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El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-01-09

Lamy-Glorieta road, and have secured
petitions for federal aid on the north
road to Santa Cruz, $1,000, the cOun-
ty' sshare, now being In hand.
Installed and instituted agricultural
agent for Santa Fe county with fed
eral aid.
Established a boys and girls club,
appropriating $500 therefor.
Instituted, with assistance OF travel
ing auditor, new bookkeeping system
In county commissioners office.
Instituted, with assistance of Secre-
taries James and Asplund, a budget
system for the years 1918 and 1919.
The tax rate for 1917 including
state. county and city was $23.75 on
81 900 valuation. In 1918 the tax rate
for the state, county and city is $24.9S
for $1,000 valuation. The tax rate for
the state and county for 1917 was
$I9.05 per 81, 900 valuation and for the
year 1918 the state and county rate is
$1S.93 per 81, 900 valuation. The
ty levy was increased 81 per thous-
and owe 1917 for road and bridge pur-
poses for 1918. There wal added to
the assessed valuation during the
years 1917 and 1918 in Santa Fe cou
ty $3.50, 900.
Financial condition of the county is
In better condition January J., 1919,
than it was January /. 1917. All bills
accrued during the years 1917 and
1918 have been paid in full with the
exception Of one-quarter Of the ac-
counts payable in the third quarter
1918, and for which there is a balance
available and not distributed.
The county.purchased the new steel
voting booths and ballot boxes at a
considerable expense, and which have
been paid for in full and are Of a very
durable character.
The retiring board at its last ses-
sion passed a resolution thanking
'the court and county officials for
their assistance during the past
two years" Special reference It IS
said was had In mind to Judge Reed
Holloman and Sheriff Celso Lopez.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-01-09
85.3 Per Cent Of
U. S. Casualty Wound
Cases Make Recovery

Washington, Jan. T.-of 71.114
wounded and injury cases tabulated In
the American expeditionary hositals
between January Is and october Is.
1918, 1878 per cent recovered and re-
turned TO duty, the war department
announced today. The percentage Of
deaths was s.S.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-01-09
CIVIL SERVICE A

Mr.. Piatt, secretary Of the local
civil service board, announces the
following examinations to be held
In Santa re;
February A: Wood technalogist,
male. $1,000 to $4,000 year,
February 3 and s: Preparation in
entomology.
At any time: Electricians helper,
male; shop apprentice, male.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-01-09
1872 AMERICAN CASUALTIES
REPORTED FROM RUSSIA

Washington, Jan. 7s~-TotaI deaths
among the American expeditionary
forces Ia Northern Russia to January
4 we're given as six officers and 100
men in q cablesram received at the
war department today from Colonel
James A. Ruggles, American military
attache with Ambassador Francis at
A%rchangel.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-01-09
DEMOCRAT HOUSE SEATS
REPUBLICAN DELEGATE

Washington, Jan. Y.-By a vote Of
204 to Ga the house today adopted the
election committees report seating
James Wickersham, Republican, AZ
Alaskan delegate, in place Of Charles
eulzer, Democrat.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-01-09
CORPORATION COMMISSION
OBTAINS MORE Refill

The state corporation commission
that a refund OF $29.70
has been made to the Lindauer Mer-
camille company at Deming on alleg-
ed damage to crockery shipped over
the Santa Fe railway and a refund
OF 339.l3 for alleged overcharge on
shipment Of solar oil from Iowa
Park, Texas. to Deming. the refund
going to the Mimbres Valley Form
ers Association.
PER FUMEl PERFUME. We have
received q quantity Of exquisite
quadruple perfume from Chicago.
Will retail at reasonable prices.
Room 4, Laughlin Building.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-01-09
7,7o3 MORE OFFICERS AN
MEN SAIL FOR AMERICA

Washington, Jan. s.--The transport
President Grant and the b~attleships
Montana and South Dakota and the
hospital ship Comfort have sailed
from France TO New York with "a
officers and 7,41o man.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-01-09

known in health, happiness and pros.
perity / remain,
Cordially, your friend,
H. H. ERRETT,
County superintendent.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-01-09

1st Pub. Dec. 26s 1918.
Last Pub. Jan. 20. 1919.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-01-09

list Pub. Dec. 20, 1918.
Last Pub. Jan, 20, 1919.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-01-09

First Pub. Jan 2, 1919.
Last Pub, Jan. 80. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Looking Back to the
Savannah

be great success as a steamship. Foe
eighteen days out of the twenty. five
that she spent at sea on the way to
Liverpool she was under steam power.
She might have gone the whole way
under steam but her skipper was afraid
that he would use up his fuel. She
burned pine pitch under her boilers
and had to carry great quantity for
her long trip.
1.-The Savannah had exactly the same
problem then that the &c planes hsve
to-day-to find room for the fuel to
cross the ocean. She was zctuslly
pushed for room in which to carry ner
fuel. The only reason that the naval
seaplanes are putting in at the Azores
is because they cannot yet csTy
enough fuel to fly straight through to
England. Every ocean Aier has the
same problem-to get off the ground
with enough fuel to last the entirer
trip. The fuel for the navy fight OIL,
twenty hours requires $4,000 pounds
of gasolene.
To-day the problem OF carrying
enough fuel for transatlantic voyages
is the last consideration and the speed
of the trip has decreased from twenty
five days to five days. Will the aerial
liner of 2019 look back with amusemenr
at the problems of this first flight By
air from America to Europe?'
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

odd noises and conclusions in the hal.
loon, accompanied with the apparent
subsidence of the whole macb;n.
These phenomena were occasioned \,
the explosion Of the gas through in.
crease Of heat in the atmosphere ara
the consequent disruption Of N.
minute particles of ice with which IN.
network had become incrusted durin.
the night.
"Threw down several bottles n IL.
vessels below. Saw one of them nick.s
up by large something like on.
of the New York Line steam packet.
Endeavored to make out her name hn.
could not be sure of it. Mr.. Osborn.,.
telescope made it out something liz.
Atlanta 1t is now l2 at nieht .ra
we are still going west at rapid nae.
The sea is peculiarly phosphoresc.nt
"P. S. (By Mr.. Ainsworth) 1t is INV
a. m, and nearly calm, as we'll az
can judge; but it is very difficult "a
determine this point, since we NOVA
with the air SO completely. | have not
slept since quitting Weal-yor. but ga,
stand it no longer, and must take
nap. We cannot be far from the Amsr.
lean coast.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Second Day Out

Sunday the 7th. (Mr. Mason's MS.)
This morning the gale by 10 had
subsidized to an eight or nine knot
breeze for a vessel at sea, and bears us
perhaps thirty miles per hour or more.
1t has veered however, very consider
ably to the north, and now at sundown
we are holding our course due west,
principally by the screw and rudder,
which answer their purpose to admira-
ton | regard the project as thor
oughly successful. and the easy navi-
cation of the air in any direction q not
exactly in the teeth of gale) is no
longer problematical.
1--WE could not have made head
against the strong wind of yesterday,
but by ascending we might have got
out of its influence if requisite.
Against a pretty stiff breeze I feel
convinced we can make our way with
the propeller. At noon to-day as
cended to an elevation of nearly $4,000
feet by discharging ballast. Did this
to search for a more direct current,
but found none SO favorable as the
one we are now in.
I'VE have an abundance of gas to
take us across this small pond even let
the voyage last three weeks. | have
not the slightest fear for the result
The difficulty has been strangely ex-
aggerated, Inexperienced. ! can
choose my current, and should | find
all currents against me | can make
very tolerable headway with the pro
peller. We have no incident worth re-
cording. The night promises fair
"P. S. (By Mr.. Ainsworth) u have
little to record except the fact (to me
quite surprising one) that at an
elevation equal to that of Cotopaxi
experienced neither very intense cold
nor headache nor difficulty of breath
ing. Neither, l found, did Mr.. Mason
nor Mr.. Holland nor Sir Everard. Mr..
Osborne complained of construction of
the chest, but this soon wore of.
we have flown at a great rate dur
ing the day and we must be more than
half way across the Atlantic. We have
passed over some twenty or thirty yes
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
NHE flight of the NC's is stim-
4 ulating many writer's to COM

H~HE flight of the NC's is stim-
ulating many writer's to COM
parsons Of one sort and an
other. Thus, writer in "The New
York Evening Post" observes:
cone hundred years ago, within a
few days. May IS, 1919, an American
ship, the Savannah, was the first steam
driven vessel to cross the ocean-and
now American naval seaplanes are
waiting at Trepassey Bay Newfound-
land, to fly to Europe.
in 1919, when the Savannah was
launched for her trip there was some
doubt whether or not steam would
carry her across the ocean, and to
make doubly sure that the ship could
make the trip masts were hoisted for
sails. In fact, more dependence was
placed on the use Of the wind than
on the steam. In this generation. we
are providing our overseas fiers with
patrols of destroyers along the path
of fight The sails on steam vessels
were soon discarded as cumbersome
shall our destroyer patrols for ocean
flers be abandoned on another trip as
equally cumbersome and unneces-
sary?
ITO the surprise of her skipper and
to her owners, the Savannah proved to
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
To An,erica!

at was now that Mr.. Ainsworth made
an extraordinary but to my fancy by
no means unreasonable or chimerical
proposition in which he was instantly
seconded by Mr. Holland, viz that we
should take advantage of the strong
gale which bore us on, and in place
Of beating back to Paris make an at
tempt to reach the coast of North
America. After slight reflection | gave
willing assent to this bold PROPOSE
tion, which (strange to say) met with
objection from the two seamen only.
AS the stronger party, however, we
overruled their fears and kept reso-
lutely upon our course.
I've steered due west, but as the
controlling Of the buoys materially i'm
pedcd our progress and we had the bal
loon abundantly at command either for
ascent or descent we first II rev out
fifty pounds of ballast and the, wound
up (by means of a windlass) so much
of the rope as brought it quite clear
of the sea. We perceived the effect
of this mannuvre Immediately in a
vastly increased rate of progress, and
as the gale freshened we flew with a
velocity nearly inconceivable, the guide
rope flying out behind the car like a
strearner from vessel. 1t is needless
to say that a very short time sutficed
US to lose sight of the coast. We
passed over innumerable vessels Of all
kinds.
1--WE occasioned the greatest excite
ment on board allan excitement
greatly relished by ourselves, and es-
pecially by our two men, who now,
under the influence of a dram of &C.
neva. seemed resovled to give all scru-
pie or fear to the wind Many of the
vessels fired signal guns, and in all we
were saluted with loud cheers (Which
we heard with surprising distinctness)
and the waving of caps and handker-
chiefs.
1--WE kept on in this manner through
out the day, with no material incident.
and as the shades of night closed
around US wc mads a rough estimate
OF the distance traversed. 1t could not
have been less than 800 miles and was
probably much more. The propeller
was kept in constant operation and no
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Fourth Day

Tuesday, the 9th (Mr. Ainsworths
MS.)-One p. m. We are in full view
Of the low coast of South Carolin..
The great problem is accomplished
We have crossed the Atlantic finely
and easily across it in balloon, God
be praised! Who shall say that any,
thing is impossible hereafter?"
The journal here ceases. Contin.
uing, however, Mr.. Poe's remark.
able story asserts:
Some particulars of the descent
were communicated, however, by Mr..
Ainsworth to Mr.. Forsyth. 1t was
nearly dead calm when the voyagers
first came in view of the coast which
was Immediately recognized by both
the seamen and by Mr.. Osborne. Tho
latter gentleman having acquaintanccs
at Fort Moultrie, it was Immediately
resolved to descend in its vicinity The
balloon was bSought over the beach
(the tide being out and the sand hard,
smooth and admirably adapted for
descent) and the grappler let go which
took firm hold at once.
The inhabitants of the island and
the fort thronged out. of course, to see
the balloon, but it was with the great
est difficulty that any one could be
made to credit the actual voyage, the
crossing the Atlantic The grappler
caught at p. m, precisely, and tbus'
the whole voyage was completed in
seventy-fve hours, or rather less,
counting from shore to shore No
serious accident occurred, no real
danger was at any time apprehended.
"The balloon was exhausted and
secured without trouble, and when the
MS from which this narrative was
compiled was dispatched from Charles
ton, the party were still at Fors
"This is unquestionably the most
stupendous, the most interesting and
the most important undertaking ever
accomplished or even attempted by
man. What magnificent events may
ensue, it would be useless now to think
of determining.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Extra Balloon Crosses Atlantic in Three Days! Extr
A PROPOS of the sensational
IN ocean flight now in prog
Il n ress, it is interesting to re-


4 N ress, it is interesting to re-
call how. about seventy-five
years ago, Edgar Allan Poe de-
scribed an imaginary air flight
across the Atlantic and to compare
the facts as the flying men of to-day
will record them, with the fictitious
sensations narrated by the poet of
far yesterday.
The story of THE Balloon Hoax"
was, according to Frank NJ.
O'Brien's story of "The Sum- writ
ten at q time when the authors
fortunes were at their lowest ebb,
and when it was absolutely essen
tial that money be forthcoming.
Starvation stared him in the face
He had only little over 81 in
the world. The newspapers seemed
to him the most likely field. His i'm
agination, stirred by passing car
rier pigeon, conceived the story
which appeared in The Sun" of
April 13, 1874 Needless to say, it
caused a sensation, and as its author
described it afterward, the rush for
papers was something prodigious.
The story (to which was accord
ed an extra) was adroitly advertised
beforehand. Beneath a black-faced
heading that was supplemented by a
woodcut of three racehorses flying
under the whips of their jockeys and
the subtitle BY Express writes
Mr.. O'Brien, appeared the follow
ing:
I'VE stop the press at late hour to
announce that by a private express
from Charleston, South Carolina, we
are just put in possession of full de-
tails of the most extraordinary advent
ure ever accomplished by man. The
atlantic Ocean has actually been
traversed by balloon, and in the in
credibly brief period of three days!
Eight persons have crossed in the
machine, among others Sir Everard
Bringhurst and Mr.. Monck Mason. We
have barely time now to announce this
most novel and unexpected intelli-
gence, but we hope by 10 this morning
to have ready an extra with q de-
tailed account of the voyage.
"P. S.-The extra will be positively
ready, and for sale at our counter, by
10 o'clock this morning. 1t will en-
brace all the particulars yet known
We have also placed in the hands of
an excellent artist representation Of
the Steering Balloon which will &C
company the particulars Of the voy-
age"
The promised extra bore head
of "stud-horse type, six banks in
all, and as many inches deep"
Astounding News By Express,
via Norfolk" it announced:
The Atlantic Crossed in Three
Days!-Signal Triumph OF
Mr.. Monck Mason's FLYING
Machine!y!-Arrival at Sui
livan's Island, Near Charles
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
These Were Headlines Way Back in 1914. They y
Gave Folks Big Thrill. But 1t Turned Out To
Be Hoax to Keep Poet From Starving

doubt aided our progress materially.
AS the sun went down the gale
freshened into an absolute hurricane
and the ocean beneath was clearly
visible on account of its phosphores-
cence. The wind was from the east
all night and gave us the brightest
omen of success
eve suffered no little from cold
and the dampness Of the atmosphere
was most unpleasant, but the ample
space in the car enabled us to lie
down, and by means of clothes and
few blankets we did sufficiently we'll.
"P. S. (By Mr.. Ainsworth) THE last
nine hours have been unquestionably
the most exciting of my life. | can
conceive nothing more sublimating
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Fairly at Sea

"At half past eleven, still proceeding
nearly south, we obtained our first
view of the Bristol Channel, and in
fifteen minutes afterward the line of
progress on the coast appeared i'm
medlately beneath US and we were
fairly out at sea.
We now resolved to let off enough
gas to bring our guide rope with the
buoys affixed into the water This was
Immediately done, and we commenced n
gradual descent. In about twenty min
utes our first buoy dipped, and at the
touch of the second soon afterward
we remained stationary as to eleva-
ton.
I'VE were all now anxious to test
the efficiency of the rudder and screw.
and we put them both into requisition
for the purpose of altering our direc-
tion more to the eastward, and in a
line for Paris By means Of the rud-
der, we instantly effected the neces-
sary change of direction, and our
course was brought nearly at right
angles to that of the wind. When we
set in motion the spring of the screw
we rejoiced to find it propelled US as
rapidly as desired. Upon this we gave
nino hearty cheers and dropped in the
son bottle inclosing slip Of pnrch-
ment with a brief account Of tho prin-
ciple of the invention.
Hardly. however, had we dono with
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

our rejoicings when an unforeseen ac-
cldent occurred which discouraged US
in no little degree. The steel rod con-
Meeting the spring with the propeller
was suddenly jerked ouy of place at
the car end (by q swaying of the car
through some movement of one Of the
two seamen we had taken up) and in
an instant it hung dangling out of
reach from the pivot of the axis to
the screw. While we were endeavor-
ing to regain it our attention being
completely absorbed, we became in
volved in a strong current of wind
from the east, which bore US with
rapidly increasing force toward the
Atlantic.
"We soon found ourselves driving
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
diary kept by the flying crew, reads
as follows:

diary kept by the flying crew, reads
as follows
Saturday, April the 9Th. Every
preparation likely to embarrass us
having been made over night, we com
mencod the imitation this morning at
daybreak; but owing to thick fog
which encumbered the folds of the silk
and rendered it unmanageable, we did
not get through before nearly II
o'clock. Cut loose then, in high spirits,
and rose gently but steadily with
light breeze at north, which bore us in
the direction of the British Channel
Found the ascending force greater than
we expected, and as we rose higher
and SO got clear of the cliffs and more
in the suns rays our ascent became
very rapid.
81 did not wish. however, to lose gas
at so early a period of the adventure,
and so concluded to ascend for the
present. We soon ran out our guide
rope, but even when we had raised it
clear off the earth we still vent up
very rapidly.
"The balloon was unusually steady
and looked beautiful In about ten
minutes after starting the barometer
indicated an altitude of $4,000 feet.
Ihe weather was remarkably fine, and
the view of the adjacent country-a
most romantic one when seen from any
polnt-was now especially sublime
A.
the numerous deep gorges presented
the appearance of lakes on account of
the dense vapors with which they were
filled, and the pinnacles and craqs TO
the southeast piled in inextricable
confusion, resembled nothing so much
as the giant cities of Eastern fable.
We were rapidly approaching the
mountains in the south, but our ele-
walton was more than sufficient to en-
able us to pass them in safety
'ln a few minutes we steered over
them IN fine style, and Mr.. Ainsworth
and the seamen were surprised at their
apparent want of altitude. When
viewed from the car the tendency of
great elevation in balloon is to
reduce the inequalities of the surface
below to nearly dead level
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
This the rship which

ton, of MIR. Mason, Mr.. Rob-
ert Holland, MIR. Henson, MIR.
Harrison Ainsworth and Four
Others in the Steering Bal.
loon Victoria, After Passage
of Seventy-five Hours From
Land to Land-FLn Particu-
lars of the Voyage!!!
The head was followed by this
introduction:
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

than the strange peril and novelty
of an adventure such as this May
God grant that we succeed ] ask not
success for mere safety to my insig
nifcant person, but for the sake of
human knowledge and for the fineness
of the triumph
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Third Day Out

Monday, the 8th (Mr. Mason's MSD-
This morning we had again some little
trouble with the rod of the propeller,
which must be entirely remodelled for
fear of serious accident--I mean the
steel rod, not the vanes The latter
cannot be improved.
"The wind has been blowing speed
lily and strongly from the northeast all
day, and so far fortune seems bent
upon favoring US. Just before day we
were all somewhat alarmed at some
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Sail On! Sail On!
And On!''

"Why nom not eUen God qUouId knoau
Should and oil my men fall dead.
These ue'>y soi,ads forget their aVay,
For God from these dread seas is
gone.
Noa0 speak, braoe Admiral, speak
and say"
He said: "Sail oni sail onl and
onp'
They sailed. They sailed. Then spoke
the mate:
This mad sea shotus (ts teeth to-
night.
He curls has lip, he lies In svuit,
With lifted teeth as If to bitel
Brace admiral, soy but one good
Word;
What's all e0e do 40hem hope is
gomez"
The soords leapt as yeaping s4oord:
SAL on! sadl or,i sail on! and ON p
Then, pale and ,ooam, he kept his
deck,
And peered through darkness. All,
that night
~ all dark nights! and then speck,
A light! A light A light! A light!
1t 9reao, storlit flag unfurledi
1t grea0 to be Times burst Of
dawn.
He gained a soorld; he gave that
1Corld
Its grdndest lesson "On and N, :"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

" EHIND him lay tho gray
N Behind the Gotes Of Her.
cMles;
Before him not the ghost Of shores,
Before hin, only shoreIess seas.
The good mate said: "NoeU mast sve
pray.
For loi the very stars are gone.
Speak, Admiral, aOhot shall / say?"
why, sag Sail on! sail onl and
oni"
My men groto mutinoue doy by day;
Ny men groro CHASTITY ,ocn and
1ceuk."
The stout mnte thought Of home; a
spray
Of salt aoove woshed his swarthv
cheek.
What shoU I sou, braue Admiral
say,
II ne sight naught but seas at
down?"
Why, you shall say at break Of dan.
SOIL on' sail onl sal oni and
onr'
lhey sailed and sailed as 1rinds
!, might blov
Cntd a last the blanched mate
s0id
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

sells of various kinds and all seem to
be delightfully."- astonished. Crossing
the ocean in balloon is not. such
difficult feat after~all.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

out to sea at the ra,e of not less GER
tainly than fifty or sixty miles an
hour, so that we came up with Cape
Clear at some fcrty miles to our
north before we had secured the rod
and had time to think what we were
about.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
The Story Itself

But to return to the story itself.
1t Is too lengthy to be reproduced
here in It's entirety, but the most in
teresting part, purpdrting to be the