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Show Have Nothing on Uncle Samuel Salt Lake Boy Writes Interesting Letter Auto Dope From Battlefields , ' a fix;- . 1 . ... .r j; ' -v . )'-: ' - ilMiiiliiii I ' ' ' LIEUT. 8. V. TRENT Salt Lrk bey vlio lft th mploy of th Intarmountaln Motor Cr company about a year ago to do his bit and now ia an offtcor in Undo &am' aoro ervico. write noway tottor about automobile and motor conditiona on tba battlofltlda. i r I It tives a fellow a Mml of a ftif p;. I'-fiing, take It fmru nn. ! I "Tut re ale ei y nuiny W ilil luks . i :ifi'i geese -here. ftu they will fl 1 I over us in great riock. When tnis; j lijipeiis the Kri ni h i-cml up big twin-j . miurel ships with tuachiiie gunners , ! ami proceed to t.rlng down the ger sa. ' l'u:illv they firai chart. the birtls ovei , the field, so that those which fall can be found. You have beard a lot about! how fast ducks f an fly. It Is mostly j 'bull.' They aeldum make over thirty , or forty miles an hour. A hundred -mile ship can fly circles sroumlVheni with eae. "Irately we have had a French cap- i tain here who ha eleven Hermans to his credit. Kvery day he goen up snd ' ((r. stunts for us that make us hold our breath. After he is through some; Amet lean lad usually goes up aud does the same stunts just to show us that our French puis haven't all the: nerve." ' Tl.Jt our I'Im::-- S:.iliuel !.- tl not -doff bin Hd for a second to any itther lutt n.n h hen it t-oni' s to making automobiles au-tomobiles thul :n'" .superior in im.ii-struction, im.ii-struction, in ti.e iiitorinutlon contanted in a lettr-r to Manager W. H White of the luterninuiuain Motor far company, com-pany, from S. V. Trent, formerly in charge of the u?ed car detriment of that concern, but now LaeutetiHiit , Trent of the I'mtcd .States aero service. ser-vice. ! i.leittenant Trent's letter Is sluiply 'bubbling over with autornohile "dope." ; which is of extreme Interest to his former einploer. Jut a it will be to hi many frlendf. on auto row Who read thetie linea. laeuw-j.tt.nt Tr nt. in Ins vast travels trav-els and experience in the Kuropean war count ries, has formed the opinion opin-ion that the 1'iilted IS tales lead. all 1 other nut ions in the manufacture of unto bodies, frames and wheel construction, con-struction, but he adds that, as to mo-tttf. mo-tttf. franca p-" t ii " Kr.ia in Lai i: .nie Wi mde rs lb belie vea l hat Ue-I Ue-I cause of the many good roads, these countries l.ave 1,0 use for such run-! run-! st ruction as la placed In the American Ameri-can fr. in fa t, be expresses the belief ihnt a motor ther could b j placed in h bahy buggv and give 'the best of service for iirs. "Iirt let any one khl ou, nny , more, though, thHt the sutt9 over here aie belter than those at home." he ! sa s. "for Vncle Sam need not take off his hat to any of them in this j respect. I 'Soon fer roniing to FYs nee, I w.is (selected f-f encmeei ing work." writes 'lieutenant Trent, "and for training , was sent to a school in the souih of , Kraiice. There 1 found many tnotois -like those in ue nt the front. 1 spent nearly a month tiigre and thei came u ) bet e to f i ri Mti my work. 1 w :ts only a wek from the finishing point when the armistice w"is signed 1 will never quite know whethrr to he glad or rry alxnit that. N"W 1 am Just waiting around, perhaps to l assigned as-signed to duty or po.-sibly f will Just loaf until it is time to en home. "This i said to be the largest fly-ins fly-ins fb-ln in the world. It ceriamlv is the lamest I have ever seen. We have approximately twenty-five tvjtes of machines here and nearly hilf that marry tpcs of niotorw. so I run ileep-Iv ileep-Iv interested. Considerable of my tune has been vpent on Liberty motors, so I r.eheve I hae Hno d-pe Unit wiil interest We have here the prettiest little c ut pinnes tijt are now in use. They .tie s- (b-lS'ate in adju-tnwnt that 1m-i! 1m-i! y th m i p I a ral seience all by -tseif, 1 am s-'iry. in a way, ihouch, t.e.-ause t am not sssik-Ih tti with t he PiUKer graiie of ships and especially wilh the Ainere..ti shn.s. boi them ., nioie to leatn al-oul these little bir.U. h.-v are I he fttes that did the rtil I t u in iue a nd t he bo s In I hen h.i r all the fun. so guess I should l"' gi'd ( f luv ' han. e ih;c had in. chance tn fl here iheie are no sThj-M thai nrc gentle ei...ii,'i I"t ti i:-e. 1 r;-ie t.flell t lieu;: h nli 'he f'rench p'h'ts. Th ; ale on"-, it ma li.ne here that 1 la'h- j weik ' i ,e.ral poinlM am! Iheic (..re I d'.n't PV.e io ride in them I j ha . l.t en M p -e rat t Iltit s with j I'rei'. ti nI- 's iii seaplanes and fy mc ! , ,;,(. r a pa-iti' t' ride in th ia j l-ei .'H -e I hey ; : ' so if'-ntli-. . (Mie f' lat we.-k I went Hp in tlVtee-paf eiii;.'C heal W th it V'dd ; I'r in hn.BM. w let pnreeded to I. ke Tie j for an e-ntii-miie n7.z over a dense J forest. N-etbss to say, I had visions I of that raft try i tie- to make a 1'in-wl i landing in th pines. We were using a i t, i i-v rn Ma i s-omethltue which I1 fin.el!y hav nt e nfidenee In. I spent m si of that ride in look- me f"r ; eoft p"t. Si-re enoush. that , mo'or did finally start to miss and worked on two cylinders, so we Pecan J to Sink. 1 Iw Jf.in l ihMik vt home hml would gludtv have changed places with j a yellow d'tr. but after a short struccl- , c,,t hu--v : grtin nd the ru.ht 1 |
