The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-08-23
Curtiss, in His Aeroplane at Rheims, Makes
Flight Of Over Six Miles at Speed
of FOrty-fOur Miles an Hour.

Rheims. Aug. 23.-Glenn H. Chr
tiss. the American aviator. made rec
ord here today. He covered one lap.
q distance OF 6 1-5 miles. in minutes,
30 SIS seconds. This is the official
time.
As Paul Ham was completing his
fourth round. Bleriot, with his so
horse power monoplane, swiftly over
hauled and passed under the biplane.
He covered the lap before Paul Ham
had reached the back stretch and waa
received amid thunderous applause.
Rheims. Aug, 2S.-Smshine and
only a trace OF wind made ideal con-
di,lons for this, the second day OF
aviation week at Rheims Attracted
by the sensational performances of
yesterday. when six aeroplanes were
seen at the same time winging their
flight in huge circles over the plain OF
Bethany, thousands OF spectators
came down on the early trains from
Paris. and when the dirigible bal
loon, Colonel Renard. appeared over
the field at 10 o'clock, having come
from MeauX, the fences lining the
field already were black with people
The Renard. which is the first of the
diTiSible balloons to arrive. carried on
a series of impressive maneuyerS
The daring performances yesterday of
Lefhyre have made him extremely
popular. but BleTiot and Latham stll
remain the fayorites OF the cdowd
Cortland F. Bishop. representing the
Aero Club of America, today received
definite assurances from Jacques
Verne that he would send a small
portable dirigiblc balloon, the Zodiac,
10 appear at the Hudson-Fulton cele-
bration in New York next month. The
Zodiac will compete In the race for
dirigible to be held here.
The events scheduled for today
were the Grand PriX de La Cham
pagnc and of the City of Rheims and
combinations in the PriX Du Tour de
Plste and the Prlx Des Meronauts.
The first event carries prizes amount
ing 20 100000. the FIRST being $4,000.
The money Will be given TO the six
aeroplanes. travelling the greatest dis
tance without touching the ground or
replenishing their supplies OF fuel
and Oil
No aviator can come within a GER
tain specified distance of the ground.
This event consequently is a test Of
endurance
Most of the sky pilots elected will
postpone their efforts until tomor-
row During the morning and early
afternoon hours a few unofficial test
flights were made.
Glenn II. Curtiss was out early and
made satisfactory trial flight Of two
kilometers. Bleriot. with his S0-horse
power machine, astonished his COM
petitors with the speed he developed.
He travelled so swiftly that Cu"tiSs
confidence in his ability TO capture
the international cup has been some
what shaken. This event Is the prln-
cipal feature OF the meeting.
MIR. Curtiss today expressed great
surprise al the decision Of the Wright
brothers 10 sue him personally. He
insisted that the Wrighls never have
specified completely wherein be has
infrineed upon their patents. Cort-
land F.. Bishop, president Of tho Har-
ring-Curtiss company, maintains that
the Wrlghts claim for basic patent
is not good and that Mr.. Curtiss does
not employ the warping wing princi-
pie which is distinctive feature OF
the Wright machine.
The partisans OF Mr.. Curtiss are
manlfcsting considerable bitterness
against the Wrights for bringing this
suit at tho moment when Mr. Curtss
IS the sole representative Of the
United States in flying contest, es-
pecially as they declined TO enter this
contest themselves and the Wright
aeroplanes here are classed as French
machines
II is understood that the Wright
brothers always have indicated that
most of the foreign types of flying
machines were infringements upo>
their patents. but they purposely re-
Trained from bringing suit until after
aviator week should have demonstrat-
ed the superiority of their machines.
Such suits will then be brought
Up 10 o'clock this afternoon. Paul
Ham was the only man to make a real
effort. He covered 49.400 metres In
one hour and three minutes, Several
other men. including Laiehvre. who
intend TO compete later in the week.
simply crossed the starting line in
order TO qualify.