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Show THE HELPER TDIES. HELPER, UTAH Mviation in Canada STAGE COACH TALES By E. C. TAYLOR t : U JV? P From Stage Driver to Railroad President si T! it ii Jj,'",MsaBBS?e One of Canada's Trading Posts. (Prepared by the National D.Geographic C.) Society. W'ajshlngtqn, the revised Mrs. Charles A- - Lindbergh's vacation flight to Japan routed thenj over many square mllesof practically unexplored territory In northwest Canada, much of the country they traversed between Washington, D. C, and Baker ;Lake, Northwest Territories, has 'been flown by Canadian government air surveys and by aerial prospect-'ors- . ALTUOCGU and Tliaative Indians, Eskimos and ;Eoyal Canadian mounted policemen ;tf the Hudson bay district have not ;before had such distinguished aerial !visItors, but the sight of an either in winter or summer, Is lo new experience to them. Few people, except those who have seen It, realize the high degree to which northern Canada has organized air transport. Using water routes, open in summer, it has laid down a wide network of fuel e, and supply stations at strategic All around Hudson bay, at points. convenient spots ; down the Mackenzie river to Lake Athabaska; about Great Slave and Great Bear lakes and along the Arctic coast, and down th lukon, these depots are set up. Now practically every district In continental Canada Is with-:i- n flying range of one of these stations. In fact, If you picture the Canadian airways as linked up with the air net in the United States, the broad statement Is true that given good weather, no place on the North ' American continent Is now more than one or two days' flight from a railway. It was In survey work and In fatrols of her millions of acres of forest reserves that Canada first cplanes. The first attempt to use a plane on a long distance commercial mission was made by an oil company In 1921. To meet an emergency, It started two monoplanes, on skis, from the rail head at Peace river on a 1,200- mile flight to Norman on the Mackenzie river. The weather was vile; blizzards with temperatures of 40 and 50 below zero alternated with mild spring thaws. Pilots Are Resourceful. blazing hot, but the nights freezing cold. Two men, badly hurt In the crash, reached the shore only with the greatest difficulty. Happily, however, In the party was a land surveyor, who managed to swim ashore with a hand ax and a water-tigh- t box of matches. Using his ax, h made a rude shelter. By snaring rabbits in the woods and killing frogs with sticks, the party kept alive for seven days, till rescued by another flying boat sent to seek them. The search for the lost French flyers, Coll and Nungesser, In May, 1027, nearly cost the lives of Captain Robinson and his crew. They had flown along the north shore as far as the Strait of Belle Isle, then still full of ice, when a storm forced them down. Anchoring late in the evening, In the shelter of a rocky ledge, they curled up in their cockpit to await better weather. Suddenly the wind veered, blowing a gale ' from the open sea. Their anchor dragged and their ship smashed on the rocks. They saved their emergency kits, made a Are on shore from the wreckage of their plane, and cooked breakfast They walked 20 miles along the beach to a lighthouse and signal station, to report their whereabouts. Returning from a flight op the Ashuapmnchuan river, one pilot brought with him an old Indian. When Invited to ride the red man seemed In no way perturbed at the He calmly donned helprospect met and goggles and settled himself In the front cockpit, as If flying were an every-daact with him. In a half hour he flew downstream a' distance which Just previously It had taken him six days to cover by y canoe. Flying In Winter. In north Quebec, flying goes on summer and winter. On a January morning Capt. Kenneth Saunders, chief pilot of the Canadian Fairchfld company, started north with an engineer and a Hudson's Bay company official, on a visit to some of the northern trading posts. Unless one flies, It usually takes six weeks of mushing on snowshoes, with a dog team to haul baggage, to reach these wilderRegions between One plane, landing on crusted ness outposts. enow, at Simpson, broke through so posts are wholly uninhabited. Snow that a ski collapsed and a propel- lies from four to six feet deep; ler blade struck the ground. But trails, such as they are, usually fol- the resourcefulness of Canadian pilots, In a smash, far from shops and spare-par-t stores, Is revealed In Pilot Gorman's laconic report on this ,, accident "March 30 . . . Will try and have a new 'prop' made here. Oak sleigh boards are available; also some glue. And a Hudson's Bay company man named Johnson Is an old cabinetmaker . . . We can use the damaged propeller as a pattern and use the Catholic mission " workshop here. "Mnrch 31. Found moosehide glue. OVwed some boat clamps, so that theToards can be clamped tightly together In making the laminated propeller. the new propeller. It works satisfactorily." lATli' amazing degree to which planes now wipe out miles and save time In Canada was shown by (lights and photography work carried on from a base on the north shore of From the Gulf of St. Lawrence. this stormy coast Capt. Vernon ("Turk") Robinson made flight after flight, bearing surveyors and supplies over a mountainous const line Into the Interior plateau. He carried drums of gas by air, at points far distant; frura these deposits planes could operate even farther Inland. Thus Grand Falls, on the Hamilton river, was finally reached. Then, after a day's flight of 800 miles, starting from Burnt lake, photographs were taken of the fulls; and the next day r was back the In Quebec having his pictures developed. By sea and canoe, the only other means of travel, this task would have taken all summer! Adventure, grim and perilous, Is otrn the lot of pilots and pns.sen-gefIn flight over the long stretches of empty wilderness which Intervene between fuel caches, camps, or settlements. Meet With Perilous Adventures. One jnrtv. from a base on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, was forced down by bad weather and had to alight on nn unknown lake. A floating log ripped the bottom from their hull and the flying boat sank. Casting aside their cloth ,'ng, the crew mnrte for tiie shore. Iiry made land minus any food or .nmeiit, and spent a week, naked, file woods. In the midst of the luck-flseason. The dnys were "April 15. Tested engineer-photographe- s low Hon. Ginery Twitchell rose obscurity to become one of the leading figures of the era of stage coach transportation, then president of the railroad that put his stage lines out of business, 'and then a member of congress. Many a New England child, hearing the cry of "Ginery's coming! Giuery's coming!" and probably wondering what a "ginery" was, watched with delight as a great stage coach with six prancing, reeking, foaming horses came to a stop in front of the Baystate house, in Boston, or the taverns of Worcester, Mass, or Brattleboro- Vt Seated atop the magnificent vehicle was a dignified, selfcontented man, ruddy of face, his stout body swathed in a heavy greatcoat and on his head a tall silk hat Ginery Twitchell would sit erect on the THE the lakes and rivers, through a borken country of small timber. When Saunders and party left Roberval the day was bright and fair, but the thermometer was 25 An hour up the below. they sighted the first trading post and circled to land on the frozen river. Either they struck a spot where a warm spring had thawed the Ice or else an early fall of snow on the ice had prevented a ' Ashuap-mucbua- thicker formation; anyway, the plnne broke through. The men had barely time to crawl from the cabin before the whole fuselage was under water. Luckily, they were near the post, and Tom Moar, the Indian In charge, volunteered to walk out the hundred miles to civilization with a He started away within message. half an hour, taking only an ax, some matches and a chunk of moose meat He made the trip In the record time of five days, sleeping twice, n the second and fourth nights, In holes in the snow lined with boughs and traveling continuously the rest of the time. Meantinies the Canadians set about salvaging their plane. They made a platform of logs around the machine ou. which to work. As the water was not deep, a tripod of poles cut from the woods was built over the aircraft and Its wings were bal-so- coachman's seat gather the reins well in hand and suddenly be off with a great rattle of wheels and blowing of horns. was called Twitchell Ginery "Honorable" even then. Probably it was because of his vast reputation for Integrity, and probably also because he was an Inveterate politician, and always had a finger in the political maneuverlngs and plottings of his part of New England. His stage coach was one of the most famous that ever rolled over the rough roads of the early days of the United States. It was built In 1837 by Henry T. Breck of Worcester, and never was repaired beyond occasionally getting a new coat of varnish. In 1840, at the request of the citizens of Barre, Vt, seats were added to the top, so that the great coach carried 32 persons, inside and 20 outside. It once carried 62 young women from Worcester on a blackberry ex cursion, with eight horses drawing this record load. During the Presidential campaign of 1840, it carried the political leaders to and from . meetings around Qulnsigamond. His last driver, Henry S. Miner, narrates that Twitchell before the days of the railroad collected elec12 tion votes on horseback, and once road from Greenfield, Mass., to Worcester, a distance of 54 miles, In four and a half hours. He had relays of fresh horses every six or ten miles, and made the ride at night. In the days when he was a post rider, before he had accumulated sufficient funds to buy an Interest In a stage coach line, he once slept in his clothes, Including buckskin underwear, In the American House In Worcester for a week, waiting for despatches from British steamers. He also had men and fresh horses . waiting the entire week along the road to Norwich, Conn. When the boats arrived, Twitchell mounted his horse and started for Norwich, ne met the boat, and delivered the despatches in New York hours ahead of any other post line. Ginery Twitchell was a great favorite with those who rode with him, and the seat beside the driver was eagerly vied for, even In bad weather. He had an inexhaustible fund of racy anecdotes with which he regaled his acquaintances. The people along his post and stage routes trusted him with their business commissions, and he performed a service similar to that of the express companies of today. After a long period of In bis early days, he bought a stae coach and two horses from a Mr. Stockwell, and established a stage Brattleboro and between line In 1S43 he owned and Worcester. operated a line between Barre and self-deni- Worcester, and later established a stage line from Greenfield to Brat- tleboro. In that year the postmaster general at Washington advertised for contracts to carry the mail and Twitchell, Instead of bidding for one route, went to Washington and obtained several. Within a short time he was the largest stage operator In New England, owning a large number of fine stage lines and coaches. One of his feats was driving a coach from Worcester, Mass., to Hartford, Conn., a distance of 60 miles, in 3 hours and 20 minutes, through deep snow. That was on January 1331. Western Newspaper Union.) , Good to Tax In August, 1S31, Michael Faraday discovered induced currents. removed. He was tremendously thrilled on Salvage Their Plane. proving that whenevera conductor to cut across lines of magSeven days later a rescue ma- is made netic force, nn electric current is chine reaciied the scene with hoist- Induced. This discovery, on which ing tackle and tools. The wrecked dynamos and our whole modern plane was moved safely to shore. A electrical age is based, did not Imtent was erjeted around the front press Gladstone, later prime minisof the fuselage and the engine, ter of England, who asked Faraday which was a solid mass of Ice. This of what use his experiment was. ice was chopped out, and then a "Why, sir," said the famous scienwill soon be able to tax stove was lit in the tent and grad- tist, "you SU Nicholas. it" cabin and thawed engine ually the out The metal propeller, badly bent, was straightened and the engine reThe carburetor, though assembled. frozen In a solid block of Ice for eight dnys, again worked perfectly. On the sixth of February the plane was ngaln ready for flight Accompanied by the rescue machine, which had made several trips to ferry in gas, provisions, and little f;lfts for Mrs. Moar and her family (on whose hospitality the crew had been depending during the operations, It took olt safely and flew back to RobervaL e Another famous botanical garden which ranks as the finest in the world Is at Bintenzorg, Java, this garden in Its present state of perfection being the product of nearly a century of effort on the part of the Dutch Inhabitants of Java. So wonderful are the flowers and plants that the gan.cn, which Includes 00 acres. Is known as "The Garden of tne East." L. C. Breed in the Gardener's Chronicle tells us of the vegetation In this garden of wonders. The governor-general'- s house, which is located in the garden, is approached, we are Informed, through the finest avenue of trees In the world. These are Kunnri trees reaching 100 feet overhead and have tall straight trunks, covered with stag-hor- n ferns, Birdsnest ferns, orchids and every type of parasite and air plant that the climate will permit. Mr. Breed also describes a palm that stands about 40 feet high, and a "wilderness of climbing plants," among which are palms with branches GOO feet in 'length. He makes note of another palm that bears the largest fruit and the largest leaves of any known tree, the fruit being two feet in diameter, and the leaves 10 feet. Some of the trees rise to a height of 100 feet before the branches spread. The oldest botanical garden in the United States is located within the limits of the city of Philadelphia, and Is one of the shrines of the hortlculturally minded tourist. The two hundredth anniversary of the founding of this old garden was celebrated on June 5 and 6 of this year, with ceremonies suited to the occasion. The opening day was spent In special exercises of a historical nature, and on the second day the visitors were guests at the garden, tea being served in the old home of the founder, John Bartram, a section of which was built In 1700, by Swedish settlers, and became the foundation from which Mr. Bartram built later. The building was purchased by Mr. Bartram In 1728, and the original house still remains In the garden enclosure. The Bartram garden is now undergoing a process of restoration that will bring It back to Its original form, a fitting tribute to the plat of land that has been devoted to garden purposes for two hundred years. The house has been restored to Its original form and now the garden, through the efforts of the garden clubs of Philadelphia and surrounding country, will be made to resemble as nearly as possible the garden of the old days. These clubs have undfrtaken as their first work to restore to the garden the native rhododendrons, mountain laurel and other, evergreens. John Bartram was a native American, his birthplace being Darby, Pa., near Philadelphia. He lived to the good old age of seventy-eigh- t and died in Bartram house In 1777. The garden is located on the west bank of the Schuylkill river, and for many years It was a most Isolated spot. It was through his voluminous correspondence with Peter Colllnson, a grower in London, Eng Hours of Slumber medical authorities think the same amount of undisturbed sleep during the day gives the same benefit as sleep at night They say that it does not make any difference when you sleep, so long as you get thlj required amount and so arrange jour program of living thnt old-lin- e n Shampoo Yourself with Cnticura Soap the scalp with Cullcura Ointment. Then shampoo with a euds of Cutieura Soap and quite warm water. Rinse thoroughly Anoint Ointment 23c and 50c Talcum 25c Proprietors: Potter Drug & Chemical Corp., Soap 25c. Maiden, Mass. Soviet Republics There are sis republics in the Union of Soviet Socialist Itepbllcs as follows: Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, capital, Moscow; White Russian Soviet Socialist capital, Minsk ; Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, capital, Kharkov; Transcaucasian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, capital, c, American Wheelmen. Have You Noticed? "When I raise my baton each playTiilis; Turkoman Soviet Socialist er is as tense as if he were going to Republic, capital, Askabad; "Uzbek make a speech," says an orchestra Soviet Socialist Republic, capital, leader. But we always think the Samarkand. Within these republics one with the cornet Is getting set to there are 31 minor political subdivisions which are autonomous, hav whistle through his teeth. Life. ing their own locnl Soviets. Any member of the union may withdraw at will. So Consoling Hortense And he has never told me what he thinks ofme, you know. Well er perhaps he Is Marjorie waiting until he ges another girl, my dear. New Bedford Standard. Give and Take The best way to enjoy life to the full Is to remember that it Is a measure to be filled and not a cup to be drained. 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Los Angeles Herald. You see, golf Ig the only game extant which combines exercise and at the same time assuages the sense of sin. Not only Is the competitive feature of it underscored and doubled, for you are also always competing" against yourself, but there Is invariably enough misery attached to the e usual game to placate even an Presbyterian. Moreover, your sins find you out. for They are there, unconcealed, everyone to look nt. And there's no wiping them off. You cannot erase a bad shot by a good shot as you can In polo or tennis. Golf Is a grand game for those races not yet able to consider painless pleasure as anything but sinful. It Is morose, sullen, and gives the Impression of being worthwhile; the last a very Important consideration to the average man trained to business standards. Golf as played by the average business man is certainly not a recreation, Struthers Burt asserts, writing In the Forum. Anyone who has seen weary, and sometimes obese, business men an'ive on a train and Immediately iry to kill themselves by two games a day will not long cherish the Idea that this is pleasure. For the average business man, retired or not, golf is a substitution, not a recreation. It Is a substitution for business and as now played for the most part Is more like business than any other game. It was first made popular by a conscience-ridderace, the Scotch the more placid Dutch, having invented it, promptly abandoned It; and as soon as they were given the chance, the conscience-riddeRut, of course, an old bachelor English and Americans took it doesn't hold his own. up enthusiastically. Firit Concrete Road The first concrete road of any consequence In the world was constructed In Detroit, and was eleven feet wide by one mile long. The American Magazine, In a study of modern road building, tells the story of his Initial experiment. It wns fathered by Ed IHnes, a Detroit printer and an enthusiastic bicycler, who bad become president of the Leagna of rail-roo- (Q, NO RECREATION IN GOLF, SAYS WRITER well known. became work Good News for Lovers of Horticulture. 23, 1840. When the railroads came, Twitchell turned to the new mode of transportation, and became first president, of the Boston & Western and the exchnse of many seeds'and plants, that Mr. P.artram's land, FINE OLD GARDEN TO BE "RESTORED" - ' . |