The Sentinel=record., 1910-01-12

l ana undDle 10 raise man in a clam, much less withstand the assaults of fifteen to twenty mile wind. Yet, after a vain attempt by Misearoi, one of the French aviators, PauIhan took 1t and sped twice around the field al. though he never rose higher than if teen feet
 Several times great signs of appre. hension, mingled with the shriells oi frightened women, nose from the crowd as the tiny machine, tossed by fierce gusts of wind, rolled and ca reened in the air.
 Every moment seemed to be fraught with such danger that when the flight was safely over and the monoplane had landed far across the field an i'm mense sigh of relief went up from the crowd
 Apparently secure in his renewed role of star of the meeting, Paulhan frankly delighted by the tremendous applause his performance evoked, brought out his FaIman and quickly disappeared from the view of the spectators far to the northward re- appeared twenty seconds later over the trees of nearby ranch He flew back directly over the grandstand.
 Several times Paulhan flew across lots" or charged directly upon the crowd in the grandstand, only to turn sharply when within a few feet of it and swep graceful along before the thousands of spectators. lis flight of eight and three-quarters miles lasted twentyone minutes and twelve sec onds.
 Curtiss all the while remained silent and at work. Clad in oil spotted work ing clothes, he spent his time tuning up the eight cylinder motor on the s.. plane with which he won the interna. tional cup at Rheims.
 Not once did he look at what Paul. han was doing in the air. But when the fourth flight of Paulhan had end ed Curtiss mechanician trundled the machine to starting point Without preiiminaries of any sort, he motioned to Fancuilli to get in the machine.
 Climbing in behind his manager, Curtis gave the word to assistants s. A pop and rattle like automatic artil. lery, and the night that established the passenger speed record began. Describing a wide circie in front or the grandstand, Curtiss now with Fan cuilli at all angles to the wind and landed almost at the same spot from which he started.
 Lieutenant Paul Beck, of the army signal corps, as one of the judges, annouced that he figured the speed ali iifty-five miles an hour. When the record breaking figures were announc. ed, the crowd went wild. Shouts and screams rose from the boxes and tiers of seats, automobile speeks and hats were thrown in the air.
 Paulhan, standing by his biplane on the other side of the field, saw the performance through binoculars. These he dropped suddenly and gesticulated as he rattled off instructions to his crew of mechanicians and made them race to get his motor started immedi- ately- Then he mounted his seat and rose majestcaly.
 At the same time Willard and Ham ilton brought their machines to the start in front of the grand stand. Di. rectly after they got into the air, Cur. tiss book Clifford Harmon, the New York balloonist, into the seat beside him and rose again on another flight with passenger.
 All four aeroplanes in the air at once presented a sight that set the crowd into frenzy.
 Paulhan landed in a few minutes and, determined to regain some of hi slost laurels, ordered one of his assistants into the seat beside him. Then he lose and twice circled the course, his great biplane soaring as gracefully with the extra man $ 1t had done with Paulhan alone. In quick succession Curtis tried Flor 2 starting record and a record for i landing. He succeeded in establish ing both But Willard, coming next to the trial landing. beat the best his chief could do. Curtiss. however. set a new record for getting. away to make up for the landing honor he lost He started from marked square of ten feet. flew about the held for two minutes and returning, landed exact ly in the same spot.
 The trip with Curtiss was the first flight Harmon bad ever made in an aeroplane Harmon was so pleased with the experience that he determin- ed to make an effort at flight alone. Willard lent the millionaire sports