Tom Swift and His Sky Racer Or, The Quickest Flight on Record
By Howard R. Garis
Tom had several adventures on the wheel, and after having used the motor to save a valuable patent model from a gang of evil men, the lad acquired possession of a power boat, in which he made several trips and took part in many exciting happenings. Sometime later, in company with John Sharp, an aeronaut Tom had rescued from Lake Carlopa after the airman had nearly lost his life in a burning balloon, the young inventor made a giant Red Cloud airship. With Mr. Damon, Tom made several trips in this craft, as outlined in the book, “Tom Swift and His Airship.”
It was after this that Tom and his father built a submarine boat and went under the ocean for sunken treasure, and, following that trip, Tom built a speedy electric runabout, and by a remarkable run in that, with Mr. Damon, saved a bank from ruin, bringing gold in time to stave off a panic. “Tom Swift and His Wireless Message” tells of the young inventor’s plan to save the castaways of Earthquake Island and how he accomplished it by constructing a wireless plant from the remains of the wrecked airship Whizzer.
After Tom returned from Earthquake Island, he went with Mr. Barcoe Jenks, whom he had met on the unfortunate bit of land, to discover the secret of the diamond makers. They found the mysterious men, but the trip was not entirely successful, for the mountain containing the cave where the diamonds were made was destroyed by a lightning shock, just as Mr. Parker, a celebrated scientist who accompanied the party, said it would be.
However, his adventure in seeking to discover the secret of making precious stones did not satisfy Tom Swift, and when he and his friends got back from the mountains, they prepared to go to Alaska to search for gold in the caves of ice. They were almost defeated in their purpose by the actions of Andy Foger and his father, who, in an underhand manner, obtained a valuable map showing the location of the gold and made a copy of the drawing.
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Howard R. Garis
Howard Roger Garis (April 25, 1873 – November 6, 1962) was an American author best known for a series of books featuring Uncle Wiggily Longears, an engaging elderly rabbit.
Biography.
Many of his books were illustrated by Lansing Campbell. Garis and his wife, Lilian Garis, were possibly the most prolific children’s authors of the early 20th century. Garis was born in Binghamton, New York. He and his spouse, Lilian Garis, were reporters for the Newark Evening News. He did some work on the side for WNJR and Newark. The first Uncle Wiggily story appeared on January 10, 1910, in the Newark News. For almost four decades, the newspaper published an Uncle Wiggily story by Garis every day except Sunday, and the series was eventually nationally syndicated.
By the time Garis retired from the newspaper in 1947, he had written more than 11,000 Uncle Wiggily stories. In 1916, Milton Bradley began selling the Uncle Wiggily Game. In 1987, Parker Brothers bought the rights to the board game and produced it for many years. As of 2018, Winning Moves has been manufacturing the Uncle Wiggily Game. Garis wrote many books for the Stratemeyer Syndicate under various pseudonyms.
As Victor Appleton, he wrote about the enterprising Tom Swift; as Laura Lee Hope, he is generally credited with writing volumes 4–28 and 41 of the Bobbsey Twins; as Clarence Young, the Motor Boys series; as Lester Chadwick, the Baseball Joe series; and as Marion Davidson, some books including several featuring the Camp Fire Girls. The couple’s children also wrote for Stratemeyer. After Edward Stratemeyer died in May 1930, his two daughters, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (1892–1982) and Edna C. Squier (1895–1974), ran the company, with the result that Garis stopped writing for the Syndicate in 1933 after several disagreements.
Howard R. Garis
