A FLYER'S LAMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1126, 29 July 1913, Page 3

A FLYER'S LAMENT.

GrieiVstticfcen at the death of several friends and rivals, Mr Lincoln Beachey, the famous American airman, announces that he will never again enter an aero* plane. “I’ve done,! 3 he said, records the New York correspondent of the Daily Mail. ‘ “They call me in America the ‘master bird man,’ but one thing only drew crowds to my exhibitions—a morbid desire . to see something , happen. They paid to see me die. ,At Chicago last year, the mother of my friend Kearney begged me pot to teach him any more tricks. Horace turned round and said, ‘pother, I must be as good as Beachey or take a back seat.’ He died. The wife of my friend Welsh begged him not to do spirals. ‘Beachey does them,’ he said, ‘and so must I.’ Two weeks later Welsh was V. performing the reverse spiral when a wire snapped and he was killed. I felt as though I had murdered him. ‘You made him do it,’ Mrs Welsh bitterly said to me, A little while later I sent tickets to Mrs jjly. She returned them and wrote, ‘My son Eugene would be with me naw if he had never seen you fly-’ I vowed then never .. jigain to enter an aeroplane.”