New-York tribune., 1920-04-11
By Quinn L. Martin
TLTRA-SMART Long Island.
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and is ushering in the privately
owned airplane as the proper
medium for use in attending after
noon tea and the theater.
Therefore, those who live on tho
island or near it this summer will
see wondrous things transpiring in
the heavens, and from what can
be learned in the best awaiting
circles. though the sky may not be
black with the purring limousines
Of the air, nor the sun obscured by
their presence above us, still there
will be so many of them flying about
this summer that by fall they will
have become more or less an ordi-
nary object and will attract no more
attention than does the latest de-
Sign of automobile one sees standing
at the curb to-day.
The Fad of the Summer
In Garden City, Long Beach,
Greenport, Flushing and Port
Washington small colony Of pri-
vately owned airplanes exists TO-
day. They are Of different makes
and types, and all are being tuned
up for the summer lark. In every
section where they are owned
by families the same enthusiasm
exists. The "airplane fever" is
everywhere, and the prediction
ID that flying, flying, flying, in
work and in pleasure, is to be the
lad Of the summer
Whenever Lawrence B. Sperry,
of Garden City and Farmingdale,
wishes to pay visit, for example,
he takes Mrs. Sperry out to the
hangar boards, and few minutes
later Is gliding down into the back
yard Of his hosts home.
Mr.. Sperry goes visiting often
through the week days now. Time
was when he could not spare the
time. But after dinner he and Mrs.
srerry run out and slip into their
leather and goggles and whirl away
to Huntington or Great Neck, or
wherever they may have an en-
gagement at whist, staying a few
hours and flying back again.
'Tlying," Mr.. Sperry will tell
you, "is the natural order Of things.
Men first walked, then they rode
horses, then they rode in buggies,
then they eat behind wheel in an
automobile and now they have
struck their real stride. Every man
and woman wants to conquer the
air. Besides, automobiling is too
slow. Until every man and woman
IN. the land has ridden in machine
high above the clouds, away from
the dust and care Of the whirling old
world, he or she will not have found
The real Joy Of living.
Common as Motoring
"The time is near at hand. al
though must confess it is not here
yet, when aviation will be as COM
mon as automobiling is to-day.
Every back yard will have It's land
ing field. Airplanes will rise direct
" from given spot and 80 will
they alght. Women will handle
them the same as men. We will go
to church In them, to the opera, to
our work, to the beach and South in
the winter. It Is quite the natural
thing"
He predicts a trip to the opera.
"Anchoring" ones flying boat in the
hudson will be very usual pro-
cedure.
Mr.. Sperry had such complete
success some two or three years ago
IN the wooing of the pretty young
woman who later was to be his bride
That when the day of his wedding
arrived he oiled up his Curtiss
oriole and winged his way, along
with the white-gowned Miss, to the
little chapel at Governors Island,
Where they were married. Then,
IN the twinkling Of an eye, they
shipped out of the tiny church,
boarded their machine and were of
On their skylark honeymoon.
1t Is probable that Mr.. Sperry is
Inc !ntroducer, or at least the earli-
e" promoter, Of privately owned
ana operated airplanes on Long
Island. AS far back as three years
ago be was going about among his
friends urging them to fly instead
u rolling along on the hard pave
nents. Some Of them winked at
sscn other and pitied his Judgment.
uo-day he is realizing his dream.
ne sees in the very near future,
most likely this very summer. a
great rise In the number of ma
zones owned and kept in tho back
yard, and he says that air routes
are to be established and skv rules