The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-13

| Philadelphia. June 13.-Traveling at l a speed greater than that of the fast est express trains between the two cit | ies, Charles K. Hamilton. in a Curtias | biplane, completed the first half of hss l flight from New York to Philadelphia and return at BPS today. He covered | the distance approximately S6 miles, | in one hour and fifty minutes, about AS miles an hour
 Hamilton appeared above the avia- | tion field, a quarter of mile north west of Front street and Erie avenue. at 9:20 o'clock. He circled the big lot three times, tearing to the earth on | the. fourth circle at a point several l squares distant from where crowd of 1 several thousand had gathered. When a group of newspaper men swarmed about him Hamilton's first request was for a cigarette. A mo- | ment later the vast throng gathered on the field surged in about him, | striving to grasp his hands. and cheer | ing him madly
 Shouts were made for a speech. but l Hamilton turned to his aerial craft. flight" said Hamilton. ''the most beautiful have ever had. The weather was great-couldn't have been better
 At this point Governor Stuart. who was an interested spectator, addressed the aviator: T want to congratulate you, MT. Hamilton" the Governor said, lon your remarkable flight Thank you, Governor" returned Hamilton 1T guess it's time I was delivering the goods.''
 Drawing a packet from an inside pocket he gave the Governor a letter from Governor Hughes of New York. He also carried greetings to the Pub lie Ledger from the New York Times, 1In6er NhoSe a11SnicaS the flight was made.
 After a big cordon of police had been placed about the aeroplane. Hamilton was hurried into an automobile and rushed to the Bellevue Stratford where luncheon was served.
 The first view of the aeroplane which the crowd on Aviation Field had was when it was above Franford Junc- tion. It seemed to be quivering in the air. sweeping upward and down. wards at dips of thirty to fifty feet. When Hamilton reached the landing place he was in an altitude of about 800 feet. Apparently making obser- vations for landing he suddenly swerv- ed from his course and began to cir cle the field, with each circle lowering the aeroplane many feet.
 He thrice circled the field and then suddenly the bird-man darted toward the ground with terrific velocity. Hamilton skipped across the soft part
  ground. Two minutes after the de- scent. the special train. aboard which bis wife, mother and those who had been passengers on the train which acted as pathfinder for him, pulled in along the tracks. Hamilton's wife and aged mother waved and shouted to him from the observation platform, but he was so hemmed in that it was impossible to see them.
 
 what is declared by expert aviators to be one of the most ambitious aero plane trips ever attempted, Charles K. Hamilton, most daring of American airmen, left Governour's Island in up- per New York Bay for Philadelphia and return at 7:38 this morning. He flew across the upper bay and headed straight over the New Jersey meadows which separate New York and Eliza beath. He was flying about 800 feet in the air and running very nearly mile a minute.
 Hamilton made his first essay in his Curtjss aeroplane at 7:11:30. but be- fore he could get into the air his pro- peller struck a big log hidden in the sands on Governour's Island and was shattered. The mishap did not bother Hamilton much as he took his dam aged propeller off
 At 7:32 he cut his engine in for a test and 7:36 he took the air for a cir cling trial flight, finally heading south westward two minutes later.
 Hamilton crossed the seawall at the island at an altitude of between 450 and 800 feet. and as he took the wind from the bay he headed his machine up into the air.
 The start of the flight was made un- der the most propitious weather con- ditions possible. Not breath of air was stirring and the sun was hidden under the overhanging clouds which, however. did not seem to presage rain
 Hamilton spent the night on Cover hours Island as the guest of Lieuten- ant V. M. Elmore. aide to General tWalter Home. commander of the De- partment of the East. He rose at day break and went to his tent. in which his little Curtiss flyer was housed Hamilton had sent his own machinists to Philadelphia, to be ready to rush re-