OCTOBKR. 1919 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



A train of cars passed just under us. I 

 looked down and said to myself, " Why, 

 can that possibly be a railroad? " It seem- 

 ed to nie more like a string' of ants follow- 

 ing each other on a black wire and, had it 

 not been for the smoke of the locomotive, 

 1 could hardly- have been sure it was a train 

 of cars. Not far from our factory there 

 was a beautiful little garden, or so it seem- 

 ed to me. There was an oblong or oval 

 road going clear around in the center, with 

 a lawn and trees in the n)iddle. At one 

 side of the yard was what 1 took to be a 

 very pretty and artistic chicken-coop. We 

 passed over it several times, and I was 

 wondering how it was possible that such a 



only dindy. The city of Akron, 20 miles 

 away, was hidden by dense masses oi^ 

 smoke; and, altho the air seemed to be 

 very clear, as it was just after a rain, I 

 was unable to see in any direction more 

 than 15 or 20 miles on account of the 

 smoky horizon. I do not know whether 

 this is always the case or not. 



I was particularly impressed with the 

 wonderful skill with which the machine 

 was managed. t It responded to the light- 

 est touch, not only as readily as any auto- 

 mobile, but even more so ; and instead of 

 feeling dizzy or fearful while up in the air, 

 it occurred to me (and I still stick to it to 

 a considerable extent), that traveling thru 



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 but they said it would be blown off, and so I had to be equipped with a sort of fui-lined hood. The driver 

 of the machine is shown just back of me. The propeller is in front. Does it not really look as if that little 

 propeller was wholly inadequate to the task of pulling that big machine a mile a minute, or more, up in the 

 air? No matter how it looks, the little "whirligig" certainly did "deliver the goods." 



pretty little spot could be so near our fac- 

 tory, and I had never seen it. After T 

 got down and had been inquiring about it 

 some ope said, " That was the fairground;" 

 and what I took to be sucb a pretty fixed- 

 up chicken-coop was the grand stand. I 

 was disappointed because I could not see 

 further awav from Medina. Far off were 

 some beautiful hills and a rocky ledge 

 about 16 miles away. But this I could see 



the air will ultimately be as safe as the 

 automobile, and perhaps more so. When 



tSince the above was dictated I am told that 

 during the three days they were here they carried 

 up something like 30 passengers. The machine 

 with two passengers weighs just about a ton. By 

 means of an aneroid barometer they decided tliat 

 at one time I was up almost 1,000 feet. Further- 

 more, they claimed to have carried 12,000 passen- 

 ger.s on similar trips and that they never had a 

 misliap. If that is true, is it not likely that this 

 ne^v method of transit may be even safer than rail- 

 road cars, electric cars, or even automobiles? 



