Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-10-09
FEAT WON HIN FAME
Wilbur Wright Places Name
Along with HudsOnl
and Fulton.
Business Was Practically at a Stand
still i'm That Part Of Manhattan
Where View Of Remarka-
BILE Event Was Possible.

Where View Of Remarka.
BILE Event Was Possible.
New York, Oct. Am aeroplane |
flashed past the white dome of Grants |
Tomb, today, then turning gracefully |
in mid-air over the waters of the Hud- |
son, shot like a falcon back to Gov
ernor's Island, ten miles away.
Wilbur Wright, of Dayton, Ohio
thus placed his name in the rank
with Hudson and Fulton today in one
Of the most spectacular feats in the
history Of aeronautics.
Over the masts of warships from
ors were borne up to him in his ele-
vated seat, he few for twenty miles
ten miles up and ten miles back-re-
naming in the air for thirty three
minutes and thiHty-three seconds and
alighting at the aerodrome without
-nishap.
During the fight business was prac-
;ically at standstill in all that part
If Manhattan from which a view of
lis remarkable performance was
| lvailable. Harbor craft shrieked their
applause, cheer after cheer swept up
! rom the banks Of the Hudson and the
] over baylor the Dayton aviator had
! made good" crowning the aviation
,rogram of the Hudson-Fulton cele-
| ration with a record.
| Wright started on his fight up the
hudson at 9:56 a. m. and finished at
O.29:33.
He had intended to improve upon
Is achievement of the morning by
laking longer and more hazardous
light at sunset, but the crippling of
he motor just as he was about to
tart on the evening attempt dashed
is hopes as well as those of the
! .ousands who had assembled on Gov
,nor's Island and along the water
ont to cheer him on.
The fight was made under condi-
| ,ons only moderately favorable. The
Eind was blowing about ten miles an
i our, while an overcast sky added to
] ne uncertainty of the weather. Amid
l
! Which sounded like musketry fire,
Wright climbed to his seat in his aero
lane. In a moment the machine was
ioff.
With the planes tilted slightly to
ne side the man-bird slowly ascend
d into the air, rising to a height OF
,arely twenty feet, while it swooped
N a semi-circle toward the waters
dge. Here the presence of many
| raft, all Historically footing their
5histles, caused him to ascend fur
her into the air before making fol
) ne mouth of the river.
Almost indistinguishable against
| ne gray-banked clouds, the machine
Dared past Old Castle William and
,oon entered the canon made by thu
) liant skyscrapers Of Manhattan Is
land and the Jersey hills.
Over the warships of four grea
( lowers he passed, his progress mark
I own country and those of Great Brit
lain, Germany, France and Italy.
When the air vessel reached tn
l british cruiser Argyll. anchored a.
Eighth of a mile above Grants Toni
Wright described an easy and grace
! Eiul curve and started on his retur
) ljourney down the river. The win
conditions which had bothered him o
le he journey up were now more favor
Il able, and it was here that the spec
'e Possibilities Of the machine wer
demonstrated.
While the ten miles upstream OF
upfed nearly twenty minutes, the re
urn fight was made in little mo1
han thirteen minutes, or at rat
u glpproximating forty-two miles a
lour.
Nearing the harbor entrance agail
d. le was confronted with the same a.
le kchitectural conditions which cause
i'm, to vary his altitude on his way u
ST again he lowered himself and whe
IL e reached the open water Of the bs
e was flying barely sixty feet aboN
s. he surface. Thence onward he graz
4: .ally lessened his height. Past Go
OF rnors Island the machine sped, q
We laighth Of a mile over the bay, the
be eering sharply around Wright hea
b. ID swiftly for the landing place, I
OF .hich he settled with the ease of
Ii bird amid the enthusiastic plaudits
ne ~oldiers and civilians.