Evening star., 1937-10-23


alleys of the Canton area echo with
whispers that run along the shadows
where brawny swaggerers slip with
their news from spectral grog shop tc
eerie ale house dead half century
agone.
But this is news TO wake the dead
the Clippers are to sail again!
Down across Colgate Greek lies a
brown wedge of raw earth, stolen
foot by foot out of the broad river
reaches that surround it. Raw brown
earth, Shiny now with mud crawling
with powerful tractors brooded over
by stout armed cranes looking like
nothing so much as a bad dream come
to light. Yet here. in the dark of
the moon, the ghostly visitors FORE
gather. full of an excitement so preg-
nant with the future that its stir has
brought them out of old and for
gotten graves to scan the winds and
swear by mighty oaths.
Yes. the Clippers, darling pride of
. brash young nation, showing their
merry heels to an envious world in
their heyday, sweethearts of the iron
men who ran their Towering canvases
half way round the world and back
the Clippers are taking the air out
Of Baltimore once more.
Not dancing, dainty Ann McKim.
first of her kind, with her rakish lines
end fittings of copper and her carven
fgurehead; not the John Gilpin,
holder of records, nor the corvette,
Venus, nor the Troubadour, the Rain
bow nor the Sea Witch-these new
ships have borrowed the feathers of
1carus, and soar upward nearer to the
sun. Clippers they are, many of them
born in this same city of the Calverts,
as were their older sisters, with the
same high beauty riding on their wings
end other iron men to troll them along
the windy paths they follow, but
these are children of modern age,
bestriding the heavens in their going,
as those other ships bestrode the
waters upon the face of the earth.
IT WILL be on the 18th of November,
If present plans carry through,
that Pan-American Airways will in
augurate service out of the new Balti-
more airport to Bermuda, moving
down from its Summer quarters
on Long Island. at Port Washington,
to the more moderate climate and
larger harbor areas in Maryland. At
$50 in the afternoon of that day,
the Bermuda Clipper will come to
rest on the gray waters of the
Patapsco, and there will probably be
some sort of formal ceremony to well
come her Remaining overnight, she
will take off again next morning for
the five-hour junket to the coral sands
of the British Island, first leg in the
southern arc of air passenger travel
across the Atlantic.
On the 18th, the Royal Mail Aircraft
Cavalier-to give her her full title
will arrive at Baltimore in her turn,
and from then on this new interna-
tional aerial shuttle will go full tilt,
with Pan-American running the We'd
nesday and Friday shift, returning on
Thursday and Sunday, and Imperial
leaving Baltimore on Thursday and
Saturday and returning Monday and
Friday. In other words, there is no
need to do your Winter travel shop
ping early, although schedules out
of Port Washington during the Sum-
n1er are reputed to have had waiting
lists.
At that, it isn't necessary to be a
ghost TO feel the thrill of bugles in
your blood at the thought of what is
q hosr IN +oly ,11o ct
Washington's front door. This calm,
modern acceptance of miracles as
commonplace events gets little dis
arranged when they come and park
on your own mat. There may be wars
and rumors of wars earth shaking
calamities. fires, murders and what
have you in the way of headlines, but
this little stickful of news 10 which
day by day aviation has been boiled
down in the last three or four years
has far more Of behind -the-scenes
story than an Oriental battle or a
Spanish sortie Men have been killing
each other since the days Of the
jungle, but man as a demi-goo with
wings is pure twentieth century.
Parliamentary most recent news
letter announces, for example, that
drawing to spectscularly unevent-
ful close is the first series of trans
atlantic survey flights-an impressive
total of $4,000 flight miles by the
British, German and American survey
planes-23 crossings in which no enc
has been lost no one has landed tC
ask directions, no one has disappeared
Arrivals have come into designated
terminals like clockWork and that
in view Of all the transatlantic flying
up to this Summer, out Of 66 previou
attempts Only 10 we're ever successful
in reaching nonstop, the destination
they set out for"
We who love pioneers, in this coun-
try built by that grand old gang OF
sdVenturers-here is a brard-neW
nreed. The ghosts. however. recognize
kindred spirits when they meet them
baltimore. with all ller muddling
through in the early DAYS of the
airport situation. with all her wasted
fnoney-her finished port is to cos;
cool $4,000 000-has yet, through 2
few mems vision. done a very swee
job for herself. II will be a consider.
ale time before the seaplane por
New York is planning becomes 6
reality; Port Washington at best wa,
temporary and not suited to Winte,
weather. In the meantime. through
frantic and ong-sighted effort Balti.
more has copped the plum Accord
ing to G. II. Pouder, executive vic,
president in charge of export ant
import business for the Association o
Commerce. and his assistant. Altar
Rhode, who made the detailed surve,
that brought order out of the origina
chaos, the airport will not be com
pletely finished until next Summer
but enough is done now for seaplane
10 use it safely. and land planes viii
continue to use the adjacent Logan
Field until surfacing operations her
are at an end.
L. -Eas