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MISS SCOTT WILL
CONTINUE FLYING
Aviatrice. 'in Air When Miss
Harriet Quimby Was Killed.
Still Nervy.
The following article was written by
■Miss Blanche Stuart Scott, the only
surviving woman flyer in the United
States, the day after she had seen her
as comrade. Miss Harriet Quimby, fall
1.000 feet to her death at Boston. Mi.-s
Scott was in the air when Miss Quimbv
took the fatal plunge..
By BLANCHE STUART SCOTT.
I have just come back (from Squan
tum field, where I made a flight today
over the very spot where Miss Quimby
and Mr. Willard met death last night.
T feel pretty shaky, but I-am going to
stick to the game. I flew today simply
because I wanted to show them that a
woman has the same kind of nerve a
man has. None of tis wanted to fly
very. much. We all would rather have
made this a day of rest In honor of the
dead. But we thought it would give
people more confidence in the new
science if we flew. ,
It was a horrible catastrophe that T
can hardly get out of my mind. I was
the. only one flying when Miss Quimby
got back from her flight to the Bos
ton Light. As I saw her coming I was
filled with admiration for her wonder
ful pluck.
The flight to the Light is one of the
most dangerous undertakings. There
is no more perilous flight fn this coun
try. It has only been done three times
before, and then by Grahame-White
and "Tommy” Sopwith. It is over
twenty miles of territory that is sure
death if the aviator falls If the craft
is not wrecked in the. shallow water it
can only land on tflny rocky islands
that would utterly smash a machine
Unaware of Tragedy.
As 1 saw Miss Quimby skimming
back toward the aviation grounds 1
was fervently glad that she was safe.
When I saw her circle, over the safe
ground of the field I had not the slight
est doubt but that she would come
down safely. I did not know she would
attempt to make another circle of the
course.
When she was over the field she x had
her craft 5,000 feet I was only
'2OO feet up and I got away so that she
would have plenty of room to land her
big craft. I was just turning the west
ern pylon with the intention of landing
•when I saw the crowd all rushing for
the gateway. It looked as If something
unusual had happened, but I supposed
that It was only the unusual interest
of the crowd in Miss Quimby’s mag
nificent flight.
1 finished my circle in order to land,
without knowing what had happened
If by any chance I had witnessed the
catastrophe I have not the slightest
■doubt there would have been two ac
cidents. I am sure it would have un
nerved me completely In the air. , I
don’t think I could have stood it. Im
agine seeing a man and a woman pitch
headlong out of the same kind of craft
you are riving?
Swoons As She Lands.
By some uncanny flash of intuition
I seemed to know that she was d»ad
when I struck the ground As 1 was
looking at the crowd on the beach
some one rushed past and shouted,
"Miss Quimby is killed.” For a mo
ment everything went black before me.
I sank back In the seat of my aero
plane. When I came to my senses Mr.
Martin was fanning me.
Miss Quimby was one of the finest
fivers in America. She had wonderful
nerve. If her ability to handle the par
ticular craft she was flying, when she
was killed, had been equal to her nerve.
1 do not think that the accident would
have caused her death. The trouble is
that she had driven the craft only four
or five times before she made the flight
■to the Light.
It was a Speedier machine than she
"as used to. When poor Mr. Willard’s
body was pitched out of the craft the
balance was upset. The horror of it
must have unnerved her to such an ex
tent that she forgot to jam her rudder
up.
I was the first woman in America to
drive an aeroplane and I am the onlv
"oman pilot left. But I am going to
continue to fly. The game needs the
sacrifices.
dog guards master
TAKING NEEDED SLEEP
MEMPHIS. TENN.. July po
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lim loung the dog’s owner, had been
-“ring the sights, and crawled under a
muse to sleep His dog sat down outside
keep watch After the**policemen had
broken some window glass and imperiled
several pedestrians with their revolver
-hots, the dog trotted off. and Young was
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HELEN KELLER AMAZES
TEACHERS' GATHERING
BY A PUBLIC SPEECH
MISS HELEN KELLER—PubIic-
Speaker! The marvelous blind
and deaf girl, dumb till now
through her deafness, has not only
learned to talk, but to speak in public.
At the sessions of the American As
sociation to Promote the Teaching of
Speech in the which just closed in
Providence, R. 1.. Miss Helen Keller ad
dressed the delegates twice.
The first day she spoke she delivered
an address of three or four hundred
words. It was an expression of exqui
site sentiment.-
"Through isolation. silence. dark
ness." said Miss Keller, "I send forth
a winged word: its pinions are crip
pled but somehow it flies and reaches
another heart."
That sentence along from her speech
told a story of pride and pathos, one
which touched the audience infinitely.
The next day Miss Keller recited a
poem. She chose for Iter recitation
Henley’s "I Am," that breathing of an
Indomitable spirit which concludes
thus:
"I am the master of my fate.
'I am the Captain of my soul.”
There was none in the audience but
who realized that the lines applied with
peculiar force to the blind and deaf girl
who had mastered speech at fearful
odds.
Professor J. W. White, of the New-
England Conservatory of Music, who
has been giving Miss Keller lessons in
speech twice a week all the spring, is
delighted beyond words.
Speech Now Clear.
He, has told friends that Miss Keller
speaks so as* to be understood, though
at first none but Mrs. John Macey,
with, whom she lives, could get her
spoken meaning.
For years Miss Keller has conveyed
her thoughts only by the "finger talk.”
She would tap her sensitive, finger tips
on Mrs. Macey's wrist and the latter
would talk back to the girl the same
way.
It is utterly impossible, for Miss
Keller to hear. So the tremendous dif
ficulty of teaching her to talk is ap
parent.
The girl’s vocal organs are sound
and normal. The trouble was that she
did not know how to use them. She
did not know how to shape her lips and
how to enunciate. She could make the
vocal sounds, but could not make them
rightly.
Professor White went down to Wren
tham twice -a week. Sometimes Miss
Keller came to Professor White's studio
for vocal expression in Boston. The
lessons were pursued patiently. That
is the way she has learned. And she
was pitifully eager to learn to talk.
Speech Comes at Last.
Finally speech came. At first it was
"clouded.” so to speak. Only Mrs. Ma
cey could really understand her. But
the girl overcame that. Her articu
lation became more clear and firm. She
practiced incessantly. It was felt that
her first appearance in public should
be before a body of those who have
been associated w-ith the deaf.
In the first place, they could more
readily understand Miss Keller. In the
next place, they have a warm and per
sonal interest, as teachers of the deaf
MAIL TRAIN MAKES
RECORD OF 30 DAYS
ON SCHEDULE TIME
CHICAGO, July 4.—The Chicago.
Burlington and Quincy railroad has
just accomplished a wonderful feat of
30 days consecutive on time mall de
livery between Chicago and the Union
Pacific transfer station at Council
Bluffs. ,
The train leaving Chicago every night
at 9:30 o’clock maintains an average
speed of more than 50 miles an hour
and is due at the Missouri river at 8
a. m.
For the 30 days the train not only
reached its destination at the appointed
time, but had made all intermediate
towns on schedule. The train carries
no passengers and is made up of seven
icars devoted exclusively to Uncle Sam’s
use. —.
BIG POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS.
CHICAGO. July 4.—Receipts of the
Chicago postoffice for the fiscal year
ending June 30 shows an increase of
$1,024,655, or 6 1-5 per cent over last
year. The total receipts for the fiscal
year were $20,806,095.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, *ll LY 4. 1912.
and dumb, in the famous Helen Keller.
Miss Keller 'prepared carefully her
brief speech. Standing on the platform
at the Providence meeting the girl
talketj to her audience. Here Is what
she said in her first public address:
Miss Keller’s Address,
Dear Friends —I can not tell you
what a pleasure it is to me to be
with you once more. . Nor can I
thank you too warmly for your
continued interest in me. I remem
ber well the bright June day that I
spoke before you at Mt. Airy six
teen years ago. How strange and
"like a dream it all. seems! That
day I used my defective, baiting
voice to urge that every deaf child
should be taught to speak. Today
my voice is still defective and halt
ing: but I lift it, imperfect as it is.
In praise of the work of the as
sociation. Your progress rejoices
me. and such progress as I have
made is valuable to me because it
reinforces and proves your work.
It has always been a joy to be
able to speak. True, it Is poor
speech. True, only a few near
friends understand me readily.
Nevertheless, whgt speech I hav.e
has meant morg to.nye than I can
ever say. My words are lame and
broken: but they bind me to the
world of men and women. Through
isolation, silence, darkness, I send
forth a winged word: its pinions
are crippled, but somehow it flies
and reaches another heart. With
the first word that unloosed my
tongue began a greater fullness of
life. Before that I had been happy
*" when a flutter of the fingers opened
to me a small part of the world I
was exploring. But the spoken
word —that mighty, thought-quick
ening power—flung back the gates
and gave me a wider access to the \
world of knowledge and compan
ionship..
Praises Her Instructor.
It Is a pleasure and a privilege
to introduce to this association Mr.
White, who is w-orking to improve
my speech. I am glad to be the
bond that unites his art. his skill
to yours. He will explain to you
what he has been trying to do for
my voice, and you can judge how
well he has succeeded; for of that
I have no right to speak. I must
tell you, however, in his presence
that the lessons he has given me
have, been, despite all difficulties, a
continuous delight and Inspiration.
You can judge if my' speech Is
clearer. I know that, thanks to
him, I am free from much of the
discomfort, tension and anxiety
that used to hamper me.
I wish this association godspeed
in its endeavof-s to open the lips of
the deaf. Every time I open my
mouth I shall think to myself, “I
must speak well: I will speak well;
for my success will encourage you
to go forward, touching silent lips'
and setting free mute voices." I
am proud to present to the teach
ers of the deaf my teacher who
has taught many to fill the world
with beautiful sounds, and who has
now become your colleague In the
difficult art of making the speech
of the deaf not beautiful, perhaps,
but clear.
ENNIS AND BALE, OLD
ROME RIVALS, AGAIN
TO FIGHT FQR OFFICE
ROME, GA., July 4.—One of the warm
est races tn the history of the Rome judi
cial circuit, composed of Floyd, Chattooga
and Walker counties, is to be waged be
tween John W. Bale and William H En
nis solicitor general.
Mr. Bale, the incumbent, anounced to
day. Walton Shanklin, a Rome attorney,
will be his assistant if Mr. Bale is elected.
Mr. Ennis, who Is at present state sena
tor from Floyd. Chattooga and Bartow
counties, with Walter Shaw as his assist
ant. will announce In a few days.
Four years ago Bale and Ennis, who
was then the Incumbent, opposed each
other Although Ennis carried Floyd
county by 1,100 plurality, Bale swept
Chattooga and Walker counties and was
the victor.
PUBLICITY PLAN REJECTED.
MACON. GA.. July 4. —The city coun
cil of Macon has refused t$ shed the
light of publicity on its financial de
tails. By a large majority, it lias
rejected a resolution to have all vouch
ers paid out by the city published in
the local newspapers.
MH HELD FOII
STEVENS KILLING
Witness Tells Court Frank Mc-
Donald Slapped and Then
Stabbed Victim.
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Frank McDonald, the restaurant wai
ter, will have to answer to the higher
courts for the slaying of young Robert
L. Stevens, son of Hon. O B. Stevens.
Following a lengthy preliminary exam
ination yesterday afternoon before Jus
tice J. B. Ridley. McDonald was or
dered held on the charge' of murder.
He was remanded to the Tower with
out bond and today awaits action by
the grand jury
The evidence showed that the trag
edy grew out of a quarrel that start- j
ed in a downtown saloon between Stev- j
ens and W. A. Fowler, a bartender,
who was drinking at a table with sev
eral companions. After the party had
repaired to the corner of Peadhtree
street and Auburn avenue, McDonald
and became involved in a dis
pute and the cutting followed.
Paul Harrison, a salesman, gave dam.
aging testimony against McDonald. He
said he was not with Hhe party, but
was walking past the corner when
Stevens called to him. He said Mc-
Donald slapped Stevens, and that when
the latter resented it, McDonald slash
ed him. He said Stevens had no wea
pon.
Attorneys J. D Kilpa'trick and J. S.
McClelland appeared for the prosecu
tion. while McDonald was defended by
Attorney William M. Smith.
Mrs. Mary McDonald, mother of the
alleged slayer, was in court and sat
close beside her son throughout the I
proceedings
SEEKS HIS WIFE AND
CHILDREN, MISSING
MORE THAN MONTH
C. W. Mills, 55 Luckie street, today
appealed to the police to aid him in a
hunt for his wife and two little chil
dren. who, he says, have been missing
for more than a month. The children
are John, aged ten years, and Varah.
five years of age.
Mills explained that he and his wife
are separated and that the two children
have been living with Mrs. Mills at 21
Glenn street. He said that on June 1
Mrs. Mills left the Glenn street house
with the children and since nothing hag
been seen or heard of the trio.
"I want to see my little children, and
will spare no pains nor' expense to find
them." said Mills. “My wife had no
right to tantalize me in this way. I
can't stand this suspense I must\find
my -children.”
HIGHEST BUILDING IN
WORLD IS UP 750 FEET
NEW YORK, July 4.—The last steel
girder In the mammoth 55-story- Wool
worth building, the tallest building in
the w-orld. had been riveted today, and
an American flag hoisted on a steel
pole that rises X 1 feet above the top of
the building.
This tremendous "Old Glory” is 24
feet long and 12 feet w ide. When com
pleted, New York's newest skyscraper
will have cost approximately $13,500,-
000—for land. $4,500,000; for founda
tion. $8,000,000. Work was begun No
vember 4, 1910. It stands on a 200-
foot plot at Broadway directly oppo
site the postoffice.
The structure Is so tall that even
New Yorkers stop and look up at It in
amazement
LUKE E. WRIGHT, JR.. DIES.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N." Y„ July 4.
Luke E. Wright. Jr., son of the former
"Secretary of war and governor general
of the Philippines, died suddenly of
heart disease at his farm at Bookman.
Dutchess county. He was 35 years old
and leaves a widow.
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