Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-03-22
BAKER |NSPECTS
AVIATION CAMP
Secretary Greeted by Large Num-
Der of Flyers.
CABINET MEMBER is PLEASED
ConeratuIates Commanding officers on
High Standard of Efficiency Main
tanned at Post-Party Is
Given Noisy Welcome.

Aboard the Special Train of Secre-
tary of War Baker at an Aviation Cen
ter in France, March = (date deleted).
IF | said what | think about what
we have seen today it would sound like
bOasting," said General Pershing, after
visiting the largest aviation camp In
France, where hundreds of American
boys are learning to fly.
What. pleased me most was the alb
solutely perfect order maintained in
the supply and repair shops" asserted
Secretary Baker. where you see that.
you find a well-ordered and well-regu-
lated camp throughout.
Il am exceedingly pleased and de-
lighted and want to congratulate the
commanding officers warmly on the
high standard of efficiency apparent at
this point and on all sides. 1t is indeed
highly gratifying and encouraging"
Planes Greet Train.
More than fifty planes were in the
air when Secretary Bakers train ap-
preached the camp early this morning.
AS soon as one of the machines caught
sight of the distant train it swOOped
down and gave the signal to all the
other planes, which promptly drew up
in formation, escorting the train to the
camp.
There the band crashed out a noisy
welcome, in which q number of Rus
slams working at the camp Joined.
After a visit to headquarters the
secretary of war and his party set off
for the flying field, where the machines
were drawn up in long lines. three
deep, the loud humming of the motors
greeting Mr.. Baker.
100 Machines in Air.
Fifteen planes darted up simulta-
neOusly, flying in close formation and
gradually the air became filled with
squad after squad until more than
hundred machines were darling over
head, some flying so close their wings
almost touched one another.
Then came a buzzing louder than
that of the average machine. 1t at
tracted Mr.. Bakers attention, and he
turned just in time to see a Philadel-
phia officer, in charge of the training,
dart upward in q Moran One-Seater, APP
pearing to rise straight as bird, and
picking up to height of half mile,
where he loOped the loop and flew up
side down while reversing his course
suddenly in midair, finally dropping in
a spinning nose dive.
Just as it appeared the flyer must
crash to earth, he suddenly darted up
again.
Conaratulates Daring Flyer.
Secretary Baker congratulated him
on the feat.
General Pershing, expressed his adj
mration of the pilots nerve.
The party then visited the Red Cross
barracks, where the head nurse, Miss
Given Wilson of New York, drew up
the nurses for inspection.
Secretary Baker and General Per-
Shing chatted with them and sampled
the jam sandwiches the nurses were
making for the soldiers.
Mr. Baker talked with many of the
aviatOrs, questioning them about their
work He was especially impressed
with their self-confdence and ability
TO learn.
Youth Falls; Badly Hurt.
The party had just left the field
when an accident occurred. The motor
of a machine piloted by youth from
Memphis suddenly started to slide, the
student tumbling to earth. Both his
legs were broken, and he suffered a
fracture of the skull, but the doctors
thought he would recover. The ma
chine was badly smashed.