The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-05-05
Former Sank Centre Lad
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Water Gap and on the way back
we visited George Washington's
headquarters in Morristown during
the Revolution. Here we saw hun
dreds of old Colonial and Revolu-
tionary War relics.
OF course I went out to the
Yankee Stadium to see Babe Ruth
and Lou Gehrig hit some home
runs but I became more interested
in going out to the Polo Grounds
to see the Giants play because
Ethan Allen, who plays with the
Giants, lives here in the same apart
ment building and got to know
him. He is doing graduate study
at Columbia during the winter. I
learned a lot about big league base
ball from him. One day one of the
three professors from Columbia
that Dad plays golf with couldn't
go so they asked me to go along to
make up a four-some, so I got a
chance to play golf on one of the
beautiful courses in Westchester
county.
Mother and I went down to the
Battery to see the giant 'airplane,
the DO-x, arrive after it's trip
across the Atlantic. We also saw
the big reception New York gave
for the aviators, Post and Getty.
who few around the world in a
little over eight days. I also got
to see the giant dirigible, the Akron,
when it came to New York. 1t
flew right over our apartment. Here
in the east we see many auto-gyro
airplanes. They are strange-look-
ing machines but they can do things
the ordinary airplanes can't. One
day out at Coney Island saw one
performing and it remained prac-
tically motionless in the air for a
long time. They need only a few
feet for a take-off and can land on
a spot no larger than the school
play ground in Sank Centre.
Yesterday I had one of my most
thrilling experiences since came
to New York. Mr.. Clarence Cham
berlain, the aviator who flew across
the Atlantic Ocean to Germany, in
vited me to visit his airplane fac
tory over in New Jersey. I saw
them working on the new plane
they are building for Ruth Nichols
which she intends to use in flight
to Europe. I also saw the plane she
wreck last fall when she was at
tempting a similar flight. After
looking over the factory and show
ing me the instruments used in the
transatlantic fight Zone OF them
alone costs $3.50 Mr.. Chamberlain
took me back to New York in his
cabin plane, landing at North Beach
port where the DO-x is being pre-
pared for the flight back to Ger
many. Here I had chance to go
all through this big flying boat
which can carry over 100 passeng-
ers besides her crew. 1t gave me
quite a thrill to fly over Central
Park and be able to look down and
see all of this big city at one time.
We flew at an altitude of 1000 feet
and as it was clear day I was able
to see the Statue of Liberty down
in the bay on one side of me and
way up the Hudson past the Horace
Mann School to the Westchester
country on the other side. 1t
might interest you to know that
this wonderful adventure only cost
me thirty cents, what it cost me to
get to the factory in New Jersey by
subway under the Hudson over to
Jersey City and street car fare out
to the factory and flying field, and
subway fare home from North
Beach airport back home. You can
travel further for nickle in New
York than anywhere in the world.
I am going to get my next big
thrill this summer when I sail for
Europe on a three months trip.
This trip would not have been pos
sible if had not gotten scholar
ship. We sail from New York on
the IS Pennland, June IT, for
France, from where we go to Paris.
From Paris we go to Geneva,
Switzerland, and on to the Tyrolian
Alps in Austria. Here we will make
our headquarters in a little village
in the Alps, called Oetz, from
where we will take excursions into
the mountains and to the quaint
little villages in that part of the
country. From there we move on
to Prague, Czechkslovakia, and
then over to Germany to Holm
stein where we will live for awhile
in Hohnstein. Castle, a robber baron
stronghold of the middle ages, now
a German Youth movement center.
From there we go to Dresden and
on to Berlin. I forgot to mention
that before going to Prague we will
spend five days in Vienna.
From Stettin, Germany, we
take a steamer up the Baltic Sea
to Reveal, Esthonia, and then across
to Helsingfors, Finland, the land
of the midnight sun. Back down
the Baltic we will stop for a day
at Hango, seaside resort, before
landing at Copenhagen, Denmark.
Our next stop will be at Elsinore,
Denmark as guests of Internation-
al Peoples College, from where
there will be excursions to Helsing-
borg, Sweden, and Kronborg castle,
the scene Of Shakespeare's Hamlet,
and visits to Danish villages and
farms to study their cooperative
movement.
From Denmark we embark for
Hull England, and proceed by train
to London where we will spend q
week seeing the sights in and
around that city. From London we
will go cross country to Liverpool
to embark on the s. S. Britannia for
home, arriving in New York on
September 18th. I imagine the
Statue of Liberty will be welcome