CAPT. HARRY LYON SOUTHERN CROSS FLIER

The Manchester Union of June 6 carried an article on the navigator of the Southern Cross, Capt. Harry Lyon, a member of the class of 1908. As a captain in the U. S. Navy Lyon became navigator of the monoplane in its transpacific flight.

In the interview the story of Capt. Lyon's life follows : "Captain Lyon has had more than 20 years of seafaring, despite the fact that he is but 42 years old. He had a pilot's license, earned it, when he was 21, his wife declared proudly, and has never had a scratch on that license.

"His father sent him to sea when he was a mere lad, to cure him of his mania for wanting to go to sea. The staid old admiral picked out real seafaring for him, too. Sent him around Cape Horn in a sailing vessel. But storms and adventures failed to have the effect his father desired.

"Instead of curing his love for the sea, it made him all the more anxious to follow the sea. Here is what his wife says of him:

" 'He is the most fascinating man I ever met. He can tell such wonderful tales of the sea, things he has done and seen, but never in a boasting manner. He is always roving, always restless when on land; once he gets onto the planking of a ship then he is demureless.'

"Captain Lyon received much of his education in Prince School, Boston. He attended public schools in CharlestQwn, but Prince School was the warmest place in his heart of any boyhood ties. After marriage he took his wife to Boston to see the old school. Some of his education was acquired at Hebron Academy. He was sponsored by Henry Cabot Lodge for the naval academy at Annapolis, but gave it up after a year on account of his eyes. He also had a year at Dartmouth, which place he was much interested in athletics.

"Captain Lyon's father was at one time commandant of Portsmouth navy yard."