The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-07-29
TAFT SEES WRIGHT
BREAK AIR RECORD.
CongratuIates Dayton Aviator
After Wonderful Flight.
FIRST TEST BIG SUCCESS
While Hubert Latham Is Falling Into
English Channel the American
Sets New Mark for Aero -
plane Endurance.

Washington, July 2S.--The worlds
both time and distance, was broken In
a beautiful flight of one hour, IL min
utes and 40 seconds--upwards of fifty
miles and at speed averaging about
forty miles an HOURLY Orville Wright
at Fort Myer, with Lieut. Frank p.
Lahm of the army signal corps as
passenger.
The former record was made last
year by his brother, Wilbur, joint in
ventor with him of the machine in
which both achievements were per-
formed, at LIE Mans, France, with
Prof. Painleve of the French institute
as passenger. That fight was one
hour, nine minutes and 81 seconds.
Taft Leads In Cheering.
The cheering which heralded the set
ting of a new mark in the conquest of
the air was led by President Taft in
person, who was an intensely interest
ed spectator throughout the flight, and
who insisted at it's conclusion upon
pesonally congratulating the brothers
upon their success. This success was
all-important to the Wrights In that it
completed the first of two crucial tests
of their machine imposed upon them
by the United States government-the
so-called endurance test" which re-
Quired them to remain one hour con-
tinuously in the air with one passen-
ger.
The other test, that for speed, will
be complied with today, weather per
hitting, when Orville is to take Lieut..
Benjamin Foulois of the signal corps
on a cross-country fight to Alexandria
and return. total of ten miles, over a
measured course, and at speed re-
quired to average 40 miles an hour.
Bully Says His Sister.
Miss Katherine Wright. who nursed
her brother through the period of his
recovery from the disaster last fail,
anxiously watched him from the door,
way OF the shed where the aeroplane
is kept, and when he returned unhurt
from his fight gripped him eagerly by
the arm, nestled her face against his
breast and said:
Bully for you, brother, it was beau
tiful." ..s ~.
1t is question whether this word
OF praise was not more to him than
that which came few minutes later
when the president of the United
States, who had waited for him at the
other end of the great parade ground,
took him warmly by the hand and said.
with the other grasping that of his
brother Wilbur: Il congratulate Won
heartily, sir. 1t was great exhibition.
You came down as easily and grace
fully as you went up. You beat the
worlds record"
Latham Falls Into Channel.
Dover, England, July 2S.-Hubert
Latham's second attempt to fly across
the Englishf channel ended disastrous
ly, e., Almost in the moment of victory
his monoplane fluttered down into the
sea two miles. beyond the Admiralty
pier, like bird with broken wing.
Thousands of persons crowding the
water front saw. the fall and for nearly
half an hour they were kept in sus-
pense, not knowing whether the daring
aeronaut had met death or again had
been rescued from the wa.er.
A flock of large and small craft
raced to the scene of the disaster. and
a pinnace from the British battleship
Russell picked up the unlucky flyer
and put him aboard the French tor
pedo boat destroyer Escopette. After
a surgeon had attended to his injuries
the destroyer brought Latham ashore
and he was taken to the Lord Warden
hotel. His face was bandaged and
bleeding and his nose was broken.
The machine, badly wrecked. was
hoisted from the boat to the dock.