Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1918 — QUARANTINED AT WILBUR WRIGHT FIELD. [ARTICLE]

QUARANTINED AT WILBUR WRIGHT FIELD.

In a letter received Wednesday from George M. Babcock, who h still at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, he stated that the camp had been quarantined for a week and that there were about 250 cases of influenza there, but al&’the men were receiving throat and nose sprays twice daily since the quarantine was established and that he did not think there was much to fear from it there; that the tide had been stemmed and they are in hopes of getting out in a couple of weeks. The airship trip of which he wrote in his last letter that he expected to take with one of the flyers when the latter got his new machine, he took Sunday morning, he writes; that they were up above the clouds which were hanging low and that the captain put the ship through a “wing-over”, some nifty “tight” spirals, causing the decent to appear like a closely twisted cork screw', etc. “The more often I go up the better I like it,” he writes, “and there seems to be no danger at all when a wide awake pilot is on the jbb.”