The evening world. Newspaper, June 26, 1918, Page 14

tie, RN ln pes = ry WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1918 A 20th Century Air Trip, From New York to Paris, In 40 Hours of Flying You Leave Monday Morning After Breakfast and on Tuesday Night, at a Seasonable Hour, You Go to Bed in Paris—A Quartet of Experienced Airmen Declare It Can, Should and Must Be Done. By Willis Brooks. Copyrigh!, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Rvening Work!) O you realize that before snow flies you may be able to eat your breakfast {a New York, say, Monday morning, and sleep in Paris Tuesday nict*—a matter of forty hours or less? Major Gen. William Brancker, | r Equipment Controller of the British | Air Council, says it can be done, and | ts in this country to arrange for huv- | ing airplanes gent acrom the Atlantic under their own power. Alan R. Hawley, President of the Aero Club of America, says it can and | must be done; and bis club offers to | stand the expense of the first trans- atlantic flight Capt. Frank 1, Tregilles and Lieut Fred H. Sheppard, both with an ex-| perience of three and a balf years of all kinds of flying on the battle fronts of Burope as members of the Austra- | lian Flying Corps, say it can be done More than that, they say they would be willing to undertake the Might with either of two machines now in exist- ence in this country—and they are so familiar with the posstbilities of air- plane fights that they are on their | way to be the chief instructors in the | big aviation echool to be opened in Australia. All these men probably know what they are talking about. So it is no | mere idle dream for us to go through | ‘we motions of taking this air trip trom New York to Paris. Watch your step as you climb the| five-foot ladder to take your piace in the fuselage of the big Caproni | biplane, where, let us say, Capt. ‘re. | gilles sits in the pilot's seat, with | Lieut, Sheppard near, ready to relieve | him should the Captain require sleep | between the Woolworth Building apd the Eiffel Tower, Gen, Brancker and President Haw- ley, clothed in “sidcot” suits, resem- | ting combination overalls, fur-lined | and double-breasted, are presumaly there; for it would be a violation of the eternal (‘tness of things to leave them out of the first trip, The other occupant besides y the novice, ts the navigator, ‘The mechanics have already exam- ined every detail of the machine and seen to it that there is an ample sup- ply of gasoline and oil, You and the others now draw on your helmets— overseas alr uy close skull caps with telephone re- ceivers Inside to enable you to taik against the notse of the engines—and the pilot signals the mechanics, “Al! clear.” The chief mechanic salutes! mE NEW YORK TO PARL and reaponds: “All clear, Sir.” The % : pilot turns on the compressed-air AIR LINE TIME TABLE Leave New York (after breakfast) 7 A.M. Monday Arrive St. Johns, Newfoundland (1,100 miles) starter and the engines begin running, while the mechanica, aided by chocks | under the landing wheels, hold th machine. Thus each engine is “run up" separately to make sure that it is 6 P.M. Monday aul right, hae while iret ae a Arrive Azores Isl’s Sern. HA tity are Lepely j (1,195 miles)....6 A. M. Tunsday Arrive Lisbon, Portugal (850 miles). .2.20 P.M. Tu Arrive Paris, France (850 miles) 11 P.M. Tuesday Total distance, 3,995 miles. Total time of flight, 40 hours. All being in readiness for the start, the pilct again signals 1 clear. and throws out an arm to Indicate he diruvtion he wishes to tuke, for he inust alvays start dead into the wind The checks jay re removed, the mechan les, on tae ground, swing the machine — a lorage speed, 100 miles an hour. nto the direction indicated the = pilot's arm, and at a third “All cieur Ally rad'ate heat give out air bumps signal from the pilot the mechantes er aes ge stand away, their chief saluting as... ahaa Hh @ lod the 3 the machine “Lakes uff.” pe ea caching 4 All tuis time the pilot has been COF- 1g siyanee aitplan Seer aid sidering atmospheric conditions—!he | tna: once wat upon thelr couren, the direction and strength of the wind, . | 1a be hockad 1 tha a which of certain times of yenr work ee feeae im certain cycley—and Is prepared to ps haya maria ar take advantage of every condition |@ oO" uuu tuehpard heey which may tend to shorten the Mht ae ae hl rae al Pranic Now comes the climb to the pre-(:)., guj, a srl saT Cay tils considered height. You do not feel tok ta WA ha cs ke snc that the machine is moving, but SUDAREL OL Iau cr ete rather that the earth is spinning and rilal ABA Batre Lichen cl receding under you. At the height of iad! pani willed ih 1 a mile your horizon has broadened t a to’), xty-eight: miles from about ninety-five miles, and yout t took th hun Si soar to 15,000 feet you lose all sense of ; sad . : movement, ing to hang suspend-! proud ‘i pete a rs ed In the air, with the Hudson River pee ve: would) lave Mean below you looking like a shin ured half an inoi wide, the broad roads jf y reat santhel leat bealde it showing like white threads, ful you y see cr ng and the City of New York seeming to Na de nIkne Sune occupy space which be ' by an ultra-fashionable lady's ha However, an and a 4 al bank into the » the bank hour quarter © darkness, bu later, when you make out round once abe sou gas down ‘upon plan of New London, Conn,, directly « sight you w for Bi under you, the fact that you are trav- lows of ' potton wool clling at the rate of a hundred mil ‘ with every shade and an hour becomes evident ; euinriaie Now and then as you fiy at tt w nd ra w effect ey lower levels, and some times at pre high ones, yoa run into © You are at St. Johng, New which peremptibly I'ft the f on the goo If yourask him, Capt ies w needed to carry tell you this is « common experien niles to Ponta Del im flying ove heated buildings or ob f A ae stacles which n the ourrent o ir iy “ye wind upward re no* ices you are these buiny when 5 Sug ove MP > hes ' ns tall chimneys which send up heaied {out FS AB appa [ vour te eon do well to obser ant ei, ven certain soils ghich especi- »~ Vy bers 4 ros sit BETWEEN STJOHNS 7 ONEW YORK / - AND THE AZORES otk bs Pe. <4 Og 3,995-Mile Transatlantic “Air Line’’ Route FLIGHT FROM ONE HEMISPHERE TO THE OTHER HAS CEASED TO BE AN IDLE DREAM Al /D \\ \\ WEDNESDAY HowChargingBnitish Tanks Anonihilated aWhole Trench Full of Terrified Germans |“Smashed Them Under Foot as a Man Would Tread on Worm and Smash It,’’ Says Eyewitness Sergt. Grant in His Book, “S. By Marguerite ii1L surprise of the war hb perhaps be ‘ause they them: H been written infrequently and with a dearth of detail. | one reason why there | tale of the tanks in is intense ARRIVE AT LISBON230P, LUNCHEON LUNCH iN THE SKY A Day in the Life of a Patriotic Slacker the Only Strain Is on His Imagination, His Only Sacrifice a Little Sleep, H Gift to His Country a G Atrs Is When He Snores ’Em. BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER Copyric Uj © ied, longue white and WY one Dreaktast. Figures that orang edly yraperruit instes Franklin's‘injunc- ‘another 850 1m: Marine aftern: ' eS. )oU reach your des- fore the war, teelit yp e war. is a War g sox for tha n napie night by wa time no Gelgia and gets very pat front line trenches at only ht, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) Siings friendly alien for m: His turn to buy, is Only ft for Stinging Aliens, His Only Interest in Patriotic the dampers on an old at, Looks over fellow atrocities, Organizes society tor red Eats only one supper Goes to big patriotic leohe ags hi i) Zig Organizes Rocky Mountain Cox n the highest mountain elt WT Winds clock up playing solitaire Snores Sousa’s ‘“‘Anierican Eagle hase: who is trying to beat him to a sub- and houlder s of pet canarie ment cc to furni: ntracts cent, profit, ast Defense unit 5 cat button ar in three flat keys. white and rea ut adquarters s him- > and! wa ' <a 7 iE "ARRIVE AT AZORES TUES DAY6A.M, { tures, °. und To!” Sergt. |Grant went over with the Ist Canadian Division d served for in was known as battery" of the ist tiga It is the fica battery” to ition literally gt all cos wha 5 cumstances Yo leave the ;s4n a9 long as a shell remains and 4 man lives.” ‘The object of the bat- ery is to kill off as many Germans 41 nt ch range if they reak through and push back the | Alded line, meanwhile protecting the treating troops and enabling them fla in in new tions, Sergt. tw rown twenty feet in the shell explosion at the second » of Ypres and on several oc- sions was the sole unscathed sur- squad, The as |Yiver of h “Horse his ie seemed to pr one," t and sess about nine times indeed cas aiiowan On the night that the t r 1 at the mme Sergt, Grant been the tanks, and yet their etory— AY * ya x SUNE 26, 1918 0. S. Stand Tot’’ Mooers Marshall selves are inarticulate (ghtore—hase That interest Sergt. Reginald Grant's in tion as he hitnself saw them on the Somme, a tale | which he bas sct down in the swiftly moving book of his war advems |not disturbed in the slightest by the [fact that he had gone into a crater; he continued to waddle all around the huge hole, his machine guns playing on the balance of the mon that were jumping this way and that and ming like ants up, over and oa top of it, to escape and save their lives In some manner.” Probably nothing in the war has inspired such frenzied fear as this | amazing monster—a linea) descend- jant, by the way, of the “engines” ef ancient warfare, used in battering Gown csstle walls, Before the tank, |soldiers revert to the etatus of pige | mic “In sheer mad desperation,” Sergt. |Grant writes, “they climbed over | ev part of the mammoth, dig charging their revo’ rs at any seam lin the metal or » where they it m it be effective, break- thought heir bayonets on tts tron coat—in vain. They could not overcome the known! “One ‘nan thrust a hand grenade tmuzzie of one of the guns, blown to bits iu the try. nto tho f vor and over it they swarmed, ike bee! ing for a nook tn a | Nowe ng that in- ten » poor desperate devils, im the frenay of despair, flung them. ‘selves from the top and sides of the jtitan down into the crater and o scamper up the sides to the only to be met with a hail of bulle when they reached the edge and fall backward into the crater depths, up- setting in their fa!l their companions ‘who were behind them, and also try~~ In, y to got out of that hoie of “A few of the Boches, more long- headed than the rest, still clung to the tank, remaining there until it reached » top, when they held up th yelling Kamerad at the ‘8, and these were all that 300—just twen- arm: oft eit The them titanlc a 3 were each of doing similar work on every part of the line, but the particular one whose work I was able to follow then made a call on a whiz-bang bat- ery, smashing one of the guns when it Arst stepped upon it, aud mor’ ¢ the gunners down, the rest fleeing as though from the wrath to come,” One of t ive tanks temporarily “stalled” in the German nes. To wet a little of thelr own back, the Germans tried desperately to place & mine beneath the helpless thing, but not even that small success was youchbsafed them. The gunuers made of hot fire all about the stranded giant, and her own crew orked eTiciently until all necessary repairs were accomplivhed. Then the tink calmly waddied home after her sisters 4 mone “No returning hero,” declares Sergt, Grant, “ever received such a greeting 4s did the crews of the mighty mons- ters when they stepped out of the sheltering internals of their buge bowels, Clad in pants and boots, Iit- tered wih grease, dirt and oil, scar- red with bruises incurred as they were thrown from side to side of their armored shelter by the swaying jof the thing, when they stepped from vas in the front-line trench helping | the door to the ground the shouts the Captain with observation work. |and roaring cheers of ten thousand When the first five behemoths went | times ten thousand men thrilled them wer tho top, one of them passed |With such a thrill that they felt fully within a few feet of him, (repaid for everything that they had The gunfire from our pieces at this |done that day ime," he w sin “S. O, Stand | ‘The Tommies grabbed them in Bott! te umensely superior to the | their arms, hugged them, slapped en and his trenches had them on the backs and chests until flattened, but the wires still stood, |the wind was fairly knocked out of and here was tanks did the! them, and if we had been Frenchmen work. On th me! Rolling pad of Britishers, our mouths tirough and making gaps ten to fit-|would have been covered with black teen fect wide, the infantry plunging | grease from kisses Imprinted on thelr ong in thelr wake, Forgetting my cheek orders to stay where I was, I hopped | A few days later the tanks blazed in w the ints nd rexched | the way juct before Sergt, Grant him- Fritz's second-lir . |Self went over the top. “As T lay im "'Gawd!' yelled a ‘Tommy. “Wot | the trench,” he records, “the darling the bloody ‘¢ Fritz think of | old titan passed me, levelling the wire th beauties? idvanee guard!" ‘On und yet on they reeled and rolled, one of them dipping nose first nto a crater, and when I saw it goin; over the top of this huge hole my heart gave a bound of fear, as I suruly thought its usefulness was now over. In this crater there were German — soldier when the tank plunged {nto it, and under its huge ik 75 of them had thelr lves mashed out #A epirit of wander fervor fy me as i saw that our behemoth was about 209 vil think its Satan's /in front, and I had then an even keener realization of what it meane tor Vrits to have these monsters ml. ing over and smashing htm under foot just about as a man would tread on a worm and mash it," ‘S, O. S. Stand To!" js published D. Appleton & Co, best “ _ | A NEW FORM OF Test,“ “He loves the very ground she waltae “Does he love it well enough te @ vegctable garden in tt for hor ~—Detroit Free Presa * ' 4