Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-14

! Della. get you all worked up"
| Right this minute I'm in terrible
chill. Mr.. CAM. Please excuse how I'm
trembling l wonder. Della, if--if
awnings wrong. oh-oh:''
| II tell you. kessler.' said Mr.. CAM.
leaning across the dim shiyering sill
houette of Miss Meyer. you got
daughter that is born to be a general
in tho army. Some girls are born TO
run people and to run homes and
some to he generals in III" armies
Sh'.' a general. I tell YOU. Just look
ho.- she got the whole hotel of us
/ out here in the night air where v"
don't bel"n=."
Now she engineered II all. thomSl
. III. CAM Fifteen thousand dollars
/ she raised like il was - cents. Over
night she makes a rich man out of a
poor boy Like Tom Riley says him
! self. Napoleon couldn't do so well.
My little girl she's a good one. oh.
CAM? Better as her old papa.
"a general in the army. l toll you
Kesslcr.'
/ With her fun back turned TO tho
patter of conversation and oh'ivionS
ito ii. Miss Kessler swaycd suddenly
farther from tho group.
: Look. papa. there's "A now haich o.
people coming in from tho station.
There's $4,000 here tonight. II thcre ;
n soul. not counting the Louisvill'
Tech School Fourteen thousand. il
there's a soul
! Kirk thinner says fifteen.
! Did you see, pa. tho lineup oil eN-
cursion trains waiting down thr
! tracks? Therell be three miles OF
special trains pull out of here tonight
after this flight. It's knockout
tell you. a knockout"
It's the fireworks I'm afraid Of
/ Suppose it should catch, Hes never
used them in trial flights oh, my
! poor hands,.
"Raugh, Raugh" 4 light cheer
rose. but from furry throats wrapped
in the husk of conservatism. "a
! "Raugh. Che-"-e. And il died.
But the breathing sides Of the grea,
: into "A rhomboid
, Into the flare OF three arc-lights. =
, huge winged skeleton ran forward
on wheels. pushed by three iuneine
attenda nts. head first. Then she stood
with her beetle-like wings dung wild"
and the inners of her drumming 4"
be Off.
oh. my brother, Oh-h-h'"
!, Now now Miss Nina
II tell you. Mr.. CAM. I'D rather
, We had to live in a tenement all our
lives than to see him risk his life IKE
that. What's a fifteen thous2nd-do'
lar purse. if-if he don't win II an"
gets killed trying to do the double
! loop four times? \ helpless girl hk"
me that's never been strong
Now. now. Miss Minna
! Il never wanted him 10 fly. Mrs
CAM Let the other boys take tn
! risks. Arch always said. but
-! II guess you're a little like M.
! Miss Minna. AS | tell Miss Della
| where my two feet belong is right OF
the ground where the Almighty pu'
! That's me every time. Mr.. CAM,
Just so it amt damp"
He leaned forward. talking be,
meath the din, of the crowd an; ano
| the concealed ear of Miss Meyer.
"Funny how-how we like the same
things. amt it. Miss Meyer?
! .Y-yees-ain't it,"
! always saw. Miss Meyer. let the high
| fiiers do all the high Swing they want
1 hut nv idea OF real living. MISS MIN
ma. my-my idea OF real living is
Eyes. Mr.. Ganz?"
"Is "a little elegantly furnished.
| steam-heated nest for two; MISE
Meyer, on the south side OF Chica&o
| with-with-"
TT is. Miss Minna- I can tell You
! il amt all sciatic pfeurisy i'm my
| left side. Miss Minna. Since | met
YOU tits just like you had taken q
little arrrw and , saet me ,he r KIND Of
! pain I got there now. 1ou-you get
me. Miss Minna-Minnac"
| ~Mr. Ganz-M-max
| Beneath the gray wool jacket their
Hands met and clasped. a rumble ran
through the crowd. Miss Kessler sno'
forvard like a streak. leaning dan
serously beyond the rail.
Hes or"
"Raugh. Raugh. chee-e-e-e"
1.-THE pulse OF the distant machine
leaped suddenly into thousands
and the winged monster. like the re-
stored bulk Of some antediiuvlan
monster of earth and air. shot for
! ward In a. straight line. whizzlng
/; down the smooth face of the HELD y
shout went with it and the human
hedge. five faces deep, was SUDDEN!
white with upturned faces.
."Raugh. Ch-e-e-e-e
tdrawn its talons up and under, IL rose
lin .perfeet whirring flight.
with his own face thrust whlteiE
| inward and his whisper with rau-
cous edge to it. Max CAM leaned lor
the small hand drawn up into the gray
wool sleeve.
The throbbiug of the engine was
suddenly remote, then more remote
I as IL tulle porfieres of air and space
were drawing together as the machine
aew through them into uncharted al
titudes.
/, Finally silence and only white sea
of faces turned upward to a black
eagle, dying against a star. spahsieu
! sky and circling over the heid once
| twice. thrice. u
! Hes getting ready to loop. Hes
looping. Look. he's dipping lot the
]! first loop. Oh. mommy
| The machine fell forward into
loop. curvtng UP again. down AGAIN
nm again: the red comet-tails ctrcum-
scribing its double course in fire,
/ "One" rose IN bombardment from
The hieroglyphic Of fire hung for
iroment then another vertical diNe
land another double circle of hre.
/ Two.
Max. my-my poor knees won't
Poor. poor little knees"
max. dear. think I'm going to
faint"
WHATS fhat falling down? Chew
lifts good for you after meals
A light jeer rose from the CROWD
"S'matter up there. Cold feet
lThree amt four. What's got you
Dizzy? Loop her up there. Loop her
Iup"' ca, o,a
boy" $1,000.
| What il his engine IS
| -Four" And with the great spirai
iof fire from the final loop still drag
red across the sky. the hum of the