The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-03
SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT
FIRST EXHIBITION or HENRI FAR
 MANS AEROPLANE.
Some Two Thousand Enthusiastie Spec tators Were Highly Entertained at the Brighton Beach Race
 Track Yesterday.

New York. Aug. 2.---Henri Farrnan. who came from Paris to give a series Of aeroplsne exhibitions under the management of an American syndicate, made -his first public flight in this country at the Brighton Beach race track t1is evening.
 The exhibition was a success to the extent that 1t demonstrated the in- ventors ability to fly under favorable atmospheric conditions. and entertain ed some 1000 enthusiastic spectators. Farman travelled from the eastern cor- ner of the race track enclosure to the opposite corner at the lower turn. a distance of nearly third of "a mile. in about thirty seconds. and did not ap- pear to be hurrying. In rising, flying and alighting, the frail-looking air- craft displayed a bird-liks grace and assurance that would have delighted the soul of Darius Green. The crowd that had hung on through long walt was well pleased and after shouting its congratulations from the grand stand. bore down upon the inventor with a ruslf~-that threatened damage to the aeroplane.
 fair. only decided upon at an anex- pected falling off of stin breeze. few police officers were on hand, and for q time 1t looked as though Farman might be the victim of his friends. But the Mosquito reserves were On hand. and the swarms that infest the enclosure set upon the cheering crowd. driving it back pell nnell to the race track. Then Farman climbed up into the announeer's stand and was formal. ly introduced as the man who had solved the transportation problem of New York. This also pleased the un- derground and surface riders. and when tho announcer promised an overhead system of travel for the near future. the crowd gave three cheers for Far man.
 That today's crowd was not greater was due to the dubious forecast of the weather bureau. The management had withdrawn their announcements of public flight today and adnittance to the grounds was refused until evening, when Farnan suddenly appeared. About this time the wind died away 60 pretty nearly calm. The airship was wheeled out of It's tent and the announcer announced that while the weather might not be all that Farman would have ordered for the occasion. rather than disappoint the crowd. etc. The rest was lost in the cheers of the patient sssembiage that knew the for muIa.
 An hour was spent jockeying.
 At q spot directly in front of the club house the aeroplane was faced to the west and with the aid of ladder. It's tenant mounted. The power was turned on. the two insignificant look ing propeller blades whirred about. and the machine roared and trembled like an impatient automobile. Then it moved slowly forward on it's four bi- cycle wheels. Perhaps q hundred feet had been covered when at an incline so gradual that the point of detachment could not be determined at few yards distance, the toy bird found its wings. It reached 2 height of twenty Feet and sned Tn q bee line without tremor.
 With it's supports and wheels sug- gesting dangling legs and elutehed claws. the white winged affair looked for all the world like q frightfui cSea- lure of the air. Nearing the lower turn the thing slowed down at a de. cline and settled to the ground as gently as It's living model might cover q nest of eggs.