1910

Our executive committee has filled the vacancy caused by the death of TalleyHolmes. Hazen (Bones) Jones has been added to the list of responsible parties. It would be difficult to figure the number of years we have depended upon Hazen to make the arrangements for our annual night-before-Harvard dinner in Boston each fall. Time was when this meant arranging for a truly sizable number of Tenners. Time and changes to Florida and other addresses have reduced our numbers so as the years have gone by the problem has been reduced but Bones' loyalty and energy have been annually displayed.

A letter from Thayer Smith states that he has recently returned from England where he visited his daughter. He writes "My grandson Peter Smith is a freshman at Dartmouth this year living in South Mass. and I am planning to shortly take a trip up to Hanover and look him over. Maybe I'll meet you up there."

From a news item in the organization publication of the Massachusetts General Hospital we have clipped some items concerning the early flight experiences of Tenner Howard Bushway:

"At a time when man has completed a flight around the moon and back with scarcely a hitch, it is difficult for many of us to believe that some can still remember the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903. But an MGH Corporation member not only remembers the beginning days of flight; he was an early participant.

"J. Howard Bushway, an MGH Corpora- tion member since 1929 and a trustee from 1935 to 1937, saw his first airplane in 1910 at a Harvard air meet, the earliest in the United States. He made his first flight in 1912 with Ruth Law, America's first woman aviator; and in 1913, he decided to go into commercial flying.

"Wasting no time, he found a partner, 'Captain' Chauncey Redding, and together they started their 'Flying for Profit Exhibition Flying Business' in 1914.

"They flew with other associates at fairs and carnivals all over New England and in many Southern states, carrying Red Cross banners on every flight. Most of the people for whom they performed had never seen an airplane before, and their 1910 Wright and 1910 Curtiss Pusher planes attracted large crowds wherever they went.

"In the Boston area, they flew at the dedication of M.I.T. in Cambridge, and in 1915, they became the first to drop a parachute jumper over Boston.

"Mr. Bushway considers himself lucky to be alive, since all of his associates were killed flying, but he thinks planes today are even more dangerous than his early ones were."

From the latest word from Chad Chad-bourne it appears that all was not well on the Western front early in the summer. He writes: "Back to our cabin on Lake McDonald for the summer. Unhappily one of the Glacier Park bears, allied to student demonstrators, beat us to it by a couple of days, forced his way in by a hinged window, and made a shambles of our kitchen. We needed a better refrig. surely but dislike all the strong-arm persuasion. A well-fed bear left by the same window where he entered without breaking a pane of glass."

Sandy Sandberg had to hesitate a bit be- tween trips to the foreign lands but they couldn't keep him down. Says Sandy "Just returned from a month hospitalization and surgery - weak, but hopeful for sufficient recovery and strength to sail for a twomonth vacation in sunny Italy (Ischia), Bay of Naples and then to Baden Baden in Black Forest."

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