Show LIGHTS of NEW YORK trumbull walter by there Is a faint suspicion in my mind that chat I 1 must be advancing in years because I 1 see things in the newspapers wt which ilch remind me of other things which certainly happened far away find and long ngo ago there I 1 here Is for example the death of that great ligure figure in aviation glenn 11 II curtiss the first elpie I 1 ever saw mr curtiss wits win nt at Bre northern italian city at the foot of the alps that was in 1000 these college boys of today who it eliop op into their planes and drive to a polo watch a boat race or a football game probably dont remember much about such engines as the anzani or tile tho gnome or OP about such aviators as Delar grange Pa catillion rau lhnn rogers sommer lefevbre ferber erber latham atham I and fernandez yet most or of that group gave their t air lives to aviation via t I 1 on before roans wings had grown so strong other oilier great bIr dinen of that day are idill till known because they eventually with big companies to which ahiel they lent their names amo among 9 these tire me the wrights santos Diun dumont ont helry farman the Vol buerlot and nd cerms the first real aviation meet was held in france at relate reims nobody went very far to see that one it was waa felt that tills this flying business was just it a stunt that it never really would be practical but they did pretty well at reims helms so when the second meet was is held in italy at Br brescia we nye decided to go and see seb it brescia wua was crowded we stayed in the same hotel holet with glenn curtiss and some of the other flyers but arrived so shortly before the meet that we were given the proprietors own room I 1 never have forgotten the family photographs on those walls they certainly were not taken by hal or any of these fashionable photographic artists that certainly was a great meet buerlot was there with the little monoplane tit in which lie he had lately flown the channel on that early morning when hubert latham with his larger antoinette tol nette plane wits was waiting for the lie wind to go down domi and the Vol sins henry farman wllbur wilbur wryght and I 1 think santos dumont all ivere were on hand the huge which ran the scale from royalty to peasants caught a sharp breath and then exhaled a united ahl ns as the first plane left the ground our ah was as loud as any of the rest none of ans present generation ever will get that kick out of seeing a man fly the plane have tiny any wheels then it had skids and tw they had to build a tripod and a track to get it into the air it be got off the ground most of the planes had bicycle wheels glenn curtiss won the prize tor for distance flight somebody probably pro bibly latham broke the alie attitude altitude record in a voisin plane lie ile roust must have risen almost a thousand feet glenn curtiss prophesied that the dt daiy diy ay would come when man would fly the ocean people laughed gently at tits his enthusiasm hut but lie he lived to see that day what will this present gen aeration live to see that meet at brescia with t those h os e rickety ilc kety feeble liand hand made planes was only only awen ty tyona oue years ago what about 11 the ie next twenty one years like the man who never deer had suffered from delirium tr cremens tremens tre meus emens we seen anything ani thing yet another thing which takes me back bach through the years Is the earthquake in tile the purple Ap pennine portion of italy they say vesuvius la Is gro growling w ling again I 1 climbed vesuvius once with the last crowd up before it blew its bonnet off that old hill ties has a red hot disposition but the earthquake is what brings back ine memories morles and not pleasant sant ones it happened we were in sicily the year of the earthquake and got into messina as soon as they would let us that was a ure nobody who saw it forgets dead dying and injured homeless frightened people who had lost all they possessed mothers who had lost their children children who had lost their parents great piles of crushed stone plaster and debris where buildings and streets had heen been walls left standing with fragments of floors sticking out and supporting articles of furniture the red bed cross did a good job there but there are aie some things beyond tinman human aid illustrated books book s are coming in again the return of illustrations started with private editions often reprints with new illustrations these sold gold for about 15 but now some of the regular issues of books have pictures illustrating the text at least two of the girls netted in the pollee police raid on farl earl carrells carrolls can Car oils rolls vanities were formerly artists models one of them when dressed for the street Is a quiet ladylike lad j like person happily married who spends her sundays with her ber husbands family in the country in her artist model days das she never posed for or the figure wallace erwins irwins youngest son has just had ills his appendix removed that glies gives the family a batting average of 1000 as both mr and mrs irwin and their other son parted with their a appendixes P es some time ngo ago cc a 1930 1030 boll bell syndicate |