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Embryo Aerial Artists Perform Clever Stunts
By Arnold Kruckman.
Rain and fog usually take the starch out of even airwise flyers. But it does not dampen the ardor of that joyous [{cutoff}] of aerial collegians who shout the [{cutoff}] heavenly [{cutoff}] institution of learning [{cutoff}] and female, hobble-trousered and hobble-skirted, they were "all there," in the classic language of Times Square, on the aviation field yesterday morning.
Some collegians are noted for their earnest devotion to the soft and downy couch. But this unusual group are in one respect like the downy birds they seek to emulate. They rise early. Literally and figuratively. With the first streak of dawn you'll find them shivering around the sheds where their implements of learning are housed.
Yesterday morning they gathered shortly after 4 o'clock. With the deference that characterizes all co-educational institutions they gave the right of way to Miss Harriet Quimby. She made the first flights. There are people who are so ungallant as to question Miss Quimby's sincerity in thirsting for this kind of knowledge. They do say she is simply gathering local color for a series of articles she is writing. But they can't deny that she dons a very fetching suit, including the aviation trouserettes. And she does sit in the machine and hop it over the field so that it looks for all the world like a gigantic mosquito.
"Dude" Jervan followed Miss Quimby. They call him "Dude" because he is the fashion-plate of aviation styles at Mineola. When they want to know the very latest thing in khaki suits and puttee leggings they take a look at Jervan. But his Beau Brummel habits don't interfere with his ability to fly. Twenty-five feet in the air he made a right and left turn yesterday morning just like that.
"Boss" Gaffney, president of the Bedford Club, was the third student in the air yesterday morning. And then came "Buddy" Bates who, for the umty umpt time, hit the flagpole in front of the grandstand straight and true. Only the pole was damaged. The pole is now suitably inscribed with an inscription memoralizing, for the benefit of posterity, "Buddy's" many attempts to eliminate it from the landscape.
The place de resistance yesterday morning, however, was the flight made by Ferdinand de Murias. You pronounce it de Mirias by his own suggestion. When he started on his flight a lowering fog bank came traveling at express speed from Garden City way. He was sailing gayly along at a height of fifty feet when the cloud suddenly swept over the field. To the amazement of the rest of the pupils, it swallowed him completely.
De Murias also was amazed. He could not see either to the right or left or above or below. By feeling his way he gradually struck the ground without untoward incident.

AIR MAN DASHED TO EARTH, SECOND HITS A HANGAR
S. S. Jerwan in Flight at Mineola Falls Thirty Feet, but is Uninjured.
MINEOLA, L. I., Thursday-Two of the aviators came to grief early to-day while making flights about the aviation field here, but in neither case was they injured, although one of the machines was so badly wrecked that it will take a couple of weeks to repair it.
Miss Harriett Quimby, the young woman aviator, who has been doing some good work in the machine of the Moisant school, was out very early to-day and made a couple circles of the course at a very low altitude.
Another pupil of the schools, S. S. Jewan, who resides in France, was then allowed to take the same machine out for a flight. The machine, a Bierlot monoplane, was doing nicely with Jerwan until he tried for a turn at the far end of the field. He warped his wing all right, but forgot to tip his rear rudder and the machine crashed to the ground, a distance of thirty feet, wrecking it, but fortunately Jerwan was not injured.
An examination of the machine showed that the crank shaft was badly damaged, and the motor was also a wreck. Experts said it could be repaired. Jerwan was examined by a physician, who said the aviator was badly shaken up.
Joseph Stevenson, in a biplane, was in the midst of a short flight when he attempted to make a landing in front of the grand stand, but something went wrong with the machine, and instead of gliding to the ground, it suddenly rose into the air, went over the high fence surrounding the grounds and landed across the road up against a hangar. Stevenson managed to retain his seat, but he had to be helped to the ground by a number of mechanics. he was uninjured, but it will take a few days to repair his machine.
Steve Moore made a cross country flight to-day, flying from Garden City grounds to Belmont Park and over Jamaica, then to Mineola, flying over Hempstead. Hicksville, Westbury and returning to the starting place, circling the grounds nine times and landing within five feet of where he started from.

Jarwen Shows Aero Pupils Crashing Time
[{Cutoff}] Makes a Fine Impression-Even on Mother Earth.
By Arnold Kruckman.
"Dude" Jarwen, the Beau Brummel of the Mineola biplane busters, yesterday gave a convincing demonstration of his prowess on Hempstead Plains. The fact that he did it with his little monoplane only lends lustre to the feat. When the amateur sky skater was through with the machine it had a fracture of the fuselage, a sprain of the ribs, a compound smashing of the propeller, a wollop of the wings, minor contusions of the wheels and a few other such insignificant injuries. Jarwen helped to remove the remains to its erstwhile happy shed. These few words will explain why the first class in daisy cutting is enjoying an involuntary vacation this morning.
But the glory was not all monopolized by the busy Jarwen. When the little aerial school children with their shining morning faces greeted the rising sun in front of the Moisant Academy old Professor Houpert, P. F. F. ordered Miss Harriet Quimby to lead the class in its diurnal exercises. Clad in her fresh and cleanly starched hobble-trouserettes, the eager young lady mounted the machine and kangarooed over the field. To kangaroo means that you take a running jump in your aeroplane  and land safely when you touch the earth again. Miss Quimby performed brilliantly after [{cutoff}] fashion. She did it so often that [{cutoff}] absorbed spectators lost count.
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