Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-22

q and 81, 600 and $500 for second i
: third places, to be awarded at =
I end of the meet. q
: Grand altitude, 4 o'clock. J
Cross-country. 4 o'clock. z
IL Events will also include totali- !
! zation of distance and duration. 4
BELMONT PARK. n. Y. Oct. 22.-
Aviators were early astir on the
grounds here today, preparing for the
opening of the international aviation
meet. the first events of which were
timed for the early afternoon. Several
of the hangers were open and work
was proceeding within them by ma
chinists. grooming the machines for
the days flights. There was something
of a breeze blowing out of the north
west, but at least one aviator dared
the conditions of the morning and VEN
tured a considerable flight.
This was Captain Thomas S. Bald
win. Who arrived in his 50-horsepower
Curtiss %aeroplane, the RED Devil" at
the Belmont Park track from the Gar
! den City aviation field, where his aero
plane has been quartered. The manner
of his coming was somewhat sensa-
tional. He few in ahead of the north
west wind in six minutes from he
Garden City field, or at the rate of
more than a mile a minute. His eyes
We're swollen. he having forgotten his
goggles. The fight was the second
across country for the meet, Frisbie
making a similar one last night.
During the morning the wind hauled
into the northeast. Tod Shriver. in a
Dietz biplane, started TO make a short
flight in the face of a ten-mile wind
He rose to a height of 100 feet and
flew to the grand stand, then swerved
and flew eastward into the eye Of. the
wind.
First Accident of the Day.
When directly over the spot where
Radley and Moissant We're wrecked.
which is known as dead mans turn, the
wind suddenly struck the light biplane
and made it dip and list badly to the
right. Shriver pulled the aerolons, but
the machine would not right. When
fifty feet from the ground the plane
righted, but the strain caused some
thing to give away and the machine
plunged to the ground.
Shriver was buried beneath the
wreck, and from the stand it looked as
though he was killed. He rose, how
ever, cut on the nose, cheek and eyelid.
He suffered no serious injuries, but the
bipiane and engine We're demolished.
! After having his wounds dressed,
Shrlver was taken home.
Al noon the ain was falling and the
officers of the committee on aviation
were holding a conference in the club
house on the ACCESSIBILITY of ~postponing
the opening of the meet.
Inasmuch as the %aviators share in
the division of profits they do not care
to fly to empty benches, but Ahen
Ryan, in charge of the meet, said that
the program would go through as an
nounced, rain, hail or shine.
setting for the Meet.
A green field of cropped grass, set
in a saucer trimmed at the horizon with
faint blue hills, bounded by the familiar
oval of the Belmont race track and
marked at the turns with tall red and
white ~pylons; a huge steel grand stand
painted to tone with the landscape,
gay with the flags of all the nations,
and banked TO the roof with tier on tier
of close-ranged benches; beside 1t the
White colonial facade OF the West
chester Racing Associations club
house; opposite it the broken outline
of the twenty hangers In which the
aeroplanes of three nations are housed
to the east a low clump of trees, and
near them the trim brown tents of the
limited States Signal C~orps-such was
the picture that greeted the eye of the
observer at daybreak.
America, France and Great Britain
are the competitors. Neither Curtiss
nor the Wright brothers, he best,
known American aviators, are enteret
in person. They are represented, how
ever, by Hoxsey, Johnstone and Brook
ms for the Wrights, and McCurdy, ELY
Mars n Willard for Curtiss. Curtiss
won the James Gordon Bennett inter
national aviation cup last year. but M
declined to defend 1t in person Thu
year. Instead. both he and the Wright'
have built special racing machines, no.
yet seen In public, with which they
hope to retain 1t for America, but the!
will meet formidable opposition in thu
latest 0o-horsepower Bleriots brought
here by the French team.
Hamilton Has New Plane.
Hamilton has a new 110-horsepowe'
biplane, but it has never been tried on
to the limit, and even its owner doe
not know Just what it will do unde'
pressure. He believes 1t very fast
John B.. Moissant smashed his Blerio
racer last Monday, but is busy rebuild
ing it. j.. Armstrong Drexel will ais
fly a Bleriot fol, the Americans.
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