1912-06-26-sc-p18-reuben-bowers-died-mecklenberg-rosebloom-to-take-over

June 26, 1912 Spokane Daily Chronicle Page 18:

Motor Gossip

QUITS AUTO GAME TO ENTER AVIATION

Reuben Bowers Dies—H. Roseboom of Spokane to Take His Place.

H. Roseboom, a mechanic at the garage of Harry L. Olive & Co,, is to leave the automobile came to engage in aviation. Mr, Roseboom has received a telegram from Davenport, asking that he come immediately to take the place of Aviator Reuben Bowers.

Bowers died of appendicitis at Harrington Monday Right. Roseboom will leave Spokane Thursday for Davenport.

This is not Mr. Roseboom's first experience as an aviator. He made flights in 1906 at Omaha in an old dirigible of the Fredrickson type. Later he was instructor of aviation at the Kansas City Automobile club, where he made 200 flights.

Mr. Roseboom will go in the employ of the M. Mecklenberg company. The Mecklenberg aeroplane is the invention of a man by that name living at Creston, Wash, It is a departure from the old system of the Wrights and Curtiss, in that it is without the elevating plane at the head of the machine.