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Ml II I : T -"Tr T -rWi ,1. ... .-g n , tt.-M.I, .L .l,i..l,.,L.l. ,.i ...Iiftf .. i -.w.i .4 jv; -,, , - - ,.- IS I M I fliSsilllliliilBllSSl ' Tuesday. September 10, tPis IJf16?f P 1 Tuesday, septem D C II Jl U . lillO v : s American Leader of Airmen Who Downed vonRichthofen Tells How Fight Was Won Capt. LcBoutillier, R. A. F., East Orange Boy, Now Home on Leave, Commanded British Air Squad ron That Rose to Meet the "Flying Circus," Smashed It and Drove It Back on Crippled Wings, Leaving Behind Its Fallen Leader Who Had Led It into Battle for the Last Time. By Will B. Johnstone OoMrttM. 191. fc Tfc rrw PuMUhlni Co. ITbt New tar Ermine WH.) BAIUXV .MANKKHD VON' IUCHTHOKHN'8 "Flying Circus" In a name that will survive In the annals of aorlal pom bat not becauso of Its plcturcaquo nomenclature, but because of the prowess of Its titled commander, who came and saw and conquered AND WAS CONUUKUKl). Greatest Prussian ace, with eighty planes to his credit, If Uie Herman record Is true, tho pride of the Kaiser's heart 1elng Uio one Utlo In his outfit any way efficient), Hlchthofen finally met his match, and It In gratl fylnj to know that an American boy commanded tho squadron that wont Into tho "Circus" and broke up the show. Capt, Oliver C. LcBoutillier, K. A. F of Kast Orange, N. J now home on leare, had the honor of leading his men Into tho ineleo that resulted In bagging tho Baron. Lost sprint; when Ludcndorff launched the flnrt great German offenso of the year In Plcardy, young Lelloutllllor went ovor Uio top-of-thc-top J J. throughout tho drive, alone or accompanied by his squadron, bringing down liocho planes, patrolling air lanes and playing ono-nlsht stands as the British lines moved back toward Amiens. "Wo changed our aerodrome three or four times a week," wild the Cap tain with n. twlnklo In hLi blue even "l could tell you many Interesting details of that retreat." ho went on, 'ntgnlflcantly, but under pressure ho iocamo as voluble as a npbynx. The cxtremo reticence of thin daring com mander In sneaking of himself and 'bis exploits Is out of all proportion to tho great Importance of his squad ron's "flying circus" performance wherein Illngnuuitcr Hlchthofen was removed from tho sky. Ills doacrip- ,tlon makes It sound no simple. "My squadron was scouting along," ho 'said, "and wo ran Into tho 'Flying Circus.' It was a oat and dog fight, -planes dropping on both irtJoa and Jtlckey' was brought down," Just 'like tiat. IUohthofen was always ,'Bpoknn of as "lUckey" by tho boys, for they had known him long enough "to bo very familiar, nil having more titan a pausing acquaintance with tho German terror. ' ' "Rickey's" death occurred on Bun ''day, April II, of this year, at Bailley-Is-Ooc, about six inllon south of Al bert, and was the ono great consola tion to tho Urlt1:ih at a vury trying time. Flushed by the success of their armies, the proud Baron led his widely prcsa-ugonted and Justly Reared "Circus," twenty strong, across tha British lines. Tho nasal drone of their engines buzz-sawing ' tht air sounded like a planing milt 'cutting knotty timber. Blow, tho idull glint of bulmet tops showed like bolt ends where tho two linen stood riveted amid wruck and ruin. Tho gaudily painted (Ionium vultures, colored to circus brilliance, glittered kllko tinsel In tha drab surroundings ma they swooped for prey, Wchtho fen's vermilion ship showing tho way. Urttlsh anti-aircraft grouted the wpreadod circus with rtiowers of shrapnol iopcorn. Capt, LnBou tllller'u squadron, sighting the In vaders from afar, nccepted without trepidation tho challenge to battlo and dashed Into tho lists to break propellers, as Uio gallant knights In ageo past were wont to break Ion cos on the historic tcrratne below. Led by tho American youth, Uie British falcons closed with tho vulture. It was a real battle of knights of the air. Tho "Circus," composed of picked ' German aces of unquestionable skill. protected tho tall of the great Ktch thofen as thoir commander's red wings flashed everywhere with dovll lsh rrace, executing the gamut of masterful evolutions, spitting wicked streams of lead at LeBoutllllor and Ills dauntless crew, On both sides Cat's-Eye Mirrors Shine in Paris's Dark Streets. . ABJS ia a city of darkness at night Umo, Pedestrians find their way through Its narrow, I romantic streets and along Its mag nificent boulovards with the aid of flashlights. And to assist In piloting tlinn a moot novo! scheme has been adopted. The en trances of build ings are festooned with cat's eye mlr- rora, lamp-posts are belted with them; they mark places of refuge, and outline house I numbers. When thexa metal-coated EJ reflectors catch uio gleam or a 'pocket lamp they reflect rays of light and thereby aid one In reaching ia destination. One such lamp-post , . , .. . ... .Is shown In the accompanying lllus- llratlon Uom Popular McobuilcA. warriors cranhed down out of tho mad turmoil of machines and machine guns. 11 ul lots ripped ugly gap.) through quivering canvas wings or exploded fragfla gasoline tanks Into,', roaring flames. Hplnnlng from aloft tho antagonists swirled llko tumbler pigeons In tholr dosperate manoeu vres. Oun to gun, they sped perilous ly near to the ground, when nuddonly a vermilion comet reeled looso from tho mass, hurtled through npacn and crashed to oarth just within tho cheering British lines. IUohthofen. 1 ! with a bullet through hLi heart, had f made hla last landing. Their com-1 mondcr down, tho "Circus," with lta'j:: flaunting colors hhot to bod niggled ribbons, withdrew In crestfallen hastu. j erman obnervers soolng tnolr cham pion fall, culled for a barrage to en olrdo his romalns, but to no avail. A British soldier crawled to tho dead Hlchthofen, secured his body with a rope and drow It safely back. Capt. LoBoutllllnr haa a trophy of this historical engagement in tha form of n handsoms mahogany cano which ho modestly exhibits. "Thin wan made from 'IMckey's' Bhattcrod propeller blade," ho explained, draw- ' Ing otit a French layonet artfully conccnJod in tho stick. "I also have a piece of vermilion canvas from his piano. (Contrary to report, 'Illckoy's' was tho only red ithlp In tho Circus.') Wo striped the wreck for souvenirs until thero wttsn't a scrap loft." Hlchthofen was burled at Salllcy-le-Sco with highest military ' . honors. "Wo gnvo him a wonderful tribute becoming a worthy foe." said tho Captain; "hotter than tho bocho!' would permit to ono of our fellows. My squadron did not attend tho fu neral, as that would havu been lad taste, having killed him. but we sent mosi wonuorrui nowem." Capt. JoBoutllllcr is Just one of the Kast Orango boys who h:ui mode good." Ho attendod tho high school before tho war and "tried to make tho football team." Ho learned to fly at Mlncolo,then went to Can ada to Join the Itoyal Flying Corps In 1318, before wo doolarcd war. Ho has been wounded once during his three years' service, winning early promotion to Captain and Com mander at twenty-three. That aerial warfare Is tho most ncrvo-wracking branch of tho nor vice Is Illustrated by tho Captain's statement that somo of tha bravest and most successful flyors will "eo bad." In other words, dovclop a "yellow streak." "I have seen vet erans of undoubted courage crock at tho game." ho said. "They will fly up to the Una only to turn back at tho lost momont, try again and again, and finally give It up." The Captain brought back among his trophies a German "streamer." This Is a narrow atrip of bunting, rcu, wfmo ana diock, aoout two inches wldo and two yards long. At ono end are two neatly stitched can vas bags, one filled with dirt, tho other a buttoned pocket to contain messages. "When an Allied pilot Is lost on the Gcrniun sldo of tho lino, mo report is oroppca wilnln our camp by tho enemy by means of tho-so streamers," the Captain said. "We communicate tho same way with streamers of our colors, only ours are weighted with load lnstoad of dirt." Tho Captain's greatest thrill was tho first of tho many planes ho aowncd. Ho was h.atloncd on tho Belgium coast at tho tlmo und chased a bocho two. scaler ten mlle.i out to bea before ho knocked it put. Apparently, ho would havo circum navigated the ocean If nccesnarv. That these aviators are Just a lot oi ooys is provea oy the Captain. "Wo had a lark one day," ho said. "Wo filled our planes with bricks from a handy ruin, Then wo flew over a German bas we had In-on bombing and fired tho bricks at tho bocho. It was creat srwrt." Ankod when ho oxprctcd to return to France, the Cantaln said! "i-m going to Canada first to do instruct- lng, then on ovor. I'm going qui:k, ".,1 1 n"y r0RiBt,r.a' Ition or classification cards, and Vn nabi8 to t, picked up as a draf evader," Von Richthofen's Last Air Battle DRAWN FROM CAPT. LE BOUTILLIER'S DESCRIPTION OF THE FATAL FIGHT IN WHICH THE GERMAN MASTER ACE LED HIS FAMOUS "FLYING CIRCUS" TO DEFEAT AND HIS OWN DEATH i i nam ' w'-ia-')Lav'v c.ia 111. x r c - :rr-i . '(&, j:s;:c Another Letter From "Bugs" Two Weeks in the Officers'. Training Camp at Louisville, Playing "Button, Button, Who's Got a Button Unbuttoned," Already Has Earned Him the Right to Put Two Letters After His Name"K. P." BY ARTHUR ("BUGS") BAER CVvjrUbl. 1915. tj Tbe IVm TublUUInf O ID TOI'l'KIt: Bern In this and It's getting used to mo. a man or a male milliner nut of me. There isn't any placo In tho works for n bird who can't fitund up and take It with a grin on Ills map. Wo get up nt I o'clock In tho morning to put thn sun out. Flvo A. M. Is 8uro ono young hour to gallop out of tho hay. Don't ever fall for that bunk nbout anybody getting homesick In this man's army, becauso nobody has tlmo to get homesick, Tho days arc tho longest and tho short est that I havo ever experienced. By tho longest 1 mean that wo pop out of tho blankets at C o'clock and pop right hack at 0 o'clock In tho evening, making sixteen hours ol straight hustling. By tho short est' 1 mean that tho hours lly by like bats out of Hades. Tho training Is Intensive, which means Just what It means, multiplied by six. And llfo would bo as merry ns two sets of marriage chimes If It weren't for one splinter In tho ointment. That's tho army button. You've heard of America's answer. But did ou cur hear of America's question? Tho army button is America's question? How to keep tho army button buttoned la tho biggest problem In Uio wholo Institution. Before I decided to put a spoon in tho big battle broth a button didn't mean any moro to mo than Sunday docs to n near-sighted porcupine. But now well, yea bo! Did you over notice that a button hnd an expression? Well, it has. A button has tho most unbuttoned expression that you ever lamped In your life. Just when you think a button Is but toned It ain't. And when you think It ain't buttoned It ain't either. IJach unbuttoned button means a cyclo In tho kitchen police, nnd from where papa sits It looks as if 111' brlghtcyes la going to fight this war out right In tho kitchen, armed with a double-barrelled mop and a ,:-centlmotro battery of water buckets, You've got to chap- Co. (Thi N Yert HtmiIm Vt'orH.) KKNTUCKY, Sept. 7, lillS. man's army about two weeks now It's a game that will either make of you and It's making a man out "HOW TO KEEP BUTTONED IS the BiGOcyr &r QUESTION " f '? "jl cron your buttons all the time, and means that an eagle-eyed second loot has piped ono of your coat buttons suffering from a lapse of memory. Your namo goes down In his little black book und you are out of luck. You police- every thing down here. You don't shave at nil. Getting rid of your whis kers Is called policing your chin. Shining your boots Is policing your brogana. Incidentally, wo ran Into a fine young splash of rain down hero for nbout a week, and shining your muddy gondolas was n tougher Job than getting n Democratic majority In a Philadelphia election. I Anally solved the problem by lotting tho mud dry on ray boots. Then I Bhlned tho mud. Bad eh, what? I got to hand It to Kentucky mud for Its shining qualities. It suro takes a high-power polish. You know It Isn't every gob of mud that you can polish. What chanco would you have of tossing a shlno on Jersey or Ixmg Inland mud? You said It. By tho way, old topper, who copped tho world scries? We haven't tlmo to read tho papers. Did anybody bust Hclnu Zlm's record for Uio 30-yard dash? Send mo somo Now York papers so that I can read tho latest mis statement by my old pal Shouts. Which is about nil, as I have to shake a leg on Guard duty. Guard duty Is a soft Job. All you havo to do Is to guard two hours on and four hours off for twenty-four hours. You also havo to know a seven-foot library of orders. But it's easy for me. I know the rules backward. Which Is generally the way I repeat 'cm. And each misquoted order Is another session of K. P. If 1 uor get out of tho kitchen I will tell you how the ramp lookB. Still, It's all In n young democratic life. And you can hot your porcelain eye that I will know better the next war. It takes at least two ware to got expert at &tfl stuff. BUGS. i ' I 'J i5sS-ii? the yodel Tollcc your buttons" IF I EVER GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN lit TELL YOl xrifi WHAT T1IE " W)J r THE NEW PLAYS "Mr. Barnum" All Over the Lot BY CHARLES BltOADWAY, as you know, isn't on tho map that Includes a circus parade. But when "Mr. Barnum" enmc to town last night there wore great expectations In the crowd that filled the Criterion Theatre. Barnum is n name that even Belasoo may hold In reverence. In Barnum there Is the spell of show and Broadway follows Its own lights. The best part of the show provided vvlse wns the sideshow. In other words, tho freaks were amnslng. Qlvn footlights instead of sawdust they had the advantage of appearing Inl new world. The fat lady was all there, tho 'living skeleton" still lived, and Ocnt-ral Tom Thumb, If you please, put on mighty airs when the midget Quccnle Mab happened to be In his Immediate vicinity, But where, oh where, was the life i it of the circus that we treasured before It grow out oClts teething ring? Wo were compelled to look for It 'wiy down .South In 1SS0, and then we saw It with one foot on a boat and the other on a lot. We were kept outside the tent worse luckl Only old P. T. and a twelve-year-old lsd with Initia tive crawlod under the canvas as menus mica wun tno spiru or naven- ' . . mvi. . . . . .. i . . .1 .... V. I had a human twist, not to mention . , y 1 tho crawl. Then, too, Barnum ate - ' enough peanuts to put the tired buM t 'ness man of to-day quite out of bust- ncss. Yet a pocketful of peanuts . - i . doesn't make a character nor a play. a desultory sort of way that It was all over the lot Instead of being solidly in it. In plain words, the play proved to be lacking both in plctur- rinnlnir led to a sentimental endlnc I with Jenny I.lnd sluglng at Castlo Garden as a "partner" of P. T. after his romantic young manager had man aged to get him Into a real estate "One of Us" i ( a GENTLEMAN can't play the l rulflan." said David Vln cent, nowspnper reporter In ' 1 "One of Us." which opened at tho , Bijou Theatre last night. But Arthur 5;,Ashloy. as a young college man ex ' plorlng the underworld, proved that a gentleman might play a very good i lultuu iio nuv.v.ccu.u vwMiiuvuit Miss Bertha Mann, cabaret enter tainer, who accepted him for a regu lar strong-arm man. Ashley married , her by the roughest kind of tactics, . i , . i i. i .. . i tn live out the role. Offered as a "new metropolitan com edy" tho plcco verged strongly to mel odrama, with pretty touches of senti ment, and a lively If somewhat cnirtr strain of humor. Jack Lalt, the au- ' thor, showed in this dramatic adven '. turo that same vigorous dialogue -! ' ..t..i hn, rvri tn i-.iln rp.'ifler.q fnr Someone in (CqOMEON'K IX TUB HOUSE." which opened at tho Knick erbocker last night, at least achieved a novelty. Kxcept for the final downcomlng at the end of the last act, tho curtain fell when no body expected It. That time, how ever, the audience was wondorlng what kept it. But tho delay was explained. The "society burglar," whoso clever cscapo from a famous detective it had taken threo authors to achieve, at the last moment had developed a conscience, which, had the curtain fallen too soon, would have been cut oft by a barrage of tho members of tbe cast lined up In a frankly "waiting" attitude. The plot, which was hatched in tho city pawnshop of "Tbe Deacon," moved In the second act to the coun try, where it stayed for the duration of the play long enough for Jimmy Burke, alias "The Dancer," to got the diamond collar he was after and ncaUy foil the combined efforts of Detective Halloran and his aide, amateur criminologist Tom Har- graves, ana tno enure local ponce force to trap him. But when he paved tho way to the diamonds by gctUng Percy Glendennlng to glvo him tho "genUeman crook" part In an Forever After," at the Central -iOIlEVBR AFTER," a three- r act Amorlcan play by Owen Davis, presented by William A. Brady and featuring Alice Brady and Conrad Nagel, pleased the audi ence to the point of tears and laugh ter at the opening of the Central Theatre, 47th Street and Broadway, ono of the new Shubcrt houses, last night. The opening scene of the first act shows Nagel, as an Amorlcan Army captain, lying severely wounded on No Man's Land. He Is raving' and his mind wanders back to the days of his boyhood love for Jennie, the role enacted by Miss Brady. "Jack," tho boyhood chum of "Ted," is bend ing down to tho wounded captain, listening to tho story of his lovo for the girl whom he put out of his llfo because her amblUous mother, Mrs. Ituss Whytal, would not consent to Jennie marrying a poor boy. The second scene ! laid In the gar den of JtnnU's Vermont home and DARNTON. by Harrison Rhodes and Thomas . scheme that threatened to make Bridgeport the graveyard of the cir cus. A bareback rider who found h'r way back to a husband nnd two chil dren In Kentucky did not add to the Joy of the proceedings, and the girl 7ho hopped into sudden fame was en cumbered by an alcoholic father given to such histrionic excesses that he killed one act of the play before he succoeded In killing himself. Mr. Wise made Barnum a genial philanthropist with always a peanut left In his pocket for the deserving performer, and he gavo a touoh of tenderness to the sccno In which he patted the daughter of the deceased drunkard on tho back. Phoebe Fos ter played the runaway girl in her most Innocent manner and with her hair hanging down her back at the proper moment. Tho feminine hon ors of the performance, however, were carried off with a high hand by Car lo tta Monterey, a midget who hai. tho coquetries of tho sex at her fln grr tips. When Mr. Wise raised her on his shoulder "Mr. Barnum" reached Its highest point. at the Bijou his efforts In the field of fiction. Many laughs were tucked away tn his tines, and the audience found all of them. ' After the hero married the singer her former admirer, described as "an all-around crook," led the young gen Uemun burglar into a second stniy Job for the special purposo of deliver ing him to the law. This Job was to be carried out at the very home of the amateur in crime. Tho girl found out all about it, and followed him. Then sho was, of course, apprehended and everything explained. Miss Mann made the most of her role, with pa thetic and convincing emphasis on ths fact that she wantod to be a "good girl." Mr. VlLccnt, tho newspaper man, and Harry C. Bradley, the waiter-preacher, were particularly good. Without presenting anything In the least now, "Ono of Us" has much to whet Interest and evoko laughs. the House amateur play In which the theft tho collar was to he the plcco dc rtj slstance, and later aided and abetted as a suror way a "framed" burglariz ing of tho Glendennlng safe, "for pub. llclty only," he had not yet discovered that he had a heart or that his per sonality had reached tho trusUng heart of Molly Brant, to whom the collar belonged. It was when he mado this discovery that be mellowed Uio melodrama. Ilobcrt Hudson fitted smoothly Into his part as "The Dancer" In all but tho first act, whore, however, William B. Mock as "Tho Deacon" gave the play a promising start. Tho honors of tho second uot were easily carried off by L,ynn Fontnnno as Airs. Glen donning and Haisard tshort as Parcy, who, between them Justified tbe play's designation as a mclodraniaUc comedy. JuUa Hay mado such u pretty Molly Brant that "The Dan cer's" monopoly of her time seemed quite natural. Bldney Toler mado Halloran act llko an honest to good ness detective, although perhaps truer to typo was John Sparks as Malone, the country police chief. All In all, Larry Evans, Waiter Pcrclval and George S. Kaufman, who collaborated to evolve "Someone In the House," did a workmanlike Job which a few nights may polish Into a show that will hold the groove for n run. " goes back to the time before he leaTesT for college. Tho second act agt-. depicts the desolate waste of No Man's Land, where Ted Is again wandering In hla mind, telling of the boat raco while at Harvard. Scene two of the second act Is tho enacting of tho boat race episode. Tho third act shows "Ted" lying in n chateau, whero he has been brought by stretcher bearers. Jen nie recognizes him for the first time since he so rudely loft her to go to Now York to mdko his fortune. Tho last two scenes of the last act show a party in full swing at Jen nie s home, where Tod breaks with nis love and leaves for Now York nnd Inter for France, In the closing scene Ted Is coming out of the ether, administered at tho operation, whllo his boyhood love, os a nurse, in listening to the soft words which nlways make an ngrceahle endlns to the war play with lovp sprinkled through It. Miss Brady nover acted bolter, if the applause of a packed house is a ijj.i.ai rnmnrui lover, mi later as a brave Yankee soldier! i 'i'iFVPrf.i, Utt. ..v' .... ii .tS-ili''r tut-... i i: illii