The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-07-31

almost due north and south course. and
swept away with clacking propeller5
straight over the starting line.
More than $500 spectators cheered
again when far down the sky lanes,
where the green of the treetOps looked
Ike lar of lVy-colOred wall against
the blue-DroWn background of the
smoke ana sky, appeared little specki
almost lndednab.e. not seeming 10
move, but still something upon which
one could fasten ones eyes and hopes
The 500 saw and believed, or If any
didn't see, they heard the yells of those
around and Joined in.
They Cheer Once More.
And when the little speck had grown
and grown into a swiftly moving thing
of long white wings. with a dark blur
IN the center Ike a body-when there
no longer was any doubt at aII-the
500 caeered once more. When the
dark blur came out of the distance and
resolved into man in civilian clothes
and a cloth cap, and another in khaki
and a service headpiece, the 5000 yelled
a5aln. after that period of cheering
II was but few seconds until the ma
chine swept across the line, and then
the 5000 broke out once more.
And all of those cheers came from
persons who felt away down i'm their
hearts that q was pretty good 10 Se
an American and see another American
perform the most wonderful feat in he
history or heaFler-tLan-air aviation
or part Or the journey OF ChevaIfer
OTElle and Lieutenant FOulOis the GGgl
We're not cheering. Although the trim
20 shutters Hil and back took only II
minutes ana T. seconds Tor about two
or three minutes. ut the time of The
turn ~ tle lIlI. the aerOUIane Was with
out the view Of most of the crowd A
rev with sharp eyes and others with
ned glasses saw the aeropIane make
The turn saw one HtJie suerll frtsFra
westward iowa rd another LITTLE eTtcl-
tHal had been there all day-the captive
balloon that marked the end OF the
journey saw the moving spect 20
around the other and then straigIteu
Quit Was The snip coming back.
Aeroplane Lost To View.
once again the machine was lost to
view, this time to every one in the
crowd. 1t was when Mr.. Wright was
within two miles Of the finish lire. He
ran into a current Of air Unexpectedly
and went down LOOKING for air less ad-
verse. This second disappearance caus-
ed more uueasiuess than did the first.
The tlrst time the 5000 expected it. they
knew their own sight was al fault but
before the machine went out of the
vision OF man the second time il had
crowd was getting just a bit restless.
was tdgcting bit, women hoping that
nothing had happened, correspondents
looking UcTVOusiy at the skyline. Off
GERS riding about trying 20 md better
view points and Wilbur looking cool
and digging his heels into the thin SEQ
a collective sigh of relief assembled
from hundreds when the biplane came
climbing mp over the trce-tOps eminent
ly safe and making its fOTty-two- mile
OF more just Ike tie Fifty-siEth Cen
fury Limited or the Keystone Special
make their eighty or less.
Both Seem UncOncerned.
Eugine-driver OrviHe was sitting up
ia his seat holding onto the throttle
when he crossed the line and circIed
down 90 the yards Fireman FOul0is
who didn't need to- fire because the pat
tent feed was doing it for him, was look
ing at bis watch and timing the driver.
Both driver and his fireman seemed Mt
Jerly uucOuceTned as If they had lust
made "a dash from New York 10 PhiIa-
deiphia over l11-pouud rails i'm front Of
six Pu.lmaus swinging under SIGNALS
and over roadbcd that cost millions Of
dollars
In the fifteen minutes the flight he
came an old story 10 them. Not an
old story iu the sense that they wouldn't
enjoy taking another trip today bur
an old story iH that the danger. II thew
thought about 10 at ALL disapDeara0
entirely and the air lanes, the great
uutTOd ways where future commerce
may go, where there are no 1O0-pOUnd
rails, no rock ballast, no milli0u-d0lla~
bridges, no men TO bluudeT and bring
death and disaster, only nature % fear
and also 10 depend upon, seemed ae