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ZZIB CT AN the hydroaeroplane!”
• • |a/l That will be the cry
|W B along our coast when ship
wrecked vessels are pound
ing on the reefs.
A simple yet nearly tragic incident
at Sea Cliff, Long Island, on the 10th
of October last demonstrated most
emphatically the practicability of an
airship with pontoons—a hydroaero
plane—as a life saving apparatus,
writes Roy L. McCardell in the New
York World.
Walter Strohbach, aged twenty
three, a chauffeur of Flatbush, has the
distinction of being the first person
rescued from a watery grave by means
of a hydroaeroplane. The greater dis
tinction of being the first hydroaero
plane operator to save a drowning man
comes to Charles Wald, aged thirty,
enthusiastic aviator.
Strohbach was upset from a row
boat during bad weather in Hempstead
harbor, and "Wald, a mile away, con
ducting experiments in a thirty-five
mile an hour gale, swooped down in
his hydroaeroplane upon the exhaust
ed and sinking man and saved him.
Since this repeated dem'onstrations
prove conclusively that the hydroaero
plane not alone can be used to rescue
men overboard, but is available also
to save imperiled persons from doom
ed ships on lee shores in the wildest
weather.
For Coast Guard Service.
The matter of the efficacy of hy
droaeroplanes as coast guard life sav
ing appliances has been brought to
the attention of the United States gov
ernment and the Volunteer Life Sav
ing Service, and efforts are being made
to put hydroaeroplanes Into practical
life saving service along with the life
boat, the life-line and mortar and the
breeches buoy.
Let Wald, the aviator, tell the story,
for I went out to his hangar at Sea
Cliff and discussed the matter with
him.
The hangar is a wide, low shed by
the waterside, with rolling doors that
open the front to permit the wide
winged hydroaeroplane its entrance
and its exit.
But Wald? Well, Wald Is a boy
of thirty. That Is, he has a man’s
years upon him, but his every action
and all his enthusiasm are boyish.
Consider a smooth faced little fel
low, sallowed by the sun; his height
five feet five; his weight 130; small
hands, small feet, sinewy and alert; a
quick but quiet way, the confident air
of the mechanic who knows —that’s
Wald, the aviator, first man to save a
life from a flying machine.
“Strohbach?” he said in response to
my first question. “Well, he was a
chauffeur holidaying out here, and he
went out into the bay in a rowboat in
a rising gale and got capsized.
Saw Man in Danger.
“I was just shoving my machine out
of the hangar,” said Wald, taking me
to the waterside and pointing out over
the Sound, “and had taken the water
when I heard the cries of people along
shore who had seen the accident;
these and the drumming of ^et down .
the plank causeway told me something
out of the ordinary was taking place j
out on the water.
“A glance down the cove and out
upon the rougher water of the bay
showed me an overturned rowboat
with a man clinging to it, while a
hundred yards away and being carried ।
further out by the strong ebb tide I .
saw, bobbing up between the white
caps, the head and splashing arms of a
man who was giving every evidence
by the awkward energy of his actions
that he was an inexperienced swim
mer.
“I threw the motor over and the
propellers began to hum. Another half
minute and the machine was moving,
gaining speed at every turn. The pon
toons hit the whitecaps at the mouth
of the cove and the old water bird
skipped like a hard flung flat stone ;
from wave to wave. She looks like
she is bumping the bumps when she
does that, but she rides like a feather
bed in twice the gale this was.”
Made Two Miles in a Hurry.
“When I first sighted the overturn
ed boat,” he went on, "it was about
two miles away. The spray from
where the pontoon bows struck the
water stung my face and showered
over the planes, but with a hop, skip
and a jump, and riding like a rocking
chair, the old flier hit the high spots
on the bay, and before you could have
counted a hundred I was within fifty
feet of the struggling Strohbach, now
almost all in and going under.
“I could see his friend, who was
still clinging to the capsized rowboat,
was in no danger, and that motor
boats were being started up along
shore to get to him, so I kept my eye
on the weakening man in the water,
and shouted to him to hold up.
“Then I shut off the motor, and turn
ed the rudder so that we scraped the
right pontoon within eight inches of
him. As soon as I had stopped the
engine I stepped down on the frame
that holds the aeroplane to the pon
toons, and, as we went past the man
In the water, I reached down and got
him. He grabbed my hand and held
on like the proverbial drowning man,
and the impetus of the moving ma
chine carried us still Into the wind for
Out over a surf that no lifeboat
could be launched through the life
saver aviator will fly, taking the life
line.
about fifteen feet, when the drag an
chor of his bulk in the water stopped
our headway, and the thirty-five mile
wind we were going into began to
blow us back.
Completed Work of Rescue.
“I let the man get his breath and
strength as we drifted back, and then,
bringing him around between the pon
toons helped him up into the passen
ger seat. He was weak and full of
water, and he wasn’t quite aware of
what had happened to him until I got
the engine started again and brought
him back to the hangar.”
Wald led me back to the hangar and
we went inside and looked at the
winged thing.
“It was an important day for Mr.
Strohbach of Flatbush,” resumed the
little aviator as he patted a water
warped plane, “but\it was of equal
importance to the thousands the hy
droaeroplane is going to save from
drowning from this on. I could have
picked up ten Strohbachs and brought
them safely to land, and I could have
picked them all up, one after another,
and saved all ten at the same time.”
He picked up a piece of oiled waste
and rubbed the brasswork of the mo
tor as he talked.
“Os course with ten people the hy
droaeroplane wouldn’t have risen up
into the air from the water, but the_
buoyancy of its pontoons and the
strength of its engines would have
been sufficient to bear us all up and
bring us all in.”
I then questioned him about real
rescue work by hydroaeroplane at sea.
What Hydroaeroplane Can Do.
“The hydroaeroplane will not only
pick up the man overboard, as I pick
ed up Strohbach,” he replied, “but it
can operate in a gale and go out to
sea in the teeth of a storm and take a
line out to a wreck. Not only that,
but it could come along the lee side of
the wreck and pick up men, women
and children who might be lowered
over the side.
' “When a ship goes ashore in a
storm a few’ years from now,” he said
enthusiastically, “the cry will not be
‘Man the lifeboat!’, It will be ‘Man
the hydroaeroplane!’—maybe the
coast guards will just shorten the
word to ‘plane.’
“Anyway, there will be the doomed
vessel pounding to pieces on the reef,
and here, from the hangar at the life
saving station, will come the ‘put,
put, put, of the hydroaeroplane’s mo
tor, and out over a surf that no life
boat could be launched through and
over a stretch of raging sea that no
life line mortar could throw its lead,
the life saver aviator will fly, taking
the lifeline and bringing back cargo
after cargo of precious human lives!”
He got up In the driver’s seat and
worked the levers of the winged thing
as though his eyes were on just such
a scene.
“Big ocean steamers could easily
carry several hydroaeroplanes,” he
said, coming back to his quieter man
ner. “The experiment of flying from
and landing on a ship at sea has been
repeatedly made. An aeroplane on
the ill-fated Titanic would have
scouted out and brought rescuing
ships out of the ice field.”
“But suppose it is a real storm, a
tempest?" I asked.
“It must not be thought that an
aeroplane and a hydroaeroplane can
not be flown into a gale," he answered
readily. “The storm that might dash
a land-flying machine against trees or
buildings would have no effect on a
hydroaeroplane with sufficient water
surface to maneuver on.
“I have etsted this machine, and It
is an old one of no great power, in
forty-mile an hour storms. They all
work all the better into head winds;
though, according to the velocity of
the wind, their speed forward is less
ened.”
We left the winged thing and game
out of the hangar to the light and
water.
“As matters are now, the work of
our coast guards is hampered during
a shipwreck off shore by the limited
efficiency of the lifeboat and the
breeches buoy,” said Wald as we
walked down the launching rails. “As
an auxiliary life-saving apparatus a
hydroaeroplane would be the means of
saving thousands of lives. With a
surf too high to launch a lifeboat,
with the reef on which the ship is
wrecked too far out to fire a lifeline
to, the helpless life guardsmen have
stood and watched scores of ships bat
ter to pieces while they have been
helpless to save.”
Sees Future for Machine.
I asked him how long he thought it
would be before the hydroaeroplane
would be part of the United States life
saving equipment.
“In, five years,” he answered quickly,
“and^it should be in one. Every life
station along our coast will be equip
ped with a hydroaeroplane in that
time, and every great ocean steamer
■will be compelled to carry a hydro
aeroplane as it is now compelled to
equip with wireless.”
Young Mr. Wald, hydroaeroplane
life saver, knows something of the
sea and ships. He was seven years
in the United States customs service,
three of these In the Philippines. He
is a guaduate in mechanical engineer
ing of the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.
At present, he told me, he is taking
a thorough course in astronomy and
navigation, as he fully expects to be
the commander of a passenger-carry
ing life-saving-at-sea transatlantic air
ship by the time he is forty. \
“It is coming in ten years sure!”
said the enthusiastic young Mr.
Wald. “I’ll lock up the hangar and
walk to the station with you. I’d take
you home with the old waterbird, but
I can’t land on land on pontoons, you
know!”
Were Longfellow alive today he
could amend “The Wreck of the Hes
perus” thusly:
"Then up spoke an ancient sailor
Who had sailed the Spanish Main,
‘Though the storm is wild, we’ll save the
child
With the Hydroaeroplane!’ ” ’
TOOK PHOTOS IN THE HAREM
Traveler Was Granted This Extract
dlnary Privilege in Algiers Be
cause He Had Gray Hair.
This was in the city of Algiers, in
that wonderland of north Africa. Not
in the beautiful, new French quarter,
with its wide streets and fine build
ings, but in the old Arab town, with
narrow alleys and ancient crowded
houses^ foul with the unremoved filth
of years. The ladies of our mission
had long searched for a house in the
native quarter which they could hire
for the purpose of holding meetings
with the native women and classes
for girls. They finally secured one
where the blind woman lived.
I was asked to visit it and take
some photographs, says a writer in
the Christian Herald. This was a
most extraordinary thing, for a man
to be allowed to visit the apartments
of the women and take their photo
graphs. The privilege was secured
by each of the married women asking
the consent of her husband, assuring
him that there would be no cause for
jealousy, since I had gray hair, and so
must be an old man.
The street was reached after passing
through a maze of bazaars, alleys and
little squares. It was a steep flight
of stone steps between high walls,
having here and there a heavy nail
studded door and an occasional win
dow high above the walk. A knock on
the door was answered after a short
wait by a timid hail from within, of:
“Who is it?" then another wait while
hurrying feet went to carry the mes
sage. A second call from within to
make certain that all was right on
our side and our door opened cau
tiously, for me to enter, but not for
my guide. Though he was a Chris
tian Kabyle, he was a man, a young
man! Under no circumstances could
he be admitted to the women’s apart
ments of a native house.
Their Welcome.
On the arrival of the duke and
duchess of Connaught in Khartum
three years ago, it was thought by
the troops, says the Egyptian Gazette,
that It would be right to decorate the
place is much as possible. Accord
ingly, with infinite pains, a triumphal
arch was erected, to the great satis
faction of all concerned.
A picture of the queen and the
prince of Wales graced the arch, but
no pictures of the duke and duchess
were to be obtained for love or money.
Advice was therefore sought from one
of the English sergeants, and he ad
vised placing a notice between the
two portraits referred to bearing the
inscription, “Let ’em all come.”
This was accordingly done, much
to the amusement df the duchess, who
insisted on taking a snap shot of the
arch.
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The model below Is the Richelieu turban, named after Cardinal
Richelieu of France. It is composed of red silk crown, denoting the Car
dinal’s color, puffed and bound with a gold embroidered band. The brim is
slightly rolled on the front and sides. The model above is wearing anoth
er style turban hat constructed of fur with a feather standing out at side
which will be worn at social functions, being specially fitted to go with low
cut gowns and scarf drapery. The hat can be pulled down over the hair
to be in style.
PLAIDS ALWAYS IN DEMAND
Now Bid Fair to Be More the Rage
Than They Have Been for
Some Time.
The material most commented on
at present is Scotch plaid, which Is al
ways associated with autumn, says the
Indianapolis News. Numbers of fash
ionable women are ordering two skirts
with these new plaid costumes. The
semi-fitting jacket covering the hips
is worn with a short skirt made for
the country. The material just touches
the ankles, and the trimming consists
of a wide box plait, back and front.
The same box plaits repeat them
selves on the second skirt, ordered for
town wear. Below the knees starts
a flounce of the plaid material with
narrow box plaits touching one an
other. This flounce adds extra width
to the new autumn skirts.
Straps in plaid trim the jacket at
the back, starting at the side beneath
a long, square steel buckle. A couple
of revers in surah widen as they cross
the shoulders and form a hood ending
in a point at the waist. One large
plaid button fastens the jacket below
he bust.
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The coiffure matters not at all with
one of these quaint new evening caps
which are much the fad for theater
wear. The cap is made of pearl bead
ed gold net, which is mounted over
thin silk. Heavy pearl bead and tas
sel ornaments at the sides drag the
cap down over the ears. The hair is
softly waved and drawn fluffily beyond
the edge of the cap.
DESIGN FOR SILK STOCKINGS
Oriental Characters Are the Latest to
Be Used by Those Who Like
Embroidery.
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Girls who are fond of needlework
■will want to embroider themselves
two or more pairs of silk stockings
in the now fashionable Oriental de
signs.
Select a good grade of silk stock
ing woven with thread silk, black or
any color you desire; then with a
sharp-pointed piece of tailor’s chalk
outline a design representing some cu
rious Chinese or Japanese symbol,
lettering or number.
These can be found in any Oriental
shop or on a Chinese laundry check.
They are not difficult to sketch, being
for the most part broad lines crossing
each other in a curious manner.
These should be slightly padded,
with very soft darning cotton, so that
the center will be raised above the
outer edge. The embroidery is then
done in fine floss silk, using brilliant
red, green, yellow, purple and blue. All
colors rich in tone are effective, and
occasionally threads of silver and gold
can be introduced in the embroidery.
Care must be taken when applying
the work to colored stockings that the
colors used In the embroidery harmo
nize with that of the stocking itself.
Any color or combination of colors
can be used on black.
Tiny beads and small flowers are
lovely when worked in rich Oriental
colors. For example, a spray of wis
taria is charming on violet silk stock
ings. Cherry blossoms on white or
green, iris on blue or yellow, and the
flaming poppy on black.
When working, an easy way to keep
the stocking taut so the embroidery
will lie smooth is to slip a china egg
or very smooth darning egg into the
stocking, then hold the silk tightly
over that as you would for ordinary
darning. The embroidery will then
be perfectly smooth when worn.
Tinting Lace.
A weak solution of permanganate of
potash will tint laces that deep shade
of ecru so much used at present.
It must be carefully dissolved, oth>
erwise it will produce stains which
are impossible to remove.
Test the dye with a small piece of
muslin before dipping the lace. If the
color is too deep, dilute the solution
until the required hue is obtained.
Never allow the lace to remain in
the dye; simply dip in and out again.
Tea or a solution of coffee is excel
lent to tint laces. The latter pro
duces the fashionable string color.
Lace trimmings to match the ma
terial of the frock are much used this
season.
With two or three simple colors
even an amateur can produce good re
sults.
French Raincoats.
The French raincoat is an excellent
one to wear with fine gowns. It is
made of rubberUed crepe de chine and
peau de sole. These coats are excel
lent protectors, and yet are so light
in weight that they will not leave, their
imprint on a beautiful gown.
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S. B. Hartman, M. D.
medicine in catarrhal conditions,
coughs, colds and grip, and many oth
er ailments to which the family is
subject. But since the change in the
formula of Peruna I do not find it
quite as useful to myself. My bowels
are naturally very active. I cannot
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and was therefore a very useful medi
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new Peruna has a Slight laxative ac
tion, which almost makes it pro
hibitory for me to use. I was won
dering if there was not some way io
which I could obtain the old Peruna
as you used to make it.”
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no, and If you are anxious to get the
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for a good
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home for a num
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