The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-01-14
CURT|SS A WINNER
AMERICAN FLIES SIS MILES AN
HOUR, ACCOMPANIED BY
PASSENGER.
BIG DAY AT LOS ANGELES MEET
Also Makes Two Marks in LAUGH
ing His Craft Into Air.-PauIhan
Scars Gracefully, but Fails
to Keep Up Race.

Los Angeles, Calif-Glenn H. Cur.
tiss, the American aviator, who was
completely eclipsed by Louis Paulhan
with his spectacular feats on the first
day of the aviation meet, defeated
his French rival in the race for the
honors of the second day.
Paulhan again won the plaudits of
the immense through with daring and
spectacular flights, while the less the
atrical American reaped more substan-
tial honors. Curtiss established a new
worlds record for speed for aero
planes, of SIS miles an hour with his
manager, Jerome S. Fancuilli, beside
him, and he set two other less i'm
portant records in aviation.
Not to be outdone, Paulhan, took
up one Of the mechanicians and flew
three miles, but failed to equal the
speed set by Curtiss in his biplane.
The breaking of three records,
flights with passengers, the injury of
an amateur aviator and four aero
planes in the air at the same time
breasting stiff wind that sported
dangerously with the delicate craft,
furnished 10000 spectators at Avia-
ton Field an exciting finale to an
afternoon that promised to be rather
tame.
Californian Hurt.
Edgar Smith, California, who
constructed an aeroplane something
on the order of the late Professor
Langley's model, was the victim of
the first serious accident of the meet.
Smith was struck down by the metal
blades of the propeller. His head
was severely gashed and his left arm
was broken.
At the beginning of the program
Paulhan seemed again to have mon
opolized all the honors of the day. In
a tiny Bleriot monoplane that looked
like a gigantic horsefiy he gave the
immense throng in the stands and
boxes the first thrill of the day by
repeatedly sweeping over the grand
stand and daringly maneuvering in
high wind.
Apparently secure in his renewed
role of star of the meeting, Paulhan,
frankly delighted by the tremendous
applause his performance evoked,
brought out his Farman Asld quickly
disappeared from the view of the spec
tators far to the northward, reappear-
ing twenty seconds later over the
trees of a nearby ranch. He flew
back directly over the grandstand.
Several times Paulhan flew across
lots or charged directly upon the
crowd in the grand stands, only to
turn sharply when within few feet
of it and sweep gracefully along be-
fore the thousand of spectators. His
flight of So miles last Fl minutes and
IL seconds. N
Climbing in behind his manager
Curtiss gave the word to one of his
assistants. A pop and rattle like auto
matte artillery and the flight that es-
tablished the passenger speed record
began. Describing wide circle in
front of the grand stand Curtiss flew
with Fancuilli at all angles to the wind
and landed almost at the same spot
from which he started.
Lieut.. Paul Beck of the army signal
corps, and one of the judges, an
nounced that he figured the speed at
So miles an hour. When the records
breaking figures were announced the
crowd went wild. Shouts and screams
rose from the boxes and the tiers of
seats, auto sirens shrieked and hats
were thrown into the air to be blown
away by the wind.
In quick succession Curtiss tried for
a starting record and a record for
landing. He succeeded in establishing
both. But Willard coming next to the
trial at landing, beat the best his chief
could do Curtiss, however, started
from a marked square of 10 feet, flew
about the field for two minutes and
returning landed exactly il the same
spot.