The evening world. Newspaper, July 15, 1921, Page 15

o } was in sight of a little Danish Hawker’s Death Emphasizes Grim Truth Aviator Dies “With His Wings On” Long List of Fatalities Proves That Neither Luck Nor SkillIs Lasting Safeguard. Harriet Quimby, Laura Bromwell, Coney, Alcock, Locklear, Beachey, Johnstone, Moisant, Hoxey, Castle, Mitchel, Vedrines, All Found ‘“‘Vic- tory Over the Air’’ Is a Victory That to cross the Atlantic ter the Aerial Derb. Hawker's tragic spite all their skill, their courage, the J sooner or later—they always lose. Hawker, for example, has hada fly ing life of exactly ten years. He 4) survived one accident at Brooklands, England, in 1914, when he fell a thou- sand feet. The world mourned him as dead for a week, two years ago, when his plane beat out over the Atlantic from St. John’s and came down help- ess in midocean, after losing the undercarriage and having the wireless put out of commission. Luokiiy, he ramp 1 steamer, the Mary, and she pici him up and brought him to safe’ though, being without wireless her self, she could not notify the world of his rescue. His “luck” became pro- verbial after that experience, but in the end the malign gods of the a had their way with lim Poor little Lau:a Bromwell, young and charming and with wall life and love in her grasp, fell through half a mile of space, in the sight of thot sands—among them her fiance-—just a month ago and just after she had astounded the aviation world by loop- ing the loop in her plane 199 times She held the woman's record for this particular stunt, and few men equalled her in its performance. Her plane went into a nose dive while she was taking a loop, and she could not right it. “I have never had an acci- dent,” she told The Evening World just few days before her death. But ONE accident was enough in her case Her ter who have aviation the de can girl, the license and to fly Channel——Miss_H was a New Yorker and, like Miss Bromwell, youn nt clive, beloved She was killed in the summer of 191 when, flying in the aerial meet at the Squantum Aviation Field, near Bos- ton, with William A. P. Willard, manag of the meet, as a passen her plane tilted in the wind turled out both occupants, ‘Th recalled to those followed the records of th of another Amer st to win an aviators across the ish et Quimby. She ble fate @ thousand feet to instant death on the tidal flats of Dorchester Bay Miss Quimby, too, told me weeks before her death: “Acroplaning is not dangerous if you exercise Tea- sonable caution and don't try to show off. I never had an accident in the air.” ‘Twenty-seven-y' -old Lieut. Wil- and successful of the army air pilots, who came successfully through the Great War and made the transconti- nental flight in less than twenty-four hours, was killed last March while trying to fly from Jacksonville, Fla. to Ban Diego, Cal, on a one-stop flight He had engine trouble near Crowville, La. tried to land, and struck the top of a tree, seventy-five feet high, so that hig plane almost turned turtle it hit the ground With the typical “fghting spirit” of the flyer, Licut. Coney told The Worid, while he lay dying in the hospital: “Tam going to fly again, n if I never recover the nee of my logs and never talk again Captain Sir John Alcock, another war veteran of the air, and the first to succeed, where Hawker failed, in making the non-stop transatlantic flight, died in a crash two yoars ago as he flew in a fog along the Seine at a height of barely thirty feet. He was on his way to exhibition flights at Rouen. Despite his great skill, atmos- pheric conditions made it impossible for him to judge his distances in Jand- ing, so that one wing of his plane struck the earth, the whole machine turned over and’ he was pinned be- neath it with a fractured skull Ormer Locklear, a third war flyer and a famous “stunter,” was killed instantly a year ago next month when he was making an exhibition flight with fireworks blazing from his machine a+ Los Angeles, Cal. He was the first man to leap from one plane to another in midair and to perform other extra-hazardous aerial feats. He went into a tail spin on his last fligh+, his plane would not right itself and he dropped a thousand feet in flames. ‘Tho “daredevil of the air,” Lincoln Beachey, dove to death in California about six years ago after many stc- cessful flights in which he perfected looping, vertical drops and other “circus acts.” While he was mak- ing a vertical flight from the grounds of tho Panama-Pacific Exposition his plane caught fire, turned upside down and dropped with the doomed aviator, strapped rigidly t: bis seat, into San Francisco Bay ‘With every bone in his body broken, Ralph Johnstone, at the time of his death holder of the world’s altitude record, was picked up at Overland Park, Denver, after falling 800 feet in a machine which he struggled vainly to right when a spur bracing the left tower plane had given way, He had been flying only six months at the time of his death. ‘The winner of the Statue of Liberty flight and of many aviation compe titions in this country and abroad, John B. Moisant, fell out of his m chine and broke his neck at New O jeans because the life belt broke and the plane had turned turtle. He was eying for the long-distance Michelin trophy. On the same day—Deeember 31, 111l—Arch Hoxsey, another note aviator, holder of the world's cham- plonship for altitude at that time, pertshed at an aviation meet in [os Angeles of which he was the performer. He had gone up when atmogpheric conditions were unsuita ble and, according to the story of those present, the wind currents “glammed to earth” his biplane. wo of New Yorks moat spirtted liam D, Coney, one of the most famous < Ends Inevitably in—Death ! By Marguerite Mooers Mar shall. ARRY HAWKER, “ihe man who won't be killed,” the first man to try H in an airplane, the holder of many flight rec- ords anid of a mighty reputation for luck in the air, has just crashed to earth in a blazing plane at Hendon, England, while testing his machine end, like that of our own Laura Bromwell on Hazle- hvrst Field, Long Island, last month, the aviator dies with his wings on. There are no elderly “retired” flyers. De- but emphasizes the grim truth that caution, they dice with death and— and popular figures in recent years— Vernon Castle and John Purroy Mitchel —- were killed, the former while flying at the military aviation field at Fort Worth, Texas, in 1918; the latter at Gerstner Iield, La. Ver- non Castle was an especially experi- enced ffyer, having seen much service at the front Perhaps the most noted of French aviators, Jules Vedrines, was killed two years ago when his machine col- lapsed in the air at a great height during an attenrpted non-stop, seven- hundred-mile flight from Villacou- blay to Rome. How can we talk of our “victory over the air,” when it is a victory which ends sleath? inevitably in > |WHAT Do You ? Know Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World), QUESTIONS. 1. What is the largest city in Bel- gium? 2. Of what mater: made? 3. Of what material is the finger- board of a violin qenerally made? 4. Where in Italy did the famous violin makers Stradivarius, Ama and Guarneri work? 5. Which instrument is played with the longer bow, a violin or a ‘cello? 6, What State ig popularly called the “Diamond State”? 7. What material compo rier reef? 8. What species of shark get name from the winged appearance given to it by its large pectoral fins? 9, Where is the Island of Guern: where Guernsey cattle originated? 10. How many primary colors are mixed in equal proportions to .pro duce a secondary color? ANSWERS. 1, Brussels; 2, parchment; 3, ebony; 4, Cremona; 5, violin; 6, Delaware; 7, coral; 8 angel-fish; 9, isnglish Chan- nel; 10, two. 1 is a banjo head homey, restful place to spoon—this Riverside Park—with its benches and its rocks and ridges just made for spooners and moonlight chats Across the Hudson they can sve the lights of Palisades Park. They know that hundreds of young peo- ole are enjoying themselves there, but, as they sit quietly secluded upon some cozy rock or bench surrevnd- ed and protected by shrubbery, thev smile happily at their own sim- plicity and smugness. “Theirs is a jazz the quiet Riverside Park lovers. “They like to damce, to ride on whirling, bumpty-bump contrivances and steal kisses, in the joy and ex- citement of such speeding. “Ours is a quiet, sane love. We like to talk of the present, to plan for the future. Our kisses are cool, calm, deliberate pledges of fireside love and home life. They are the grasshoppers of life! We are the crickets.” Night after night you find them there—these lovers, happily paired by themselves. Sometimes they come from miles away, sometimes they are just the young people who live in the hundreds of tall, conventional apartments along the Drive. ‘They are the old-fashioned lovers —the kind who used to sit in the “parlor” on the settee and everybody whispered that Mary and John were “courting.” Only to-day we don't have parlors and we don't have se:- tees. At best we have a living-room and many of the apartment folk have a large davenport (not a settee) in this room where little Willie or some member of the family sleeps. No wonder, then, that Riverside Park with its benches and rustic nooks seems a pleasant oasis for the lovers. No wonder that they are so happy in the cool evening air wito his arm about her for a soft cushion and her fingers gently caressing thar summer pompadour of his. During the daytime many nurse maids and mothers with their young charges have enjoyed the covl breezes and rustic benches, but at pight the place belongs to lovers. When the little hands which have [> such a cozy, love, whisper THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1921. New York’s Spooning Place ~—m No. 10—Riverside Park made mud pies and the baby eyes which have looked at their colored balloons and up into the trees have gone to Slumberland, then it is the time of the lovers, the time they nestle together and dwell in the Dreamland of their future lives. The lights across the river keep dancing and flickering before them. As the breeze turns in their dire.- tlon they can distinguish, faint bits of music. But the “crickets,” the fireside lovers who like to be quiet and secluded, only grasp. eacn other's hands a little tighter as they smile at their own happiness. How Little Old Broadway “Grew Up” From Union Square —— The fourth in a series of stories which tell the history of the world’s greatest thoroughfare, The fifth and concluding story will be published on this page in the near future. By Will B. Johnstone. Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Union Square—so called be- Broadway and the Boston Post Road (Bowery)—Broadway met and triumphed over the Post Road as New York's main thoroughfare. In 1832 Union Square was estab- lished as a city park at a cost of $110,000. This square stopped the Bowery, but Broadway swung around the park and seized upon the old Bloomingdale Road for its northward progress—17th Street was opened in 1830, 16th Street in 1831, 18th and 19th Streets in 1833, About this time fashion came into the vicinity and progress became animated through the efforts of Samuel Ruggles, who developed the Gramercy Park section as well as this, To-day at Nos, 23 and 27 Union Square West stand buildings that show the character of the old resi- dential days here. The park was a public meeting place in 1815, and once was a Potter's Field. ‘The statue of George Washington by Henry K. Brown was erected in 1856, Broadway's second statue (the first was the ill-fated one of George III. in Bowling Green). It marks the place where General Washington was met by the citizens when he entered the city to take it over after the British evacuation in 1783. The Lincoln statue here is also by Brown, This statue should be over at Cooper Union, where Lincoln made his famous speech Lafayette monument, by Bartholdi, who did the. Statue of Liberty, was the gift of our French citizens in 1876 Union Square in our day hae be- come the rostrum for soap-box ora- tors who would rather talk than work, ‘These radical meetings dif- fer from the patriotic gathering held here in 1861, when Greeley, John A. Dix and others proclaimed against the attack-on the American flag atSum- ter. Washington, Lincoln and La- fayette haven't fallen off their ped- estals, in spite of the latter-day at- tacks heard here against the coun- try they served Where Broadway ewings around the park is the famous “Dead Man's Curve,” where the old cable cars had to “take it on the loop” at highspeed without releasing the cable. Deaths were plentiful, as 14th Street was once a thickly congested shopping street Tiffany's became famous here (southwest corner 15th Street) after 1870, moving uptown in 1905. Gor- ham Company was at 19th Street for thirty years, moving in 1906 A new fourteen-story building is about to rise on the southwest cor- ner of 21st Street, where Park & Tilford were for forty years. Arnold, Constable & Co., Lord & Taylor, Ait- ken & Sons, Sloane's and Brooks Bros. were the old firms here not so long ago—now all moved out On the northeast corner of 19th Street stood, up to 1597, the home of Peter Goelet, last of the old Broad- way mansions, Peter ran John Jacob Astor a close second in gobbling New York real estate in the old days, On Goelet’s place was seen the jast cow on Broadway, and pes the lawn gave business Br glimpse of the gance, Between Union Square and Madi- ® Square Broadway is narrow, in ‘ocks on adway a street's vanished ele- to Madison Square—the Old “Bloomingdale Road’’ 1838 the street was widened from 21st to 45th Street. In 1815, at Broadway and 22d Street (northeast corner) stood the famous Buck's Horn Tavern. The favorite buggy ride once Bloomingdale (Broadway) to the tavern, west on Abingdon Road (Love Lane, now 21st Street) to Chel- sea Village, down Fitzroy Road (Eighth Avenue), through Greenwich Village via the River Road, over Lis- penard Swamp to the city. Abbey's Park Theatre on the tavern site 1870-82, Here I Langtry mado her first American appearance and John T. Raymond created Mul berry Sellers in Mark Twain's “Gild- ed Age.” The “Ilatiron,” the greatest curiosity skyscraper in the world, stands at 23d Street, where formerly stood (2ist Street the Hotel St. Germain In 1806 Mad ture around an monument) was up stood side) on Square arsenal (site of Worth which was & pas- became House of Juvenile Delinquents (1824-1828), Ex tending from 23d to Mth Street, be tween Third and Seventh Avenues, was a parade ground in 1807. Cut to 31st Street between Fourth and Sixth Avenues, in 1814, it was called Mad son Square, In 1845 it was re duced to the present size by Mayor Har Under the statue of Gover- nor and Senator Willlam H, Seward ran the roadbed of the old Post Road (closed in 1839), which veered off Broadway up to Harlem, At Broadway and 24d Street, whae \ Fifth Ave. Hotel ab ws the new Fifth Avenue Building stands, once stood Madison Cotta kept by Corpl. ‘Thompson, favorite roadhouse and scene of the cattle fair. Franconi's Hippodrome stood here in 1858, giving way in 1858 to the cele- brated Fifth Avenue Hotel, where, after 1860, President Arthur and other National Executives stopped. In 1854, during the Cleveland-Blaine cam paign, Rev, Mr, Burchard made the remark here about “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion” that cost Blaine the Presidency, The hotel was the rendezvous of Republican politiciane when Tom Platt was in power, a housed the celebrated “Amen * whose annual dinners wey st pd by from *many walks of life. tend) celebrities The Hoffman House at 25bh Street n the eighties was the headquarters of the Democrats under Daye Hill Its barroom pictures, especially Bou guereau' tyr and Nymphs," were in attraction. Billy Edwards, pus and famous stakehold hung t n the hotel. Gen. William J. Worth, veteran of War of 1812 and Mexican War (ser ving with lor and Scott), was buried in 1857 under the monument at the junction Broadway and Fifth Avenue, where the reviewing stan: t Dewey Arch was pi nen the Admiral. returned from Manila in 1899 afd the greater Vic tory Arch for the welcome of heroes of the Great War overseas (1917-21). | How to By Clyde Ludwick } 70-Day’s Exercise Draws In the Abdomen, Straightens Round Shoulders and Improves the Carriage. « Reduce Your Weight Right in Your Own Home By Doris 19a position of the spinal and straightness dep has sacrific bility of the cartil longer can she twi thay characterize If there must the trunk during the day, it is given in to-day it at first, that on lated underneath is on diligently pr Stand in, cor you as in Nlustrat touching and the completely around, thumbs toward th complete revolution with the hands y All of the exercises that have been given in this column so far have been of the greatest benefit to the stout person, but the exercise 1 have just described is of equal benefit to man or woman, to young or old, to stout “Object Matrimony” By ophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1921, by the Pres Publishing Co. (The Now York Evening World.) YOUNG man of twenty writes man with whom she has “kept com A me a very interesting letter, pany,” because that was the only lox He deplores the fact that It! thing she saw to do under the theraa, : © circumstances. seems to be: no frienddhip bi How many marriage mistakes are tween young men and young women made in this. way cannot be esti- it least not for long, since the gitl mated, and, it is most deplorable in always has the object of matrimony deed when ‘later she meets some one in her mind, she likes better. He says: “After a man has been How many hundreds of women will showing attention to a girl for, ¥ say, really never had any girl womonths he is forced to hood. 1 never knew any boys like that she wants to know what his other girls. My husband came along ntentions’ are. when I was quite young and 1 just “The hasty manner or hints in married him as a matter of cours which the tair sex broaches the sub- after we kept company together.” ject of m, my naturally frisghte How many tragedies would . be the youn, n, Who, if he is half- averted if only young women had had Way intelligent, is looking-ahead and more than one friendship with young ors nor desive to think seriously for men and had taken time to choose 1 few years to come the right one. Especially can this be The consequence naturally follow, done with greater ease to-day than e fricndship ken and only in the time of grandmother. remain Girls no longer h to choose t ak for the very young man first man that comes along, for the Who is beginning to make his way. reason that they can be economically "Does the young lady fear that if independent, and as the young man she does trust the fellow and does says, many of them earn more that keep company’ with him for a num- the boys with whom they associate. ber of years he loxe his affection "The average young woman tx em for her and her time might be wasted ployed and thus her ideal of life is in this Way? Especially young 8 changed very materially. She should who earn more than the fellow they not be content to seal her fate for are friendly with ever with the first man that asks her ‘The young man's inference is that In faét, she ought to know more than girls and boys under twenty-one or one in order to be “dead sure” that thereabs ve plenty of time for the one she chooses is the one that marriage, and might better have good she really wants. friendships until they are on the fair Furthermore, the term “old maid” road not only to know each other hag lost its sting. We have the self- to seceed in married girl who partners in love and livelhhood. respecting bachelor really take her time about ch a husband and thus stand a better to be said on chance to select the one she wants to » that many of have and enter Into a union that will few friendships last with young men betause of this idea In other words, times have changed of matrimony and Object: Matrimony, is now sup Many a girl nas married the first planted by Object: Happine | The Jarr Family very well but can life both as with a surety ¢ There is considernt this subject. ft is tri our girls have very By Copyright. 1921, by the, Pres Publishing Oo. Jer way. Plasterers, decora Tin New York Prening World.) inters and carpenters had HAT had once been Gu at work, under the direction of ay ant the ner, # taciturn con: or who would fortable , vouchsafe no information and who had been for monthe theprey in reply to queries from old and of rust, dust and neglect, an empty, young would only sullenty | reply: deserted store, Its glory had de- YAXK aPRLeGDR ae a IY parted. As Mr, Michael Angelo Dink- “put the work: of remodelling ston had feelingly remarked neared ita finish it was.on the natura « per’ of such gloomy splendor that, and Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, (f such SlOmy Ape or of ornate The shrines of Bacchus are over n was laid, a rumor spread that thrust.” wld be either a cafeteria or a =m AentT awrre 4 10 n ornate barber shop. A sign in th 1 dusty and al Borate barker aig sun-faded, ang ed that this de- ayy i Pilea: nelat uble corner store wa nt and porhood, many a nervous hour and vould t 1 ! 17% sisposition to. te tenant Mr, Sidney Slavin, oecysinnal yaude The paint had peeled from the ville and movie actor, @\d so billed d brickwork outside and the When not Jes: son of weed and Nee ag ne ee adore nsky, ¢he glazier, Windows’ had heoame ty Mal had announced that would be a they were sen The chi vying picture theatre, a. he knew drer 1 doorways, {¢ certain “swell Jane" who would be Jays an itinerant lemonad: 1 would be a hnut with au dler had vended ynthetic decoc automatic cruller machin the wine tions from Its shadows dow But, recently rehabilitation had So interest an@& suspense in the by the Prowt Pubitshing Co vund physical distinction betwe ®& woman has burde twisting Doscher. (Tae New Tork Brening World) nN man and the lower anfinals Upon its health, flexthilit ends all beauty of form, When once with too much fat,’ she column 4 her back the nimbleness of movement and the flex{- age belween the vertebrae so that no ist and bend with the grace and. pase + beautiful woman. e thing more not than only but another that you in the morning efter every spare moment exercise, for the spine which If you find you cannot do ly proves how much fat has aceymu- your Jet blades and down your netic exer! is the ‘s le son shot back, and how much you need this spine drill t posture. Place your hands béhind on No. 1, with the back of your hands fingers interlaced. ‘Twist the hands e spine, and when you have made the ou will be as in Illustration No, ¥ or thin. In fact, it stands alone as the best corrective exercise in any irse, 1 personally have 8 the results obtained from following this exercise, It cures round shoulders, straightens the spine, develops the chest, pulls back the abdomen ‘nd improves the carriage to a greater ree than any other Ilustration No, 3 shows the body in an incorrectly rela din position, Compare this "oun naturally assumed, with Illustration No. 4, Which shows your pose aft taking the spinal exercise. Note how the body has been pulled up Into place and the head has been pulled up and back, The neck seems to have been lengthened, there is a fuil inch increase in the chest expansion, the sagging muscles of the breast have been pulled up, the diaphragin has been stretched so as to allow, fo uter deep breathing capacity tbdomen has been pulled back 9 as of the to place all nternal organs in their proper position. When you consider all of thas benefits gained by one exercise, 1 Will see Why I have so urgentlysre- quested you to learn to get the Tul revolution of the hands and shoulder blades, In Illustration No. 5 _y have a front view of the person™d ing this exercise. Look closely again at Llustration No. 1 and you will 6 the round fat back Now note how that ne back has been decreaset in Mu m No, 2, till it seéms almost halt its former width It doesn't make a bit of difference whether you see the tat woman on the beac n the ballroor in a box at the theatre, seated at the banquet table ¢ dancing at a party-—one ance at her fleshy back takes &Way ul sense of youthfulness that. .her costuine may ‘t crested 1 have su know when you see her arms spread as soon us out from her sides that She starts to walk it will he with a waddling carriag Be you look so much really are, but the clally suggestive ne spinal column such an factor in the human fr The slightest derangement of the spina) column uy ts the entire mer yous syeterm, None of us can’ be beautiful if our spinal column t# mot ng fat. makes than "fou ck is espe because the important in perfect condition, and you must get rid of the surplus fat on your back if you want your spinal column working perfectly. Do not permit mar the contur o wise be a be round, fat back to what might other- tiful, youthful figure. Roy L. McCardell”™ ® Neighborhood waxed, and then one day some dark Btruscan jardinieres were delivered, each burgeoning with palpably artificial palm. ‘This was lowed by the Ning of mysteri- ous wall cabinets of mahogany and a dark pur nh carpet hen all the ladies of the neighborhood fel< gure a Parisian model millin- ery and hat store. But when a sign painter came and outlined in chalk upon the window PHIL GRAV it was to be Mortuary Director Our Only Uptown Brar the w { was known, Gus’ nce cheerful saloon was to be an aiider= taking establishment! Mr. Jarr, be~ ing apprised of the sad tidings, quoted dismally ~ “Prom the gilded saloon to the pall . and the shroud 5 Oh, why should the spirit of Yak stead be proud?" “Vor,” he added, “John Parleygorm is not ouly dead but @ funeral director reigns in his stead. And this," he cluded, “is not poetry—it's a dirget But all of the old crowd stoutly te- clare they will never enter the*place alive. If they never knew til] then that the saloon business was really dead they’ vealize it now, >.