New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

arms were outstretched to grasp the
prize Of an unexampled triumph"
! declares "The New York Worldn
"Gives me a spooky feeling.
Harry" says Grieve, passing back
the clippings.
1t is fortunate that Mr.. Hawker
lived to report" his own misfor.
tune, for "The Milwaukee Journal"
had previously decided that sthe
story Of the tragedy may never be
known. The sea does not give uu
its secrets" while 1.-The Halifax
Chronicle" after observing that the
lights of the little Sopwith machine
were sighted by the cable steamer
Faraday in mid-Atlantic, concludes
that ''this is the only word Of
Hawker and Grieve since thew
hoped off into the Great Unknown.
1t will probably be the last"
But the Hawkers were ever care
less of fate. as 1.-The New York
Herald" pointed out, as follows:
when Harry Hawker, with Lieuten-
ant Commander Grieye, taking off at
st. Johns on his Atlantic flight, dropped
the under carriage of his airplane he
was but living up to tradition OF his
curiously interesting family For the
How Ito hcx- -, l.
conventional and careless of conse-
quences.
For example, Robert Stephen Hawk
er, the parson OF Morwenstan in Devon
author of The Song of the Western
Men, sometimes called 'Trela whey
who ruled over q congregation of pious
smugglers and wreckers, used to walk
with nothing OH IN the early morning.
from his vicarage to the rocks for his
daily plunge in the sea.
when some of the inhabitants Of
the neighborhood protested against this
Garden Of Eden costume of the vicar
he replied: My Maker brought me into
the world as I go out to swim. Let
ticAl CoiHpldlli u HIN. ne I1dWkSrS
believe in going light
Robert Stephen Hawker will not be
forgotten as long as men read poetry
written in English. Harry Hawker may
be forgotten, bug before he is there
are 10000 Cornshmen and other men
by the hundreds of thousands, all ad- 3.
mirers of bravery, who will want to
know the reason why"
A MID these numerous paradoxes
of gilded obituaries comes
the voice Of "The Hartford Cou-
rant" pointing out an object lesson.
1t says:
There is nothing like being wise. 1t
enables one to tell the unwise so many
things that they might miss # the
knowledge were not impaired For e.
ample. after it was decided that Hawker
and Greve were lost, those who knew
explained that it was plain that they
had drifted over q great ice foe and
the cold had acted on their gas and
they had TO come down. Others. equally
wise, discovered that a terrible cyclone
had swept the machine away of and
that was why these venturous travellers
were lost. And now Il turns out that
they are not lost at all and that what
allied them was something simple and
ineXcusable. The water could not cir
culate because the tubes had foreign
mattere IN them, evidently left there
when the machine was put togethe~ aud
due to the carelessness or ignorance
Of the builders and negligence of hose
who tested her. However, the men who
knew IT all had their day
Nor could the aerial navigators
find fault with the verse taken from
the classics and dedicated TO them:
lie. while you sleep,
Time follows on your lrack With
nimble toes:
And when you wake,
You hear a name that ever body
knows"
They did everything that could
be expected, Grieve,' declares
Hawker.
Everything, Harry answers
(yrieve