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PAGE SIX 
THE MOUNTAIN EMPIRE BULLETIN
SEPTEMBER 1, 1936

CAPTAIN BERRY MAKES PARACHUTE LEAP FROM PLANE

NO MORE DOES MORRISS WING HIS WAY IN SPEEDY FLIGHT

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Ray Morriss In 1912 Curtiss Ship

CHAINED NOW TO BUSINESS SAFE AND SOUND
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  What has become of old-time barnstorming and exhibition pilots of 25 years ago!?
  Were they all killed off in crashes, Or did they grow up with aviation and accumulate riches from its rapid post-war rise to commercial importance?
  If there be any left, are they gray-bearded and superannuated today, or what?
  The answer is that, despite the crazy casualties of the early days, some scores of the pioneer fliers are alive, their exploits in brining aviation to the fore unhonored and unsung. The oldest one of them that this writer has encountered, Arthur B. Stone, one of the old Beriot school, who began flying at 36, is just turned 62; and the youngest, Waldo Waterman, who built his first plane while a student of San Diego high school, is just past 40.
  Stone is an inspector for a large airplane concern near Los Angeles. Waterman has just developed a successful tailless monoplane , which is in the light plane class and which may bring flying within the reach of all. Others, including Chas. F. Willard, the first aviator to be engaged by Glenn H. Curtiss, are either rich or poor, in the game, or out, but with us nevertheless-and as aforementioned, unhonored and unsung. Merely noted, they are, for what they are today, not what they used to was.
  The case history of one Raymond V. Morris, of 1515 10th Ave., Coronado, Calif., has been selected for presentation in this article as a fairly typical example of the rise (and falls) of pioneer airmen, and illustrative of the aftermath.
  Morris is engaged in a prosperous business of his own, located in San Diego. Although he made his first actual flight in a heavier-than air craft at Mineola, in 1910. He is only 47 years old at this writing. He is a well-built specimen, energetic and active. He may suffer now and then a few twinges reminiscent of a few physical disarrangement occasioned by a series of violent crashes when he first began to unfold his wings, but, it so, he exhibits no traces of these after effects to the beholder.
   Briefly, the story of Morris, brought up to date, goes as follows. He was born at Milford, Conn., on Aug. 31, 1889. He finished elementary and high school, but spent but a year in college. He then had some experience with a dirigible in 1909, giving up aerial navigation for a year at his mother’s request, but coming back for more in 1910.
  First he built an aero plane and wrecked it. Then he bought one, in knocked-down form, from Frederick Schneider, of Rochester, N. Y., assembled, and wrecked it. And then-the proudest moment of his life-he says-Glenn Curtiss selected him as a str member of his organization.
  Morris was engaged by Curtiss in 1912, and was actively associated with him for four years, as exhibition and test pilot. In 1914 the Curtiss company sent him to NorthIsland, San Diego. In 1915 he married Miss Grace D. Gibson, of Coronado. In 916, when the North Island school was closed, he purchased, and resold in dribbles, the Curtiss equipment there.
  Injuries sustained in a crash from a height of 1,500 feet, rendered him, in the government’s estimation, unfit for army service in the late war. He served the government in a civilian capacity, however.
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Harmon Now Owns Paulhan’s Ship
NEW YORK CITY, May 1, 1910
(E.B.)-Presaging what May soon become a general practice among wealthy sportsman, Clifford B. Harmon announced today that he 
had purchased one of the two Farman biplanes which Louis Paulham, the French airman, brought to this country recently, and would hereafter fly the aero plane for pleasure.
  Harmon, a man of considerable means, was an ardent balloonist prior to taking up aviation as a hobby. In the spherical balloon New York last winter, at St. Louis, Mo., with Augustus Post as an aide, Harmon remained aloft 48 hours and 26 minutes, setting a new duration record.
  While at St. Louis both Post and Harmon are said to have become interested in heavier-than-air navigation, after seeing Glenn Curtiss, the Hammondsport, N.Y., airman, make some flights. Both men planned to buy and fly the Curtiss type of machine, but after riding as a passenger with Paulhan, at the Los Angeles aviation meeting, last January, Harmon expressed his preference for the French type of plane.
  It was in a Farman biplane that Paulhan set a world altitude record of 4,146 feet at Los Angeles, in addition to making some spectacular cross-country flights.

ATWOOD ACTIVE AERO TOURIST; SCHOOL OPENS 
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BOSTON, Mass.m August , 1911
(E.B.)—In the first nine days following the opening of the Burgress Co., and a Curtiss aviation School at the field of the Harvard aAeronuantucal Society at Squantam, on May 30, Harry N. Atwood and W. Starling Burges, graduates of the Wright flying school, at Dayton, the instructors flew a total of 683 miles, while their students flew 532 miles.
  On June 9, Atwood made a cross-country flight of 39 miles in his Burgess-Wright biplane, from a Boston to a point in New Hampshire. On June 30, with his mechanic as a passenger, Atwood set out from Boston on the longest cross-country voyage ever attempted in the United States. His destination was New York. On the first day the aviation flew to New London, Conn., a distance of 110 miles, which he covered in 2 hours and 10 minutes.
   After arriving at New Lo don, Atwood rose again with the mayor of the city as a passenger and flew over the Yale-Harvard Varisty boat race which was in progress. Leaving New London at 7 o’clock 
the next morning Atwood flew 3 1/4 hours non-stop to the suburbs of New York City.
  Having replenished his fuel supply, he sailed down East River and over the skyscrapper section of New York and landed on Governor’s Island, completing his record journey.
  With his desire for aerial touring undiminished Atwood left New York on July 4, for Washington. He flew the first stage of the journey, 119 miles to Atlantic City, in the elapsed time of 5 3/4 hours. While making an exhibition flight here, with Chas. K. Hamilton as a passenger, Atwood crashed into the ocean and wrecked his plane. 
  Borrowing a Burgess machine which Hamilton had recently purchased the aero tourist flew on to Baltimore. On July 11, he reached College Park, Md., and on July 14, completing his 576 mile journey, he landed on the White House lawn where he was greeted with handshake by president Taft.
  Burgess Co., and Curtiss are licensed by the Wright brothers to built Wright-type aeroplanes.

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Santa Ana, Oct. 6 1910
(E.B)—Hundreds were disappointed today, when a Curtiss-type aeroplane built by Glenn L. Martin, the local aviator p, refused absolutely to fly.
  Martin, his arm injured as a result of having been dragged by his machine recently, was not in the operator’s seat today, his place being taken by Chas. F. Walsh, the San Diego aviator, who is said to have made several hundred flights in a homemade aeroplane.
   Arrangements for the flights had been made by the Carnival of Progress authorities, as part of this week’s program of celebration. A flying field had been hastily laid out at one side of town and an  enclosure roped off. 
   Walsh took his seat and turned his cap around backwards. He moved the steering wheel fore and aft to test the front elevation control. He thrust his shoulders from right to left to check the balancing planes. He turned the rudder from side to side and watched its action closely.
  He then gave a signal and the motor was started. The machine bounded across the terrain like a scared jackrabbit but did not rise. The performance was repeated several times to no avail, then Walsh gave up further attempts at trying to make the balky aircraft climb into the air. There was nothing wrong with the plane or motor, he said. The ground being too soft, he could not gather sufficient momentum to rise. 

LANDS SAFELY; AIRMAN JANNUS PILOTS CRAFT
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ST. LOUIS, Mo., Mar. 1, 1912 (E.B.)—The earth bound natives in the vicinity of Kinloch field, where airmen congregate, have seen some startling sights.
   But today even those who had becoame calloused at the sight of the most thrilling feats of aerial navigation were thrilled to the very marrow of their bones. This afternoon a human being leaped from a Benoit biplane, hovering 1,500 feet in the air, and landed feet first, safely, on the ground below.
   Captain Albert Berry, a noted aeronaut, was the man who made the spectacular descent. When he leaped from the plane, which was piloted by Airman Anthony Jannus, Captain Berry, by the weight of his falling body, pulled loose a parachute which had been carefully packed in a conical arrangement underneth the lower wing. 
   Staring off in the same manner as any ordinary flight would be made Captain Berry took his seat besides pilot Jannus. As the aeroplane rose above the 1000 foot level the aeronaut left his seat and clambered to a precarious position on the plane’s undercarriage.
   When all was in readiness he signaled Jannus and jumped. The parachute opening after a drop of 400 feet. Immediately the nose of the craft, released of its extra burden, shot skyward, but with a steady hand the aviator righted it and spiraled without mishap to the ground. 


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RALPH Johnstone
Killed At Denver, Col.
Nov. 7, 1910

ARCH HOXSEY
Killed at Los Angeles 
Dec. 31, 1910

PHIL O. PARMALEE
Killed at North Yakima, Wash.
June 1, 1912

Members Of The 1910 - 1911
Wright Exhibition Team

TRIBUTE FROM 
AN EARLY BIRD