Evening star., 1928-04-18

the ompany-Canadian Transcontinen-
tai Airways--had agreed that l secure
for The Star and the North American
Newspaper Alliance the first exclusive
story of the Bremen's fight and arrival
In Canada.
Well, as /. said before. we got up at 4
o'clock Sunday morning, determined
that another "a hours wouldn't pass
until we got through. We were going
to bore through or drive through, or
whatever else was necessary.
Even at that the weather which
created us when we started puttering
around the plane at Seven Islands was
pretty nearly impossible. A northeast
gale was raging. and there was thick
snow in the air, with falling tenn
perature-~the sort OF day when one OF
those round cast-iron heaters in a log
Shanty looks like Heaven. But was set
on trying 1t, and DOC" Cuisinier and
our mechanic, Thibeault. were. too.
Fog Grew Thicker.
The first lull that came along we start
ed up the propeller and made pretty
fair take-off into the teeth Of the gale.
The first few miles weren't so bad. or
they didn't seem SO bad. but instead of
lifting the fog and the snow got thicker
above the lana, of course, but 1t was
all hills and trees, and If we had once
gone down We should have stuck for
good.
We had the plane, all right, Fair
child. built especially for that Winter
air mail service with great speed and
wonderful lifting power. and she sure
gave us splendid service. We were
proud OF the way she plowed through
that snow and fog.
The bank of fog kept getting down
lower and lower We brought our plane
right over the tree tops. but that was
dangerous. The moment we poked her
nose up again We we're in the bewiIder-
ing maze of flying snow and vapor SO
at last much as we hated to do it, Doc
and decided we had better come down
and wait for 1t TO clear.
Came Down on Lake.
We had kept our bearings pretty well
and calculated we were stln miles from
Natashquan. We made clean lan6-
ing on long narrow lake with deep
snow on it, Then We sat down ana
grouSed about the weather and waited
for the fog to lift. Funny way 10 spend
a Sunday noontide up there in that
going again. too.
AS soon as we could see a few fect
above the trees again We took of for
Natashquan. We hadn't meant TO come
down there. but We knew We could get
gas. and that northeast gale was eating
it up so fast we were afraid VIC
wouldn't have enough to reach Greenly
and take up back again 10 a gas sta
ton
1t was still blowing regular gale
when we came down here and the do
was wearing on But we just stopped
long enough 10 fiji UP the tanks and
took of again into the storms nose.
We figured 1t couldn't get much worse
and having worked that close through
the dirty weather we wanted 10 reach
those flyers sometime before dark We
decided 70 go on and then II II got too
dark. or If we missed the island. We
could come down on the ice somewhere
or on strip Of beach and hop OIL again
as soon as it was light Monday
guess luck was with us Anyway
we kept piowing through. and just be-
fore IL got too dark TO know much about
where We were going We caught sight
Of the island Just of the coast line and
dived for IT, The flyers. as already re-
marked. we're falling over each other In
their Joy. but they hadn't much on Us
at that
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