Evening star., 1928-04-19

shamrocks II would have happened To
him and his German friends.
Now for the story as | can give it hot
Of the griddle.
It's tough being reporter-tar
tougher than flying 10 the taA-end oi
/ Labrador
l got only two hours sleep any night
! ali the time ] was away trying tc
reach places from which 20 send my
stories out To Ths Star and the North
American Newspaper Alliance. and SO
my stuff may read kind of ragged.
Down in this neck OF the woods you
don't get much news. / had heard oi
the Bremen being ready 10 hop of on
a transatlantic flight. but / knew little
about It. So when got long distance
call from Montreal saying the Bremen
. had landed at Blanc Sablon. said
"and where the devil Is that" / got
map and soon found out. II was
certainly some distance away. and not
very pretty country to ny over. But
said Tets go !"
The Canadian transcontinental alr.
ways for which I've been flying mail
planes to some OF the isolated spots OF
the st. Lawrence had had official word
from Ottawa that the Canadian gov
ernInent would be tickled II they could
do anything 10 assist the Bremen S.
they went after Dr. Louis Csilssnier
technical director Of the company. Aime
Thibault. mechanic and myself. and We
started
II was Just case OF bucking weather
and doing our best 10 work throughout
and having luck enough 10 make It.
OF course, now We have few spare
hours in etween hops on the way back
4 O. s&AEsx kSsfS.
does look like a pretty reckless stunt
with more than the ordinary share Of
thrills and worries
The last 600 miles was q plunge into
| unknown territory. and we hadn't the
scratch OF line on paper in the
way Of map or ;. chart and oar plane
wasn't equipped with compass We
few by dead reckoning and the sort Of
instinct that comes To all those who are
lucky enough TO beat out the fiyine
game as long as Doc" Cu!sinier and
myself have.
Followed Coast.
OF course. a 6o0~mile jauat In nice
sunny weather with good visibility
| isn't anything 10 write home about
especially II It's over we'll marked eoun-
try. with smooth landing places and
lots Of fuel stations distributed around
But. as already remarked. the north
shore Of the Gulf Of st. Lawrence and
the Straits were showing their worst
stuff, and the sun hasn't had much o.
a look-in even yet at time OF wiring.
!. Once we left Seven Islands. where
the doctor had been flying with mail
we decided We would have 10 keer
pretty close 10 the coast line, or else
Z HsFfsfk gyEFf 1f
into the northern wilds Of Quebec, Cl
even Labrador. and be in worse fiX
than the Germans and the IFi&hman on
GTeeniy
Another reason we could not fly fat
inland was that the bays and strips ol
coast water gave us the best chance oi
coming down without striking a tree or
rock. AS already narrated, we had q
tough trip 10 Seven Islands Saturday
and we brought Our plane down several
miles away from the village, We an.
chored her down and went In for thf
night IL was lik- Alaska or the Pas.
Fire Under Engine.
The next morning we had 10 musf
out 10 tne plane with a dog team. TAX"
ing gas 10 ill our tanks. and then when
We got there We found the engine stiff
from the cold.
We had 10 light a FIRE under thG
engine 10 warm IL up before We could
get going All the time the wind
blew, carrying EnoW and fog with
! A. IL worked up into pretty higt
velocity al times. and that did not ado
much 10 our temper or the general
gayeiy 0f thingg Because OF the high
wind We had 70 make three landing6~
one at Seven Islands, one al place
/ perhaps 10 miles this side ot hataAh-
/ guam and al Aatashquan itself w,
/ didn't know the f1rAt thing about the
| kind Of landing field We were going e
reach. We did not know how thick tbs