The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-09-08

cred the young air Viking by the
citizens of Butte in the evening. The
air heros flash Of marked emotion
came after he had listened with ap-
parent embarrassment to several lau-
datory speeches, and after he had ac-
cepted with only a mild display of
warmth a smoking set of hand beaten
copper, mined in Butte and refined in
Anaconda. However, the colonel jump
ed to his feet with a reverent smile
on his face when the Mayor of Butte
paid tribute to the nobility of Colonel
Lindbergh's mother and presented the
flyer with platinum friendship knot,
the gift of an organization Of profess
sional and business women of Butte.
He then warmly shook the Mayors
hand, opened the small jewel case and
gazed intently on the gift for his
mother obliyious of the throng.
Colonel Lindbergh arrived in Butte
about two o'clock Monday from Boise
Idaho. Ten thousand people greeted
the transatlantic flyer at Clark park
where the Mayor delivered the well
come address and where the colonel
made a short talk A reception was
held at the Finlen hotel after the
parade through the business and resi-
Dental district. Lindbergh sat up high
in the open car during the parade and
bowed acknowledgements to the plau-
dts of the crowd. Lindbergh, who five
years ago as an unknown gypsy"
flyer, transformed in Montana, re-
turned to receive the plaudits of 50,-
i 600 people who gave him the most
enthusiastic welcome Butte has ever
known.
Approximately $4,000 people cheer
ed him when he landed at the Munich
pal airport in the Esprit of st. Louis.
No thrill that Lindbergh ever gave
Montana spectators with his para
chute or atop the wings Of speeding
plane could equal that which the
crowd at the Butte airport experienc-
ed as he circled overhead and landed
Lindbergh's plane, giant silver
eagle, circled about the city -four
times before landing.
Thousands of residents Of Montana,
who, in common with other thousands
and millions all over the world, tried
to visualize the flight of an almost
unknown air mail pilot, Charles Lind
bergh, as he winged his way over the
stormy Atlantic early in June, wonder
ed first what the intrepid "Lone
Eagle" looked like and secondly what
sort of aircraft bore him on the great
adventure.
Alone, with not even pet animal
to bear him company as mascot, the
solitary figure appealed strongly to
the imagination of the public. What
manner of man was the pilot and what
sort Of airplane did he depend upon
to bring him safely to Paris, across
the thousands Of miles of tossing
ocean?
Since that eventful day and night in
early June, the world has been pay
ing homage to the young Minnesotan,
who upon bringing his airplane to
rest in Paris, alluded to his exploit as
having been accomplished by "We.'
Who was "We," the other part of the
combination
"The Spirit of st. Louis" which car
ried him to fame, explains what its
pilot meant by "We." The staunch air.
plane in which Colonel Lindbergh was
the lone passenger and driver un-
doubtedly appealed to him as part
of himself. The same feeling which in
the days Of early Montana, made the
settler and the cowboy consider his
horse at the important factor in his
struggle to achieve, at the risk of life,
possessed Colonel Lindbergh. To him
the plane was almost human. Perhaps
he talked to it, just as the cowboy
and plainsman talked to his faithful
horse.