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HURON NEWS.
Clinton Real Estate 'Ohanges.-Mr:
Kenneth Whitmore has Ipurchasod the
residence 'of His brother, 'Mr. Ray
Whitmore, 'Frederick street„ Clinton,'
and has moved into :it. Mr. and Mrs.
Addison of„Brucelfiulld have puirdhased
Mrs. H!dolper's house an Huron street,
I01initloai and are taking up residence,
there.
Death of J. H. Wise-,Ve'ny quietly;
SS a tired child fall asleep, Mr. Jfchn
Wise of Clinton passed' away last
week. Mr. Wise, who was in his isev
I 'entry-ninith year, had been in failing
'health ' for some years but',wlas much
as' usual and liad nlot •conniplaine'd of
!fee'lin'g tinwelll, On the ;mlonnlnlg of
!his death, his daughter, M'rs. J Ihn
,Tames, with wham he had made ,Isis
hlo'•me for some years, took ;him a'.crup
of tea early, as was her cus.tont,
when he seemed just as usual, An
hour oar so later on'goin'g up with -his
lbrealdfast, She found that his spirit
had flown, Mr. Wise was a native of
iGoderioh tow:nuhhip, •b.eing a son •o':f
the late William Wise, one of the
early settlers iu that toiwns'h.ip. After
his marriage to Miss Minnie Steep,
also a 'G!aderich townehi'p native, they
went to Tuckenemith township, where
they lived; and farmed for many years,
retiring and taleinlg up their residence
in "'Clinton some ;fifteen years or 'so
ago. Mrs. Wise died' six years ago.
He was a member df the Methodist;
,later United, Ohurch, and .since' corn-
ing to Clinton'was connected with
'Wesley -Willis .church and as long as
'MS health permitted he was regular
atten'da:nce. Mr. !Wise is survived
by ;two daughters, Pearl, Mrs, Innes,
Rad Ruby, Mms, L. J. Wa'snruan of To-
'ron'tot One brother, Albert Wise, of
Toronto, also survives. The funeral.
took place on Friday to 'Clinton ceme-
tery,
'Clinton' Tax Rate. — Clinton's tax
rate this year is forty mills, the ;1ow-
est in thirteen years. In 19115 the. rate
was 34 mi'll's .and' in '1919 it went .dawn
+to'219f , in .1920 it was 37, in 1921' it
went to '36 but in 19332 it went up to
411%, and has been clirmbing pretty
steadily ' ever since. Ian 119123, forty-
fear;
ortyfour; 1:924, Tarty -four; 119215, forty-
two; 026, 112%; 1927, fonty-ifive; 119128,
forty-six; 19129, fifty; 11930, forty-
three; 19311, 5120; 1191312, 48%.
(Death of Miss McBrien-!The death
occurred .in 'Toronto of ;Miss Frances
MIdB'rieny eldest daughter of the late
J'olnadhan• and Hannah M'dBlrien of the
Base ''Line, where she was born and
spent her •early life, Later she resided
in Clinton aad for the past tem years
head been' in Toronto w'liith her nephew
and nieces, Dr. Roy Ball and Mrs.
Dot Mall Relict. For the past year she
'head been in failing health. Miss Mc-
IBrien is survived by three sisters, and
'two brothers: Mrs. Frank ?l',df'lveen
SIM Mrs. Thos:. MIcIlveen, Clinton;
!Mrs. ILouces, North Biattleford; Har-
vey MldBrien of Clinton and Aubert
MdBmien of ,Essex. The remains were
brought to Clinton for interment.
Obtained Loan.--ILisso!wel the other
day sudceeded in. 'obtaining a Doan
From the bank and was sable to pay
the lawn officials and .seh!ool teachers.
w,h'o 'had had no pay since the •beg:n-
ning of the year. 'Tlhe hank refused to
advance a loan until the town council
submitted a )budget of expenditures
which woi'id be satisfactory Co'the
bank, anld a number of economies had
to be exercised,
'Thrown From Motorcycle.JWlids'on.
MdOreath,,son of •C!ounte'illlor IH'arry.
rMcOrea!th, Saltford, sustained pain-
ful cuts and bruises to hlis face and
legs when he was thrown from his
Motorcycle. . Willson was travellingi
along Vidtaria street in Gderidh and
struck a dog that'. rant into the path of
the miaclhine. The 'impost threlw then
raider anld several. stitches: were neces-
sary to close the cuts on his •face. N'q
bones were broken, however.
New Garage Firm at Goderich. —
(Fred, Rouse and 'Beg. Blei!l have foam
ped a partners'h'ip and have taken over
the Johnston garage 'on 'Kingstoni
street, Glolerich,
The Federial 'Redistriliution.—Glod-
e:rich, Hlul'ledt and !Stanley 'TownIslhiilpis,.
says the Sngnal','are to be addled' to;
Nlorth it luron, while all the balance of
'South Horan, includ!ing •S'eaforrth,
will be merged with South. Perth.
ACROSS IN R-100
1S'o steady was our ship, 'so quietly
did she t}tlove,, that the first intima
tion of departure was that the 'head-
lights of all. The parked' automobiles
three hundred; feet down, an the
ground, .suddenly seemedto go in ane
direction withrea
g t unauimi'ty. Then
a sound beat on the stoles of our feet
T, I,
It �.asthe row
w r of dh'ousands o
throats and hunidiredls of 'motor (horn
shouting Godspeed,
"By IJlove 1”, said iOolm'ore, very
comfortable /It his civilian tweeds
"weve ,cast off I"
' There was no: dasiputing that. Th
head a'f the lighthouse -lake mooring
mast, to which ewe felt up to this mo-
ment we were shill ,attached like a
s'oa'p bulbbte haft a pipe brim, shaved' a
quarter of a Mile away, a thousand
I, ,i :.t '
Feet b.elaw. Alli-1Glontne�al, blazl>ng with
(bread and brewery ad'veddi•s'imIg and
prickled with Street laalmps beneath
the sign of ;the ondss, was Sliding un-
der us like a' velvet,.gem tray in' a
jeweller's wfn!d'ow. ,Nioeth-west, north,
nonth-east, our bow swung in, a wide
arc, Steadying' on the teasing shafts
'from the St. Lawrence lighthouses,
1
The real adventure tore had
g begun.
(Seventy yearns before 'the date Kip-
ling chase for coming .aver "Wftih the
Ifiidn'ighlt 'Mail"_ from. Caventry to
Quebec—'2000 AciD,—anid .ninety' yearcs
after 'Tennyson 'drop!ped the pilots of
the purple twrli'ght, .R-1100 GRIAJAIV,
largest ;airship in the world, amid Brit-
ish, was commenting the dempleting,
half of the first voyage ever miad'e be-
tween England .and Canada by air.
Not to be cryptic, the time was 'Au-
gust 113, 1930, and a little after 9.30
p.m by theclocks in Montreal,
'There were :Ifilflty-five. aE as in the
12-100. Forty-two rated as crew and
thirteen, as passengers;; coming aboard
on the thirteenth day orf the month,
too, after the. 'slhip had 'heels thirteen
days in the 'country.' Nine o •f the
passengers were special 'correspond
eats for English' and 'Canadian news-
papers. I we's :one of 'these. The •re-
maining four were officers of govern-
ment departments ,anal of the 'Aircraft
•Guarantee Company, \whic'h had built
the :ship, '
1We had been weighed. We had
been inspected for 'matches• and heed -
soled shoes.. Regulaltiou's were as
those of the Medea .and tperslians: ne
tnatdh:e's at all, and a tlh!irty-p'o'ured
Luggage .lim•it, 'G'iorney Bolton o'f the
.Times of India and Yorlesihire Post,
li'mrped about ,in/ his' socks until I
'could lend him' a pair of tennis slhpes.
Peril of .fire .from friction, With nine
thousand gallons of gasoline and' 'five•
million, feet -of hydrogen. packed: in
one envelope ..was the reasiou_for one
restriction. Igo snaking was allowed,.
and all 'heat was electrical. Weight
so carefully Calculated that aur 1980
pounds of provisions were repacked
to save the •acl'dition of their' can -
!Miners.
!Wire( the im'ooring-mast elevator
took u's to the top of the tower we
were led across s swaying' gangplank
into The s'hip, and down a dim cor-
ridor called the catwalk. The' shadowy
path, walled with' canvas, opened into.
a large room, ,brilliantly Lighted, gay
with many chintz curtains, white
walls,
.mahogany trim, and metal
work -o'f, .polished dmdalum'in. The
chintzes • covered) the entrances to
forty - cabins, in place of doors. Out-
side thissalolon and its sunrounlding
statero'o!mis were Ipeomenade decks.
with 'windows, sloped outwards at the
angle established by the sixteen -sided
torpedo -•shaped flaull. Decks, saloon,
cabins, and the crew's' quarters below
were all contained in the lower half
or third of :one traverse section of this
great shell. The canvas envelope, sil-
very in aluminum , paint, was 709
leet'1'ont'g. and' 1131 feet in diameter:
larger than the "Oainadian 13'aalk of
Commerce ,in/ Toronto.. which is the
highest building in the British' Em-
pire. The envelope contained twenty
tithes the spaca of the !living quarters.
(There was a'' small 'tango dolm,par't-
menit, 'b'ut it vias „ empty, save- !for'.
stores.' The only cargo R-1100 was
carrying was one packet of specially;
stamped ielttens., two baskets of
peaches For the Prince of Wailes, and
a box of peonies; for the King. The
peon'ie's were cwt at Rideau Hall on
'IVedues!dl y'a!fternaan, forwarded by
the Govern'or'Ge'nleral by airplane to
St. Hubert 'Field that dray, and deliv-
ered' alt Buckingham Palace the fol-
lowing Saturday morning. The
oeac'hes weite piioke'd and .packed on
'liVednes!day by 'Magma. fruit -growers,
and flown to Montreal. We had lusc-
ious samples of them for dinner twice
in the air. But the 'consignment was
delivered in. Landon intact, and his
Royal iHlighness..'h'ad their for des-
sert Salttirda'y evening, .
�,
R 100's voyage' was :emphlati,cally
no n-carnnie:rcial, 'Hialf-laamtllion '" dol-
lars 'hind. been offered :cls 'freight mon-
ey : for wares ranging : From: wrist-
watches to wa'sh'ing, - machines. An
American advertiser t'eleplhplttred from
Ndw Yonk to Sir IDlenn'isltanun Blarney
;in/ Ottawa, offering his certified
cheque far $!100,'000.fOr the firslt, pas-
sage '110111 !Canada 'to England by air.
His offer, and the freight 'money,
were declined: The voyage, as the
'Biritish, Air Ministry defined, it, "was
a purely experimental one, under-
taken as part of the Ministry's de-
velopment .policy for airs'hip's." The.
experiment and •:the pa•t
passenger is
were 'alike entirely 'Britian:
The s'hinin'g envelope •govered a
framework of duralumin, as silk
clothes the rib's of an 'umbrella. Save
for living quarters and cotnmunica
•tious all the apace within was dlevdted'l
to fifteen gasbags, slung in netted'
hammocks: Spread out they would
have blanketed a ten,aore field. They
held the !five mullion Iculbic feet of hy-
drogen which floated R -1i00 in the air
and gave ;her a 'lift" :of 1156 ton's. The
Ship was navigated front a small
stream -luted .conitrahcar, protruding
from the 6onwa'rd part of the bottom
like a *armies glass bowl withwin-
dows half -way aroumid and' under-
neath. She • i
e was urged through' the .air.
by propelllens, driven by gasoline en-
gines in three gondolas, 'slung out-
side the 'hull; amazingly small in cam-
paris!on with the balk they moved,
'Ground lam'ps and lighthouse's
glided beneath us s'm'oothly. Quite
convin'cin'g was the illusion 'that they,
and not .we, were .,Moving. Very se-
esawing Steadfastness
stair n
g was the utter steadiEastness
of the slhip, her "mdbionl'es's pnag-
ress." Sunfaice craft pitch and ;toss be-
tween two elements, air and 'water:
'An airship, like a submarine, ,rem!ain!s
in ane. Equally steadying was the
nanehalan'oe of the grew. Ere the
farewell tooting from the ground had
ceased 'came bh.e jingle "from tlhe 'low-
er deck of Montreal jazz records
wh'ich. the English- air sailors were
.bringing hoan'e as sou'venlirs 'far 'their
:lasses in Bedford and Cardiagton.
!They were trying oat their' put
chases otn the messro•dm gramop'ho'ne,
w'h'ile, we clove the ,air at a mile a
minute, •deiica!tely poised on a moon-
beam, two thousand feet above the
There was a slight ithrill in 'signing
the roster for pump ditty. All pas-
sengers did that, the steward's ex-
:plain'ed, 'Pt alas to help the crew, in
natation:, pumping the petrol, Our
turns, there being thirteen of us,
would not be frequenit. We would he
called as .required;
We had passed 'Quebec before mid-
right. Very sleepy, and 'having .drop-
pe'd. my 'permitted r'adio:gram in the
wireless !basket, I. :'hun'ted out nay
•to'oth'btulsh and ''pyjamas, washed in
the roo'm.y lavatory 'with its lour *-
basins and mirrors and running water,
and then climbed hate ally sleeping
envelope. This buttoned over :when
you 'gat inside, and 'held mattress,
sheets, blanket, eiderdown, ..and sleep-
er'ald. snug. 'There` were plenty of.
•eabiuls, each with •..•two berths, one
a;bave the 'other. For the convenience
.of 'the 'stewards we doubled up, two in
a room. No parachutes or . d'i'fe.pre-
lservers were visible over ;or under
the bed's, but to 'tell the •truth I did
not 'think 'about either until long af-
ter the voyage was :over, I -had the
upper 'berth, and 'Tont Wayliing the
lower. He was :fast a'sleep when ;I
came to !bed. In a :Lew minutes • I over-
took 'him, I never slept tbetter in nay
life
'Our dining salioan, Thursday aigh!t
mighlt, have been the 'stage for that
one -scene' play, 'Outward -Bound.
(Within seven weeks the' crash of
the 'sister liner R-1011, an' the way to
I'nlia, bled''the 'Britishh, airship service
White. In that crash perished! 'Major
G. Herbert Scott, !Assistant !Director
of 'Aircraft IDevelbpment in the Air
Ministry; IWing 10dm!aaander R. B. IB.
Godmore, Director of Aircraft Devel-
opment; Squadron 'Leander E, L.
.Tohnesto:n; 'Ohi,ef 'Sbe'ward !A, H. Sarv-
•idlge; and lSonty--'one !others, includin'g
Lord' Thamsotns the ,Air 'Mlinfs'fer;
and 1Sir Sefton .13ranisker, Air Vice -
Marshall and Director of !Civil Avia-
tion. With the e:ccepltion nvf 'these last
two, all of 'those named sat or sitaod,
—ifor the c'h'ief •ste•ward waist a• penfecti,
maitre d'h ltel_-around the 'tables "this
night in •R-100; and Lord Thomann
and Slir Sefton Brancker stet us on
arrival' at ICardinigtoln.
Johnston was our navigalting of-
ficer, and he was 'also n'aviga'ting of-
'fcer in !1410'1. ISlcdtt, 'first. of :m:an'-
kind tofly the Atia'n!ti•cJhe 'brought
oat the R-34 from. ;Scotland ,to the
United' 'States in 1919—was in charge
of R -1.00's flight, and of 'RJIOl's.
!Scott told Wile 22-:101''s task would be
much more exacting than• ,our slhi'p's.
&Her •voyage was already planned. 'He'
did not say it was intoos'siiblle, bat he
did not laak fanwa'nd bo it with con-
fidence. Yet he was •merry as a lark.
We !slpent mach of 'this evening:d'is
cuesinlg ,the differences :between - a
forthright .flight, out and hack, across
the o'oean, and a triangular passage,:
wth two 'stops, greatly varying tem-
peratures, and meteorological /condi-
tions- abruptly ..,affeeted,-by alternat-
ing land and water, mountain, plain,
river, 'desert, anti (forest,
'Germane, from: 'tlhe !Asir Ministry,
was ale old' n•avy'man, alike Jlo'hmislbo,n;
sub=lieutenlant •nun 1907, but by )1919,
chlielf. 'staff. officer of ai:ratialft opera-
tions: in the Grand! (Fleet, Steffi, sec-
ond' mate in !R-:100, 'h'ad'been bar -
rowed ' 'Lroen ,R!101 for this voyage
Gibtett, the "weather man," was
an expert rolf the skies; merry, like
(Scott. He was to be found ' . at a I
hours, night or day, ceaselessly draw-
ing aiirscape's in red and green iso-
bars, showing high land law pres-sure
'arenas, through 'wlhidh R4100 threaded
'her way,
:All these 'dined its' our mese th'.at
night, and sat about afterwards, 'pl'aY-
ing a dice-and'-'dbimi'no game called
'Up the 'River", or chetting of wh'a
they hoped regarding a regular At
Mantic airsthip service "`as soon as the
snow leaves Canada next spring," We
debated the p'ossib'ilities and litrrita
Itbons of 'such a service; the 'handicap
of atnehips,!being :able to Nand only
at fixed points, and these fixed: points
requiring mooring masts and per
involving an outlay of wear -
$500,0;a0, as nn !thel case of St. flu-
Ibert's. Floating service-s'tationis o
concrete, mlaoredin, the Atlantic or
maintained in. position by powerfu'
tugs, were suggested, Tihe .adlvantage
of a weekly naiad -trip doros's the
Atlantic, • .penmltting three . days a
shore anld aevalding seasickness was
;weighed against high ini'tial ,co's'ts.
Sir Den-Sisltoun 'Burney, designer of
112-100, and a passenger h'om'e in her,
wished to eoime back as soon as she
could be re -conditioned.
Hie had Matta—to my mind sound
ones --for a service in' bigger, faster
(ships, whidh would' maintain a s'p'eed
of 55 knots, and land one _.hundred'
passengers an the far side of the 'o.•
cean in forty-eigiht 'haurls;: and - .the
price of a passage would he one
•thousan.d dollars.
'Off IBeibi'sh ,intelligen'ce directing
airship development Sir Dennnslboun
Blarney and th.e captain of our ship,
Squadron Leader 'R. S. Booth, were.
the only principals who escaped the
loollocaust of R-101 on a French hill-
side. That is why, at the moment,
'R=100 lie's distmanitled 12 'her shed,
and an Atlantic sdhedule is a shat-
tered dream. She will •return; it will
come true,
Deep laden, under -powered, leach-
ed by unknown leaks, R-10,1 wss
pushed out in adverse weather condi-
tions on an 'advenutu•re that might have
been :magn'iificen.b. ....The Air Minis-
ter issued the ,airworthiness certific-
ate. R-101. went, And he went in her,
R3101 crashed because she was., at
the time, unairweortlhy, if there .be such
a word. But she could have !been
made airworthy. Or another shin
could. be. Her failure was disastrous',
n ot because it destroyed a million
dollar ship, but because it destroyed
public confidence, .individual enthus-
iasm, and much of the air wisdom
gathered in the twentieth. century,
lIn that future=blindness wihidh is
the gift of Gad to man each "carried
on" this Thursday evening as well as
might be, twenity-four hours without
tobaccos We coamesp.ond'ents packed
as much mteanin'g as we .could into
the ninety -word bulletin which would
be our next ration on the radio. It
was one of the great features of .the
venture (that at intervals the ships
wireless, which was in continuous
touch with weather data from hath
sides of the !Atlantic and all th,e
steamers below, was turned ovsr to
us; .subljee,t, always, to navigation
requirements, for it was from these
wireless reports that Giblebt was able
Ito draw his red and green pictures.
'By 'this means millions of watchers
„and. followers heard from us directly
and almost accompanied our flight.
'Johnston had just pricked' our po-
sition as latitude '53 degrees• north and.
longitude 42 west.
""I!f this keeps up" someone.haz-
arded, : "well be .breakfasting in Pica-
d'il'ly ,Saturd!ay morning."
'9If this db'elsn't keep up," said Scott
with a chuckle, spatting a bit of the
,fi've-ply mahogany veneer in prefer-
ence to 'R -100's dural'unin framework,
"we won't want any breakfast"
At the ward alt lights snapped ou't.
Every man larew what every other
man was th'in'king, for he was think-
ing this 'hli.mseilf: IH'ow many seoonds
!before the Atlantic s'pl:asthes ,u'p undler
the table ?
,Every man went on with his yarn,
in firmer tones than before, in• that
:endless' :darkness; except those voy-
ageurs up the river, who taunted ane
another with, being :able to. sec per-
fectly well by the tight of the cigars
they had 'left !behind%
!The purr of the engines had , not
been interrupted. There was .not the
least pitch ar roll or slant or inclini'e.
A slight thickening 'sensation within
the ears told that we were rat los-
Mg- 'height but gaining, We •had al-
ready learned, to cur that 'thickening
by swalio'win:g. •
Then the lights: carne on,
Savidge .ha'd stood behind nay Chair
during ith'e endless 'i'yvio minutes.
'"'Ohanigin'g over ole,engine, sir,"
said he suavely. It was the, p'ra'ctice
Ito operate' three of 'the five' available
engines -the sixth was .being invalid-
ed Iho!m:e—wild ta' meat two. The ex-
planatio'n seemed plausible. Rut
Booth, the 'camlmian'der, had disap-
peared !frons the ,coons,
'"`Pump duty, sir," :said Eldridge.
the captain's, clerk, padding by like a
t'ed'dy bear. I falllowed 'him down the
oriss-orossed • stair, past the chart-
room, through the crew's quarters
below, and out along the fourteen -
inch gangway :of the 'catwalk, It ran
like a tape from stein -to stern, with
open space on either side, interrupted
by struts, wires and girders, and over-
ardhed by the Efteen brooding gas
'bags. Plump by day with tlhe suns
:waatmlth, by 'night they were 'creased
and saggy, like elephants? overalls
'hung' up to dry, .The Whole initerior
was vast and vague in the gleam of
electric bulbs. Water was sloshing
dawn the catwalk ,gradients and dis-
'appearing. with a 'hiss into the dark
space below occupied by the gasoline
drumsb'
'Rain I" Shouted Eldridge. tl0If' the
lights go out 'aga'in, 'hang ow l" He
indicated the quarter -inch lifeline that
,nan on one side of the walk. 1 ' se-
anembered that Giblett had told me
We 'woul'd pick up rain/ this night and
fill our 'ballast tanks,
Ws worked) .aft Ito the increasing
roar of the engine .c'a'rs: bn the
saloon the whole power -plant only
made a pl•eastt'ut murmur: With the
two midehbp gon!d'olas on either hared
and the after one olase under foot the
uproar was deafening. Through the
Vash'ap'ed 'vents in tlhe slh'ipts envelope
the scarlet flatmes" orf their exhausts
could be seen slashing .the night. A
charge-lharrd,. with armoured ear-
drums, .swung •himself down the
stream -+lined led:der off 'the m'anhole,
to 'ba'ke his plane in the 'starboard, •gan-
id'ala 'between the two Rois-IR'oyces
twlhose thunder drove the 'props" at
either end of the car, one pushinlig
one pulling. Elldaidge"s lips .formed a
soundless word, and we fell to work
on the Shining lever of 't the petrol
pump, until 'he, in 'his w,da-lies, ' he -
tet -ate as red -fazed as the flaming ex-
haust.
We were ponaping gasoline from
the slto'ra'ge=tanks on ,the keel to the
service -tank a h'undked feet 'higher,.
which fed it by gravity M the clam-
oring gondolas. Now and then we
would shoot the flashlight on to the
register dial under the walk. Four
hundred gallons 'had to be pumped.,
Suddenly the officer of the watch ap-
peared, with violent gesture and
equally violent but quite inaudible
language. The tank was full and over-
flowing. I't was not "thrift, thrift,
Horatio," that inspired his elo-
quence, bat the thought of what
might happen if the drip connected
with the blazing exhausts.
A bright sun ray slante•' int) me
berth and woke me at 'half -past six.
Saturday morning. We were over the
brown waters .of the Bristol channel.
'A brisk wind was crisping them into
ridges of foam. As 1 dressed, a big '
steamer underneath roared up a wel-
come that made the shaving water
quiver. Ere we went to breakfast we
were passing Ilfracombe. The chan-
nel narrowed to the estuary of. the
(Severn. 1'ire climbed .again to twenty-
seven 'hundlred feet, with nothing to
indicate it but the buzzing in .our ears.
We swept high over coastal steamers,
and their sirens sent up a roar of
greeting. The factory whistles 01
Bristol joined in the chorus,
'Breakfast over, the salt sea was all
behind us. 1We were smtoiothly'boring
above that dear green ground which
is England. Our plump shadbiw was
skipping over 'the loveliest of irregu-
lar fields, :yellow in harvest, green in
pasture, red in pioteghtland, outlined
in rims of jade which were 'hedges.
Round ,topped' trees threw long blue
shtadblws to the west. 'Black ants
crept down white ribblona of road. 'On.
the ground people called them speed-
ing motor cars but although they
were going in the same direction we
were, they floated 'back 110 our wake
like tiny bubbles. Other groups of
red anis' in the green' fields scattered
as our purple shadow passed. They
were caws, Smaller dolls of grey were
grazing sheep. They kept on grazing,
Ey nine o'clock we s'wept over'Ox-
fard, with its dreaming spires and
smoking chimneys, dedicated to the
manu•fa•ctune of accents and Ausitins.
Soon afterwards we crossed, Bedford,
narked by its centering roads and the
sharp spire of St. Peter's. Had Butt -
yen, dreammn'g in the jail below, wak-
ed, to see us• •hurdling tth'e church
steeples at a hundred miles an hour
on our tail wind', would he have
thought Alpoll'yon or a Shining 'One ?
"About •ho!nae," said 'Burney, going
through the motions,—Insotians :only —
of lighting a cigarette,
We were nea'rin'g the new air haven
of Cardinlg1ton, operated front Ades-
tral House, fifty miles away in Lon-
loan; journey''s end for R -l;00.
IA thousand' feet Of wire nope; e-
leals'ed •from our bow, was, trailing on
the ground, disscih!anging the static •
electricity which the ship had ac-
curnulalted in 'three thousand miles of
air friction.
"A'l'l fast below!" the wireless
'crackled, unbelievably soon., and inn-
hned'ia'teby the purring of the cahle
'winch r'esu'med. The ground crew had
caught oar .cable and, shackled it to
one 'la'id out abon,g the ground' from
the top of the nro'oeing mash. Two
winches were wund$mlg' in at once,
ltheirs. and oars. 'We were moored at`:
the other end of the.Atlantic voyage,
.fi'6ty-seven hours after starting.
Aug. `.13611 --'Went up in e'lev'ator•.
IAu:g, li6th—Came, db!wn in life
Yes, I would very glad'y dlo• it again,