Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-11
PROMINENT MEN
TAKE RIDE In AIR
Government Officials Seize OppOr-
tunity to Experience New sensa-
tions at Baltimore.
POSTMASTER GENEr PLEASED
u
Hitchcock Wants to M, = Second
Flight Tmmedis
GENERAL ALLEN Is A Pa ER
Secretary Of War Dickinst :
Thomas Nelson Page Ride
RIFLE PRACTICE FROM ALOFT
Latham Hits the Target Twice
Opt Of Four shots After Captain
Douw Fails by -Four
Feet.
GENERAL ALLEN IS A Pa
Secretary Of War Dickinst :
Thomas Nelson Page Ride
RIFLE PRACTICE FROM ALOFT

BALTIMORE Nov. l0-Todays flights
at the aviation field differed in many re-
speots from anything seen here hitherto
There was bomb throwing and target
shooting from speeding airships. there were
aerial gymnastics that thrilled and there
were trlps aof, made by government
Officials followed hy official expressions
a 10 the sensations experienced aioft ard
as 10 the merits OF aeroplanes Of different
designs
postmaster General Frank Hitchcock,
after q night with Count Jacques De
Lesseps was so pleased that he asked
Archibald HoXsey for higher flight In
the Wright biplane. But Hoxsey had
found the upper air too gusty to make pas
senger carrying altogether safe and ne
asked the postmaster general to wait until
tomorrow Mr.. Hitchcock expressed him
self as delighted With his experience in the
air
GeheraI Aiien Makes flight.
After lie had been brought safely TO
earth, General James Allen. chief Of the
signal corps United states army entered
Count DE IscsEepa lO0-horse-power Bleriot
ana was given the new experience OF a
flight IN the party from Washington with
him and the postmaster general were Sec.
retary OF War Jacob Dickinson General
Witherspoon, president of the war college
OF the army; Count zeppellne Thomas
Nelson Poge and several others, together
with number OF women. The first Of the
flyers to tase wing WAS James Radley at
q bit after O'Clock he being followed
aioft almost Immediately By Hubert
Latham IN his Antoinette Both de-
eoopded after brief flights little later
Count De Lesseps IN his 1OJ-horse- power
al. Lei
tain John p pouw OF the state ordnance
CORPS AttSi a lrlp around the course to
give the marksman his bearings, Captain
l'ouw fiqsJ tvice at &c" target. L. $. A..
small erins practice but the best Of the
shots missed the mark by four feet.
Latham then tried with revolver Cow
ering tho target In the circumference OF a
circle OF small diameter. from his Antoin-
atte hc twice fired two shots. OF his four
shots two were hits one scoring two and
the other three points. Count DE Lesseps
then took up as a passenger Lieutenant
Dupuy Of the signal corps OF New York
Drexei Tries for Altitude.
Just before 3 o'clock J. Armstrong Drexel
began a try for altitude. the wind at that
time blowing nine miles an hour In few
minutes he had floated out OF sight in the
direction Of the city. He returned after a
trip Of about quarter OF an hour. report
ing the wind too uncertain for a high flight.
Ills barograph recorded $50 feet only
though the manner OF his flight gave the
impression OF much greater altitude.
Ely In a Curtiss biplane, went into the
sir intending TO try for the Commodore
barry bomb throwing trophy. but de-
leonded before completing lap for the
purpose Of making Establishments TO his
oiplane,
Latham made "A SCORE OF Is points with
SIX bombs One of these would have
dropped into the funnel Of battleship ana
H. therefore, counted as a buliseye. Under
the rules governing the Barry trophy con-
test bombs must be thrown from a height
Of not less than 100 feet Some OF Latham s
fcl from more than double that altitude
and against rising wind. Direct from his
B'eriot dropped six of the missiles on the
outline representing the deck Of a battle
ship. but as none OF them struck a vital
spot, his score was only six
HoKsey Circles Coarse.
While he was lreparing TO drop his sec
ono bomb, HoNsev. in big Wright bi-
plane flew across the grandstand from
thc railroad station at Holethorpe. where
his machine had been assembled IN record
hrcaking time. lie circled the course MANY
times, performing brilliant evolutions and
dividing the interest Of the audience with
preNeL who continued his bomb dropping.
ItONsey flew his Wright in almost every
conceivable manner now IN tapering longt-
tndlnal spirals, now gracefully gliding from
great heights then literally gliding over
tho surface Of the earth only 20 rise again
Into the upper ar lie made three flights
IN all during the afternoon
shortly after 3 o'clock angry clouds IN
the west spoiled further efforts and in less
than a quarter OF an hour later came the
rain Then the trio OF bombs signaued
the official close Of the day