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Show AEROPLANE WAS UNFIT FOR TRIP Santa Barbara, Cal., Dec 17. The "Snookums." the hydro-aeroplane that carried Horace Kearny and Chester Lawrence to their fate in the Pacific ocean Saturday, started on the voyage voy-age from Newport Beach to San Francisco Fran-cisco with less overhauling than a street car gets before it takes the track, according to Dick Richards, Kearny's mechanician, who Is here hunting for some signs of the machine. ma-chine. The crank shaft of the machino. Richards said today, was broken Saturday Sat-urday morning and hastily replaced. rue pontoons, one or wmch has been picked up at sea, replaced some broken bro-ken earlier In the week and had not bene tried out. "A heavy sea would have filled them with water," Richards said. "I advised ad-vised Kearny not to start, but he al-wajs al-wajs thought that when he was ready the machine ought to be ready also. "He often went up when I did not expect him to come down alive because be-cause of his disregard for what he considered trifles, such as loose wires or screws.'' i oo |