The evening world. Newspaper, July 12, 1919, Page 9

oo. By Lindsa Copyright Service offeers and mei an \be Bard to convince any of them: thi + SATURDAY,.JULY 12, 1919 Plunging Dirigible R-34° » Gave Handlets Fierce: Fight’: * In Struggles on Open Field Giant Balioon Drove Soldiers and Sailors to Fury as , 1t Dragged Them. About and Knocked Many Senseless — Like,,Runaway Cannon of. Victor Hugo’s “'93°' It Roused Blind Hatred, .. by Tho Pret Pphijahing Co, The New York Trening World.) LY troubled nightmares and sore’ muscles remain to the Navy? Air who acted as hostlers for the giant British dirigible balloon R-34 for the first three and a half days of this week. They are just beginning to look back on their half week's work with rueful smiles. y Denison 4 ‘the balloon soldiers of the army It would ae at a real devil—perhaps a Zeppelin | teufbi—had entered into the framework of the ‘British airship and made it alive and eagerly vicious for evil. {The hatred with which the R84 filled the men who came into physical contact with her, who hung to'her afd swang from her; were bumped and ,.; | butted by her, were hauled and and ‘hospitality, did not apply im the Néver sinde dirigibles were first made has-it been deemed probable that an inflated gas bag \600 fect long, without shelter, could be kept gafely on an open plain for elghty- four, hours. Yet that was the feat which confronted the navy men who had flirect charge of the unwieldy British visitor. The American Navy. never. had a gastehtp of any such dimensions, s¢ he¥ had no actual experience to pack them, ‘They had only their ee grit and imagination and resourcefulness, Likewise, they had 500 patlors and soldiers who had been trained to obey—no matter how new or how queer the work at which they were set. Lieut. H. W. Hoyt of the navy, slight-of figure and looking ten years younger, than pis actual thirty, was in command of the Reception Com- mitted; Aiding him were Lieuts. BE. Ge Little, E. J. Barnes, J. J. Quipn, J.B Lawrence, T. B, Aull, L. A. Pope and TR. M, Strader. Their job was called “technical handling” vf the ship. Lovely words! It was actually a threa-and-a-half-day battle with a sullen, cunning monster bent o1 wn destruction, the eVverlakt+ ing disgrace of the American Navy anda smearing blot on the reputation of the United States for painstaking hospitality Offhand, the problem does not seem 20 One might think it was enoyed to string a line of hawsers from the aluminum frame beams of the balloon, hook them into cement anchors and “let her ride” like a ship at anchor. Tt was anything but that. The R-34, though floating on air, was no Pe rnistiedown. She embodied tons on Ptons of aluminum frames and calf- a vie @nd observation and good ) Yai ‘by’ her and kept im-constant terror} that! she would succeed in tearing loose apd disgracing American efficteney least to the gallant Englishmen are travelled In the R-34 through the clouds and storms over the ocean. cannon of Victor Mugo’s “ninety~- |. three” in its battle with the frigate’s crew camo to life again in their ex- perience with the R-84. Your scientists will tell you that the prehisforic bare-skinned flying things were timid,” herb-eating squawkers who meant no harm to anybody. The writer explained this W sal6? youtt WHO was” niaking sulphurously profane comparisons between the R-% and the pictures of Prehistoric beasts in a Sunday sup- plement. “Then some guy has been feeding teia one meat,” he said, glancing balefully out of the corner of his eye at the R-84, which had been “put to bed” by being sent 300 feet into the alr at the end of her forward halter for the night. It was only when they got away from her that the balloon force could bring themselves to laughing at them- selves for their hatred of the great machine. When they were actually handling her they were like madmen, straining, cursing, gasping and snarl at the wind, When she finally sailed away into the New York searchtights some of “the officers "were not afraid’ to say that she could not have been kept sate for anogher forty-eight hours, The balloon men were worn out phy- sically, and at the end of their men- tal strength; they were getting wild and cranky and irresponsible, obeying orders mechanically, but with some of them always on the verge ot hy- sterics from sheer anger. The eight American Lieutenants stood two-hour watches at a time and sometimes four all day long. There was never a moment when their voices bawling orders through tele- phones could not be heard half # mile @ut and canvas and metal tanks and gasdline engines and all kinds of nav- {gating instruments. / She cost two anda half million dollars. ‘The air is o swirling maelstrom all the thne even in what is called Dreathlessly calm weather. The slightest resistance of a ,thistledown is met by tossing, darting, twisting currents whose forces are magnified ‘@ million times when they beat against the sides of 600 feet of | nydpogen-lifted balloon. Anchored ) Gown by lines from her structure and Jett) alone, the R-34 would have of fods and beams and torn fabric within an hour. Fs the ground at the same time; also to see that she did not buckle her frame by swinging her huge bulk too ‘sd- dently from side to side or by being exposed to a side thrust when both onde of her long length were held her as a hanging bologna would bend if hit by a cane in the middle, It will be remembered that the Brit- would remain at the Long Island an- fe | into her, fragile bulk of perversity Major Scott and tis gallant band took the days and nights off they needed, and also ordered repairs to overstrained en- gines which would have made their immediate return over the Atlantic very much more of @ hazard than it is at the best, @tretching across the crest of,.the Jow rolling hills northeast of Mineola the R-34 looked for all the world like a giant brook trout lying on the bottom of a pool nosing into a riffle—the re- semblance even extended to the silvery green and gray iridesence of her sides and the big blue, red and white painted devices under the belly, But to the weary, angry, puzzled, worried soldiers and sailors who S . gwarmed under her from sunrise un- til after sunset for four long days ; {and at intervals, after bugle alarms I gor three nights), she was a sinfulola / pterodacty!, all writhing and flapping (J -withimalice. ‘The murderous, devious pounded herself into a twisted meses It was necessary to hold her off the ground and down to fast, thus crushing her in or bending feh Air Ministry thought the R-84 \ chorage oniy through one night and Wart back a #00n as a new supply of ydrogen and gasoline could be fed But after one day of watch- ing the tenderness and firmness with! | which Lieut, Hoyt’s forces nursed the away. The men under the gondolas were, now lifted off their feet, clinging as best they could and looking like swarming bee: again. they were five and ten minutes while she down like a wrestler straining to would sway gently toward the right, jump up into the air ten feet, start still further to the right and then come straight downward. She would drag the handlers by their toes and then reverse and Jay them fiat on their backs, breaking their hold momentarily, She never gave them a pause for breath. More than one man fainted and dropped to the earth, Many of them, when relieved for a new shift, slumped to the ground and slept just outside the radius of the big trouble- maker's devilment, and, sleeping or waking, Jay on their backs and called her unseemly names. About the mild- est epithet applied to her was “dirty hog.” ‘The soldiers of the detachment were nearly all A. E. F, men brought back to be mustered out of service. Their hatred of the implacable, {nanimate brute which fought them was not made less than that because they were set to serve her when they ‘had thought to be speeding home to mothers, sweethearts and ¢atted calf and ple. “Are we glad she is gone?” said Cyrus Ethan Skillman, Air Service private from Fryeburg, 8. D., as he strolled out over the trampled turf yesterday evening to the scene of the three and a half days’ struggle. “Are we glad? I'll say 80, And I'll tell the world that if she had stayed here another ten min- utes I'd have one A, W. O. L. if I was shot for it.” But there was something which Private Skillman did not know—or, having known, forgot. As the Brit- ish Air Ministry has frankly ac- knowledged, the R-34 was built on plans and specifications worked out from the tangled wreck of the Zep- pelin 33, just about as scientists have reconstructed the pterodactyl from remnants in gravel pits and ghatc deposits, And, after all, the inherent stupid malignity of the great aircraft may have come along nil ll li ennai Ne! Gop ing at one another, at the ship and! ‘ groaning and straining for two, “a| jommed and kicked and bore herself; break his antagonist's bridge. Bhe| DIA f § GNOSED By Summer Girls of 1919 A DICKY-BOY’S DIARY, Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Hrening World.) Should Learn To Insure a What Every Engaged Girl * for Herself... Happy Marriage’ — Let Her Consider the Business and Personal Quali-| ties of Her Fiance Rather Than His Physical Appearance—Then It Behooved Her to Analyze Herself as to Her Fitness for Wifehood. . By Fay Stevenson © , it, 1919, by ‘The Prows Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Coprrigh' F course every girl goes through the age of “He aust be tall and dark,” or “broad shouldered and Diond* when she wonders “Whom I changes to “I don’t so much care what At hingye / In luck because on arriving at the Inn I find all the pretty magazine- J 11—I'll tell the world I'm in luck, Also out of luc! cover-girls can’t tell which one is the best. | em to be summering here, Out of luck because I Old-fashioned summer. All the girls back from war-work, bless ‘em, and an ex-Sergeant’s got an equal chance with an ex-Second Lieutenant, now we're all in whfte flannels. some that is on this afternoon. Just back from golf. best woman golfer here I must be some flivver, I couldn't keep my eye on the | | | The Golf Girl me why I sliced my drive off into the rough on the third tee. “there are too many good looking chaps on the course. I really wanted to see if she was a good sport. A woman likes to win at games and grouches when her partner misplays, especially if she is clever at the game, and Jean played good golt. I expected her to bean me with her mashie, 1 sald She was. but no, she laughed, he looks like if ne Chan wilt only be good to me.” And it ts just about at this stage that the average girl meets the real HE. Now whether he be tall and dark or broad-stiouldered and blond is all a matter of luck and fate, but whether he i# “good” to ner of not iv & matter of what ahe considers good. Just as one man’s meat is another man's poison, so what one woman would consider an ideal husband an- other woman might term a brute. Therefore before girls spend 100 Der cent, of their-time in analyzing @ flance and what type of husband he will make it would be well to spend a portion of that time im ‘analyzing themselves in order to find out what type of wives they are guing to make, It has been said that clothes make the man, but in fourteen cases out of fifteen. @ man's business sis what thakes him. No, not alone financially, but his character and bis mode of Living too, The engaged girl who wants to in- ure & happy marriage might do well to spend 33 1-3 of her thought and {analytical, powers upon her fiance's bysiness and the qualities which he will be apt to develop owing to his occupation im fife, 33 1-3 per cent. upon herself ang how her wifely qualities | Would fit in with his, and the remain- ing 331-3 per cent, upon the man himself, If girls would de this wo would have fewer cases of jealousies, of crue! and inhuman treatment and incompatibility. For ingatice, there ia the artist; not the old fashioned oll painter who took his easel out into the flelds and painted cows and scenery, but the modern sketch ertist who must have live models, Is it advisable for a girl with jealous qualities to wed him? If she é# not broad enough to know that he must have material constantly and that sometimes it will, ot course, be a sweet young thing with Diond hair and violet eyes, ahe would do well to break the engage- ment at once, Breaking engage- ments is much easier and much sim- pler and a less painful ordeal than breaking the “tie that binds.” ‘Then there is the girl who just can't help having all the curiosity ‘ » ; and natural “peck-a-boo” instinots @f = the original Pandora. If she only takes time to analyze herself and the type of wife she will make she wil realise that it will never, sever do fer her to wed @ doctor or a lawyer or any man who ts constantly in touch ' with other people's private affairs. Naturally 4 man of houor cannot tell even the dearest companion of his Ufe, bie own wife, many little ine‘ dents and confidences that come to bim datly. There aro many women‘ who are big enough and broad enough to comprehend this, who thoroughly appreciate there are some delicate matters which can nevér come to’ their care. But there is the Pandora wife who would call such » bushand deceitful, a man who keeps secrete from his wife, and lote and lots of) things which would entirely upset their ideal marital state. Fortunately, not all wives are the spendthrift, pickpocket type that oar comic artists Have so much fan with; there is @ type of wife who loves to pinch pennies and get ahead in the world. If she marriéd even a man with @ very small salary, middle lige would find them a well-to-do couple; but if she marries a man who goes’ out with a ten-dollar bill in the morn- Ing and comes back with a ten-cent piece in the evening, what can she do? ‘Therefore, if a girl is inclined to save for the future, let he? consider whether it would be well for her, to marry @ man who must treat and ¢o to dinners and give theatre parties in order to entertain out-of-town , ‘ Probably the best guide an engaged’ ‘girl can have ‘for ‘being sure her f+ ance is the Right Man is to remem~ ber Pope's “Easay on Man”: "Kaow then thyself, ‘presume not God to scan; beara he 54 study of mankind ts jan.” let her then give'a few serious mo~ mente to considering her fiance's ‘Dusiness and the characteristics and qualities which this ®usiness will be bound to give him. The question is, Will her qualities fit in with theset to Gome. If th io come, . If there is a doesn't feel confident Sbout? ih some of the conditions she must in her husband’s work, then let her call @ little flunkey immediately to despatch « letter releasing misery for the rest of her Aaa The June Bride — And Ham By Neal and Eggs : R. O'Hara Copyright, 1919, by The Prews Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wirld.) : ALOONKEEPERS’ LEAGUB has an average of 2.76, but. the boys aren't getting the Proper support. The near-beer breweries are going to pay 2 per cent. divi- 1 drew Jean, the most beautiful brunctte here, in a mixed four- and it was an uncamouflaged laugh. That's the acid test, dends this year. More later, | Wish I was the open champion or someth{ng; haven't the nerve If the saloons don’t do a better Jean and I were beaten, Since Jean is the to handicap her with my society seeing she lives for golf. | Notice she wears man’s belt round her sweater, businggn: tee Sartansere, will’ 5p ball playing with her. She asked | Very spiffy. thrown out of work, That'll be eect | a welcome change. It used to be Stepmother Elsie Janis Will Bring Up Lucky War Boy By Zoe Beckley Copyright, 1919, by The Prem Pubtwhing Co, Prete N e Now York Evemng Work.) HE versatile Elsie Janis has 4 new role, give you an imitation of a foster- mother, The other member of the “act” !s one Enrico Cardi, fourteen, of whom you have read in the daily prints under such captions ‘as “War- rior at Ten” and “Italian Boy Stow- away Reaches Port With War Medals.” This exceedingly live-wire of a lad with a distinguished war rec- ord behind him and a true Latin's earnest dream of greatness, is going to be helped by Miss Jants and Ma In her next number, ladies and gentlemen, she will Janis to realise bis hopes. Enrico's warrior talents are first to be de- veloped by plenty of American schoul- ing, and later enlisted in the peaceful occupation of earning a livelihood, “Now, you're going to ask me," le, “what I know about Jadmit right off that I never brought one up. But I can imitate a man without being one, And I'm going to do a ‘mother act’ based on-—weil, & pretty good period of observaticn. Mamma Janis isn't a bad pattern, I'll say! “How am I going to begin?” went on the girl who put more laughs into the trenches than any one dreamed could be made to grow in that unlikely soll. “Well, I started by having him come up here with us, 1 figured that food and air, not to men- tion atmosphere and ali that sort of thing, would lay a good foundation You know—the healthy~body-healthy- mind idea, But Enrico wore a few Croix de Guerres and Military Medals and such, and the young hopefule of Tarrytown's Itallan coiony made such a hero of him that they left him no time for anything but the gay life of a social lion, Besides, he wasn't learning any English,” So Enrico has gone temporarily un- the customers that got thrown out. Canbonetto, at Ellis Island, not only, spent four and a halt years out of four- Now they're launching ships the morally but financially backed by teen in the midst of the most gruel- same way as they lynch umpires. Miss Janis, and will stay there until| jing service a madhouse world has] with bottles of ginger pop. hool openg in the fall ever made necessary for human be- Saloon men with 2.75 on draft Enrico already has good start in| ings to perform must be by way of] 4.6 maxing faces at the Anti-Sa- the race for languages with his young | doing a man's work permanently, foster parent, commanding French, Flemish and Portuguese, He has, moreover, a keen mind and the gift culled “character,” for which Miss Janis says she chose to “adopt” him. “What do you want to do?” was the first question she asked him at their {nitial moeting at Ellis Island in the detention room where fourteen other stowaways were being held “I want to be an American,” said the boy, “and I want to work, If I can eat I can work, I want to do both.” “Enrico is at present by profession warrior, He has had four years of it, He doesn’t know exactly how old he is. He said sixteen, Some one else said twelve. struck @n average and called it fourteen a over Bo we & boy, Apa I'm going toder charge of Immigration lnspecige! Now, any boy who bes voluntagily “When I saw this kid’s face his being ‘a regular guy.’ thought I read character there ond }all the outward and visible signs of “Considering Enrico’s temperament, mother and I think a military school | loon League. Trouble is, they 1] aren't RYE faces. Broadway's been reduced to 2.75 beer, but its four-flush is still holding out. Actors wish there was such @ thing as a five-cent loaf on Il be a good start, After that we 1 follow where he leads, Exucation,| Broadway. It's costing most of if It is to do any good at all, should| them $2.50 @ day. Ibe fitted to the child, not the child They speak of the Tired Busi- fitted to the education. I’ ness Man, but the chorus girls be the tall to this kite!” are never tired. It is still undecided whether or not However, they're more tired Miss Janis will definitely and legally than attired. adopt young Cardi. But whatever ‘Ten persons held up In broad re ationani to tite nis ered. of Fn daylight in Times Square, Cops stage staré the future holds for " 8 po- Enrico, ask any overseas doughboy| ™ade e™ buy tlekete to the po if he conside and laten for bis “I'l SAY BOL” wait a lucky dog Meemen's field day. Gti) you pity the poor trafic cops. They have to whistle for | their pay. Nowadays they put « wheel on & traffic cop’s arm. Old system was to put @ cartwhéel in the copper’s palm, Feller went down at City Halt to get a job. Read “PULL” on the door, knew he didn't have any, ¢o turned around and came back. | Fashionable elopers married in Wallingford, Conn. Get-hitched- quick Wallingford. Slacker marriages crop ont tn the divorce courts. The boys that married to duck the dratt— and then got drafted—can figure the fight in Europe was really « honeymoon after all, Prohibs claim corkscrews have sunk more men than cork jack- ets ever saved. Saw a girl on Broadway thie morning that didn't have any paint on. She was on her way to the drug store, This is the time of year when the June bride discovers-——. That love and kisses rum seo- . ond to ham and eggs. i That Handsome Harold presses his own trousers. That seats in the second bal- cony are good enough to see from. ‘That Monday is wash-day, And that Friday's the the instalmeut mine: