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It is a happy occasion to report that Tom recovered from the accident.  The last I knew of him was years later when he was involved in one of the many Chinese revolutions and flying on someone’s side as a combat pilot.    Right at this point there is a small bit of advice I’d like to toss out for what it is worth.    Don’t ever do a so-called favor for a real Chinese gentlemen or lady.  They overwhelm you with gifts and gratitude.  Tom’s family literally showered me with so many that it took years to wear out the magnificently embroidered heavy silk, monogrammed pajamas; kimonos richly embroidered in golden thread; beautifully jewelled Chinese slippers and various valuable Chinese knick-knacks.    The family never did really get the idea that I was glad to have been able to help Tom. It was my duty and my privilege to help him. I felt that any small thank you would have been sufficient but accept I did all their presents for any refusal would have been a grave insult to so thoroughly kind, so thoroughly gentle and so overwhelmingly courteous people.

As the show biz saying goes...’The show must go on.’  In the arrangement of various stunts for the different aviators to do, it was a natural that Farnum Fish would be chosen to go fishing over San Francisco Bay. Each day it was announced that the easiest way to catch a fish was to get a flying machine, fly low over the Bay and that Farnum Fish would demonstrate how it was done.

Farnum, whose youth and boyish appearance made him very attractive and appealing to the crowds, had a baited fish line tied over the end of the wing, away from the prop.  He would take off, fly very low over the Bay and in a few minutes would come back in and land in the infield with a fish dangling from the baited hook. It always created a sensation.

Onr day, I was standing in the infield when a messenger boy approached and asked me if I knew where to find Farnum Fish. I told him, but then I quickly added that if he had a telegram, to take it to the bo