New-York tribune., 1910-12-30
ARCH HOXSEY FLIES
OVER MOUNT WILSON
Ascends Over 10000 Feet Be-
fore Remarkable Trip Across
California Peak.
"ARMY MIGHT CROSS ALPS
Opinion of Army Man at Los
Angeles-Latham Near
Death in Attempt to
Save Novice.

Los Angeles, Dec. 29-Arch .Hoxsey
the Pasadena aviator on the Wright
forces, and holder of the worlds aero
plane altitude record of 11.474 feet, made
here this week, flew to-day over Mount
Wilson, the highest peak of the noun
tain range that rims the valley in which
Los Angeles, Pasadena and the towns of
the orange belt lie. Under ideal weather
conditions he scared 1O,005 feet into the
sky, and cleared the crest of Mount Will
son with 1900 feet to spare, and. re-
turning, landed safely but nearly frozen
at 3:31 q. m.
Lieutenant Vernon Boiler and several
other army officers. who are here to see
the flights. assert that Hoxsey's per-
Torrance points new way of trans
porting armies across mountain ranges.
Lieutenant Boiler. who came from Fort
Whipple, AriZ.. says that thousand BIZ
planes could transport an army of ten
thousand men across mountains as high
as the Alps in a day.
HoxSey used Wright biplane
equipped for passenger service. He
made the journey from the field to a
and twenty-eight minutes. The distance
is estimated at thirtyfour miles.
Seen by Carnegie Observatory.
News of his success was flashed To the
aviation field by telephone from the Car
negie Solar Observatory on Mount Will
son, directly above which the aviator
scared.
1T was fearfully cold said Hoxsey,
land when I got to 4 point just above
the summit l found that the haze, which
obscured the mountains from the avia-
tion field, was heavy pail of vapor
filed with fine ice particles that stune
my face 1 am certain that if had had
recording thermometer with me it
would have shown the temperature of
the upper altitude to have been far be-
low zero. However, hurdling mountains
is much easier than climbing IL ,OO2 feet
over valley of the seq. The earth does
not seem SO far away
Hoxsey's performance was the most
interesting feat to-day, but Just before
the close of the afternoons events the
crowd got thrill by an accident which
nearly resulted in the death of Hubert
Latham, the French aeropIane expert
who made a valiant atternpt to save
Glenn Martin, California novice. when
the latter lost control of his machine
and was blown into fence by a twenty
mile wind.
The Accident to Martin.
After successfully negotiating the
course once. Martin was blown far TO the
south of the field. where he narrowly
escaped a wreck several times among
the high wires and trees. BY skilful
rranuuvring of his machine. he finally
tackled back to the course. and the
crash came as he was trying to make a
landing.
Two thousand or three thousand men
and women were within few feet OF
just in front of the grandstand. Latham
was In front Of the judges box when
Martin brought his machine to earth.
Latham saw the danger, and. rushing
out, caught hold of the machine and
desperately tried to turn 1T away from
the fence, but miscalculated it's speed
and was dashed to the ground. The
weighs 900 pounds. missed Iatham's
face only by a few inches. and Martin
and his biplane sped into the fence with
force enough to break tho iron posts
upon which the wire was, stretched
Martin was hurled over the fence bur
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