Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-25
SMASH RECORD
At AERO MEET
Crowds Are Thrilled by the
Interesting Site at
Belmont Park.
DPExEL 400 FEET UP

Special by United Press WIRE.
Belmont Aviation Field, L. l.,
Oct. 25:-Orville Wright made a
sensational trial fight in the brand
new little Wright racer this after
noon, speeding twice around the
course at the rate of sixty-ive miles
an hour. 1t Is estimated that had
Wright pushed his machine he could
have developed eighty-1ve miles an
hour.
Archie Hoxsey and Ralph John
stone, in their Wright biplanes, went
up in the first hourly altitude con-
test this afternoon. Within ten min
utes they yer more than 1000
feet in the air and climbing higher.
Yesterday J.. Armstrong Drexel
established q new American record
for climbing. He went up in his
Bleriot monoplane until his barH-
graph registered 100 feet.
Walter Brookins In the new Wright
roadster a tiny example of the IA
miliar Wright blplane, was fighting
Count de Lesseps' Blerlot for altitude
earlier In the day, when the Brookins
engine went dead at a height of a
mile.
While nine other aviators were cir
cling the air above Belmont park, Wal
ter Brookins in a Wright baby racer
biplane assembled to an altitude of a
mile, where his motor froze, compelling
the daring young expert to coast to
the earth.
He landed with a force that smashed
the biplane's chassis, but Brookins had
worked the planes SO rapidly that the
damage was confined to the machine,
the aviator escaping uninjured.
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
wen 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 al automobile scouting for
him, found Brookins, brought him In
and sent an nutotruck forlthe aero
plane.
The second hourly distance event
found three aviators with ever scores.
The records were: Grahame- White,
FL laps; M. Auburn, 81; NJ. Latham,
81; Hoxsey, 10; tombstone, IS; Radley,
A, and M. Garros, l 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 q Bleriot monoplane. He started
almost last, after several of the ayia-
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. p. d.
McCurdy In a Curtiss biplane, ]. c.
Mars in a similar machine and j.. Il.
Frisbie in a biplane of his own make
modelled on the lines of the Curtiss.
The other types Of biplanes will elimi-
nate at q future date.
I The result of the hourly distance
contest for the first hour was Drexel,
q laps; Auburn, &c; tombstone, 10;
Hoxsey, IS; Grahame-White, IS; Broo-
kins, 8, and Latham, 5 laps.
The Pinkertons held up the Wright
brothers as they We're attempting to
enter the main gate. Wilbur and Or
vile Wright were trying to walk i'll
when they were stopped, and, although
they showed cards and proclaimed
their identity, the policemen We're 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 sem a policeman post haste
TO order the admission of the two plo-
neer avlators.
ut was very unfortunate" said Mr..
Ryan.
The Wrights were disturbed and an
CRY, but preserved their customary 81
lencC.