Show L C j T r 1 J 1 i d y Y T f 1 j t 4 1 r r- r i 1 r W I ff it t. t t t o t to t 1 r t y 4 i i r r JiT L e A. A 1 a ne IS 0 j ji i t I IL Y I Y 1 th I 1 iJ y r S 'S S I. I 1 A very ng t. t 1 J k t. 3 P i i C dj pi r rIi rY c 1 Y Ii I S Whales I fro rt o Hunting t i 7 r r r tt d to Carrying a d Commuters and andon J ti Hurry Calls the e Great ea DoctOrS o on n r. r f Now T Transit 1 Factor is Now at Qt Work and end May Be Confidently ili to Revolutionize Hum Human n A Activity j t 1 c r I By Arthur Halland 1 airplane salesman is on his way lEA the 17 simply going to start He Ho has EVEN He isn't ism t Ll started darted are H He x is abroad in the land and the theare airplane in the s industrial scientific of th the up by life of the I social ECial sprung sporting and day everyday transit orld is past sun up t The abrupt ending of the war le left t not only T eQ l but bat all ail o other r countries engaged in the I treat mat mit conflict with enormous manufacturing es- es equipped to produce i fighting air air- air air- aircraft craft Sift and the problem presented b by y r the sudden to convert the mill mili- of the armistice was C n rifting in t r br 1211 brn brand and nd naval machines into peace craft and at atthe develop the commercial market time I l the e same fie Ste airplane was destined to come into general lilt fie lIne aie i ts place in jn the affairs of every day lust jUt as l the automobile has but the develop develop- ate of the War and da its closing hastened the Y t. t Yea I know they are arc them fae but getting pretty I ef cf t them ibm 1 am not read ready to I risk r-isk sk m my neck in one m is to rj heard rd in nearly ever every discussion sion of E B Bat t Offsetting pent and future of the airplane I s Ore ion other er this one is is Just as sure to hear gra Pint grant t v more ventures venturesome me soul declare Ill Illa yoU there lIrA a il mighty almighty e is yet more or 1 less ess risk but I J have i the hankering rine to try out one of them a little Ie aIrplane plane comes out or of thc the argument w with ted more j lust t fG tha an even cven break brenk After all the they y h the there as a 8 n Ch about the h high bicycle re isn't 1 Ci t e Is af C any doubt at about t it The air air- I. I h he ear at r OUr the lr d door or and the thc listening ear car can C Home James It h tact fact the u l limousine nero er limousine is a fact fact- something lade ide of or t tomorrow 01 It iSn isn't t in ln in general h US use OW but ut r airplane one was exhibited not to long ago by t oo sokA manufacturing u company and the orx or or- have hae vc x man many y entries r Astonishing Range Kange of Uses Ithe r il Plane pt pied along today is an old oU story tory It is On end and g with the mail train train the nail mail the l litter rJ y OVer mailman Pc People plc livin living in il the which J V f e e them nem a the mail mail- planes mail planes pass scarcely passing notice A story is tol told of f officer o a Tl i t 11 who J Was vas v visiting 1 home l long ons ago and 7 r come on a furlough gh tt a out Ut in the thc yard vat year ven n watching tig ih e car d S son as the thc b bo boy y busied hi himself i Zip of f n a dl dog dop to n a small t the he father cart cart- Sud- Sud 4 t or and he heard leard rd the whir of an airplane nd of J ne e high searching the thc sky s finals f finally y Wed sighted th the u up among the clouds II Look son V 0 Y theres there's an airplane he called to the bo boy Oh yes replied the son never looking up from hi his straps and buckles only the mail Shades of the time old circus and county and county fair with their balloon ascensions to thrill the ver very marrow of the ol old and young The bus aero-bus is making regular trips today abroad and similar buses are arc already built and doing trial trips here in America During the entire time of the pence peace conference buses aero were used to carry officials prom from Lon London on to Paris and the thc other way around aroun These buses carried from twelve to tw twenty nty passengers an and were called ferries The fhe airplane was successfully used as an ambulance ambulance am am- during the thc war and it will undoubtedly conic come into into general use for the rapid rapi transfer of patients from rom country and outlying districts districts dis dis- is- is to city hospitals in cases where operations oper oper- operations are imperative in und and the sufferers must 1 10 V 1 VH ur f r H Tw w r tYr t. t y r r 4 Sy Syr d' d r I i xi y d A J mi Taking on the United States Aerial Mail l U n and Inri J. J h be t taken ken to skilled surgeons with the loss of as little time as possible Or it wi will be used by the doctors to get to the patients in cases where the removal of th the patient to the hospital is out of the question Not long ago two army surgeons flew to an island off tho the Atlantic coast to perform an operation in an emergency case And speaking of doctors when we wc can give over thoughts of our own own little pr private atc health we may note that one of the southern states has been looking into the question of Using the airplane in inthe inthe inthe the fight against the mosquito In fact the head of the state board of health has gone ono so far as asto asto asto to make inquiry of airplane experts as to the best type of machine for use uc in searching out mos mos- qu quito breeding swamps That certainly will bo be fighting the mosquito in his own way way flying flying to him and biting him in his own home Hunting Whales hales by T Plane But rut huntin hunting the thc mosquito isn't the only kind of hunting that is or is to be done with an air air- plane Men Ien have already hunted ducks in them flying after the thc flocks and shooting lg them down at nt close range with the thc well known mown common forest and und field variety of shotgun And a stor story recently came over from Coblenz Germany of aviators in that section section Bunting hunting ng deer deel in the Rhine forests with former ormer var war scout machines Deer arc are al always always al- al ways hard to get et up to The They can scent a man farther than thc they can see ee an and arc off before a hunter can get bet within gunshot but according to toan toan toan an American sergeant with the army of occupation occupation tion in the thc Rhine Phine country they dont don't pay nn any atten attention ion whatever to what is going on over their heads heads' an and it is easy for 01 the airmen to swoop woop I down yn on a herd and bag two or three with machine machine ma ma- chine guns gun guns guns' before the animals can scurry scurry to c cover ver One of the thc most unique and exciting sports of the thc airmen however howe is that exemplified in the recent experience of a marine flier in the north Atlantic This flier mer was covering a patrol in his h hydroplane when he sighted a large Jarge whale floating floating floating float float- ing on the surface of the sea sunning himself and spouting away awny with all of the thc feeling of or safety and contentment of a seal ip iQ a zoological pa park k It may have occurred to the airman that hero liere was aB a chance to start something beside the Whale Whale hale a new sport a n new industry mayb maybe and md and not being of the sort that is held back by the old En English deterrent But they're not doing it he glided low down and opened up with his machine gun on the thc loafing le leviathan athan He was a n good od marksman an and his shots went true Toda Today there is only water in the thc ocean where the he whale used to be for or the new hunter not only killed kille the thc big fish but attracted a trawler to the theA spot and the great carcass was towed A to port and converted into oil and whalebone That the advantages nd of thc the airplane are arc not being overlooked c by the ranchmen i is shown by a report recently l published to the thc erect effect that an anu u aviator had been hired by J. J Pierpont Morgan and assigned to his ranch at Hardin Mont l nt The duties of this aerial cowboy it is sni said will be to pilot the thc ranch manager to distant points and places difficult of access in searches for stray stay cattle Not Nota a bad idea and it mi might ht have been used to good effect in the thc old da days s 's in running down cattle rustlers Sheep herders arc said to be taking the airplane seriously too as a n means of fin finding ing and bringing back to the thc fol fold the sheep that have strayed New York I believe claims to be the first city to have a regular organized department of aviation aviation aviation avia avia- tion in connection with the thc police department and while the thc aerial policeman has not as as yet appeared appeared appeared ap ap- above the thc city on real patrol dut duty tho the machines have been built and a hundred and fifty or two hundred young hundred young men are in training today to become a aviators in the thc department But Venice Cal really has an cop aero and he is on duty every day at the thc aviation field to see that the budding aviators obey the rules of the air in that vicinity Air Duels DucI Wont Won't V ont Do DoIt DoIt DoIt It didn't take an cop aero however to to stop a aduel aduel aduel duel recently planned between two French avia avia- tors The ground round authorities interfered before the thc combatants could go to their battlefield which was to be up among the clouds over some spot near Paris The duel was all arranged arrange each man was to ascend in a single seater with a machine gun attachment and each was to dash and dart and duck uck an and swerve and slide side and shoot until one or the other managed to register a successful shot or 01 series of shots and anti send hi his adversary tumbling to the earth But the au- au aur lUt t r ir l r i Service 1919 1916 said some som innocent on or up looker or 01 orone one failing to look up might be h hurt rt or killed by having the defeated duelist fall lall upon him an and t j that anyway there was a n law against duelling ng- ng so the ng aggrieved rie Ed pair would have to find some other Va way of settling the matter So the first airplane r duel duel in in a time of peace peace failed failed to come conte off The Thc cop aero-cop po policing the air is going to be a areal areal areal real service to the thousands of business men who before very long will be living flying from their country homes to their offices and back again when the theda da days day's s grind is over Planes have hac already been built for these men with a n. coni compartment just behind behind behind be be- hind the thc aviators aviator's seat for the boss and his J secretary an and the thc secretary's typewriter And f larger commuter planes are ue planned planes carrying carrying car car- All r ing anywhere from fifty to a hundred people who would or ordinarily crowd into the in t the c if morning and the thc 5 15 in the evening and while these greater reater planes are arc today more mote or less of ot such stuff as dreams are made the they are not wild dreams dreams dreams-an an American navy N. 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C 1 plane recently carried fifty passengers at the rate of a hundred miles an hour Then there is the honeymoon plane a charming charming charming charm charm- ing machine with luxurious and commodious apartments for the weds newly-weds and a n very comfortable comfortable comfortable com com- and removed seat for the thc aviator This plane is also a reality It was brought out of th the dream zone early this year yeal and any bridal pair paira a actually wishing to spend a honeymoon among the clouds can do so Of course there will be airplane races and and racing planes Man t takes kes to racing like a fish takes to swimming Life itself is competitive and man is given to racing in anything h hb 11 has ever ever been able to start He lIe ran races foot first of or all nil probably then he raced whatever animal he employed in matters of transit Horse racing became tho the sport of or The kings Then came the thc automobile and he raced it Now the thc airplane Approved is coming in and there isn't any doubt about what he will do with it Airplane in the thc racing line And oh jo joy the C Costume airplane promises to go faster than anything man has ever ever- everet yet et tried for In fact it has gone faster already than any animal or machine man Women n j las gas ever had to race with t. t err 4 r fy A rr S a s t i 4 y Y r. r t. t tI t i I ft 4 t r i l' l T 1 f 1 1 4 r S r rc c f fit r s 's I of tI A fir 1 p A I 4 I i cit i i J l- l 4 Jy f 0 r d r ili i f I n I 55 I t I r- r II I pr t tI J I I I IJ r 4 I r Ar r rr I f A r yM r Y YI Z r rr r r r I r oj J t 1 1 ft d S r wl r r n C CTr C American Aerial Ambulance Equipped for Quick Transportation of Stretcher Cases 1 scientists are arc making great plans pians for the u He HeUI u employment em of the thc airplane too Some are planning polar explorations some arc looking to using itin it itin itin in exploring ts tropical continental interiors heretofore here inaccessible while others expect to learn new things about the air and the attraction of gravitation The stars thunder and lightning and rain lain rain other other ther things they know a 11 great greut deal about already may be studied to greater a advantage advantage van tage by getting off of nn and away from rom the earth Great things are predicted for or the thc dirigible balloon Passenger and freight service across continents continents con con- and seas seas commuters commuters commuters' balloons and even aerial roof gardens are gardens are only a step ahead insky in insky insky sky traffic according to authorities Down at ut City a large airport is now v being laid out the first airport in America It is isto isto isto to have o a great landing Hel field for the thc land craft and a broad sweep of sea front for the hydro hydro- planes It is to have hangars and shops for repairs repairs repairs re re- pairs a training station for aviators a race raco A course a base for lor scientific E res research and ana a special field for or landing and taking leave of ot civilian ilian fliers visiting the famous coast resort in their machines There isn't any doubt about it it the airplane aan as a asan asan an every day factor in the life ot oZ the world is at atour our door and 11 doing about everything already 1 |