Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1912 — III-Paid Hero. [ARTICLE]

III-Paid Hero.

Mr. French Strother, writing in the World’s Work about .0. P. Rodgers’ transcontinental flight, says thatfinancially the trip was a disappointment. He received five dollars a mile tor his flight from New York to Fort Worth, and from Fort Worth to Pasaadena, four dollars a mile and all the purses he could arrange for on the side. "He thus received about twentythousand dollars from his hackers and about three or tour thousand dollars prize money. But his machine cost five thousand dollars and repairs cost about seventeen thousand dollars more, so his net return was small. But he unconsciously Tjummed up the significance of his flight at Pasadena, after he had heard the last congratulations and had laid off the American flag they had thrown across his shoulders, when he placed his hands on his mother’s shoulder and said: “Never mind about the money. It debt amount to much that way—but I did it, didn’t I?”