New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 3, 1927, Page 7

| LINDBERGH LEFT COLLEGE IN 1921 Did Not Finish His Course af Wisconsin University By Morris De Haven Tracy ; United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1927, by the United Press.) CHAPTER FOUR cats won honored places in any story of Charles A. Lindbergh's career. 'y The first was a pedigreed angora, aristocrat of the feline family. Lind- bergh dropped it from a second story window. The second was a Kitten of un- known antecedents. He treated it with such consideration that he has won commendation of humane so- cieties and animal lovers the coun- try over. In addition to these which now have galned such great fame, dogs, horses and ammals of every kind have had their place in Lindbergh’s life for he is one of those men who never is alone as long as tkere is an animal, prefer- ably a dog, nearby. But to dispose of the cats. One of the earliest anecdotes of Lindbergh was told originally as illustrative of his early development of the experimental urge. Someone had told him that a cat, no matter how far it dropped, would always land on its fect. He was then aged six and the family living in the upper flat of a “two family house” in Minneapolis. he folks down stairs had a valuable angora. Charlle appraised it and decided that it would be a g00d bit of material for an experl- ment to determine the truth of the stories of cats always landing on their feet. He captured the angora, 100k it upstairs and dropped it from a window. t landed an its feet,” he ex- plained to his mother, when she took him to task for his experim The other cat was the one whi adopted Lindbergh at Curtiss Field, Long Island, New York, while he preparing to make his trar it. He proved that his hood love of animals was still with himfi for he néver ‘was too busy to stop a minute and play with the kitten. Often was scen aronnd the hangars, in those tr. with the kitten on h Two have , in st ¥ for Ps excitement of the someone attempted to put the Kitten in the machine with him, Lindbergh was not too to object. ¢ be cold and the Kitten * he said as he insisted . for its own zood, it be left be- Vut dogs arc anions, A arough the Minnesota woods ..reund his home, often being gonc all day with only his dog for com- pany He built a boat one summer in Minnesota and on it lLie and his dog embarked day after day on long ex- [cursions over the nearby waters, FIG BON TON! HAT shall ‘W two cats, | nt. sert?”’—The old search It was in tho /s 1 Minnesota that he beca known first as a | Youih who miways traveled alone. He did not disl the comggny of others, but it was not necessary to | liis happiness and when he was en- | aged in the thing in which he was most Interested, he always wanted to be alone and have all the re- | sponsibility himself. (I is difficult to say whether this trait was a devel- opment of those days of patrolling the woods and the streams with his dog and gun, or whether a desire 10 be alon~ was the reason for such excursions. There was hardly a tree or a nook | in the woods around Little Falls, where the family 1ved, that Lind- | bergh didn’t know by was 15 years of age. He became a crack pistol shot and-was also good with a rifle. But a cap pistol was one of his first cherished toys and he always secmed to prefer the smaller weapon. Later, when a stu- dent at the University of Wisconsin, the only trophy he had won up to that time in any important compe- tition was a medal of the Reserve Officers Training company for pis- tol shooting. He prized it highly. Tindbergh's father was always a great admirer of Theodore Roose- velt and he told his son stories of Roosevelt's campaign in Cuba and {of the Rough Riders. Soon Charlie ! decided that he was a rough rider. | He added a horse to his list of ani- mal fricnds and there followed a ‘!"‘fll’ or two of extreme anxiety on I the part of his mother as almost { daily she saw her son riding wildly | through the country, alternating { between the characters of a Rough Rider and a cowboy. During all of this | time he con- | was following closely the develop- | ment of the airplane,. He became a motorcycle enthusiast later but finally dismantled his motorcycle to | apply {ice boat in which he rode the ice of | Lake Mendota. The fce boat came to | | grief in a collision but after a couple | of Wweeks it was in commission once | | more, repaired through the re- | sourcefulness of its youthful builder. | He learned to drive an automobile | and his friends say he is as skillful | behind the wheel of a motorcar as | he is with an airplane. With the family being forced to| divide its time between Washington nd Little Falls, Charles had his difTicul! in the matter of his early | schooling. He attended school part | f the time in Washington, then, in | he middle of a term he wi 1k to Little Falls and b | student there. His mother, who was | .2 school teacher before her mar-| riage, and now, a widow, is again ching, spent much time acting as | histutor and it was through her ef-| | forts that he was able to keep up his studies despite the many inter- | | ruptions | | There came a time during the| | world war when Charles’ father was | farced to devote practically his en- | ! tire time to affairs in Washington fand away from home. Conduct of | the little farm, where the famil {1ived, accordingly fell upon Charl | He took hoid of it in his custoary | ‘fl\fll(m’.:h manner, but soon decided Ithat there was not cnough use made | of mechanical power. He set about | | to remedy the defect. | When he fin { thing ardind the and farm house was mechanically operated | and t irm became a center of | ‘imvlr‘h interest in the communi the engine to a home-made | almost every- I have for des- the time he | tinued his interest in machinery and | | dows torigue to tummy! So that’s settled. We'll buy some today. ; NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, About that tie he wus graduated from the Little Falls high school ud entered the University of Wis- consin, He begau the study of me- chanical engineering, but college was not to Lindbergh's liking. He felt he was not learning there the things he wanted to know. He stood well in mathematics and he was an cager expcrimenter in the labora- tories. But it developed that his in- terest in experimnts was gone when he completed the laboratory work. H disliked writing up his notes and | he was continually behind. His main interest in college was in the pistol | shooting competitions. 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