The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28
OVER A MILE HIGH SIGHT AIR Pilots
J. A. Drexel Scars 7,l00
Feet In MOnOpIane.
NEW u. S. ALTITUDE RECORD.
Belmont Park Scene of Sens ational
Aviation Events - Ten Aeroplanes
In Air at Onoe-Brookins Coasts
Mile to Earth.

New York, Oct. 25.-Ten aeroplanes
in the air all at once-a record flock
for American atmosphere-wast the sky
view offered to the Belmont park grand
stand the third day of the interna-
tional aviation tournament. Following
close upon this spectacle j. Armstrong
Drexel climbed in his Bleriot mono
plane until his Paragraph registered
7,100 feet, which establishes a new
American altitude record.
Walter Brookins in the new Wright
roadster" a tiny example of the ia
miliar Wright biplane, was fighting
Count de Lesseps' Bleriot for altitude
earlier in the day, when the Brookins
engine went dead at height of a
mile.
While nine other aviators We're cir
cling the air above Belmont park. Wal
ter Brookins In a Wright baby racer"
biplane ascended to an altitude of a
mile, where his motor froze compelling
the daring young expert to coast to
the earth
| the biplane's chassis, but Brookins had
worked the planes so rapidly that the
damage was confined to the machine,
the aviator escaping uniniured.
Brookins' thrilling coast to the
ground was unseen by any of the
other aviators. Even Comte Jacques
de Lesseps, whose Bleriot monoplane
had pushed up toward the clouds in
the first hourly altitude contest, almost
even with Wright's pupil, descended
/ reporting he did not know where
Brookins had gone. The young avia-
| tor had landed on a farm two miles
east of the course and from there he
/ finally sent word. The Wright broth
ers and Frank G. Coffyn, who had
gone out in an automobile scouting for
! him, found Brookins, brought him in
| and sent an autotruck for the aero
| plane.
! The second hourly distance event
| found three aviatOrs with even scores.
/ The records We're: Grahame-White,
21 laps; NJ. Aubrun, 21; NJ. Latham,
21; HOXsey, 10; JohnstOne, IS; Radley,
/ 4, and NJ. Garros, lap.
| NJ. Latham and Messrs. Drexel and
Ely went up in the second hourly alti-
tude event, but did not seem pleased
with the working of their machines
and quickly withdrew.
/ The sight of ten aeroplanes flying
/ at once, which thrilled the spectators,
! was the first glimpse of such an aerial
| gathering this hemisphere has seen.
/ j. Armstrong DreXel did some spectac-
ular driving during the first hourly
/ distance event, making the distance
record for the day, tWenty-seven laps,
/ in a BleriOt monoplane. He started
almost last, after several of the avia-
! tors had been circling for five or ten
minutes, but forced up the pace and
soon led the racers.
In the afternoons competition for
/ the grand speed prize were J. +. ID.
| McCurdy in a Curtiss biplane, j. c.
Mars in a similar machine and ]. f.
! Frisbie in q biplane of his own make
modelled on the lines of the Curtiss.
The other types of biplanes will elimi-
nate at a future date.
The result of the hourly distance
contest for the first hour was DreXel
q laps; Aubrun, 26; JOhnstone, 10;
HoXsey, Is; Grahame-White, 1S; Broo-
kins, 3, and Latham, laps.
The Pinkertons held up the Wright
brothers as they were attempting to
enter the main gate. Wilbur and Or
vile Wright were trying to walk in
when they were stopped, and, although
they showed cards and proclaimed
their identity, the policemen were OBJ,
durate and refused to admit them
Even when HoXsey arrived and identi
fed his teachers they were not let in
and Hoxsey carried word to Allan A
Ryan, head of the exhibition corpora
ton. He sent a policeman post haste
TO order the admission of the two pio.
neer aviators.
at was very unfortunate" said Mr.
Ryan.
The Wrights Wore disturbed and an
CRY, but preserved their customary ST.
lencc.