Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1924, Page 3

NEVER WRAT At ISFLVERS BOAST Proud of Being Able Con- tinually to Progress Taward Goal. BY HAYDEN CHURCH. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star and North Amer- iean Newspaper Alliance BROUGH, Yorkshire, July 31.—"Tell the people at home that we leave England very confident of completing the last stage of our 24,000-mile trip and winning for America the honor of being the first nation to fly round the world. We realize that this last series of hops is going to be no pic- nic—it will take us father north than we've been at any time yet and across some next to unknown re- Bions—but we expect to get throush all right and to be home in about thres week Thus e Lieut. Lowell the bronzed. good-looking, serious- faced young leader of the United States world flight, in an interview with thp writer today. Then he added s Smith, Never Turned Back. thing of which we're nroud is that up to now ‘rever turaed back and landed anywh it tended to lan ut luck we have cruise has It is a thi undertake only for I 'had as “One very we have never have e we in- in spite of tac ad this globe-girdling been terrbly bhard work & that one woud not have for a millic sake of one's country.” him for a m the American public with begin this article, which s being written in the ordinarily slumberous but now vastly excited little village on the Humber that is called Brough, and that, because of the presence here of the plucky American airmen, is reveling in a weck of temporary fame as the principal theater of world aviation Across the sun-bathed meadows from Brough's. solitary inn, where [ am now hitting the keys of my por- table, stand the hu of the Blackburn Aeroplane Company, whose big construe: present the principal local industry. And in the largest of those sheds, clad in di brown overails and grimy with du and oil, the six American boys who have made Jules Verne's round-th. world-in-eighty-days look silly by covering nearly 0 fiying hours are working like ers, elbow to elbow with th of expert British 5 Wwho are helping them to get their Ships ready for the last lap of their history-making flight Get Ready for Jump. an hour t before most_people in Brou " out of bed 1 watched them fitting new con- necting wires, adjusting controls and stripping the under carriages of the Boston, the Chicago and t Orleans, preparatory to the fi new engines and the substit = the final series Atlantic Ocean When vou read t well along on their flight, via Iceland, Labrador, the hopes world with them, and home urging them on. Mine has b. the pri . Shared by any other writer. of being with the world Mvers a!most con- tinuously since their arrival in kng- land, and they have talked to me at greater length than time has made it possible for them to do with per- haps any other one individual since they took off from San Monica, tour months ago. As a result, to tell here for the first time the story of what one might ca'l the human side of the world flignt—the side that has been all but untouched on in the hastily collected cable ac- counts of the plucky young fiyers’ Pprogress. of ho, they should be mericanward reenland of the whole the spell of lege. un- All Proud of Fent. They are all quietly proud of ‘what they have accomplished, natu- rally. But it is in home and what they are going to do after they get there that theSe boys are most inter- ested. On that topic they will talk sixteen to the dozen, whereas to ex- tract from them particulars of what happened while they were fiying over three-quarters-of the globe, one has to do one’s hardest pumping. And as for the risks they will run Wwhile on the pioneer flight that will take them close to the Arctic Circle, these appear nothing more, in their minds, than a few bothersome little details to be dealt with before they get back to kith and kin. Kith and kin and something more, 1 judge, for although none of the fiyers 1s married, when I asked Lowell Smith vesterday if they all hadn't giris waiting for them, he repiied-whim- sically, “We hope so!" Home Craved Most. Home and all that it means is what they crave most, and after that rest, physical and mental rest, after what they uunanimously describe as the SPECIAL NOTICES. i PIANO — REPAIRING. 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ROOFING _Phose Maia 883 PQMPANY 119 rd 8t & 00 miles | I am able | PROGRESS OF TH Arrow at top points to Kirkwall fiyers arrived yesterday, while arrow their next objectiv “terribly hard work” that their world flight has meant, and—merciful re- ‘; se from the center of the lime- | “A couple of weeks for me in Los | Angeles, Where my father and mother are,” Smith d, when asked what he is planning to do after the flight is over, “and then I'm going to get up in the mountains of Oregon—and hide!” “I'1l tell want to do " deposed you what 1 most when we get bac Staff Sergt. H. H. Ogden, town is Natchez, Miss. “I want to take a room at a hote] and telf them to call me‘at 3 am. And then, when somebody comes to do it, to fire a shoe at his head and tell him to go where it's hottest. Oh, boy, what a grand and glorious feeling that will be!” Nelson Thinks of Dog. | 1t was in the course of such ques- tionings that 1 discovered the dog. 4‘Th- dog. born and partly bred in | Alaska, that, apparently, means as much as any other one thing, human or otherwise, in the young life of an- other of the boys, Eri Nelson. | Nelson, pilot of No. 2 plane, was born | in Stockholm, as it is possible to de- duce from his accent and sideburns, but with the exception of these trifling details he is 100 per cent United States, “Home for hat up, or maybe I'd be my dog is.” he said. Tve mot | the dandiest dox in the world, I'm Iy anxious to get back and see He's what they call a blue eyed Siberian—that's a fine breed that they have up in Alaska. one of the -pHots in the flight from New York to Nome, and it was then that 1 go: him. He was only seven months ¢1d at the tim and 1 flew him back with me. I'd surely have taken him with me on this flight, too. if he hadn’'t weighed a bit too much. Where is he now? Why, he's right at D: on, Ohio, and as that's one of the stops we make on our last flight across the States, I'll be seeing him right soon after we strike North America. Yes, sir, he's wife and kid nd everything to me. Name? Why 1 christened him Nome, after where I got him." Did Little Sightseeing. What do these fellows think of the world that they have so nearly flown around? “The fact is that we've seen it and we haven't seen it was how Leigh Wade, the pilot of plane No. 3, it. “What I mean,” he explained, that we've seen all these foreign countries from the air, but that isn't like seeing them from the ground. And from the ground we've seen next to nothing of them. What does the actual “sight-seeing” we've been able to do amount to? We had a few hours to look around at Rangoon and about as long at Bangkok. We had one day at Constantinople and a day and a half at Tokio (where we werc busy all the time and didn't see much of anything)., and another day in Paris, all taken up with entertain- ments and ceremonies. And that's the sum total up to date. How could we sce anything of all these places? Do you realize_what our life has been on this trip? Day after day, for these four months, we've flown from about 4 In the morning until 7 or § at night. As soon as we've landed we've had to_work on ‘our planes for 2 or 3 hours, almost until it was time to turn in. We haven't averaged more than 5 or 6 hours' sleep a day since we started.” i ‘Would Enjoy Worid Cruise. Much the same kind of observatfon was made later by Lowell Smith, who added, ““The result is that we all feel that we'd like to get hold of a yacht, or some kind of a boat, after a while, g0 on a world cruise and really see all the countries we've flown over and enjoy the hospitality that has been offered us and that we have only been able to sample on the flight. “We've got a mass of oddly as- sorted memories of this trip,” Smith went on. “One of the queerest things of all happened at Bangkok, Siam. Thére we were invited to witness a double beheading. In Siam they only execute for first-degree murder, which is comparatively rare, and a beheading is carried out in private, only very distinguished people being allowed to be present. we received was intended as @ great honor. for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, for the two men who were to lose their heads had killed two other men. We were due to fly a couple of hours before the affair took place, and so had to decline the invitation, but I don’t believe we'd have wanted to see it, anyway. . Saw Bodies in Water. “Among the things we'll always re- member,” he added, “are the human bodies that we saw floating in the rivers of China and the East gen- erally. It looked to us as if a lot of Chinese, Siamese and Burmese con- sidered that the easlest way to get rid of & body was to chuck it into.the nearest stream. In the river at Bangkok, which runs like a mill race, we saw a dead baby floating, sur- rounded on all sides by the carcasses of animals. “And while we were being enter- tainied at Rangoon,” Smith continued with a chuckle, “a native servant came up to our host, a wealthy Bur- mese, and told him that the body of a man that had drifted down ' the river had lodged against the land- ing stage. Our host seemed a bit uncertain what to do at first, but then he solved the little difficulty by taking a pole and pushing the de- ceased out in the stream and starting him on his way again.” “What part of the flight stands out most vividly in your memory?’ Smith was asked. In Danger in Desert. “I guess it was a thing that hap- pened whtle we were flying over the Sind Desert” he said. “We were about miles from Karachi when rik Nelsen's motor began to .give rouble. That region is an absolute waste, and for .a while things looked mighty bad. It was only by an ex- hibition of the purest nerve and by nursing his motor that Nelsen kept his plane in the air till we struck Karachi. And then we found that a piston was broken and that he had four holes through his crank case.” Leigh Wade, asked the same ques- tion, said he thought the part of the flight that stood out most in his memory was the crossing of the Taurus Mountains (Asia Minor), .in the course ofl vgllclflll!h:hmlchhlnen had to pass in single file through a nar- row gorge, vlnc-uuu.flyton:_‘. thew with < is where I hang my hose home | y where | and ! The invitation |, This was a case of an eve|, THE E WORLD FLYERS at bottom shows Hornafjord, Iceland, head and a rushing torrent under- neath. At this point the flyers were asked if all countries didn’t look more or less alike from the air. E said Smith, “they look almost as different, 1 guess, as they do from the ground. You notice at once the different ways the land is culti- vated, the change in the styles of architecture and the difference in the ways in which the towns are laid out, as you fly over one country after an- other. For instance, the funny little Chinese villages, each of them with a tower at both ends, were absolutely different from those we had seen in Japan, and just as unlike those we flew over on our way across India. Prettiest Stretch Toward London. “We all agree that the prettiest stretch of country w. yet flown was that after Aleppo, when we the desert behind, and right along to London. It's all so green and Dbeautifully cultivated, and the little toy villages, stand; midst of green ins and on moun- tain sides, are a treat to see. “Where were you hottest and cold- est?" was another question. guess we suffered most from the | heat around Multan, in India, between | Delhi and Karachi. It was about 116 |in the shade of the machine there, |ana if you put your arm over the side where the sun could get at it, it would be rched. It was mighty hot, too, all through Indo-China: in | fact we were grilled steadily all the | way from Hongkong to Constanti- | nople, and in Bagdad especially it | was something fierce® ‘'Wind ' Blew Two Ways. for the cold, that was worst le we were in the Aleutian Is lands. At one stage during that flight we were flying through snow for three hours, while below us a thing was happening that I'd never seen or heard ‘of before. The wind appeared to be blowing two ways at once, | driving the whitecaps east and west at the same time, so that they drove into each other at some points and |churned into the most wonderful | foam I guess anybody ever saw. “There’s one thing particularly I'd like to say.” Smith added. “It has | been stated in the French papers that | we were delayed in Constantinople | because the Turkish officials insisted on examining our machines, and the impression has been given that we were treated badly there. The fact is, that at no point in the flight, un- less it was in Japan, hage we received finer treatment than we got in Con- stantinople. “The military and air officers did everything they could think of to make us feel at home; nobody could have been more polite and consider- ate. Those Turkish officers are all clean, handsome men and very fine fellows. “There was one big general who came out to San Stefano to meet us and couldn’t do enough. He said that he had arranged a few entertain- ments in our honor, and hoped we could manage to accept some of them, but that he realized we were in a hurry and wouldn't take it amiss if we couldn't spare the time. Of course, one expects a certain amount of courtesy from the officials in a country; but what shows the real feeling of a nation toward you is the behgvior of the common people, ans wherever we drove in Constantinople the people in the streets waved their hands and -cheered us and showed their good will in every way that they conld.. As for, heing held us, we had planned to stay there three days, and actually were there one. Well Treated in Orient. “Everybody in Japan was politeness itself, too, especially the officers. Every one of those we met had a little map of the flight, some of which they had made themsélves, and they were interested in every detail. At two places they had the school children out to sing our national anthem. “In Tokio we went into a big store to buy some things we needes ve “As ing business district. out in the | EVENING STAR, | world fiyers, wi [ | | | | | soon as the proprietor, who was a very rich man, heard We were there he came down himself and asked if we were getting proper attention, and If he could help us in any way. He sald it would give him very great pleasure if we could come up to his private office and have tea with him, and we sure would have llked to if we only had had time.” At this point 1 remarked to Smith that Nelson had told me how, some- where in Japan, they had had a meal all sitting in little parties around stoves with tables on top of them. “That was in Kasumigaura,” was the reply. “We were the guests there of one of the big men of the town, who brought in his wife and all his relatives to meet us. Only very honored guests are taken into homes there. ~ Those littie stoves, around which the hosts and the guests sit in small groups, have Iit- tle ovens in which the food is cooked. and it is served immediately on the table above. The guests are waited on by the members of the family. It Is a custom that is regarded as 2 sincere token of friendship.” Retreat of Dick Turpin. Needless to say, this little airport of Brough, on the north bank of the Humber, about fifteen miles from Hull, is vastly proud of having been selected as the American airmen's point of departure on the last stage of their world flight. The fact that it was such, by the way, appears to re- main Brough's principal claim to re- nown, for as far as 1 am able to dis- cover, the sole other outstanding of the tiny place—whose Main street con- sists of about a dozen little shops—- is the fact that it is closely associat- ed with the career of Dick Tu the highwayman, one of whose * holes,” so tradition relates. was the attic of the Green Dragon Inn, a few miles away. It is now exactly four days since the world flyers. after what Lowell Smith described as “just a little jov ride from London,” about a hundred and eighty miles aw glided to earth here and got a rousing welcome from the assembled inhabitants of (who only number 1.500 all the heads and staff of | Blackburn Aeroplane Compan including »rps pilots, crowd Royal of visitors Flying sizable several who had ed Darts Aromes to their respective air Acts as Postman. One of Lieut. Leigh Wade's first acts on landing was to deliver to Mrs. Blackburn, wife of the head of the company (o whom the overhaul of the world cruisers had been intrust- ed, a letter that he had brought to her all the way from Bagdad, the writer being a brother of hers, who is_stationed there. The flyers, while here, uncommonly’ solicitious host in Robert Blackburn, head of the big organiza- tion that builds planes for all Eng- land. When 1 re Brough tra a few hours the arrival of the aviators, he was showing them over the airplane sheds, one of e sights of which is the old mono: Antoinette, the now derelict machine that was used by La‘nam, the first flyer to attempt the Channel crossing. The American boy were hugely amused by Blackburn's d ription the sensation which this early “bird created at Blackp 1 in 1909 by act ally flying in a 40-mile-an-hour wind! Everybody here has been impressed. not least the Briti the apparent tirel ess of the six en working ten hours a day in the airplane shed ever since they arrived. evening here an informal dinner, fol- lowed by a dance, was gived in honor of the fiyers by Mr. Blackburn at the 1i Aero Club maintained by the firm for the members of its staff. But the A ricans were up at morning and at work in the airplane sheds a few minutes after 7. Doing Something for World Responding to the toast of the f healths, proposed by Robert Black- burn at the close of the complimen- tary dinner, Lowell Smith, in a modest <peech, which made a fine impression, declared that he and his companions, in making what he described as “our little Night,” were trying to do some- thing, not for America alone, but for the whole world. I asked him today what he consid- ered the main significance of the flight. Sees Practical Demonstration. “1t will have demo{;nraled. hen completed,” he said, “that commerci SoTation, right around the globe, is perfectly practicable, and only needs Qevelopment. The Pacific flight by Way of the Kurile and Aleutian Is- Jands probably always will be a pretty tough proposition at any time of the year, but our experience has shown that a regular air mail and passenger service from London to Tokio can be established and main- tained with little or no difficulty xn: no more relative danger than a lan S he® time, I'm convinced, isn't 80 far distant when anybody w!ll be able to make an eight or ten-thou- Zand-mile journey without changing planes. As commercial aviation is de- Peloped, it will be merely a case when one stage of the journey‘ls tompleted, of taking out the engine and slipping in a new one. Th:nlh: pew pilot will take charge and Machine will go on, the passengers traveling in as much comfort and sur- Tounded by as many conveniences as they are today in railway Pullmans. 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