Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-07
0TTAWANS OFFERED
CHANCE TO BREAK.
NECKS AT $40 PER
AIR TAXI SERVICE AFFORDS
BLOATED BONDHOLDERS Az
OPPORTUNITY TO CHEAT UN
DERTAkERS OUT OF BURIAL.
FEES.

Ottawans choking of an diversified
! bank roll from excess war profits next
Saturday and Sunday will have a
chance at the rate of 81 a minute CT
| breaking their necks and cheating un-
! dertakers out of burial fees. This op.
| portunity with its fullsome possibili-
! ties will come from an airplane taxi
/ service, whose minimum fee for ride
| through the clouds is ten round simo-
/ Icons. The $40 takes you safely off
the ground, carries you into the sky
| and unless everything goes right flops
! you back to terra tirma with sucl
neatness and dispatch obsequies will
be held over a bushel gasket contain
ing what used to be a human carcass
OF course, If everything goes right
why then you get the plaudits of the
crowd and the tenner goes to buy %
cent gasoline, gallon of which will
carry an arplane fifteen or more
miles.
Yesterday f. NJ. Ackerman, former
army aviator. and Ben Moore, one
armed rider Of the cockpit, sailed over
Ottawa and landed in King field
| They drove Canadian training
plane similar to the one driven by
Capt. Vernon Castle, recognized as one
Britan's best flyers, when he crashed
to earth in Texas and was buried in
New York. Alderman and Moore
began their flight at Morris, and when
they landed in King field the pilot was
as enthusiastic about the air pocket $
existing in that neighborhood as
Lieut. Zieglcr of RantOul after he
smashed thunder out Of his plane on
July and narrowly missed serious in I
jury himself. II was forthwith de- /
cided that some other landing field .
must be selected so the plane was
sent up in the air to pick out a roost
at the Peck farm, south of town. from
Lawrence Alderman made a couple Of
jumps and landings with charity pas
scngers.
After trying out the air lanes above
Ottawa ACkcrman announced he
would return here Saturday and sun
day to inaugurate the city's first taxi .
service and get the money while the
getting was good
Fall 1000 Feet Into Field.
Tho engine of an air taxi which was
carrying Dick Pope from Chicago to
his home in Senca yesterday went
dead while racing along 5000 feet
from the ground and was forced to
make a pcrlOusIandng in the wheat /
field Of the George r MiIIikcn farm
in Rutland township. Mr.. Popc and
the pilOr, whose name was Iarmclee
MANAGED to strike the ground without
killing themselves, but they passed
through an experience not many peo-
pie would care to encounter.
The trip was started in the morning
from Chicago, but neither the pilot
nor Mr.. Pope were able to recognize
Seneca as they passed by. They
whizzed on through Rutland township
and succeeded In getting lost among
the clouds. They turned back and
were making their way to Seneca fot
a landing when the engine OF the
plane went bad Pilot parmcleo vol
planed to the ground and landed in a
wheat field. The landing was made
at 12.i5, and it was 5:2j before the
engine was repaired.
II was necessary for the farm en-
ployes to NOV about one and one
fourth acres Of wheat in order that
the plane could be started, While the
machine was on the ground it is said
about .o0c persons visited it,
Mr.. Pope who had paid So for MS
ride in the clouds from Chicago To-
Seneca. was not TO be dauntod by he
accident and returned with Pilot Par.
malice 10 Chicago, not attempting to
land in Seneca on the return trip.
Nearly Kills Father,
Aurora. rl July 7.-CSpecial)-
While ! AIRY Lawrence was making q
fancy fight with his father as pas
eenger Saturday his machine deNel'
oped engine trouble while at heieht
OF . 500 feet Lawrence volplaned, hO'
when about fifty feet from the ground
the machine made a sudden swooD
and dived into the ground, He tried
TO start his engine when he felt the
machine dropuing but it was Of no
avail He escaped with bruises, bnt