Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-01
CURTISS FLIES
ALONG HUDSON
Wins Prize of $4,000 by His
Marvellous Performance
FROM ALBANY TO new YORK

Distance of Hundred and Thirty Seven
Miles Covered In Two Hours and
Thirty-Two Minutes at Speed of
Over Fifty-Four Miles an Hour,
Breaking All Records-WonderfuI
Control of Machine
New York, May 31.-Glenn H.
Curtiss few from Albany to New York
city in an aeroplane, winning the
$40, 900 prize offered by the New York
World.
He covered the distance of 1877 miles
in two hours and thirty-two minutes,
and came to earth as easily and as
lightly as a pigeon.
His average speed for the distance
81. 06 miles an hour-surpasSes any
record ever made by an aeroplane in
long distance flight, and in it's entirety
his feat perhaps eclipses anything man
has attempted in an heavier than air
machine.
Albany was quilted at 7:03 a m.
under weather conditions as near per-
feet as the most fastidious aviator
could demand One hour and twenty
three minutes later he had reached
Poughkeepsie, where there was an
hours inteHmission. Resuming his
irr1,f OF o.. hn nj Il
landed within the boundary of Man
haitian Island at 1875.
Only 100 yards north of the point on
which his craft settled stretched
Spuyten bayvel creek, separating
Manhattan Island from the mainland.
Had he failed to cross this his flight
would have been in vain, but as he
swept over it, ths prize was his.
Thence to Governors Island his task
was but whim of triumph, and the
concluding lap of race already won
Paulhan's flight from London to
Manchester, 1856 miles, exceeded
Curtiss' feat in distance, but not in
speed and danger. The Frenchman's
average speed was only A 3 miles an
hour, and below him lay English
meadowland.
| Curtiss followed the winding course
of the historic Hudson, with juttine
headland, wooded slopes and treach-
erous palisades. He swung high over
| the great bridge at Poughkeepsie
dipped at times within fifty feet of the
rivers broad surface, and jockeyed
like a falcon at the turns
Only once did his craft show signs
King, near West Point, where at a
height or nearly 1000 feet PREACHER
Gus gust struck his planes The ma
chine dropped like rock for forty
feet and tilted perilously. But Cur
tiss, always cool, kept both his head
and his seat, and by adroit handling
of his levers brought renewed equilib.
rum to his aerial steed
Although he had won, weather con.
ditions were so propitious and he wa:
feeling so gratified at success that he
decided to give the city another view
of bis machine, and at 1877 he sho
away again for Governors Island. I
was during this part of his trip tina
J he received his noisiest greeting. H,
came down the river at an elevation
of more than 300 feet. while harbo
craft shrieked their greetin IS.
Curtiss is 80 years old and was borl
the Hammondsport, N. Y, the seen,
J Of his early experiments.
VOTERS Execution Is Stayed
: New York, May 31.-Albert VOL
: ter will not be electrocuted during TIL
week of June for the murder of Rutl
Wheeler. Counsel for the condemne,
man served notice of appeal, which
acts as a stay of execution until tn
court of appeals determines whethe
Wolter shall be given a new trial o
not