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THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKE LAND, FLA., MONDAY, NOV- 3, 191919 PAGE TWO H '". ' " III!!! Paraknit Trade Mark. Girdle AND. Elastic Brassiere (THE TRIO "PARAKNIT" ELASTIC BRASSIERE IS MADE LEWIS WEBSTER, WHO WAS BORN IN LAKELAND. WAS ONE OE FLIE TRANSCONTINENTAL TRIP OF "PARAKNIT," A NEW KIND OF LIGHT WEIGHT, OPEN WORK, ELASTIC MATERIAL, INVENTED BY US, WHICH IS VERY, VERY FLEXIBLE, EXTREMELY STYLISH AND HEALTHFUL) 'Treo" Trade Mark. A NEW LINE OF FANCY BRASSIERES AND CAMISOLES La Mode Mrs. N. A. Smith, Mgr.0 tfJ ia it I1 GROGUA I Ijl j The Self Service Store I j A whrI THE GROCERTERIA The Self Service Store Corner Pine st. and Kentucky ave. '9 Just Received f i A Car Load of Armour Fertilizer Attractive Prices Cash Basis Only fti i f Lakeland Deonle are unaware that there was a Floridiau among the fliers recently making the trans-continental trip and especially will they be sur prised to learn that the Floridian was tiorn in Lakeland. The young man is Lewis Webster, son of Mr. E. E. Webster, well known Polk county resident who now lives in Bartow, but who has lived in Lakeland. Mulberry and other points for nearly thirty years, being a well- known sawmill operator ol the coun ty. Mr. Webster has just received letter from his son describing his trip across the. United States, which he kindly allows the Telegram to print. The letter follows: San Francisco, Calif., Oct. 8, 1919. Dear Homefolks: I am now settled down on the Southern Pacific Railroad and it is almost time for the train to start me on my return trip East. I had a mbst wonderful trip flying over the Rockies and the Sierra Ne vadas. it was worth a whole year out of my life. I started from Roosevelt Field, Min- eola, New York at 9:15 a. m. on Wed nesday and on Monday at 6:26 p. m. I landed safely at Presidio Field San Francisco. It is needless to say that I yas tired and dirty but I was rushed right up to the Palace Hotel together with my mechanician and there after submitting to a flashlight picture for the newspaper reporter and giving a brief story of my trip we had a good warm bath and a delicious supper. And now I will endeavor to briefly relate my experiences of the Trans- Continental Flight. The end of the first day found us at Bryan, Ohio, a distance of 650 miles since 9:15 a. m. We arrived at Bryan at 6:33 p. m., and I will add right here that we were bound by rules to make a 30 minute stop at each control stop. Our first control stop was at Binghamp- ton, N. Y., the second at Rochester, Y, the third at Buffalo, N. Y., the fourth at Cleveland. Ohio, the fifth at Eryan, Ohio, but on account of the lata hour and the poor visibility I Wivs forced to land at a little town by the name of Styker to find out where I was. 1 had no sooner landed than people began to run out to see the plane and upon questioning them I found out that Bryan was only about 8 miles further west so I Immediately took the air again and within seven minutes I landed on the control field at Bryan. , Well, the next morning when awoke it was raining and the wind was blowing at the rate of about 30 miles per hour from the south. The visibility was very poor and the clouds were close to the ground. I waited here until about 12:10 p. m. until the rain stopped and then I made a mad dash for Chicago. This was without doubt the roughest lap of my journey because although the rain had ceased the wind and clouds were still in evi dence. The air was so roueh that nt times I would get bumps that would knock me out of my seat and I could feel the pressure on my safety belt, Anyway I reached Chicago at about 2:00 p. m. and there I met Art, Edgar and Lucia who were there awaiting my arrival. 1 was sorry that I could not visit with them but the "Race" was on and so soon as I had gassed and oiled my machine and had downed a good Red Cross dinner 1 pulled out for Rock Island,. 111. II was 5:15 p. m. when I left Rock Is land for Des Moines and I arrived at Des ,Moines at 7:00 p. m. but it was so dark that I failed to find the right field and after circling around look ing for the field for 10 minutes with out any luck I picked put a hay field on the North side of the city ana landed. The field looked plenty big enough from the air. for a good land ing but to my surprise there was a small fence which consisted of two barbed wires strung on small pipe posts;' and jtvhich divided two fields. I made a good landing by my speed after reaching the ground carried me through this fence. Luckily there was no damage done to the plane nor ourselyes. As soon as I had landed I could see flares from Very's pistols being sent up to the southeast of us so I decided that the right field must be in that location. I gave my me chanic orders to stake the machine down for the nighT and to cover up the engine and propellor, and immedi ately set out to find the right field so that I could report to the Command er or the control stop. After walking a little over a mile I succeeded in hir ing an automobile to carry me to the right field. I reached the Commander or tne field at 8:00 p. m. just 50 min utes after I had landed. One of the rules of the race were that all time spent out of control stops would be counted as flying time bo you am see why I was so anxious to renort to tha Control Manager. After getting my pilot" book fixed up I returned to the vicinity of my ship and spent the night at a farm house. The next morning (Friday) we got up at daybreak, ate breakfast and went out to get our ship. We found the engine so cold that we had diffi culty in starting it. After a lot of hard work we succeeded in taking to the air again. We were only a few minutes in getting into the right field now as it was broad daylight It was 10:20 a. m. when we finally got our gas and oil and pulled out of Des Moines. Omaha was then our next stop. This was made In less than two hours. We were only out of Omaha about ten minutes when our engine began to misbehave and we were forced to land at Lane, Neb. I had no trouble in making a safe landing here and up on inspecting our engine we found that the mechanics at Omaha had put in too much oil and this had raised our oil pressure and forced the oil through the cylinders into the spark plugs. After draining out a gallon and a half of oil and cleaning our spark plugs we again took to the air and were soon in St. Paul, Nebr We passed through the control stop at North Platte and stopped at Sidney, Nebr., for the night. Here we got our plane in readiness to make an early start in the a. m. , and then went to bed for a good rest. My ears were in such an uproar from the constant noise of the motor that I could not sleep much. Well, Saturday morning we left Sidney about 7:40 and from there on to Sacramento, Calif., we were flying over mountains. Saturday we passed through the following control stops Rawlins, Wyo., Green River, Wyo., Salt Lake City, Utah and into Salduro for the night and Sunday. The landing fields at Rawlins and Green River were very poor and small. The landing field at Rawlins was a race track only 1000 feet long and this is pretty small for as large a plane as the D H-4. At Green Riv er, Utah, I had a hair raising episode. The landing field was small, and sandy and way down in the valley of the Rocky Mountains. And when I got ready to make my "take off" I found that if I headed into the wind that I would have to take off up hill and to ward' the river. The field was so sandy and rough that I bounced along all of the way across it while picking up flying speed and we ran off the prrcipice arid by luck we had enough forward speed to hold us in the air as we bounced from the steep bank of the river. I then had to make a sharp bank to miss the mountains and gain enough altitude to climb over them. We reached Salt Lake City about 2:45 p. m. and it certainly looked good to me as I had passed the highest of the Rocky Mountains upon reaching here. We had over three thousand feet of altitude to lose be fore landing here and we passed over the Mountains, at not more than 200 feet just before reaching Salt Lake City. By 3:15 p. m. we were pulling out of here and on our way across the Salt Lake and the Salt Desert to Saludro. We covered this distance of 100 miles in 65 minutes and only flew at an altitude of about 500 feet. The last 70 miles of this lap .was nothing but salt. I could have landed on it anywhere. It is rather a deceiv ing surface to land on. From the air it looks like snow but when you have once landed you find that it is a much harder surface. ' It looks almost like ice with small cracks running here and there and is almost as hard and slippery as ice. I got down with a safe landing on it all right but a little S. E.-5 that came in. just behind me hit so hard that he broke his under 'carriage and had to work all day Sun day in order to get into the race again on Monday. Up to this point I was holding third place out of about 50 planes that left MIneola. Salduro, by the way is not a city, iris nothing but a salt factory, and to think that I picked such a place as that to Rnnnrt Saturday night tnd Sunday when f could have stopped in the beautiful City of Salt Lake. But it was i.ot bo bad at that as we had no crowds to bother us while we worked on our ship to put it In trim for the last lap of our journey,. Sunday I met some very nice people who were connected with he salt industry and was invited Over tft nna f rf ttis.1. Is . j v. ucU uuuies ana, "it's a shame" but we had a little at home dance ev en if it was Sunday. I acted on the assumption that-"The : better the day, the better the deed." Thorn were two young married couples and a mtie French girl and it was indeed a jolly little party. One of the ladies had a wonderful voice and entertained us with a few solos. I left early (at 9 p. m.) bo, that I wouid get a good v (Cbntlaiitd ea fift .) 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