Air Tour

Thos. Cook & Son, tourist agents, last week finished arrangements for the first organized U. S. air tour--from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston, to Chicago, where the tourists are to see the forthcoming Tunney-Dempsey prizefight; and return. Planes. Twenty planes, carrying 4 to 8 passengers each, will make the tour. Each will have a glass enclosed cabin, wicker armchairs, radio headphones at each seat. Money's Worth. The round-trip fare of $575 includes hotel quarters at tour start and at Chicago, motor carriage between hotels and flying fields, a picnic lunch en route, re-served ringside seat at the fight, and "a stop for one hour at the Cleveland landing field in order that the passengers may have an opportunity to stretch their legs and see something of Cleveland's famous Air Port." Souvenirs. Brighter than a boast of being a "first air tourist" is the ticket Thos. Cook & Son have ordered for their first flight. It "will be printed on parchment paper and will be about the size and general appearance of college diplomas. The members of this pioneer tour can then frame their tickets and keep them as souvenirs. A special sticker for the handbags of the flying tourists is also being prepared in orange and black. . . ." Decorum. Precise advice: "Don't worry. Relax, settle back and enjoy life. If there's any worrying to be done let the pilot do it: that's what he's hired for. . . . Take the turns naturally with the plane. Don't try to hold the lower wing with the muscles of the abdomen-- it's unfair to yourself and an unjust criticism of the pilot."