New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1923, Page 24

ur Special HEINZEN in the sky, hurtling the fastes By % E SUECK nrough space at speed man has ever traveled, larger as some focused obe theough & camera lens until the & takes the form of a glant red . its Wingspread as greal as A roar of its en. the 1 elty hlock a5 great as the clap of wats of tne 400 horses it dis. es. then A sudden eutoff of thie en rgy, u graceful volplane and sweep to earth, the machine 1o be an ineh of 4 woos hrought to rest within dvsignated spot and within a ond of an hour long established the fuselage step dressed as wed From doors In farth a sozen ‘ravelers were leaving a « automobile with a flush which onty travel through the airata speed the fastest express train can give, Twelve bas fore they hid heen in Budapest, that charming vapital of old Bohemia with which can scarcely assoclate the thovght of the most modern of locomotion. Now the) devarking ! Bourget, the port of that y Paris, the greatesi Grand Central Terminal of the aerin! highways, at which dally thirty express planes call and start for a capitals of the Conti- nent thaugh they but greater than hours twentieth century are Le 1ozen From Constantinople. of the voyagers he plane when it with its spired behind only the evening They have traveled with « he journey overnight., a of 1,300 miles In a hrief loss adventur timidity acd Or perhups some huve taken Constantinople may hours. ous whose fear of (ne breukn speed of these racing air expresses led them 1) choose a voyage by boat or train. will not arrive in Paris or London until four or tive days later. fatizued and travel equally <tatistios of fatalities sh through twenty -foim VOyHELIS, having undergone a s s the mad As dun piove this e a call Constantinople, the of this giant plane Budapest, Pragce and Warsaw is ocly busy day At lLe in the morning the londed down and perhips two, then con. air from Vienna one event in a Bourget Farly first sxpross with n wipapers. mai’ an rising pa: lenv: s London uniil darkness falls slint movement in qerial enriy nger or and from there is the great for port Tesr at nizhy fMizhts now und n thy fligh'~ will interrupted by the going down of the sun (iant aerfal vacons and the many light- hous-¢ whi b dut the Channel etaste wi'l 1 up the uerial highe pilots can drive thefr Lordon and Paris, Wt s bt of one of the stri of lights which will mark out the cource hetween the two capitals. Ricin o« men night fly- ing The dangers of such travel, espec i’y in view of the Channel fogs id he great were it not for the the French Air Mi a essential part of 1 vernment service. which has lLee. ~ogponsible for building up in 1,6 Bo s=et the cen‘er of the greate eat svstam of oreanived a in the world. The Government means to eliminate this danger by making right flying—from the pilot's point of view—even more safe than day travel Not only lizhthouses mark his path. but lights will direct him to any of a half dozen emergency sanding fieids so that he will not have 1ot t to luck in the event of a torced descent. Lonz befor the departure of the firet plane for London lLe Bourzet {s the scene of activity. The planes, like the great locomo'ives which hau our Wolverine. Twentieth Century and Sunset limiteds, must be coaxed and caressed for hours before they take Jp the task of hauling their human treight safely at the greatest maximum speed. Often after a night in the open hangars the engines cough a bit are being made schedn'e of not e way s« thar Plates @ arween dems enterprize ot most Up the Express. plane directly into the to encourage fatalities, earncd the wisdom of Tuning To send a air would be Army fliers Kkeeping eng.nes running in an icipa- tion of trouble during busy vights at the front. Uften an hour is required priming these aerial express s bofure they are ‘taxied” up to the stone equare which is the “railioad plat- form” at Lo Bourget The pilot. the “Casey Jones” of the air, generally joins the pane at the same time as the passencers At Le ya get which is situa ed fer cou- venience sake atout five miles from the city the passengers are met at their hotels by limousines and brought to the air port before the hour set for departure so as to pro- wide ample time for the few formal- itles of pussport inspection and the visit tv the customs office for an examination of baggage. The panes themselves are the latest word in modern «oistruction The gommon belief that war s ocks are drawn upon is a fallacy. Few of the planes in use to-day are more than a year old. The progress in aerial deveiopment is so great that the life of a commercial plane is bri-f and it mever enjoys the ripe old age that feli to the war planes at tne The passengers are more comio- able than are the vovagers in many ot the express trains on the (on. tifent. . The seats are large and deep Passengers can walk up and down the aisle of the car without being com- pelled 1o stoop to aveid unpleas: ant contact with the struts averhead, The machines are fitted with modern accommodations, and most of them, especially those making the longer flights, have a small kitehenette seot apart, where meals are prepared en route, A bar s a populer feature, and some boast such conveniences ihrarvies and card tables, They are well heated in winter and cooled by fans wher required in summer Electrie lights are “fed" from & power plant attached to the motor At each seat Is a window and geaerally in the forward end of the car a section of the flonr I cut away and « heavy g ass inverted, so that the voyagers can look diree:ly down on the landscape. The side windows slide hack for ventilation In a plane fiying between lLondon and Paris recently two passengers, ature Pa The Railroad of the Air—Not a Dream The first stage of a transeuropean air journey, Airplznes are dispatched just like trains. The schedule an American and an zlishman, were seated opposite each other. The plane appeared to be stuffy, and ex- perienced alr travelers declare that aerial seasickness can be traced directly to the accumulation of fumes in an unventilated plane. The Amer- 1 had traveled before and d'd not hesitate to slide back the little win- dow at his elde to let in a rush of fresh cool alr. The Open Window Question. The Englishman protested. The American insisted. The Englishman persisted. The American remained obdurate and during two hours the pair quarreled but when the plane landnd at Le Bourget the little win- dow was open. The American had avoided air sickness and the Eng- lishman had been so heated by anger and thg extent of the discussion that the effects of the open window were lost on him At sourly intervals in the morn- ing an1 afterncon. and half hourly around noon, jlanes leave Parig for London This service is maintained with such punctuality that along the route between the capitals watches ara set with the passing of the plane Any hour of the day at Le Bour- got has for those who lourge around serodromes the same interest prompts one tn while away in a busy railroad station the that honrs and ona of the wonders of the world is how the ohef. wha combines Yhe duties with that of barkeep, porter ard bell hoy, waiter and cashier. ean produce from the tiny corner al- lotted to him' obsters and mayon- naise and salad, a cold roast chicken, ubles, a deliclous creamy custard and an as- sortrient of frult, Dinners or luncheons on ‘*hese aerial travels are not skimpy affairs, Luncheon served and the dishes cleared away, 't Is well on to | n'clock and Prague I8 already in sight. A brief halt at this Czecho- Bloval oapital affords no time to took wround, but here one must change “trains.” Those who wish to go northeast into Poland for the terminal at Warsaw remain in the plane whiek brought the party from Paris, Those who are to travel on toward the south to vis't several more capitals before arriving at Just in from London—and not a bit seasick. Picture the plane which quits Le Rourget at 6 o'clock each morning. Three hours later the passengers kave passed over the chimnay ftops of quaint -Alsatian villages, have leaped the Khine and are fiying nigh over the beautiful wood~d country which is 10 be found on the right bank of the Rhine in ‘Germany. Lunch is served from the little kitchen no bigzer than a hand box, destination, be it Vienna, Budapest or Constantinople, find awaiting them another plane, a replica of the first for comfort, speed and sndurance. Tae passengers who continue on to Warsaw are able to boast that they have taken breakfast in Paris luncheon over Germany and dinner in Warsaw, The. other. travelers, who head south .after a wait of a thelr board and its manager. The Way of a By MARY FISHER TORRANCE. ‘[ SIT alone in.the gloaming Out- [ side in the garige the head of the house tinkers with the car. At precisely the hour appointed for rting he appeared before me to report trouble lurking either in—I forget just which one he said it was -~the hattery, or the accelerator, or tke carburetor. Or may be the wind- ghield. or the tool box? 1 wot not. and it matters not:' the point of the story being that *Lizzie” refuses 0 go. 4 Ah, me! 1t was ever wom=n's lot to wateh and wait: and I could bear up perfectly well if T didn’t see in my mind’s eye our friends uptown, Mre, Brown and her sister Carvie ail the way from Kalamazoo, Mich., sim- nitaneously watching and waiting. Lizzie's evil genius must have prompted her to balk this particular evening, when I had planned to ex- hibit to Carrie from Kalamazoo the beauties of the city. I would break it gentry by tele- phone, but the line doesn't answer, Doubtless dreamy, dusky Edgar of the St. Swithin switchhoard is put ting in time, outside on the front steps, admiving the scenery. I've even resoried to menial telegrap radiating thought waves uptown cal- culated to assure our anxious friends that the good, kind Joneses—mean- ing us—--will get there as soon as we We are not being late want to do it. possibly can on purpose: As Father Views It. nvious, yet fascinated, | note the steady stream of fine automohiles passing by and the universally smug air worn by their occupanis But every minute, every second intensi- fles my longing for Lizzie Lizale, my own ewe lamb, where art thou? Oh. hasta la viein . celerissime’ (This ecause in moments of we didn't ine of talk strong emotion my native up-State Englieh always seems inadeqgtate. ) Oh! the familiar note of our horn, piercing the calm of the stilly night! 'm sorry now I ever libeled it a ‘raucous- old squawk': [ apologize. 'Twould fall on my fevered spirit now sweeter than ever the Lost Chord: more wel- come thaa the flowers of May or the clarion call of Mike on a July morn- ing: “Any ice?" It would help some could | fancy that husband were sharing my suf- ferings. But you see 1 know hi and can picture this very min- ute, perfectly happy. sitting on the garage floor surrounded by greasy raze and monkey wrenches, cheerily, and oh, so deiiberately. taking things apart Far be it from me to fathom the wav of a man with a motor In woman's life an automobile is but a thing apart: a means to the end of griting her where eha wants to go: to a man, ofttimes his Lizzie seems his whole existence. And the hours he spends with her. dear heart. seem never #o pearllike and soul =atisfy- ing as when, in her most intriguing once more for mood, “‘uncertain, coy and hard to please,” Lizzie keeps him guessing. Let the heathen rage and send des- perate messages by the children out to the garage to father crouched at Lizzie's feet, or rather hind wheel they can't hurry him! Yet once he's started I wonder whether there is a more tractabie, long suffering creature on earth to- day than the family man who drives a car. Uncomplainingly he permits it to be overstuffed with wife's rela:ives and friends, including small children who bring ice cream cones and smear their fingers over his uphoistered cushions and carefully polished var- nish. He tolerates everybody talk- ing at once, each shrill feminine voice putting forth a different sug- gestion as to the best route to White lains. Perhaps it is lust as well that father seems minded like the “Indifferent Mariner” of the song. who “cares not o long as he's sail- in else father might go erazy Getting Out and Under. The tire punctures on a lonely road, and father has to invite every- body to pile out, which same thev 15 grudgingly and with groans. Then while “the girls” sit on the stone wall under a stade tree, or wahder off to look at the perfectly beautiful view from the top of the hill, it s up to father as the only mau of the party—likewise the only in who knows anvthing—to strip off his coat and go to work, unassisted ex- cept for the somewhat doubtful min- tstrations of some officious little boys who have dropped from the sky. Now and again “the girls” drift back to watch progress and inquire how long it will be before they start. Men, gencrally speaking., are so much smarter than we are when it comes to machinery that their seem- ing inherent stupidity as regards other comparativeiy elementary mat- ual ters is a continuing source of won+ derment to a!l womankind. Backed by ages of tradition and training, even to-day woman in- stinctively concedes man the supe- rior mind. and is prepared to follow where he leads Every loving wife, when the car is new and her hus- band offers to take her off to call on their friends just over the line, pre- gupposes when he P8 on the gas and fr up the hill, lickety cut, that knows ' where he is going, erience teaches her that to select a particular road because he likes the looks of , rather than because he has rea- con to believe it will take him any- wher and given full rein, he will vervingly pick the long, long i that leads off the main highway, around about and in and out, till it lands you all in & mudhole some- whwre beyond Robin Hood's barn, Then and rot until then will he stoop to inguire the way of somebody. And this is why, where Caius holds the wheel, Caia sits beside him and reads the Blue Book. [ have no- t time and again, a lawfully wed- ded wife, when relegated by circums- tack seat, is never at at eage Throughout the trip there is a sirained expression in her e, her husband's back; her lips moving as if in silent prayer, with apprehension not un- founded, she speculates futilely as to where he will iand them this time. And woe betide Cala. if, after hav- fng taken upon herself the office of rathfirder, in # single instance she full down on her job! S8he'll never Lear the last of it. if some time, when Cajus is making t ~five miles an hour, exhorts him to take the next turn to the right: and said turn proves not to be the road intended, merely a negligible private way It's a difficult ta being a woman we're expected not only he out tance to the she nowadaye: to know how to read, but to “intu- ish," all at the same time. [ sub- mit either 4s just, but not both, But to-day Cala must be a mind reader: weather prophet; geographer’ (def. Locater: one who locates) of places to eat; likewise, expert in the traffic regulaticns of Waterbury, Conn In the midst of a black, pelting thunder- storm, penned in by side curtalos that give her abhout as much chance to see out as a horse wearing blind- ers, irom a mile off she ought to be aple to smeil out the detour. im- pending around the corner at Third avenue and Two Hundred and Some- thing street. where they commenced vesterday to tear up the road We do our best: and verily, we'd better, There i a gond deal of talk to-day about the intelligence tes:s in vogue among psychologists for the proner erading of school children, factorv operatives, and others whn protect themselves And wldn't it be dreadful if men who drive cars—I don't mean taxi chauf- feurs nad,such. | refer to plain men who grow in the suburhs-—had, as a prerequisite to securing a license, to undergo an intelligence test? How inconvenient, should the ex- aminers take off &0 many points for the aspirant's clear inabhility to read a sien, stretching clear across the road. “'Street elosed.” until the nose of his car hits it' Or to reason out hat a traffie policeman, waving an stretched palm and uttering men- language. i8 not issuing a cor- ation to “Come right alone.™ .1 weuld certainly hate to have maost of the nice fusbands [ know et down as heloreing in the moron necessarily of the acing clas: and not bigh ewnde varfety, at that A Rhetorical Question. Speaking of policemen, to-day, veri’v, it's the hand that stops the traffic, that's the hand that rules the « I fancy: all the w With a Lizzie worid, Strong men know this: Tro- jan and Tyrian, capitalist, prize- fighter and plumber alike realize that when the czar of - the crossroads bawls out, ‘Is youse lookin' fer.a summons?” it's a rhetorical question, fiot requiring an answer. - Better far to sit mute under the most merciless of tongue lashings, even at the risk of being branded craven and coward in the eyes of the lady visitors on the hack seat, The thrifty wife glorles in her husband's ‘meekness at such times; for, after all. $23 is $25: likewise, a detour to jall will spoii any party. 1 wonder how niany women driv: ers to-day are such by grac: of their husbands' tutelage. Not many. ives I know learned when their husbands weren't looking Contrary to express commands laid down by the head of the house, they took the car out one morning after “he” had gone to town, and drove straight down Main street They smashed a lamp, and killed a chicken: but they learned to drive! Edith Takes the Wheel. The average man is apt to look pained and grave when the question Is broached of his own particular wife's mastering the art. [t's all right for other women: but his best fudgment tells him that it is not worth while for “Edith.,” of a high strung, sensitive temperament. to take the risk. Only the week before his next door nelghbor's wife d into a telegraph po'e, &ec., & Per- hape if they ever spend a season in the country Perhaps some day, out in the country, on an open road, Edith im- portunes him so that at last, though with obvious reluctance, he vields her the driving seat and the wheel Though it is like pulling tacks, she manages to extract from him data as regards use of pedals, switches, &ec., which he carefully contrives ehall sound as difficult as possible. Nevertheless, she progresses swim- mingly, and is just commencing to gain confidence, when a cow appears directly in her path, on the crest of the hill. Edith looks anxiously to him for advice as to how to meet this emer- gency situation; and he responds hy taking the wheel and stopping the car. . They exchange seats in si- lence; he apecds up. and the cow, snorting deflance and diszust, ga- lumphs off into the ditch. Presently, and very gently, as if not to frighten her unnecessarily, “It's well,” he observes. “you weren't ériving by yourself then. For a cow ie a difficult proposition to handle on a narrow road: if she'd showed fight, and held her ground, you might have lost our head, the old car turned tar- tir—and-—1" He ventures a ade- long glance at her, remarking aloud that she appears quite unnerved al- ready. “I guess you've had enough driving for to-day. ven't you? Well, we'll let you iry again some time, given a more auspicious occ winn ge o/ Worth While Stories half hour, during which iheir bag gage = wansfegpred and (hey maks themselves snug for the remainder of the Journey, pass over Vienna at 330 P M, and only nine hours passed. Budapest is reached at @ o'clock, and there the whole party halte. Those whose mission takes them on 1o the Bosporus resume their seriai travel the following werning after a night in the color: ful Bohemian capital. The peak of travel comes late In the day, when business men who have completed a day's business In either London or Paria are return. g to the otner capital, Promptly at 6115 two pla appear in the north, one being the express from London, which has made the fastest croasing of the day in 2 hours and 10 minutes. The other in the always crowded alr “liner” from Amster- dam, Rotterdam andsBrussels, They sweep above the field in growing circles and finally land within a few feet of e other in front of the strueture which serves a8 A temporary station, Thelr pas- mengers hustle through the formali- ties of the customs and Immigration officers and within a few minutes are seated In automobiles being hustled on their way to Parls, five miles away, K3 With a roar a plane which had been taxied to place In the mean. while takes off for London. At this hour of the day the London service is rushed. Every seat Is booked In advance, and In addition the plane carries a heavy load of letters and registered mail, the accumulation of the downtown offices during the afternoon. The Station de Luxe. Fiftren minutes later the grest express comes roaring overhead from the far off Constantinople, tn he followed in a few minutes by the second “'sectio: bringing the voy agers from Warsaw, who have fol- lowed the Constantinople express from Prague, No sooner have the passengers of these expressss. got out of the way than down sweep« the London express. and an instan® later another London plane takes off. During the hour betweeg 6 and 7 o'cloek in the evening three pianes leave for London, two arrive from that cdpital, the Warsaw and Con- wantinople exprésses come in fromy the eayt and .the plane which lefr the Hook of Holland at noon dv posits the passengers picked up en route at Rotterdam and Brussels So.thdt the hundreds of voyage:s who' use. these aerial “trafng" daily may be. given the most conrteouy and’ Mmost' agreeable service. the world's greatest air station—a mag-. nificent structure domisat by a tower béaring a_ flashing airman's _beacan .and the aerials of a mighty wireless plant —-is to be built at Le Bourget The station will_be of perman construction, . an impoging, hix roofed “salon des" passager: Apart from ' ticket * issuing. restunrs hotel and other afr transport func: tionk, the sthéme embraces the pro- vision of small, hixuriously appoint- od offices In which time saving bus:: ness men. . rushing toward Paris from different parts of Europe, wit be able ta meet after booking ressr: vations in advance by wireless tale. phone even while stili in the air. The fnishing touches are nov heing put to the exterior of this, the Grand Central Termina! of the worid's greatest aerial port. When it 18 constructed a business man in London may telegraph to his partner in Constantinople: “Meet me [n Paris to-morrow" His next step is fo book an office at Le Hourget Terminal engawe sleeping rooms for ‘himse!f and his associates and, if he desires, reserve a table I the dining room Then he takes the late afternoon plane leav- ing London at 4 o'clock ani’ is whisked to l.e Bourget hy 6:13 o'clock, fust in time to see the Con- stantinop'e express glide down Twe!ve hours are ahead of them for business and early the next morninz each ean again go Lis way, the Lon- doner having the opportanity of ai- riving at his office bafors the carliest clerk, 3oth were within five miles of Paris, but if they wished they could meet and hLve in comfort eaual to thut of the fines: hotel of the capital and yet Le away from ite attractions ard distractions, Bourget station will contain a cafe and all le twenty bedrooms, the features of a wmodern hotel, but because of its location at the edge of a great clearing. surrounded by green trees and flelds and fAve miles from n city, this hotel wil ap- pear more like a country club, One of the finest wireless tele- rhone systems in Europe is to be found at T.e DNourget. Every plane is cquipped with wireless and the pilots are constantly in communica- ion. either by wireless telegraphy or wireless telephony, with the terminal at Le Bourget. This means of cominunication permits the op- eration of a meteorological station which has done much,to make aerial navigation safer. In the temporaty station is a giant chart showing the countries fraversed by ‘he passenger planes, The pilots either headed for or away fiom "2 Bourget wireless their in- formation econcerning storms, high winds and general climatic condi- tions. This is posted on the chart, together with the position of the plane reporting, so that the flight of pass:agers between the capitals can be watched by their friends at Le Bourget.