The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1917, Page 3

} THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1917. ~ STUDENT AVIATORS SCOUT OVER LONG ISLAND 10 TRAP MIMIC ENEMY UPON MARCH Mineola Flying Field Is Now a Great Government Military Plant— Corps Will Be Second to None in the World. From a point “somewhere on Long Island” a motor car manned by officers aud men of the regular army was in readiness to creep out to-day for a ten-inile journv, by devious and little frequented roads. It differed from hundreds of other cars only {n that its top was broadly striped in Dlack and white. And at the very instant that word of {ts starting should come twenty- four army aeroplanes were ready to go whirring up as fast as they could be sent from the army's instruction field at Mineola, with military observers aboard determined to spy out that car and report it For the car with the stripéd top represented the head of an “enemy’s’ convoy, and two dozen of the men that (he Government {s teaching to be air scouts were being put to a test of their skill. It was imperative that this supposed column be detected while still far from {ts objective, the aviation fleld, for there must be time for imaginary artillery attack upon {t to be made effective. Of the twenty the quest thr the —— r scoutl 6 were to come - : ' them every month at Mineola © school at Governor's ind—but let the West Pointer speak aoe ethers were trom the again—"Oh, we'll have an alr squad hangars, As the sta POINT ron yet, and it will be second to none of the car was ut KNOWN | in the world! to the aviators, the f Long! Once you get past the guard at the ‘sland for @ radius of ten miles from | outer gate with his automatic on his the Mineola field was divided 10] nip and a gearching look in hia eye twenty-four sectors, one being Biven| ine activity of the Mineola acho to each scout. His orders were to congronts you in sight and sound patrol this sector with an eye ke 82 / Hangars line the north and west eagle's, and not to let that striped top| ranks of the 400-acre il, and if Ret past him. So each of the scouts.| there are no machines drumming up before soaring to the 4,000-foot Ob-|viof the instructors, p pils servation level, fastened his sec mechanicians are overrunning the of the map to his alles} uk machines which are nosed out of where it would ever be close before | inci sheds to make easter the end him, and each determined to be the lucky one, There are thirty-eight flying THE LUCKY HUMAN EAGLE TO} machines there, from the high power BE KNOWN TO-DAY. L. W, F, tractors—reconnotasanc: Where the car was spied out, when, | pianes—capable of ninety-five miles and by whom—because the aviators/an hour; through the Standards, said there wasn't a chance in with @ speed of eighty-th world that t could escape that dr down to the J. N. of human eagles seeking It—w! which are the ss task of Inspectin them. nd grooming eo miles, 4 Curtiss biplane primers for the pupils n be known until the test has been! and loaf along at such trifling specd completed, And then one of the |48 seventy-five miles per hour twenty-four will be banged 08 URS) HEADQUARTERS OF FLYING aek and told te's ell right, CORPS A BIG PLANT. that’s the Informal but none the less Since there were only hanga whole hearted way that these airmen ty ore when the army took charge of hestow thelr praise for work Well in. field, it hus been neoseensy 201 done. i : he Signat Corps to construct bar But this Is only one of the m ee | Tacks, machine shops, headquarters t the Mineola school are put during | 111 to the school, They are not their three months’ course in the air.) yet, becar the day is coming ere was another somewhat like it} when there will be sixty r eve ten days’ ago, when three fast L, W. seventy-five alr craft in added h hey : stant |“! along the north side of the fi £. tractors w ent to a far distant |i: there are ample quarters now point, which was not disclosed to the id the 140 ¢ students, and there sent up as scouts of an enemy bent upon taking pic- tures of the Mineola field, The prob- | Cau!bped with facilities for ussembling jem of the studen locate (9 do the overliuuling to which eve ese machines a ve them back , plane is subjected at short interval by heading them « And the whether it seems to need It or ne the post, The have been set up are equipped With facilities for assembli s was to 1d Spare parts o} kinds are kep! with which this was done well be- | Spare parts of all kinds are kept 11 tokened tie skill of the defenders, wings, be rumple uy If there be any one hereabouts who ev how and RON Bice wante (or needs) to feel a thrill of make bad land Americanism electrify, him, let him go he machines and the shops and 6 activities about the @ distinct impression uj jbut what cuts most remembrance is the c ke n a vis to the Mineola aviation field, see the upstanding officers and men wh there shar nto his working out their problems 5 I x an-cut, capa Ce y of machin ote the| ble look of the men who are doing see the array of mac ee ite ere, (things there. Perhaps their rig. hus amalitary. preeision w much to do with it d there's a thing 1s done, from the pacing of the p to that, whether it the vy, blanket-lined guard at the gate to the mechanician ther coats for vubbing a bit of bright work with a/the intensely cold upper Jevels of the No minutes are wusted there, |#it Where one dare not expose w bit rag. No minutes @ b of his face to the air and a hel- there's little wonder, because | met with chin and mouth-guard t Liere is not a man in the aviation ser- | protect him, or the close-fitting ollv Vice who will not tell you that flying |drab shirt and breeches and leathe an enthusiasm beyond parallel, | PUtter bs for bi hours on the leas ie slock in the morning th@ men | thy ouicers, Instructors’ and. napits t for the day's duties, and they | and they are at (ue business of fying r get rest nor want {t until /of perfecting and grooming the mech darkness comes, And the sum of this) anti of t Hr takon f learning -5 (all that it is given to man to learn of rnest activity is to be found In the) iy aie from dawn until sur fact that after three months of achoo! ng, the army officers and instructors Mineola are able, in the words of | A COMPLETE CLASS OF RESERVE LIEUTENANTS BY AUGUST “ ; vv oct|. There are Just now thirty puplis one of the West Pointers, “to turn out! 1! schoo} which up to Jun. fast , military aviator who would be of|itnd turned due eightycseven militars ne real value to his country in time Javiators in the 1,200 “fying hours, ee aed 8 they valled, that the school has of need, Theen in existence. in May it is ex THE AVIATOR STUDENTS’ TEST) 0 tad that ther AE 18 A SEVERE | ONE t th Hike mum ly, so tha What, for use of 4 be My W8S |) hy AuK Iss Of reserve once known as the Mineola aviation|ijeutenants shall he turned. out ow, since the Government|ready to give @ good account of field ts now, | themeelves took it over, headquarters of an avia-|thoneelii | ss wasee of Capt of the Signal Officers’! walter Glenn Kilner, who was one Reserve Corps, where civilian volun- | of the army's crack aviators sent into teers may enter As sergeants, and, if|the remembered alr excursion into they pass ail their examinations, are | Mexico on at time reporte Ane leuten. | missing © succeeds Capt. J, EB tion section ree months as raduat sii Carberry, Who in a week goes te rey in the reserve, “Pass all their) prance to observe the French method examination#’ may or umy not sound | of hooling aviators. The other like very much, but take a at {army officers entrusted with the ad : ta pupil| ministration of the camp are Ca what it really means, at what es “A William Butts, Capt. W. 8. Vita rvuet do before he may sign himself) vq and Capt. 1. A. Rader, alt “military aviator |whom are expert airmen, ‘They are He must climb out of a field 2,000| the ones who make @ final test of a abil feet square and attain an altitude euidenr a Oe tien 1h a mac bine after of 600 feet while keeping all parts of| CP professional instructors, ‘Tho lat. hie machine within the square; he|ter are the men who have the task must cut off his motor at a height of of making aviators out candidate 1.200 feet and land within 200 feet of Who prone vee Wit Y uw designated point; he must land MUNRO F other than phya over an assumed obstacle ten feet gay it, ‘The it eae Rentetnie gh and come to rest within 1,500 rank in the alr, men like Capt. A, W et of it; he must fly for forty-five Brings and i pt 4 as i mers ° minutes at an altitude of 4,000 feet—|{h0 [ore Oia eee ta and WW these are just a few of the tests he must pass. But young men are pass Leonard Honney ‘There is a small ante-room to the “UNCLE SAM TEACHES MINEOLA AVIA TORS TO DISCOVER ENEMY} HOW UNCLE SAM TEACHES HIS ARMY MEN TO FLY B.B.ACOSTA, CAPT AWBRI AND W. LEONARD BONNE INSTRUCTORS. RUSSIAN REVOLT WORRES TEUTONS FADERS CONFER {Emperor Charles Rushes to | Vienna to Discuss Situation | With Bethmann-Hollweg. BERLIN, March 17.—The Rassias revolution has made a tremendow {Impression in Austria, where its) | moral effect will naturally be great: | er and of more importance than in | the German Empire. The news further explained mystery of the reports from various | parts of the castern front several days ago, where intrenched Russian; the soldiers were heard indulging in , hearty cheers. | The Vie reports also explain! | Emperor Charles's sudden retarn to} tho Austrian capital from Bu pest | )on March 8 tnstead of continuing, as had been planned, bis journey to) | Transylvania, | | The Orst vague rumors of the rev- olutionary movement in Russia sounded so good to Emperor Charlos that he hurried back to Vienna to watch developments. Synchrontatng with the Russian revolation, Ch ieadquarters building and there, in cellor von Bethmann-Hollweg’s visit th arly morning, you will find a to Vienna Is now regarded as signifi. squad ¢ H t instructors gathered cantly more than a polite formality. | afteg a flight, and this is the sort of : - thing you'll hear when a newcom This afternoon, it 1s under. enters drawing off his vy glov stood, will be devoted exclusively to nd banging 19 num fingers 1i8 palm to get the cold of ‘4,000 f p" out of them THE STUDENTS TAKE THEIR FLYING SERIOUSLY. Hello! How is it upstairs this h, it's all right above three thousand—get some hard knocks or the take-off—little rough in the first thousand—nothing to speak of, though “Where've you been?" 1k an L. W. PF. up—and nearly Fs ck--got out all right after hit—it's better up in the top story get out of the basement as soon as you can.” It isn't that the officers or the In- s ctors take 1@ business of flying | less seriously than the ies | that flying ts secon @ paychology of this fying busi ness so far as the students is con Cap is a sin hing. x it you jus put fear out 2 reckoning students are frightened fact of the ma that they into it thinking that its a dare- job, Then they go up and they're disappointed — it fan't the Jaredeviltry they thou at all. So s do they do? They tend to go > the other extreme right away and we have to keep them from killing themselves with sheer reckles have to them with eve hined to make it will be the ve ast slip they'll ever make HOW THE ARMY AVIATOR IS TURNED OUT RECEIVING What do we do when we get a i w man here? Well, after he has ssed his preliminary physical ex- ination and has had the han- - ais Len ‘ym » mach drilled him e turn him over to ant ‘a NEW | MOVE T0 GET MAYOR Charities Department the remainder fact who takes him up on a J f the winter. b pesnenger, He goes up about Bam R AL 1 Y The Correction Department reports | | to the swift rush of the air aloft, so May bei it has enough coal disconcerting to the novi ts per-| 1 “i athe) AeA Rie n hand until that time 4 bat the instruc ig there to ce H tor Order Directing an elt that & vegetarian dist wouldn't errors very pr sil any of the prison ‘In turn he 1# passed from one to Examinat ue fie Mire Department has @ month's another of the inatry rs until four 1 E . | ipply of coa If there ia a atrike ac 2 en the ke x-Senat William N. Bennett] re Commissioner Adamson says he aining in real 1 get a big supply to-morrow Goes conferences between the German Chancellor and Austrian statesme! at which Count Tisza, rumored as the probable successor of Premier |Clam-Martinitz, is also expected to Jout be present. The press as a whole urges the ut- | most restraint in evaluating the Russian revolution, Although [symptomatic of very bad economic ‘ and food conditions, it is held to wa: rant reasonably high hopes for the | future. While the Morgenpost sees Russia | “ripe for the commune,” and hints | that a second French Revolution may well break loose, the beat expression of moderate German public opinion is voleed by the Vorwaerte, which | says | “This revolution {s no revolation | of men without a country, but rather of nattonalistic super-patriots of | Russian Iberalism, This war party has driven Czarism into @ corner because it had proved Its Incapabil- | ity to conduct the war to a victorl- ons finish for Russia, If the revo- ‘lution remains victorious it will |mean at firat not a weakening but a strengthening of the bonds be- |tween Petrograd and London.” ‘There was much scurrying around jin the Foreign Office following the | morning extras on the Czar’s abdi- ‘cation to find some specialist who could answer the question: Who 1s Michael Alexandrovaki? Beyond the of his being the Czar's brother ho Is little known here as to what he 4 or what he standa for, Hence no worthwhile conclusions have been drawn as yet here from his Thera | “PP Rogent, But it i intment vut it in. known that the men now in power hx in Ru and the political partie ‘hack of them are exponents of war to the finish, a fact about which Ger- mans here have no illusions. a BRITISH AVIATORS VEN CREDIT FOR SOMME SUCCESS War Photographer Tells of Work—Dr, and Mrs. Blake Worn Out. Highest praise for the British avia tion corps, which, he said, accounted for the successful operations against the Germans on the Somme front, was brought to-day by James H. Hare, the war photographer, who ar- rived on the White Star Liner Lap- land from LAverpoo!, “The British aviators have com- pelled the German observers to keep of the air anywhere near the front," he added. He also brought word of the activities of Dr. Joseph Plake and Mrs, Blake, who was Mr: Clarence H. Mackay, in the American Hospital in Parts, Both are worn to mere shadows with the erduousness of their tasks, he said, “Dr, Blake attends as many | as 200 new patients every day and Mrs. Binke often works ceaseless! for twenty hours a day. , “T have seen some remarkable ex- amples of surgery in the hospitals A young French surgeon recently sewed on @ man's arm which wa lterally hanging by threade of flesh and skin. He fastened the bones to- gether and rounited the muscles in such a manner that after a long pertod of massage the patient could actually use his arm” James Bohan, & Montreal wool man, was another passenger on thé Lapland. He was one of those ree cued from the Lusitania, and ever since that disaster has been staying in London, He came over with friends, BE. A. Kelly of thin city, who sald that he was @ member of the Am- erican Reserve Aviation Corps, an‘! had been flying with the Britis) corps at the front, was also « passe: « He said he had come to offer his services to his own Government, as he had been furloughed from the other side on account ef injuries Three times, he said, he bad been struck while flying, once in the head with a bit of shrapnel. One of the experiences he related was his escape from seven German aeroplanes at the Somme front. in the skirmish, he added, he was so badly shot in the right leg that he has to wear three silver plates 10 keep the bones in place, Capt, A. R. Mills, Commander of the American liner St, Paul, who was taken {Il with pneumonia in Liverpoo! early in February, returned on the Lapland _—_ LABELLED. In the Prussian Diet von Beth mann-Hollweg has been referred to as the mere fig-leaf of militar absolutiom $80,000 NECKLACE STOLEN. of New ‘West. LOS ANGELES, March 17.—Police were asked to-day to ald tn the re- covery of @ pearl necklace, valuea at $80,000, which was reported stolen from Mra. Frank Sullivan Smith of ew York, sister of the late former Frank Higgins of Olean, N. Y. ‘he necklace consisted of sixty- ven pears, said to be rectly atched, given to Mra. Smith by her bro her, e necklace was missed by Mrs. Smith Wednesday. Private detectives were called into to avold pubilolty, but to- day the matter was presented to the police. A reward of $1,000 was offered to-day for tnformation leading to re- covery of the necklace, When in New York City Mr and Mrs. Smith make thelr home at the Hotel Plas iy we " arbi 18 HOW A NEE begin bis tr Municipal Waste began a new effort Patrolman Hit by Auto Dies, the cai earnest, as we have learned thenlig.day to get Mayor Mitchel, Com4 | Patrolman Richard Swanton of the hether be is cut out to be ap dal x mis sed 1 FOOTBALL RULE MAKERS | Station, whose skull was frac- wh troller Prendergast and (he rest Enough Food ev Coal on} wiraday afternoon by « delivery ayes she a an. {the Board of Estimate Into court fi auto driven by John Gordon of No. 166 “We have found that a student car peas S s S| Haat ifty-alxth Street, died yesterday nour's lesson aloft in a da rae 18, | Side deal with the New York Cer They Report. ner Healy in $2,000 pending the he does not profit by a longer lesson. | ya) pattroad Compa ma | | ; f So when he comes down he is put to| Pac mpany ' —— \\o Artificial Tee in Place Kicking work at the mechanics of the job,|Motice that on Wednesday t 1 M t eal {smantling and »# nbling his en-/ apply to Justice Kapper in Spect i lereafter and Sideline Coach etecting trouble, making such +p, aur Gout eoretary It to determin 5 . gine, detecting trouble, metas wuca) berm of u i purt fi ing Is Reduced ODA OS LO Tie encend for cauae ting them to appea n the Charities, Correction and Ming a flight, We give him text jon before trial of t ; Decartmenta ana lect a eail Pin football rules committee, 1 hooks on motors, too, and something wty's sult to prevent the mak 1 strike and the consequent whut- * nat the Hotel Bilumore, to-da ‘bout uero-dynamics, and teach him | 4, is ing off of coal and food supplies Approved changes tn the forward | ow to observe t rth as it files 4 1 t avs rule, voted against use of an| under him. Itm strange, but Appellate Division made n this city would have upon thetr, Pas 1 an| it requires some time and not a little n to-day on the appeals t thy artificlal tee in place kicking, and sractice to & ea man to make the ‘om Justice Crop: order for the mmissioner Kingsbury took steps t nate coaching fron rs Be prin his machine, examination as to the d 1 ippl 1 the institutions! In the case of legal interfer ay . pass work, how | Crop Mr, Bennett ane irisdiction with bre with a forward pass, u ew q ) A fom OF whe © thi y on three 1 4“. It ule, the ba rs . f eon fis aidpealin tn ‘ whe that the ¢ Pureh lod ud of 1 put |} Pre-Phy-Tol I ProdectsCe 0 Fifth Ay., A ry now and then, AMnationa were to be be nmitter {the Board of A At tho point where the Devt. Ba. New York City. Crome WING: rey M i" suggeste ing, we pul his moter OU at puenes I think," suid Justice Cropsey,, | $125,000 worth of meat tn the o' Ine coaching, & new rule forbids a and ee Oh, he doesn't have an| “it 1% better to arrange #o that if the! mark It was pointed out to su! 6 from communicating wi “ ime of it, but when he haa had | St are vacated the hearin be aidermante Committee on Public! fellow players until the ball has beew anny Une Of tt mu Te sort cet brought on promptly. ‘Ther yt| Aigermamie “Somm/tiae eff ©| fellow players until the be beet three méttary aviator, all right! will not fix any specific day." Letting, to. whl 6 request was! put into play ‘HE ee ee oe thn aancel’ hay nade, that meat could be purchased rhe multiple kick, eo well liked ofice A ty — r e open market now and ree Fost i and fo 1 by observation that only half ewply 4 pen m Be , day for twenty-eeht days ARNSTEIN SCHOOL MANAGER, «.,.00 the Charities. Department Nhe pleaded before the commit i ume to tr ain man ¢ fy b - ee ' 5 k ency. The Alder was dealt a th blow him by @ euns, but he knows ho at aaa 1 representative of of himself in t to take care » that In the event of a Foll 4 Ne fined than by the fact that if a 10 Arnatein was to-day sworn in Dep Mant cose t report for his flying Mayor Mitchel as Executive Manag worth of teat, Beyond t the vork on the dot, all equipped, even of the Department tion, He | wou nin emuatives Austin, Michols € Co's to goggles and gloves, he lows his was elected to by t Ifa ke on the New York Ce: flight that day. But he doesn't get school Board last Wednesday H Railroad shutg off the milk aup a moment In which to sulk~-he's sent salary {# $10,000 a year . ¢ hot-foot to notor where Arnstein Was Aswiatang to the Al. 1 9 Charities Department wi he spends dis half hour at a bene ae President when btain " eats S ahitent aa $0,000 a ur He Was n y und we ban qualifteations, he budget, taxpayers entered vigor: | “ nust weigh not more than 190 pounds * opposition. ey contended re| Kings ave bis T Order from your Grocer stripped, “must furnish evidence of were already enouw uitteon and | mii ne boats Th 8 en “AON M aving a college education and be of highly paid ofcials in schools to inaset ihahenaatg properly look after their affairs epouge coal on band as good mora! character.’ 0 What Uncle Sam Is g | “Greatest Strategic Prize in the World” Doing to Protect the Panama Canal The Whole Story in New and Exclusive Photographs IN THE GRAVURE SECTION The Sunday World To-Morrow