The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-23

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aeroplane Is brought gently and dett.
~ to landing on the grass. And then
Hamilton. having completed u 5000
foot fall, asks only for a cigarette. or,
perhaps light and inodestly denies
there Is such a thing as danger In
aviation.
smokes While In Air.
Incidentally, Hamilton Is probably
the only aviator who smokes continu-
ally while he is in tho air. He lights
one cigarette from another frequently
consuming as many as thirty cigar
cites In thirty minute light, the
speed of the fast-rushing machine
causing the tobacco to burn far more
rapidly than would be the case were
the aviator sitting in an easy chair
In hts hotel lobby. Icn route from New
YORK to Philadelphia, Hamilton smok-
ed no fewer than sixty seven cigar
cites In hight that lasted exactly
one hour forty mine minutes forty-six
seconds. That Is probably d record
for rapid consumption of tobacco, yet
the first words Hamilton uttered as
! he stepped out OF his seat at the Phil
adelphia terminal of his great inter.
city flight was Has anybody
n1atcl2" And 100000 people were
shrieking themselves toarse at that
/, moment!
What Hamilton Is with biplane,
| that Simon Is in monoplane. The
! great French aviator can make his
single-surfaced machine do more crazy
turns and tricks In the air than any
operator OF rnonoplane in the whole
! world Simon stands his machine on
!, end much as the late Ralph tombstone.
and persists in doing so despite the
1 warning carried by Johnstone's awful
death last week
| With multi millionaire father
! begging him to return to the law
| Simon earned the degree of doctor OF
laws at the University of Paris and the
/ Law University of Paris-with an an
! hual income of over $4,000 In his own
right. Simon, for pure love of the
sport, cavorts through the air as II
! he were tumbler pigeon In its nat
| ural element.
simon's Sharp Turns.
/ Simon has made probably the sharp
est turn ever successfully accomplished
/ with monoplane. At the recent Bel
| mont Park international meet Simon
stood his Bleriot so nearly on end that
| It seemed to the spectators and his
fellow ayiators as If it had reached
the perpendicular. He made a com
| plete circle of one of the pylons mark
ing the international cup course in
two and one-ffth seconds. the fastest
complete circle ever made In an ero-
! plane. particularly OF the monoplane
type. And Simon possesses the same
fatalistic notions that dominate his
confrere Hamilton.
Garros, in his tiny, trick Demoiselle.
may be relied upon to-day to do that
work in the afternoons program which
/ is supplied in circus by the leading
clown. And that is just the relation
! that the Demoiselle bears to the more
stable machines that other aviators not
! unnaturally prefer. Garros is the ayta-
tor who was called "idiotically lovable"
by Wilbur Wright for his sterling air.
! manship at the recent Belmont Park
meet.
The five-mile race between Hamilton
| and Seymour promises to be one OF
the most sensational stunts ever wit
/ messed in Richmond, or, for that mat
/ ter. anywhere else.
| FITTING any aeroplane against an
| automobile of even only approximately
| equal horsepower is distinct advan-
! tage to the motor car, particularly
! where the track corners are as sharp
as they are at the Fair Grounds.
/ But Hamilton, determined TO carry
off the honors of opening day, Will IN
stall his 11o-horsepower engine in his
racing biplane as soon as he has I'm
ished his first exhibition flight with
his 7o-horsepower motor Then tine
aeroplane that has become famous all
over the United States as the black
demon, will be ready for its combat
with the 12o-horsepower Fiat Wander
bilt Cup racer. which is to be driven
By Joe seymour the well-known Van
derbilt race pilot. Hamilton last night
offered even money that he would win
the five-mile speed contest. IN which,
SO far as mere horsepower is con-
cerned. more equal conditions preva
than in any race ever held between
an aeroplane and an automobile.
The race will surely be contest OF
noise, for one thing. For the difference
in the tremendous exhaust of Hamil-
toms eight-cylinder engine and sey-
mour's big four-cylinder affair is
hardly appreciable. Both more nearly
resemble six-inch guns fred in con-
slant volleys than anything else.
FIRST TRAIN on FRIDAY.