The evening world. Newspaper, March 9, 1912, Page 7

. WANE ocer re 8 tS is eae * ‘ ¥ | THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 0, FRANK COFFYN IS ane CORFTNIS| NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES 1E We SC ARRIA t A beset ce tah ia tae hd AR wih ice ahs amd ie AT 1912, 4 Daredevil NERV BIRDMAN FLIES + WHERE EVEN SEACUILS FEAR TO WING THER WAY Since 1910 Coffyn Has Carried Over 2,000 Per- sons Through Air as Passengers and Has Lost Count of Number of Times He Has Flown Alone. tr L 1 h r HEN the seagulls of the East River come to the Williameburg, the Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridges they do not go under them. ) OF SPORT ‘W Unless they are flying within a foot or two of the water they turn back, make spiral circles and go above the spans. There] , Ate tricky currents under the bridges which make even the gulls, who fear not the spray topped waves of a storm torn sea outside the Hook, afraid of the aerial maelstrom under the bridges. Frank Coffyn, the Bronco Buster of the Skies, who has been instruct- ing, entertaining and thrilling tens of thousands of New Yorkers for the last three weeks by his aero-hydroplane flights from the Battery, has} proved that he had enough coolness, enough confidence in his control of| his machine, and enough agility to go where the gulls of the sea dare not.| He has gone under the bridges, twenty feet below the lowest structure of the Manbattan Bridge and a little further under the roadway of the Brook- lyn Bridge. Coffyn has been floating through the air since 1910. He ts the first lly. He invented his pros- t the whole weicht of his ld had not the dam of ent type, either one of which machine. Presence of many thousands of gaping New Yorkers, to circle Miss Liberty and the artificial lake—the dam dem, h it—at Dayton gone.out pay her respects. Mrs. Coffyn is a@u-| feet above the white Frank Coffyn will assure you with hurt. (At opped squawk b aired, with clas features and | them were thorough): - oes a teare in es that this was no fault A man can run his ood-humored though determined | “No, I wasn't afraid,” suid the holder . but a clear result of nk “a movin’ picture} amile, Bhe aald to an Evening World| of the youth record for aeroplane : * mera both at once, but he can't talk | reporter as her husband was preparing | sengers to his mother when ms Evening World you and listen ional | to ascend with Kingsland Coffyn, thelr | pedling off the wrappings in whi. Lee A Few Gorrrnn HURDLED: ; Atgoe't: eauke Ee MY hern gentleman and a wiggle singer | seven-and-a-halt-year-old son: F —_— RIVER. TUGS. lie eaekinavoe anytulh kervense with his own face) | Afraid for the boy? No. I'@ rather] “But I don't see w GR rte Te else but myself. . IT was sayin’, suh, the only ace] go out to the Statue of Liberty with| ty. pants so wet.’* —- — 1 was taking Frea ver had 4s to be blamed to EDITED BY ; ROBERT EDGREN family stayed through another four | years, Frank Coffyn worked for th American Security and Trust Compan “learning a business he didn’t nm he says—unttl a com New York and make his first try at Wall street, Fis second try, yesterda: roadway and then down to the Bat- tery wae much more success{u: Right here an interruption. Ask Cof- | fyn if he went over Wall street. He wilt look at you with a dull stare and refine to understand the question, You must know that the Aero Club of America ae license and bar him competitions If he {les over a city, Perhaps the fog kept him from seeing where ho was going. be the wind blew him out of his course, Who knows? But, Wright came all the way from Dayton, ©, to witnevs—the firat flights Mr, Wright had ever seen of @ machine equipped with the Coffyn flat or “ekee” pontoons and the Coffyn self cranker— he eald in an whether it w fly over city clifts and ridges Frank knows how to feols ke doing.” Whic lot more than sald W, for a long, long time. COFFYN SHOWED INVENTOR HOW TO CUT ICE. Mis first flight at Wall 1902 (which, in confidence, was successful than yesterday's) ended some- what abruptly and through the influ. ence of his fathor, then Vice-President of the Phoenix National Bank, Frank | mur ess anything he Honahiy of the y the glove Mm School of Comme Githert Reach, hat round which: professional recon, ne The Miah ‘one point, ya finitsed second, Pahokee te uN Rut Dablgn’s trot gut at Met Bprin Danlen hat hie. tw the Rastinan Hote or hande to Whittington Park wutid (t go: too dare The youngster’s gamenees 1s not alto- wet! surprising when wine considers that the Coffyns made the ninth an ry of thelr wedding the occasion Frank, or have hrm take the baby out. than that elther or both of ui try to cross Broadwa; Incidentally, young Ki chip of the standard block, returned from a fiying-fish dash about the upper bay late yeaterd: . 4 f d Ber, If wise, would pick out Mephistophe- RICHaR Gh: lean roles tor him. He !¥ broad shoul- dered, his voice is tow, but never so low that [f the subject matter of what he Cre eee eS Ge thictecive mies {had to xay were Important he could not a yRek t4 es. | be heard and obeyed—obeyed, mind you! COFFYN LOOKS OLDER THAN i lena bind HIS THIRTY-THREE YEARS. the surroundin, member of the Born in Ch # ago, Coffyn moved to Washing- with his family during the Grover and — Administration, near Ne- So much interested by I forgot to look after hine, It's a mistake I have nev made aince. ry ron by o, motorman T wae quainted with.” MRS. COFFYN HAS CLASSIC FEA. TURES AND AUBURN HAIR, I forgot to tighten a turn h he made in the lap of There is an athletic organization was appointed y bio buckle. The tail of the machine dropped] W! only goes to bear out the| business manager, M! Coffyn is a quiet, stone-faced man|founded on the membership of the use fr oft whi of his wife, who looks ol reo | W. D.C. hi Mi info the You Can Trust the Man ho Sells “Wilson” in the . Bottle You Can’t Refill. | » --And if any dealer offers you whiskey which he claims is “just as good,” it’s because he thinks more of his profit than ; ia he does of you. 3 WILSON WHISKEY was put in the new bottle so that yas the makers could guarantee its purity. No maker can guarantee the purity of any whiskey in the ordinary bottle. The new WILSON bottle—which can’t be reillea— protects you. ~ WILSON WHISKEY New Bottle! | Everywhere! to work any longer, Famas whith he plaved w York A, ©, division ool tourrament. Mymaa feat in the tinal game by & score ffyn himeele became Vii and Secretary of the Gordon Out of this concern brain fever, and he bought a 0} Bavatoga and vegetated Company. only toget! tee. real her. In 197 Coffyn went to Hobart, N. Tis as the manager of a compan was going to put the Milk Trust business fully to deprive him | po by which time coukl not etalé see lightning sour. him and in 110 he’ sought out | father’s old and stanch friend, Andrew Freedinan, Mr. Freedman fairly forced him on the Wright Dayton pla: army office: Pupils to fy, as the last of who, they thou commercial success by the succession Of tragedies which followed their explotte, Clit Turpin, rookins, Johnstone, Hoxsey ané ,. Pa Walt rime ‘er B: the rest, "Ot course, something may brean,* Coftyn says. on @ danans peel and break hie T intend to fly and keep on flying. I think I'm likely to dio in bed." Incidentally, i¢ Mr. Coffyn's face feats to you the cavairyman or cowboy ask him tf he has ever done any rid This man, Mowin’ fol Hun ecore fomd, puting Meloney it Club. ive Bits of News From x Around the Sporting Circle. me at sither the Polo Grownde or the Amerteas. foie vane Ip the ith bork of rings, tn, thee handioan | the ta packet bi iat oie "Arnley Altre | Fg Bor Ore. won from Fohn Daly "hy 00 balls to 46, ‘The competition will end fo-night, ina on excitement there when the inventor of an ice plant when he bussed from the Fast River to| unable to put the parts of his in .y bi Coftyn articulated them \ made the inventor able to cut ico—real bottle tos ask for at 2g the bar. awhile. iy wi s out of manufacturing @ mélit ‘The business soured He learned to fly at thetr He taught nearly all the ind many others of thelr fe left thelr employ only exhibition employees; . wore injuring their Howard Om, “But so may a man m ie what you will get; I met Mes, Coffyn » at che . a i the jaw, It's the %