HOI OES OH OCH OTB OO HEL ODO O War Ti nes and Rescued Man; Shows Wonderful! OIRO 0 LHI THO TO 0B OHV BOL ORD AB OBD 0 ORBIT They Have Preserved Armies in War Times a by Land and Sea---A Peep Into the Future Work Ahead for Them. SHOEI OES 00 TH OTH O UPTO 0 THOT OT OV OBO IO OD BOC OBO TOT SHO THOT 0 0 OCH 00 05 0 OCH OCHO OCS OSH ¥ cM - i FoR AK same rite, Almost any of the stan- dard aeroplanes 'of the biplane type can be modified so as to afford wecom: 5 modation for two stretchers, which cd PE ---- tet i / ; : : , be 3 } he ideatet under i above the Tower pile. So v : vi gira Fh ll 3 : o sliding into a boxlike arratigement, whic lel Ned BVING lve: 47: sen. will prevent the wounded from tossing A plates may sound strik- while in flight. 2 The first experiment to demonstrate tie possibilities in this respect was made dur ing the French manoeuvres of 1812." Di. people. and it Is amasing, If the short career of the aeroplane is considered, i to find that it bas saved thousands of tives in war and a number of lives in pence time, and that it promises to be the most efficient life saver the world bas ever had. The aeroplane's career ss a sgvier of lives in large number bégan as early as 1011, in the very war in which it first demonstrated its potentiglity as an in- strament of war, and the result shows that its potentiality was greater as an instrument of pencn--a life saver. Those vio followed the development of fhe Italian Turkish war will remember how at the very staft of tle campaign, before the first engagement took plice, the newly landed Italians were sayed from an papleasant surprise by the aerial scouts, Captain Piazza, with bis Blériol, and Captain Moizo, on his Nieupart, who 'ed three advancing columns of Turks and Arabs of abont six thousand men. The Italians, after receiving this ition, could successfully calculate ees and arrange for thelr defence the wing day, October 24, the 3 ra-Seiat, took place, result loss to the Turkish army of men. During the battle fivo aero | Balkan War was that Adrianople, tie Lieutenant Gavottl, with his Ft. Gibraltar of the Balkans, which the Turks and Captain Piazga, were circling were supposed to defend to the last breat} The flights took place above theiof life, was eaptured with little loss of fire, #0 as to be able to direct the life by a comparatively small force. Ti of the big guns from the battle geroplane--even the old type clumsy : CarloPAlberto and also of the moun chines, manned by untrained pilots, used llery. The/fdroplanes were often by the Bulgarians--deserves the greatest by the guns of the etiémy, buf credit for the saving of life and money. b Bo Pesults. The finding of the! The Bulgarian air scouls, thengh un was &n influential event, The!trained in military matters and poorly B at the time was such that with-| equipped mechanieally. went out over {he ont that discovery the Italians would! besieged cify and brought to their eom- Bave met with a defeat which might have manders information which enabled then affected the whole campaign. Thus two to attack the weakest spots. Then others men and two old, half worn aeroplancs|-- messengers of peace, whom humanity io Starting Out to Drop fhe Massage of Peace Over Adrianople, g 5ie g2 HH £5 2 I Emile Raytaonil, r fram the Loire, who Is an aviater of three years' experi ence, was appointed Red Cages scont by ASaill ASail! Canrtess of the Associated Nusday Magy rissa, _-- saved a defeat which might have involved |ehould recognize now that they have sade the Joss of thousands of lives--ns was the! thousands of lives in 'both the Tripolitan lof ease in the Erithrea campaign--at a cost ian and Balkan wars--soared over the city! of Possibly only a few dollars, the pries ond dropped messages to the besiegnd, Life saving in tiwe of peace, while it} of gasolene and oil. which if not of peace, mads for pence. Ove has not attained mere than a fraction Later in the campaign the atfoplane Of these proclamations. urging the be- jp ype poco oo lives saved in war. is the battle to thetr wounded escape" with became a veritable advance agent of tieged to surrender, reads peace, being msed by the Italian officers telling the natives of the Italians' frien. dull witted government officials. tions. This'is » very important nia becabse, as shown Hy France's lohe i shedding of blood. "This war is not against the Mussul- than to drop manifestoes over the encampment | 40S but aguinst the cruel, atrocious and nerds aud known that we also do not desire the perhaps, more interesting to mest people the latter, being closer to. daily! experiences of the general It is, therefore, gratifying fo find that the water aeroplane, the hydro-aero Be it' hublic Our desire is to bring 'plage and the firing boat seem destined phign in Algeria an Morocco, most of 1s 010 the Balkans peace, security and 200d to sass tite: trotble in' eolontes (8 die fo the nafives SOTérmment. The neighboring Balkan The hydro-acroplane began its career ax misunderstatiding the purposes of the in- | States have invaded your country from gp lifesaver in 1011, while still in the ex vaders, who never hare & chance to eof. ®l sides. plain their intentions, The Bulgarian soldiers are only perimental The Arabs in A fo' Hours" march from Constantinopie period, It was duriog the famous Chicago meet an aviator lost con Tripoli were urged to war by the Turks, | Oitt8ide Adriamople there is a ring of ro] while flying over Lake Michigan and who represented the Italians as cruel and 1.000 Bulgarian guns. 1f fdrjunopt : ruinec ant wanting to subject the natives to fierce NOt surrender it =I be treatment. The Italians could never have brrnéd. got near enough to explain their case Had These mesuages were vead by t they not' thotight of couding the aero. sieged, whe learned that the besieger. if planes to drop manifestoes in the Arabs' [stead of being a cruel, arbitrary eneiny, camps. These manifestoe were pried was, in theory at least, a friend. e does fall into the water. Three-quarters of a mile away there was a hydrocaecsplane, the early Curfiss inodel~the prototype of he be. the 'figing boar--oireling around 'and oe: water like ~ big seagull. The pilot of this The craft, seeing the aviators fall. went to the in Arabic, 480 the Followitix translitibis moral effect produced by these messages, rescue. [figing 4f a mile 8 minute speed. were made from the Frenth translitivus Weakened (Bs defence and, no doubt, he reached fhe spot, landed on the water easionally settling on the surface of the, machine and flew to the man in the water, who could be seen from the club station Alighting in the hydro-neroplane on the water near Strohbach, the aviator first threw a life preserver to the Young man, who was. scarcely able to. keep afloat, then, bringing the wmachifie alongside, managed to get him aboard one of the floats of the biplane and brought him safely to the Wright station Boats leaving the shore did not reach the scene of the accident until the hydro- aeroplane was well on ite way to shore with the rescued Mr. Glenn H. Curtiss, the dean of water flyers and 'creator of both the bydro-aeroplane And firing hoat, was the hero. of a life saving act last June, reseu- tig two occupauts of a broken dotvn motor boat with the big four passenger flying boat of Mr. Harold F. McCormick. Mr. Cortiss and Mr. C. 0 Witmer were Charles Wald. in a'Wright hydro-aeroplane rescuing a man who aad dropped in the Sound from a boat Arrangement to carry from four oa wounded at one tims din warfase. ing It. 8 range of vision of miles, and! Medical Inspector Troussaint, '© whe could have found the survivors where | charged him with the task of 'finding the vessels did not see them. It would three hundred bodies of supposed thug practically have superintenged the! wounded distributed on the batiletietd, work of life saving. |In a few hours he reported with 2 map Eich year there is a Tong list 'of people of the field, showing the epafs "where! odo are drowned from falling overboard | two hundred of the "wounded™ wee lying % from large vesels and who cannot pe and expressed regrets that somehow fe With all the navies working (o develop) reseed in time to save their lives, 'the did not seem to find the othe hundred. means for launching aeroplanes from bat! boat sent to save them reaching them too| To his surprise the pgs 17 aol tle ships and receiving them back, it is late to be of avail, A firing hout can|mMented him warmly and told him that safe to suy that the problems connectel be lavnched and ean search for the per-| they had not been able id distribute the therewith will be solved very soon. Then sen thar has fallen overboard and can other hundred "wounded. liers will carry aeroplanes to use for car- drop a safety belt or land by and pick! It is ontemplated in France to employ tying despatches and for general pilet him up much faster than the fastest life Aeroplanes for carrying wounded from duties saving boat. {the field to the fied hospital. Sue ii Just as the water aeroplane is a wonder The sea is an unkuown quantity fn Plane intended for + i ae a ny 4 ful auxiliary of the navy, it is a wonderful many respec and the biggest 4 a Plane cantying x Yoxlike we ri a auxiliary for oc2an liners, promising to af- ships is very much at its mercy, and} ics windows wider its fusehife ike ford to passeuger carrring ships services assistance of {he Kind which the flying] Thus method has greatly een § ddl of the highest kind. To those who are ac- boat affords is a necessity," A tessel at| POR by Dr. L. E. Johnsohi, of i quainted with marine travel the services sea ofien meets signs of wrecks or it is| LELOM D. C., a tember of the Asro lib which the airboat or hydro-acroplane can signalled by craft in distress, At the of America, who has developed » biplane tender become at once apparent. Nothing present time there is no war {6 ivesti- which can be equipped with four of 'the can sarpasy the acroplane in efficiency for gate such things without Snvolvipg Stokes split stretchers, invented by Spi this use. It can carry from two hundred great delay or putting the craft itself in|%%°8 General Charles nein Proken of to five hundred pounds of mail matter. danger through taking it put of its| the United States Navy. noted The water aeroplane Tw destined to per' markad rote. which ix the safely zone. | The stretchers are secured (0 tne planes form a wonderful mission as a life saver A flying bant can do all these things for bY Straps, snaphooks and ng ree snd and avetter of disasters as an auxiliary the vessel. It can be launched with two Are edsily transported," ats of de of oiean liners. men, ane of whom seatohes 'the surface] tached. By this method an aviator and and given for publication by the Conn {made the capture of Adrisnople possible! by the submerged aeropinne and offered stllor for the Turkish Embussy in Wash {8 month sooner than it otherwise would! to take the aviator The tery first mani- have occurred, and the deferiders did novi thixn ons minite! fastoes told" of the Italian victories nud!sacrifice themselves in number in an at-| ington, Rall Bey. morglized as follows: "All this indicates that God is the pro-| tector of the Italians. As [or the Turks. they have the habit of lying and they will fell you that these things are not true But we swear that al] these things Are) tries O Armbe, do lives to danger! © Arabs, hasten, come 10 ub, for the end of the war is near!" { Tn ¬her letter Appears thivse i "Bt is certaiy 1140 1B. disp jetorious) Tallnns will alwass won pont maverity | against the Tose Toes they will pro-i ceed with kindness tobard the Arabs, | when they cutsider as thelr own chil! dren. O Arabs, before the aeroplanes begin to throw their howby which descend | from on high like tlie thinders of heaven, on your heads; agaihilating you and your| domestic' animals, burding your homes | and your craps, destroying your wells and, your vineyards, devastating your 'elds and your gardens, hasten, O Arabs. and fake refuge with ws and you will be! troatéd with . | hs phan in the Balkan War thy aero was a messenger of peace. _ Perhaps the greatest surprise of the f uof expose sour had bean surrounded by rebels to the! The first to land--all in less Some months later, on March 6, 1012] tempt to defend the stronghold | two aFiators Poli in San Diggo Bay while! An admirable feat in saving the lives flying and their machine capsized. An| of five hundred French soldiers is cred:| aviator on "the shore saw the accident, | ited to a single aeroplane of the Freueli! jumped on his hydro with his mechanic Morocco squadron. In December, 1912, ang flew to the rescue, landing a minute 3 column of five hundred French troons|iatér by the "shipwrecked" two. ! demonstration of aciualiy] south of Mogador and for five days somé| rescuing a person wot connected with! cuxiety was felt for their safety. Then! aviation was given on October 10, 1939, Lieutenant Do-Hu, in his Blériot mons-| Ly Charles Wald. instructor in the Wright! plane, was able to convey information to! school of water flying, at the Glenwood' the commander that reinforcements were Country - Club. = A may named Walter close at hand 4nd, encouraged, they re-|Strohbach fell into the harbor from a row. | newed their defence. while the rebels, ste-| boat in which he was seeking diversion | ing ominons signs In the arrival of the with a friend. The rowboat was half a! aeroplane, retreated. mile off the shore at Sea Cliff and fully A similar case was recorded in Novew- | & mile from the Glenwood Cotntry Club, | ber, 1918, when an aeroplane connected when. miscaléulating his . position, Me | with the Spanish forces In Morocco, Strohbach attempted to sit forther om: piloted by the Infante Alfonse, saved aithe stern of the boat, with the result detachment of cavalry that was attacked that he fel} overboard. The cavalry was getting the worst of it| strong current carried them apart. Shouts when the Infante Alfonso chanced to ar. | along shore told of the plight of the young rive overhead in. his seroplane, aceon! man, who was exhausted in the obilly panied by other members of the aerial] water. Mr Charles Wald, legrning of squadron. The Moors were 80 terrified | the occurrence while at the hangar pre. that they fied and allowed the survivors paring to make a flight, Tumped into his | water and stopped near the metor bol. | ufiseen dangers head. Although his by a large force of natives near Ceuta. ! friend tried to reach his companies, o firing over Lake Keuka in the boat to test! The water seroplane is wonderfully ©f the sea with powerful glasses. "The assistant could carry from four Ins it and were running for home ahead of adapted for preventing disasters of the Vessel can proceed on its course; the fly. dozen wounded--according to the size 0 a coming thunder shower when, a mow kind which overcame the steamship Ti-/ing boat will overtake it after having|tbe aeroplane--at cach trip, and as any from shore, they noticed a motor boat in tanic, and, in' opsc sich disasters take! dischurgéd its mission. experienced aviator can land Bis aern- which two men were waving wildly, place, minimize the loss of life. A flying! AS even a special machine and the|Pplane so lightly that one canpot feel the Curtiss brought the flying boat to the boat on a Steathér can: rise to investigate equipment cannot cost more than $10,000, | contact of the wheels as. they touch. the It can'do so ut|it ix evident that it is an absurdly cheap §7ound the wounded would be mich more The men said their motor was broken night us well by using the ship's search: factor of efficiency which every craft ean and they wanted some one Sent out to lights aa tlie aeroplane's searchlight. - In «fford and should have, row them ashore. My. Witmer crawled out] case of the vessel becoming disabled the In the last year a movement bas been " jue on the tail 6f the fiying boat ahd took a aeroplane can fly to notify other vessels, on foot in France to Use aéroplanes in the A number of cases of carrying Yelief to rope from. the motor boat. which he held utilising the wireless apraratus, with Red Cross work, Those familar with| Wounded by aéroplases are on , in: while Curtiss diove the flying boat a which every flying boat is being equipped warface kuow that ome of the horrors! cluding several of officers who pre shot mile to the share, in the foreign navies, to notify the other about it is that the 'wohded must stay|in the Italian-Turkish War, War The motor 'boat was left there and, steamships of the need or of its approach. hours on the field before they are found, taking the men aboard, Mr. Curtiss flew! The most appalling thing in the Titanic .nd- after ther 'are found it usually ve back to Hammondsport. {disaster was that there were a number quires Lours again to relieve them and The airboat and bydro-aeroplane may be of steamships within call distunce--some| take them (lo (he camp hospital, and the sald (0 he the logical adjnnct of life saying Bot as much . as forty miles. Away joiting of the means of conveyance used stations and, therefore, absolutely neces-| Which the wireless telegraph di not and the length of Lue required to con- sary. As ag essential purpose of a life | reach in some eases because it became) vey them across fields and places ereate saving station is to relieve wrecks and disabled as the ship sank. A fiying host indescribable suffering and are the cause save people from drowning, speed in doing | COuld have covered the forty mi: In 188%) of mueh loss of life. The aeropline lends it fs the cssance of efficiency. The aeto-| an hour, while its wireless plant jiseit perfectly to relieve these conditions plave=--ths water kind--is revolutionary | would have notified the other vessels as it| ang practically, removes all of the hor In this meneet. Tt can fy to the spot Prodeeded onward. The. wireless appa-irors indicated. © As we know, the air "here relief is nooded ot the rate of a mile |ratiiy with which the British naval aero-{ man from. an sititude of one. thonsand |e a minute, and the airman who sees every lines: are equipped have a range of feet has u clear view of the detail of what goes on below 'can either Sixty miles. miles of country. over which land by the object of. resce or just drop! A flying boat on the vessels that came at a speed of sixiy or more or life belts, ropes, food, medicine or stimu-{to the rescue after the Titanic bad}an hour. At that rate a Red" Cross laats--according to the urgency of the sunk could bave searched 'the surface|can find the wounded in a few! needs. of the sea for survivers, its altitude wiv-land can carry them to the hospital st'