South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-07
SOUTH BEND
PEOPLE GO Up
IN AEROPLANE
Large Crowds Watch Plane
Soar Over City'With
GIeefuI Passengers.
BY CHARLES 4. GRIMES.

Aeronitis.-not disease. not an
affection. but an exciting and 4
thrilling new pssume. has nit South
Bend with a bang.
First heard OF in this city back In
1910 when Wilbur and Orville
Wright were demonstrating that
men as we'll as birds can fy. the
sport interested only the adventur-
Gus few hereabouts for years. Then
Uncle Sam invited youth the nation
over 20 get into tho game while the
getting was good. South Blenders OF
othey than faint-heart responded
The game was professionalized.
Kicker bacher. Tobin. Thaw. Camp
bell and other Yank aces returned
after the big fireworks abroad had
ceased and told Us that flying was
as safe as motoring.
Dreams Come True.
Lieut. George McCabe and Leigh
G. Sellers also came back. 10 South
Bend and told friends that aero
planes would soon be as popular as
autos. The friends smiled.
"Dreamers. those boys. McCabe
Sellers they said
But dreams come true,
Two or three DAYS ago after weeks
OF planning and preparing. McCabe
and Sellers. South Bends pioneers
in the aviation game. inaugurated
tire first aerial passenger service in
Indiana They few over South Bend
ard Michigan city and hundreds
sigh ed
Gee. I'd love to 90 up. wouldn't
your"
And thus the sport took hold
Four Hundred See Flight
Four hundred spectator rode ran
and liked TO Erskine field Sunday
afternoon 10 get first hand expert
ence McCabe and Sellers were
shoWered. literally and fguratively
with requests for rides But after
Moons are short even In midsum-
mer and only a dozen passengers
could be accommodated The other
$50 odd looked on and contented
themselves with
"Oh. well. I'll get my chance an
other day"
And so they will. for aviation has
come 10 stay in South Bend Nc
c. be and Sellers haze gone about
commercializing flying in business
like way. They asked and received
reasona BILE charges for their serv-
ices Sunday and everyone expressed
satisfaction A government license
has beer granted them and they
have equipped themselves with q
new Curtis. a late model which was
Used as a Photographic plane az an
army aviation field in Arkansas dur
ing the war While in the army Nc
Cabe was known at Kelly field as
one OF the best stunt pilots and in
strEctors in the service. Sellers
taught al the school for advanced
aviation mechanics in St Paul.
MINI.
Slick Goes Up.
City Atty. Thomas w Slick was
among the frst OF the fortunate few
who went hieh up into the world
with McCabe at Erskine feld. Sun
day afternoon. Flying. according to
Mr. Slick. is decidedly more eXcit-
inC that preparing briefs and fling
afedavits
not 10 DC outdOne. AIRS. SLICK also
SCARED &C heights hitherto unknown
anc on s!ightiug from the plane aft
er the trip remarked.
4 am ready 10 try 1t again"
Don c Johnson beamed as he
landed and reluctantly Jumped out
OF the back seat Great dope Try
It ne said enthusiastically
Gene McCabe. II. l.. Avery. r. L.
Mtndez OF 307. jefferson blvd.
and K. NJ. Kelly all agreed that fly
ina has autoing beaten 40 ways"
Taking of and landing afforded
the greatest sensations for the first
time passengers
We're coming again and again
they all averred