Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1911 — Crutches or Biers. [ARTICLE]

Crutches or Biers.

Richard Croker, at a dinner in New York, expressed a distrust for aeroplanes. “There’s nothing underneath them,” he said. “If the least thing goes wrong, down they drop. "I said to a Londoner the other day: " ‘How is your son getting on since he bought a flying machine?’ “ ‘On crutches, like the rest of them,’ the Londoner replied.”