The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-05
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a bird. AS he turned each loop the
droneing of his motor as he climbed
into the air became deep groan.
On his second series of loops there
came an awsome hush. His motor
stopped or skipped This is danger
Gus moment for the flyer. The
stopping of the motor means that the
aviator must seek quick landing
going at whatever pace he is lucky
enough to check his speeding plane
at as he hits the ground.
Lieut.. Torney quickly Strengthened
out his plane and those who are fam
liar with flying breather sigh of
relief when they heard the welcome
purring of his motor again. But the
few seconds of lapse was enough to
indicate serious engine trouble. Lieut..
Torney circled about the field coming
across the fair grounds field at an
altitude of about 100 feet. He was
seen to wave his hand in farewell
and start for Lancaster.
A telephone message to the COM
mittee later verified the fact that he
had had motor trouble and did not
dare attempt landing. The slightest
hitch of motor while effecting
landing may mean death to the avia-
tor. Lieut.. Torney said the engine
trouble was so serious that he had
cancelled all his flying dates and was
returning to Mineola at once with
out the plane. 1t will be shipped back
to it's station.
Thus st. Johnsbury saw one of the
most thrilling incidents that an avia-
tor may have, saw some wonderfully
flying stunts and saw the intrepid avi-
ator depart safely on his way. No
one could have asked for greater
exhibition.
Lieut.. Torney returned to Lancas-
ter from st. Johnsbury in 20 minutes.
He has been in the service two years.
He flew in many cities during the Lib
erty Loan Drives 1t was his first
trip to Northern Vermont and his
comment was "Some Mountains"
The Fairgrounds were a sea of au-
tomobile tops. 1t was estimated that
over 600 automobiles were parked in
the grounds during the afternoon.
Owing to the heat the ice cream and
soft drink stands were sold out early
in the afternoon.
Following the request of the COM
mittee the police kept the big en-
closure in the center of the field clear
of people.
The work of the police at the fair
grounds and throughout the day was
one of the best jobs of police work
ever seen in this section. The day was
practically free Of accidents due al
most wholly to effective police work.
The automobiles were handled with
excellent precision despite their great
number and women and children were
given special consideration at all
points.
During the afternoon at the Fair
grounds the ST. Johnsbury band gave
an excellent program from the
Judges stand and the Barton band
from the bandstand.
The baseball game drew crowd of
1900 to the campus and the Army
won by the narrow margin of one
run.
The grand street carnival was one
of the biggest successes of the day
st Johnsbury has never been enter
tanned by such clever stunts as mem
bers of the Crescent Club presented.
The only shortcoming was that near
ly ten thousand pepople wanted to
crowd into space that would ac-
commodate but about three. The
details of this interesting part of the
program are given in a special story.
The fireworks display as the closing
feature of the day was a tremendous
success. For two solid hours thous-
ands of people saw one of the best
exhibitions of pyrotechnics ever wit
messed in this county. Master and
Wells of Boston supplied this feature