Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1924, Page 19

COSI TUOLADOSTUUEOSeervEteETessHTTTLEEE HED vr Sfeeeeeeraratae crates i THRILLING ADVENTURES ‘WORLD. FLIERS OF THE ‘Continued from Page One.) of Resurrection bay a serroundys by towering snow clad mountains, ft # the southern terminus of the new severnment railway that is;to un- lock the treasure Iunds ih the heart Alaska. Seward also is the head- suarters for the halibut fishing fleet. ‘rhe fishermen from one schooner turned to and helped us put extra si 250. pound anchors on our Then we Went on board their “smack while she lay along- side the cannery dock. “These fishermen are the biggest roughest, toughest, bearded giants I have ever seen. We watched them ynlead their boat and then went down Imo the galley, had hot coffee, And fooled around listening ‘to them spin yarns as they stamped about in their hip boots, slickers and big rub- hats, Four of them tried to show . how to tie a Bolin knot and then guyed him for our clumsiness. Most ¢f them were Finns, Swedes and Danes and they spoke Eng.ish without an accent, But their conver- especially — humpbackéd would not even get by) an army censor. Stars with Gold Points. “Tonight a brilliant moon came over this rim of mountains above us. Innumerable stars dimpled the sur- face cf Resurrection bay with their points of gold. It seemed to us as though from the limits’ of sidereal space the Lord of the heavens were smiling down upon us and promis- ing us clear weather .for our flight on the morrow. “April 15—Up at 5. Out to the cannery to get. the planes ready while the major, Erik, Smitty and Leigh get the dope on the weather by radio from the boys down the line. Sky clear as a bell. “When the sun came up the icy peaks sparkled as though studded with \millions of scintillating dia- monds. “Bissell had arranged for oil to be supplied to us here in five gal- lon cans. It was as stiff molasses from the cold, so we built a fire on the beach and put the cana right in the fire. As soon as one was hot enough we would jump into a row- boat, push out to one of the planes and dump it in: “At 9:45 we took off. Major Martin was the last to get under way, so the rest of us circ'ed around for twenty minutes, flew alongside each other, took pictures, and fooled about in the air amusing ourselves ‘and the crowd below, until. the ‘Seattle’ fin- ally Joined” us. It was’ just 10:05 as we headed down the fjord between the two rows of extinct volcanoes Whose snow covered cones and gia- cler filled valleys maké Resurrection bay one of the sights of the wog't. The Seward Hop-off. “The course to be followed on this hop from Seward to Chignik’ had been caretuliy worked out by Major Martin, Smith, Erik, and Wade. Out Dlahe was to"lead the flight, so Erik ascended to 1,500 feet, closely fok lowed by the Chicago and the Bos- ton. But for some reason, we don’t know just why and never did find out, the Seattle remained much low- er,.and when we headed off on the Prescribed course over some. low mountains near where Resurrection bay joins the sea, Major Martin flew way out aroutd Cape Atalik into tle Gulf of Alaska, Just off the main- land We passed ‘an uncharted rock with q tunnel'right through it. The water went in one side and out the other, We slowed up on the other side of this rock and jogged along slowly until the major caught up with"us when he were opposite Me: Carty slacier and Nuka bay near the southern end of the Kenai’ peniti- ‘The Seattle did net signai’to us | 80 we never knew whether the major had been flying low because of some mechanical difficulty or whether he had suddenly decided to take the ad- vice of some of the Seward people who were of the opinion that the planes would be less likely to be wrecked by the ‘willle-waws’ if they stayed five miles or so from the shore. As. it turned out, however, the ‘wille-waws' did not bother us on this flight and we believe it was because they come down off the ice capped mountains and. spend their force near sea level. and that we were high enough up to merely get a few ‘bumps as they parsed. under us. Leave the Seattle Far Behind. “But the Seattle only remained with us for a mile or so. By the time we had reached Port Dick it had fallen rather far behind again. Near Chugach istand, about a hundred miles out of Seward, we passed a light house and then an even more welcome sight.It was the 8. S. Star and once again just as we passed her in Prince William sound on the pre- ‘vious Might she’ was headed in the same direction that we were. We could see. jolly ‘old’ Capt. Oscar Joh- anssen and his men waving at us, and it seemed mighty. good away, out there in.that wilderness of water and ice. Later the Star officially re- ported: having seen three of the planes pass over her, with the-fourtl about ten miles behin: After passing rer Barren Our Christmas Present To You FROM Now TILL CHRISTMAS “| Motors Cleaned by Steam | $1. 50 This is a 50% cut on our former price of $3.00 A clean motor gives greater all-around SATISFACTION This offer good till Christmas only OSCAR REDENBO 430 West Yellowstone Phone 1692 {fslands, rocky promontories even more barren than thelr name suz- gests, we started down Shelikof strait, which separates Kodiak {sland from the main‘and of the Alaskan peninsula. Here we started running into snow squalls. The waters of the Shelikor strait, by the way, have the reputation of being the roughest in the whole world with the excep- uon of Bering sea. Between squallx the air was so clear that we could see the snowy mountains of the Alew tan range, from sixty to seventy miles to the right. Pass Mount Katmai Volcano. “Over. there, not so far distant, we could see Mount Katmal, the gi- gantic active volcano from which on June 6, 1912, had come one of the most violent eruptions of mod- ern times. On that occasion clouds of ash had fallen on hundreds of square miles of the Alaskan penin- sula and Kodiak i@land. Ash even fell on the decks of passenger steam- ers 600 miles away steaming along the Yukon river.” “The whole face of the mountain had been, Blown off and ‘bowlders as big as a house flowed like water’ down into the adjoining valleys. Mount Katmal is the greatest active volcano in the world, The rim of the crater is over eight mi in ctr. cumference and its depth is over 3,' 500 feet. All of the buildings of New York City could be dropped in- to the crater without filling it, ac- cording to the explorers sent out by the National Geographic society, who were among the first to reach the rim after the eruption. “Although we were not flying close enough to sée the wonderland around the base of thé volcano call- ed ‘the Valley of Ten. Thousand Smokes,’ we could see clouds of steam rising from it. Had we not been engaged in pioneering an aerial route nround the world we would have liked nothing better than to stop and visit that modern inferno where scalding streams flow from under glaciers and where hpt water and icebergs are found in the same lake. We were told that it ranks with the Yellowstone and-the Grand Canyon as one of the most awe- inspiring! sights on, the planet. “At any rate we did not*think it worth while to fly over Katmaj and run the risk of being sucked into the crater. ~ Fiy_ Into Snow Saualls. “Just as we were passing Cold Bay, shorfly after we had seen Mount Katmai, we slowed down and Major Martin caught up with us. Again he did-not signal that he had been having any trouble. “At the southern end of Shelikof strait we ra ninto severdl snow pqualis, and although we lost. sight of the Seattle, under the circum: stances, we all thought that the major and Harvey would soon be up with us again. We kept looking back, and when fifteen or twenty minutes had elapsed we began to fear that something had happened and. that they had been forced to land. -By then we were not over a hundred miles from Chignik. But | We were flying against a stiff head- wind that retarded us. In fact, we jhad been bucking a wind most of the way and we barely had enough gas to carry us through. This meant that {f we turned back t look for the major and Harvey that the whole expedition would run the risk of being wrecked. Start Search for Seattle. | “We speeded up the revolutions of our motors to over 1,620 revolutions per minute and sped past Cape Providence. Then a little later we ran into fog and more snow squalls, PARIS DRIVER IS FAST EVEN IN TRAFFIC Parisians think that treffic in Paris is handled pretty well because they can remeber how “badly it was regulated but a few years-ago and they can appreciate, too, the way in which the number of motor cars has increased. But to the American it suggests a chance for improvement. The French driver is a fast driver, even’ on the crowded streets of Paris. And if the French. were not such a quick people there would be many more. accidents. ‘The American notes with amase- ment the s; of taxi.drivers, per- ticularly, on boulevards and avenves end ‘streets. And he is also amased to learn that the number of acci- dents in proportion to, population and in. proportion to the*namber of cars is surprisingly small. eahge tsa conditions mate- to poh lta trafic, that is ie move traffic in th@ same direction for blocks rather than for a single block. Not only 1s tkis not done new bat drivers on the busiest streets like the Champs-Elysees are mitted to run counter to traffic jn turning. In American cities cars are required to go to a corner. to turn and then tums are permitted in conformity with the movement of traffic. But not so in Paris. Another step would be to bave cars stop at two crossings like Teer een in n jut in ears. ged on-one side of the: boule- vard and permitted to move onthe other—all going east and west, for Trafic ‘conditions in Paris, as in all other large cities of the world, are having their influence upon the kind of car the mo- torist. It is necessary eve @ the U. 5. Destroyers Hull and Cory. He also radioed Capt. Johannsen of the Star, “We knew that they were all not far away and within a few minutes replies came back that they were acting on Smith's suggestion and speeding toward Kanatak and Port- age bay. We knew the Seattle must he somewhere along that part of the coast. Sinith also sent a message to a Standard Oil radio station some miles inland from Kanatak where there was a crew prospecting for oil. The superintendent at once started overland on horseback through the snow on a long and hazardous ride to-get’every one at Kanatak to help in«the search for the “Jost world cruiser. b Gallant “‘Sub’ Joins Search, “Thé destroyer’ Hull und. Cory radioed ‘us that they were proceed- ing full speed ahead and expected: to find the plane by daylight. A touch of humor crept into the tragic situa- tion .at this point. Capt. Johann- sen on his little ‘rubber bottomed tub’ radioed: “‘Raeing to the rescue full speed ahead.’ Then a little later he radioed again: ‘Hope to reach Martin ahead of the destroyers.’ They were doing from thirty-one to thirty-three knots an hour and the best “Johannsen! scar which up quickly, because when one ‘i an open 8; one sos ts aver ate Oe tle time aa one can safely and com- fortably do so. A car must stop quickly, hence the larity of four-wheel brakes on the continent. A car must have a small whee! bese, --—Get-— t The way om woheck trafic 18 handled on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, the busi- est street tn the world. © Slow-moving sehscles are required to hug the curb. Police officers will stop the tans to go from curb to A but rarely de they step i the avenwe 10 a the movement ts trom one curb to the other. which {s flexible and easily adapt- able to existing trafic ‘But not long afterward another message. arrived from him: ‘De- stroyers have just passed us making thirty-two knots. Best we can do is seven. By comparison. looks as though we must. be going back- wards. “We were all. worried | sick over the disappearance of No. 1. But that day as we flew above Shelikof strait near Mount Katmai was to be the last time we were to see our plucky commander and our pal, Alva Harvey, until our return to Seattle after flying the rest of the way around th) world.’ (To Be Continued.) STORAGE AUTO REPAIRING OIL—GREASE TIRES—TUBES ALCOHOL. 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