MEET WITH TRAGIC END.
Five Aviator Drop to Death When
Their Balloon Bursts Expan
ion of (la Under Warm Sun
shine is Believed to Have Been
Cause of Accident.
Lfirfc'lnfra. Khenl-h fru... lu.Uh. Usn.
Oscar Erbsloch, the German aero
caut, who won the international bal
loon race at St Louis in 1907, and
four companions were killed today
when the dirigible balloon Krbsloch
burst at a height of several hundred
feet and dropped to the earth a
crumpled mass.
The cause of the accident is a mat
ter of conjecture but it is believed
that the bursting of the bag was due
to the expansion of gas by the warm
sunshine.
The wreckage fell sc heavily that
the gondola was broken ta bits and
the motor buried in the ground.
The victims were frightfully torn.
O-var Erbsloch had made many
darineand successful balloon ilights. i
In the SL Louis aerial race when he
won the international cup which had
been taken the year before by Lieut.
Frank P. Lahm at Paris he covered
a distance of 67G miles. Starting at
St. Louis he landed at Asbury Park,
X. J., two miles farther from the
point of ascent than his nearest com
petitor, M. Leblanc of France, who
came down at Ilerbertville.
On February, 11HW, Erbsloch made
a remarkable balloon trip across the
Alps. His balloon, the Berlin, re
mained in the air for thirty hours.
reaching a maximum altitude of
about 18,000 feet. An average tern
perature of about 12 degrees below
zero was experienced.
Acccording to these the start was
well made. The Erbsloch rose grace
fully, pushed its way through the
fog to a height estimated at several
hundred yards. At this altitude a
series of evolutions was begun. To
the onlookers the airship appeared
to obey her helm perfectly. Sudden
ly there was a loud report and at the
moment the forepart of the vessel
crumbled up and the gondola was
twisted about until it appeared as
though standing on one end. As the
gas escaped from the forward com
partment the prow swayed, down
ward. For a second the airship flut
tered like a wounded bird and then
fell swiftly to earth.
Erbloch and his companions were
killed the second they struck the
ground. Their heads were battered
in and every limb was broken.
An examination of the wreckage
showed that the benzine tank had
burst, tearing to shreds the rubber
envelope directly above it. The de
struction of this envelope caused the
bow to collapse. The stern compart
ment was still filled with gas when
it struck the ground.
The death of Erbsloch and his
crew with the destruction of the bal
loon for which much had been hoped,
following closely upon the loss of
Count Zeppelin's Doutschland has
caused a gloom in aviation circles.
The dirigible balloon Erbsloch, re
cently refitted for passenger service,
was destroyed in midair today
through the explosion of a benzine
tank and her aviator, Oscar Trbsloeh
and his crew of four men dropped
to their death.
The bodies of the aviators were
frightfully mangled. The gondola
was torn to bits and the motor buried
itself beneath the surface of the
ground.
The victims were men well known
to all Germans interested in aerial
feats and Erbsloch gained an inter
national reputation when in 1907 at
St. Louis he wen the international
cup in the. distance race for balloons.
Iler companions were llerr Toelle,
a manufacturer of Barmen; two en
gineers, llerr Kranz and llerr Ho
eppe; and llerr Spicke, the motor
man. The Erbsloch was constructed last
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rear and had had a dubious career.
The rlrst time it ascended it crashed
into a clump of trees and its occu
pants narrowly escaped injury. A
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which was of the non-rigid type, had
just been made ever preparatory to
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vice between Elberfeld and nearby
points. Today it was inflated for a
final test by the crew. The ascent
was made near Opladen during a fog.
There were few eye witnesses to
the accident.
A Word for Dad.
Eschar.?
Uuch has been said about "Moth
er's day." "Wear a rcse for mother"
injunctions have been scattered the
nation over. Poets have reeled ci
tributes miles in length. Historians
have enshrined her mercery on rec
ords that dim not with age. Orators
have painted her merits in gtowing
terms. And none has overdrawn;
none Las exaggerated. She deserves
it all and more, tied Mess her. But
unfortunate oversight! Dad has rath
er been left in the shul!!e. From the
obscurity of the discord, however, a
bard, whose name we do not know,
jerks the hero who pays the bills,
and about his much abused head
wreaths this garland of tender prose
poesv;
"We happened in a home the oth
er night and over the parlor door
saw the legend in letters of red.
"What is home without a mother?
Across the rcra was another brief,
Hod b!e:3 our home.'
"Xow, what's the matter with 'God
bless our dad? He gets up early,
lights the fire, boils an egg and
wipes the dew off the lawn with his
boots while many a mother is sleep
ing. He makes the weekly handout
for the butcher, the grocer, the milk
man and baker, and his pile is bad
ly worn before he has been home an
hour.
"If there is a ncise during the
night, dad is kicked in the back and
made to go downstairs to find and
kill the burglar. Mother darns the
sock", but dad bought the socks in
the first place and the needles and
the yarn afterward. Mother does up
the fruit; well, dad bought it all, and
jars and sugar ccst like the mischief.
"Pad buvs the chickens for the
Sunday dinner, carves them himself
and draws the neck from the ruins
after every one else is served. 'What
is home without a mother?' Ves,
that is all right; but what is home
without a father? Ten chances to
one it's a boarding house, father is
under a slab and the landlady is the
widow. Dad, here's to you you's
got your faults you may have lots
of 'em but you're all right, and we
will miss you when you'r gone."
Preacher Fights Constable.
Chariot lr Observer.
A double submission yesterday to
the charge of affray before two Char
lotte magistrates brought to light a
personal encounter which created lit
tle less than a sensation in the New
ell neighborhood late Monday after
noon. The principals were Rev. A.
J. Crane, pastor of the Presbyterian
churches at Newell and in Sharon
township, and Constable D. W. Tee
ter of Newell. Accounts which have
reached the city give the minister
entirely the best of the encounter,
which is said to have been brought
on by abuse of the minister's son
and the use of profane language to
the preacher himself, following bad
feeling which Mr. Teeter has enter
tained for the preacher for several
months.
This bad feeling is said to have
had its origin in certain acts of Mr.
Crane in his official capacity as pas
tor of the Newell church, which of
fended Teeter. And although it is
stated that fearless sermons against
blind tigers and the like served to
bring the matter to head, there is
little doubt that the genesis of the
trouble lies further back.
Mr. Teeter, it is said, rcet Mr.
Crane's 16 -year -old son Monday
morning. The latter reported to his
father that Teeter abused him in the
vilest termsand criticised Mr. Crane's
recent sermon. The young man
made no defense. But Mr. Crane
met Teeter at 6 o'clock Monday after
noon at the Newell postofhee and
asked him about what his boy had
told him. Teeter, the story goes, de
nied with oaths the truthfulness of
young Crane's story and then cursed
the preacher. The latter renlied bv
knocking bim off the porch and cave
him another, whether a left or right
is not known, and sent him to the
ground again. A few seconds later
Teeter began to curse the minister
again and walked into some lefts and
rights to the bead and body.
Ol Course Not.
"By the way. Elder Browne, whv
is it that you always address your
congregation as 'brethren,' and nev
er mention the women in your ser
mons.''
"But, my dear madam, the one
embraces the other."
"Oh, but, Elder, not in church!"
Dr. Miles' Anti-Fain PUla rtlltv pain.
CITIZENSHIP AND HEALTH.
Responsibility for Public Health
O rent est Civic Responsibility.
launntu-f Exrfcanf.
The essential difference between
the citizen and the savage is the ex
pression in bis daily routine by the
former of the principle. "No man
liveta unto himself." This biblical
axiom is the basis of civilization, be
cause it expresses the relation that
law defines and controls. It natu
rally follows that the clearer our
mental perception, the more distinct
ly will we recognize the many and
subtle bonds that unite our fortunes
or our fates into a web of weal or
woe. Knowledge gives acuteness of
mental vision, and, therefore, it is
knowledge that opens the gates of a
higher civihzaticn and gives to him
who desires the opportunity to be
come a better citizen.
The relation of one man's rroper
ty to another s is easily recognized
and is firmly established upon uni
versally accepted principles of cm
law. The relation of one man's life
to another's has only within the last
half century been established npon
principles of natural law. But, as
yet, the knowledge cf these natural
laws has not been widely enough
disseminated to produce sunicient
public sentiment to weld them into
our statutes.
Man's greatest civic obligation is
to the public health. Ibis sound:
like the exaggeration of an enthu
siast. .Nevertheless, it rests upon
those primary and fundamental pnn
ciples cf law that for over four thou
sand years have been the basis of
civilization. Writ in tables of stone
by the Supreme Judge himself, these
legal principles are so comprehen
sive as to embrace man's every pos
sible relation: his relation to the
Court of Heaven, his relation to the
court of the home, and his relation
to the court of man. But note, and
note carefully, that the first of the
five rules governing man's relation
to man is the law protecting life.
First, not by haphazard, but first by
Omniscient design, because it is just
as fundamental to the last four of
these five laws as life is fundamental
to chastity, property, reputation, and
neighborly comfort. Note further,
that "Thou shalt not kill" carries no
provisions limiting its application to
the 5.1XK) deaths occuring annually
in the I'nited States through willful
acts of commission, and excluding
the 5CH.UKH) deaths annually occur
ring in our country by an act of pas
sive omission. Lvery citizen w:;o
does not take an active and serious
interest in the public health of his
or her community is a partisan to
this criminal destruction of life.
Like Lady Macbeth dipping her
bloody hands in water, we say, "Out,
damned spot," but it will not out,
for all the real and feigned ignor
ance and indifference into which we
submerge our individual and public
consciences.
And now, lastly, how can the con
scious citizen this does not include
everybody discharge this obliga
tion? He can easily inform himself,
with a total amount of reading of
not over ten hours, of the principal
facts which will enable one to take
an active and intelligent part in this
work. He can be supplied, without
cost, with this literature by writing
the Secretary of the State Board of
Health at Raleigh to place his or her
name on the mailing list for the
monthly bulletin. He can read arti-
les on this subject appearing in
this paper monthly. He can vote for
aldermen, county commissioners and
legislators who are informed in re
gard to this important problem.
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