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Show SB THBILLED 1 I DGDEN SPIKE FLIGHT 1 oaring Over Cemetery, They Try to Whistle to Maintain Courage. elieve Airplanes May Be Jsed to Advantag-e by i Commercial Enterprises, i ,"I got a chance for sober reflections ,d observations, and realized that man not born to the clement of tho ': je9 when I tk t!iat triP ""'iUl 1,10 ! ildcn Spiko flyer a week ago," said '! p Bigelow of Ogden yesterday. Mr. Vjjciow and Warren L. Wattis were ,,o of the lucky Ogden men who were ,'iea for flights over the Junction ':tv at the timo of the Golden Spike lebration. f .Mr. Wattis, in speaking of his expe-hnees, expe-hnees, said: it "I had often figured what H would i like, but it was like nothing that I ' rared. Impressions crowded so thick ' d were so varied that I feel I can i; ,'ver get through analyzing them. Of ! urse the roaring of the machinery r:,d the tremendous velocity of the f jid prevented all communication by 1 eech. I never once looked at the an behind or tried to. When he ached my shoulder I leaned to the ;ht or to the left as indicated, so that might see the gauges which were in out. es His Home. "I readily located our course by ch structures as the brick factory at irrisville, the U. I. C. buildings at gowning, the S. P. shops, Eccles build-j, build-j, State School tor the Deaf td Blind and the brick yards, tth the tall chimney, near Twen-Ejninth Twen-Ejninth street and Jefferson ave- e. I knew very well when we were Ver the city cemetery, but I could At whistle to keep up courage. located ray own homo because of Lt proximity to the big Eccles house Twenty-sixth street and Jefferson f enue. Knew there were some people t watching, but it impressed me "Vangely that I could not see them. k host of odd fancies and memories shed through my mind as for a few jraents I could look over the hills of intah and the slim white thread that know was Weber river. I realized ien ire turned north and soon there-. there-. ter felt that we were descending, be-I be-I .use I noticed on one of the country J 'lads a horse and buggy. It reminded I ff of a dog hitched to a doll carriage. lane Beats Time. "I was so interested that I thought had been in the air only about half describes Ogden 's valley in 1S49 as Ogden 's Hole. The agreement was reached by old pioneers attending the historical meeting that as Ogden 'b valley val-ley was considered Ogden 's Hole by trappers and government officials, and as the Mormon settlers considered North Ogden as Ogden 's Hole, both are correct cor-rect in that their views cover the same territory and ground. the time tve -were really up, and, as we had started later than I had expected, ex-pected, it was necessary for me to jump m a car and hasten to the Orpheum theatre, arriving there just in time to take part with my family in the Mothers' day exercises. " Mr. Wattis is vice president of the Utah National bank and was accorded the privilege of being the first Ogden civilian to fly over the city because his bank sold nearly $350,000 worth of Victoo' bonds to its customers. In speaking of his experiences Mr. Bigelow, also a banker of Ogden, said: "The feeling of great height was not lost on my first trip, but I wasn't afraid because I felt that I was in the hands of a competent and skilled piloj. The earth certainly looked different to me from the height of a mile. Because of the amber goggles and the heavy foliage almost everything seemed to take on a pea green aspect. "I could see the islands of Great Salt Lake almost directly under me. The river was a silver ribbon while the city looked like a checker board. The roofs of the houses looked like mud tur-l ties symmetrically located. Loops the Loop. . j "We seemed suspended in the sky. The rush of the motor was the only indication in-dication of our motion, there were no fixed objects which- we could pass to give us the seDse of comparison. To realize that we were making such terrific ter-rific speed I had to put my hand over the side and feel it brushed back- by the eighty mile an hour gale the plane was creating. . "The loop the loop was very interesting, inter-esting, and slipping into the dangerous tail spin was a good deal like the spinning spin-ning of a top. The barrel roll gave me a combination of sensations. ' It was a sober trip, and the impression im-pression I got was that I want to go up again to make observations that I didn 't have time for on the first trip. "I firmly believe the aeroplane will come into commercial usage, though never to the extent that the automobiles automo-biles have. There are many millions of men who will not be able to drive aeroplanes as they are at present constructed con-structed aud that will necessarily limit the development of them as commercial commer-cial vehicles. "All in all it was a wonderful experience ex-perience and one that I am very happy to have had." |