HOW IT MAY BE ONE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 4

HOW IT MAY BE ONE.

According to a writer in a Home paper, living from Europe to America will

rot ho such an impossible feat after all if the airman only has the discretion to adopt the proper route. In the April bulletin of the American Aero (‘lull, Hr II a tie Emerson has been showing how it may be done. From the northern tip of Scotland to the Faroes is only 220 miles. A lligbt cf 270 miles will then bring tlie adventurer to Iceland. Ihe nearest

point on the east coast of Greenland is 180 miles from Iceland, but the landing unfortunately leaves the air-

man “nowhere.” From this point be must make Ills way 100 miles down ,he coast to Angrnagsatik. He may then either cross the sea to Northern Canada in one flight of 070 miles or still bug the Greenland coast and

make a 2:20 miles crossing to Cape Dyer, on Baffin Land, thence either working Ids way down the Labrador coast or striking for Hudson Hay. Altogether the longest sea Slight that whuid he necessary, according to this programme, would not exceed 2(0 miles. .Hat it would be a very cold

journey.

THE LATE MR STEAD.

Tim late Mr W. T. Stead at the time of Ills death in the Joss of the Titanic, was on his way to Now \ork in response to an invitation to deliver an address on the “World’s Peace,” on April 21. Before he left London lie had arranged to write an article on the Titanic and her first trip, and to publish it in the next issue of the “Review of Reviews.” The London correspondent of the Sydney “Telegraph,” in a dispatch telegraphed from Fremantle, states that when the news that the Titanic had struck an iceberg was flashed to New A ork and

London, enterprising editors who k

that Mr Stead was on board sent him wireless messages offering large sums if lie would write for them the story of the disaster. It was then believed that all the passengers had been saved. AVhen it became known that over 1000 people bad perished, and that Mr Stead was amongst the number, most of the London newspapers

published lengthy biographical notices. Mr Stead, as is well known, devoted much time in Ins latter years to spiritualism, with the object of opening up communication wth the spirits of the dead. Ho was enthusiastic in everything 'he took up, but in no direction was Ids enthusiasm more marked than in his reverent desire to pierce the mystery of death. He brought an earnest mind to boar on the subject, but also brought a degree of credulity which made him a doubtful guide. 1 lie “Daily Mail recalls the fact that Mr Stead, when in Constantinople last October, made the following prophecy regarding his own death:—“l know perfectly well how I shall die. It lias been revealed to mo. I ishall go to prison twice more before I die, and I shall end by being kicked to death in tlio streets of London. This makes my mind quite easy when 1 travel, and 1 never insure myself against risks oi any kind.”