A certain wreck
!, craven in my mind. To get It I had
"a face 8 wild engine twice. This was
because of the way the first wreck man
aged itself. Wrecks never occur ex-
.etly as they are planned. Another
man risked violent death in the first
uS.xpected scene. so that none OF US
Va, eager 70 take the second.
To stage this wreck the producers
vent 10 Georgia, where they got the
use OF ST. otch OF railrord in an
isolated spot. They paid $1,000 to the
r,llrosd company TO put the track in
condition for the scene, and railroad
experts, surveyors and a crew Of twenty
r.rpsniers laid out proper angles and
locations where the wreck would occur
and determined the spot where each
,amera man was 10 be stationed.
There we're nine of US to take the
scene from different angles. Afterwsrd
.bs scenes were TO be matched in Sc
cuerrn
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Rioting Lasted
F or Six Weeks

L VI DlA w CChS
By this time some Of the einemas
were closing, and the rioting Sinn
Feiners swept back through the streets
and stationed themselves at theatre
doors 10 pounce upon Americans -
they came out. Several Americans in
the company Of girls were set upon snd
either beaten or made to fee, leaving
their girls behind. This sort Of thing
happened 10 about dozen Americans
before the constabulary swung into
vigorous action with their nightsttcks
and succeeded in dispensing the Sim
Feiners.
Nightly, with Increasing violence,
this sort Of thing went on for six
weeks. Finally, on September II Fred.
erick Plummer, twenty-iour years old,
a civilian, employed in a certain dock
yard here, died OF conclusion Of tho
brain after Machinists' Mate J. ".
Parente, L. 8. s. Melville, had knocked
him down in defending himself and q
girl from attack on the night before.
On September i3 Coroner's jury
reached a verdict Of accidental man
slaughter. but turned Psrente over TO
the American naval authorities, who
locked him In the Ielyilte's brig pend
ing receipt Of word from the Navy De-
partment regarding the disposition Of
his case.
This fatality resulted at once In the
second cancellation Of all shore leave
for enlisted men in both the American
and British fotills here's eancella-
tion that has not even yet been stayed.
IL is, Of course, not the Intention 70
represent the American sailor on shore
leave in war time as a disembodied
spirit. and some of the stories the con-
told of happenings 20 Irish
girls who were In the company OF
American sailors were undoubtedly
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Camera Men Insured
For Railroad Wreck

We rer. each insured for $4,000 for
hat scene. Eight of our number. with
cameras, we're mounted on frsil scaf-
folding, twenty-eight feet above the
ground, and was stationed in trench
thirty-six feet deep-dug for the pur-
pose-below the embankment My
trench was protected By a front and
roof Of railroad ties, allowing peep
,ole. through which I could work the
nm.ra and seekhe wreck. Ny position
ess considered so unsafe that my cam
IRA had % be driven by shaft forty
i've feet away from il.
The object Of the roof was to save
ts from being struck by Aying par
t,es Of wrecked engine, but 1t was
J. protection at al against the impact
81 heavy body.
on the track had been chained box
car loaded with ballast. II was sup
nos.d % contain a valuable rscehorse'
and in the play the audiences sees the
expensive understudy we bought for
hat horse led out OF box car after
the wreck.
Expert engineers agreed that when
he locomotive, running at speed ot
,p;r.v-sve miles an hour, struck that
chained box car Il would whirl arounc
"a ru.h down the embankment Six
~ seven iunknen, who had assembled
d.ciasd that the train would make
s,tisssctory scrap heap. and one OF
,hen bid il in for sl,4OO.
The engineer was to pull open me
throttle OF his engine when speed o.
.i,btesn 70 twenty miles an hour had
nee, attained, after which, at greatly
accelerated speed, the train was to run
Wild and manage its own Affairs II
Hd have never yet seen . wreck
follow plans laid for it. That IS one
hing which makes an impending wreck
"a thrlling 20 camera men. Inc
vr.spesrs retire 10 q safe distance; the
,y,trsen glost over prospective spoils
t,,, star; the countryside CROWDS
srains. protective barriers TO get a
.rb. and often pays . dollar Q hssd
for the privilege; the engineer jumps
70 safety a quarter Of q mile from
the spo. selected for the smash but
IA. camera man never knows how his
obituary may read next day
Bot for about foot OF mud duf 70
heavy rains, two Of Us might have hac
our lie Insurance collected.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Camera Man Target for Racing Train
In Getting Movies Wreck Thriller
Most Are Heavily
Insured, but Acct
dents and Deaths
Are Numerous
Among the Picture
Takers

side and taken close-ups Of the drawing
away OF the hydroplane after the
rescue. and I was supposed to show in
the diminishing figures on my reel that
my picture was really taken from a
hydroplane.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
The Box Chains
Didn't Hold

Tu.n.J-slgh. feet in the air. On me
track At a distance beyond the ehaiheo
BOX ear that had been deemed perfect
y tsfe, a camera man ground away az
The train rushing upon him.
There were FIVE Pullmans, fully
equipped, an express baggage, and q
dining car. The engineer made his
Jump without accident On rushed the
train, uncontrolled. IL hit the box car
xeora.nz 70 schedule, but instead oil
smashing up and vhirling down the
subsnknsnt at the selected angle IT
lsmnsd into the box car, snapped i;s
rsstrxining chains and showed IL ahead
slr.c,ly a. the fraii perch OF the cam
era man. The picture maker had not
srp.e..d This. Out he Jumped, twenty
eight feet, and saved his bones by land
sag IN ,o.t mud. The engine plunged
into .hs mud, turned over on its 'ioe
and cane down the embankment W.
II. vr.eksg., headed toward my trench
could only see where the engine
D.; the box car My nerves were on
edge - learn ~ destination. l hesrd
our men eursinz and shouting 70 me;
stay down. Stay down. ss they
waited for the engine 20 explode.
J rushsd up the ladder and poseo
~ nv head 20 ascertain the iocs'ioh
sf ,hs train. The shouts were re-
& Doubled:
Go tovri 90 down."
! knew ,hs, II the explosion came
srsekazs would crash through my ro9i
snssrs. 4 mental sAsh o. that wrsek,
sssred on ma In the mud, acted iks
eyrsmo. few up my ladder ana
sft through the heavy muck, nevsf
ssdlry the yslls 70 go down! 90
a,sn'' until reached . place OF
s<.st1. Then I looked around.
tss overturned engine lag In the
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04

wreck, TO the left Of my dugout A
very disgruntled junkman was bowling
over the 81 900 he would have to pay
for labor TO break it into scrap il it
failed to blow up. The producers
wanted an engine "dying" in the pict-
ure; the junkman wanted an explosion.
Nobody knew which il would be when
We got the order from the producers
to hurry up and get closeup. Of the
engine"
We got them. That's what our lives
were insured for. The only humor
afforded by the situation was the junk
mans expression when the engine re-
fused to explode