Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1925, Page 15

i ie PAGE THREE WORLOFLIGHT TRWMPHORWEN HOME BY WELCOME OF HOMELAND Continued «from Page One. ht much as they had looleed upon the others. : We were out on the planes early j °U"s®. every one knew that he was Saturday morning, and, though re-| °f foreign birth, and this, added te luctant to leave such a restful ang | ‘he fact that he did it all so spon charming spot us Casco bay, we|t#neously und naturally, made ft were anxious to reach Boston’ and | S¢¢™ all the finer. It was an ex then push rapidly on to the Pacific | Ceedingly sraceful, patriotic gesture coast, our final goal. But a stiff} Om the purt of our flying Viking head wind sprang up just we | nd See the att of thing that -2 were about to take off, and Erik | We bred European ‘gentleman found that he needed more gas to | 4 With © of a cavalie! earry him to Boston airy This} “With our escort of motorcycle 1d to be brought from Brunswick, | Police’still sounding their sirens, de- the nearest town, and it was nearly | fylng the speed laws, and throwing | noon before a supply arrived by | caution to the wind, we were whirled truck. on out to the*Copley-Plaza. There ‘Meanwhile ten De Haviland| We found that all the rooms along | planes, led by General Patrick,«had| the entire front of one floor had flown up to meet us and egcort us| been. thrown open for us, They in. When they saw us lying on the} Weuldn’t even allow us to sign the they broke formation and| ordinary Motel register, bur thd th, in turn, dove down and waved to us. By holding up a funnel and pointing to the gas tanks we let them know what was delaying us. “Seeing those planes filled with our old friends gave us one of the greatest thrills of the trip. After circling over us for a while they flew to. Old Orchard, -tanded, “waited until they saw us coming. Prom then on the day was one thrill after another. And the climax came with the reception on Boston Com- mon. Can't Hear the Noise “As we flew over historic Boston harbor and Bunker Hill we saw a throng of people evidently waiting for us at the landing field. Although we couldn't hear a thing because of the roar of our motors, we could see streaks of steam shooting up from factories, ocean liners, tugs and ferry boats. It seemed as though eyery whistle in Boston was blow ing. We could also tell from tht puffs of smoke that the warship® beneath us were firing salutes. For a moment we all wished we could be down on the ground to hear what the uproar was like. But our Lib- ertys drowned out all sound, hence the most impressive part of what was going on below us was seeing the fireboats spouting fountains of water into the sky. They looked tke a group of geysers all playing at once. “Frog: then on the people of Bos: ton set us a wild pace. So many things happened that it's impossible to mention them all. The enormous eize of the crowd at the airport and the spontaneity of the welcome took our breath away. “The first thing that happened when we stepped ashore was that some one shoved & radio micro: phone in front of me. I looked at it sort of dumb-like and blurted out, ‘What am I supposed to do with this?’ Of course the thing was turned on, so those were our first words to the American public. ‘Then General ‘Patrick, or somebody, explained that mother and dad were out in Los Angeles ‘listening in’ and that I was supposed to gay some thing. So I said, ‘Hello, folks. I'm glad to be home,’ and let it go at that. ES Mystery Girl Kissa Erik . “I believe about the. next thing that happened was that a beautiful young lacy burst through the crowd threw her arms around Erik, him a smack on each cheek and other on his bafd head. n A moment after her sudden descent upon Erik “she vanished. For days the papers were full of this ‘mystery girl.’ None of us, including the bewifdered Erik, knew who she was, At any rate, she was not the young lady whose photograph was the mascot of the New Orleans all the way around world. “After receiving the greetings of our own chief, who had sent us forth to explore the airways of the earth, we met the governor of Mas- sachusetts, the mayor of Boston, the corps commander, the assistant sec retary of war, and any number of other offic Nelson's brother. Gunnar, a noted hematician, had flown"all the way om Dayton to welcome him, and a qulet English man came up to us, who turned out to be none other than the Brit sh world flyer, Maj. Stuart Mac Laren. In addition to thanking us for sending his sparé plane from the Kurlle {slands to Burma by de- stroyer, he told us that he was on his way home to outfit another round the world expedition, in the hope that England might still win the honor of being the second to fly around the globe. “After signing the airport entry hook for Beb Brown we were hustled Into a fleet of automobiles and whirled through the streets at a speed that made our hair cur Strings of motorcycle police were flung out ahead of us for three; blocks to clear the traffic. Every copper was blowing his siren and tearing along with throttle full open. If any of us had ¢he mistaker tmpregs'on that Boston was a sleeps town, we got over \t in hurry Paul Revere's x was tam@ con pared to the fliriller ve us Automobiles Give Thrill wa flashed through the s and sidewalks were jammed with cheering throngs “It was all totally unexpected Of course, we hadn't seen a paper in Teeland, Greenland, or Labrador, In fact, we had only glanced at few foreign journals since leaving Senttle. So we hadn't the faintest {dea there was going to be-all this enthusiasm. “We pulled up at Boston Common and there, in addition to addresse of welcome, were were showered with gifts, everything from the kev« his descendants to the city, sabers, huge Paul Re vere bowls, American flacs, silver wings, and handsorr t nierh begs fo, ou mothera and roundings, | | th 1 ube ifternoon was when Erik Amer or ican flag. manager in person came up’ with a | special one in a silver frame jus‘ like they do when the president vis- its them, Complete Wardrobe Waiting “In our greasy boots and breeches and flannel, shirts we looked sadly out of place in such luxurious sur- We were dr 1 appro- priately for a bunkhouse in Labra- dor but not for the swagger Copley- Plaza. But we had no other clothes with us and were beginning to won der how under the sun we y going to be able to dress so we could dine with General Patrick But about that time some one called | our attention to the clothes closet in each sulte. And there, as if by tite | magic hand of a genii, we found 1 our dress uniforr tly presse, clean shirts, and everything that w needed. Surely Aladdin had nothing on us- Our ‘slave of the lamp,’ our jovial genii, was none other than Lieut. Robert J. Brown, who, along with Lieut t. Clair Streett, had been responsible for most of the de tail work of the entire flight. When it comes to detail, or most anything else for that mu these two men are incomparable Dressing that night was quite a ceremony. The telephones in all six rooms were ull r'ingin t once and they never stopped. So we put al -bellhop on each. Crowds of officials | and friends surged in and out, be boys dashed hither and about. It was the nearest thing to complete Pandemonium that I ever saw. But We certainly were sitting on top of the world for once in our lives. That, night We “dined quietly with General Patrick, “Although the hospitable people of Boston seemed to think that the world flight was virtually over when we reached their glorious old city, which, by the way, they still contend is the "Hub of the Universe.’ down in our hearts we knew that the time had not yet arrived to do any shouting. We appreciated Bos. | ton’s spontaneous welcome. In fact, we fairly reveled in it, having just come down from the bleak arctic. But it sdrt of made us feel uneasy and figgety. We realized that our trip around the world was far from beihg over bedause we still had more than 3,000 miles to go.” Before thefr arrival in Boston the world flyers had flown across the Pacific, across the continents of Asia ene urope, and across the At- lantic. But the continent of North America still lay ahead of them. With the exception of their flight from Turkey to England, this was trip around the easiest part of their the world, But there were two fac. tors that increased the hazard. two factors that increased the hazard. e In the first place, thelr world erulsers had long passed the ayer: life of an airplane, and until were thoroughly tested by ex- perts in Dayton no one knew for certain but what they might go to Pieces in the air as a result of the jormal strain they had been sub- jected to while flying in both arctic and tquatorlal regions, and while buffeted about by roughs seas in Alaska, the Kurile islands, and the th Atlantic. condly, there was the ordeal by Rqauet and reception which the airmen were subjected to from the y reached Boston until they d their great undertaking and Point field, Seattle. The ner in which they survived the latter Is surely one of the outsand. ing feats of the world flight Overwhelined With Hospitality. They were so overwhelmed with hospitality on their way across America that they ruefully re- marked, when they reached Seattle, that they guessed they would have to fly around the world again to| get rested. With the possible exception of the} | Perhaps the most dramatic touch | /* the world, in this first manently marked by the crew of the U. . Lawrence. I doubt if there has ever been any- thing In American history to com- pare with the triumphal tour of the world filers, and it seems to me that he story of tt from their lips is one ‘ the most~interesting parts of the vorld flight narrative. ‘At two minutes past 12 on Sep- tember 8, We left Boston air port for New York,” said ‘Les’ Arnold. ead of us in three escort planes Assistant Secre- r Davis, Senator dsavorth of New Ye Behind us came ten other planes carrying journalists and photographers. Then there also was a radio operator who broadcasted everything that hap- pened as far west as Omaha. Twenty Planes Form Escort. vAs we coming from every factory whistle, R. 1, we could see fts team ull traffic in the streets had stopped and the roofs were black with peo- ple waving to us. After leaving Providence, Gen Patrick turned off the course so we could fly over New London, Conn., which was my home town. In New Haven they have a big wistle, used as a fire alarm, but continuous blowing of it means jot call Although I had been away from home a long, long time and was now merely speeding by through the sky at the rate of weren't blow rally I got “As we ten more p ing the riot call! N: big kick out of thz arsed over lg nes from Long Island came out to escort us to Mitchell field. After passing Greenwich, Rye, and a lot of other small cities, we crossed the East r' ing south from the B down the heart of island. and to look down on Times Squu Fifth nue, old Proadway, «ud the towering ekyscrapers at the lower end of the island was another of the most thrilling experienc the entire world flight This s Erik's home town. But we all felt that Uttle old New York belonged Manb It was a glorious sunny de ttan to the rest of us as well. My, how remote Labrador, Greenland, Ice- tand, tho Balkans, the minarets of Constantinople, the mosques of Bag- capped mow seemed to us’ Y. Greatest Thrill. “Every ocean liner, every tug, and every ferry seemed to be blowing a welcome to us. Strange as it may seem, this was the first time that one of the six of us had! ever visited New York. to fly all the wv to get here! By ains of Alaska, y-round the globe n crowds in this SEE L. D. 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