Milford chronicle., 1910-06-03
FLY FROM ALBANY
TO new YORK
Glenn CurtiSS Wins Newspapers
$4,000 Prize.
1877 MILES IN I52 MINUTES
Establishes New Record For Sustained
Speed, at Times Making More Than
Sixty Miles an Hour.


Speed, at Times Making More Than
Sixty Miles an Hour.
Glenn H. Curtiss speeded down the
air lanes from Albany to New York,
doing 1877 miles in lj2 minutes, better
than any limited on the New York
| Central ever made, and limiteds do
not loaf
He not only won the $4,000 prize
offered by the New York World, but
he made an international record for
sustained speed There were times
when his little biplane which is only
half as big as Paulhan's famous flyer,
split the air at more than a sixty-mile-
an-hour clip, and his average speed
was 548 miles an hour.
The winds were good to Curtiss,
and a finer day for boarding space and
time couldn't have been picked from
the calendar But once the mischiev-
GUS air currents Of the Highlands al
most got him Airs, warmed by an
eager sun. ran twisty ways up the
mountain sides Swinging around old
storm king. his aeroplane dropped full
forty feet like q plummet. For seconds
there was just nothing under it, and
Curtiss had three seconds to review a
blameless past. But the capable bird
slid off into kinder airs and went on
to the finish steadily about her bust
ness.
MOI in vsry|
anything like Glenn Curtiss' achieve
ment. Like Paulhan the Frenchman.
he proved that it was possible for an
aviator to say Il am going to start
here and | am going to finish there;
to fly from one town to another as Ger |
tainly as a man may proceed in an |
automobile with little more danger, [
to hear Curtiss tell it But the French. |
man. although he aEtonished the world |
by flying from London to Manchester
1856 miles. took more than twelve
hours. and he made two stops, while
Curtiss stopped once only, at Camelot.
below POughkeepsie before slapping
Manhattan Island with his heels. and
he went a lot faster than Paulhan
travelled.
The bells of Trinity were giving
noon to Manhattan when Glenn H.
Curtiss. having already made sure of
his $4,000 by landing at Spuyten Duy-
vii. swooped down the North river air
road. sailed past the Battery and de-
scended with a beautiful dip on Gov
ernors Island Every whistle with
steam in its throat shreked and bark
ed and rumbled Down at the Battery.
where folks, as elsewhere in the city.
had been fooled by the flash that Cur
-iss had finished his flight at Spuyten
Duyvil and wouldn't exhibit himself
At the toe of the island there was
great scurrying when the high riding
smudge resolved itself into the clean
ines OF a flying machine. and Curtiss
was made out at the wheel.
1t was a few seconds after noon
when the army gathered him in over
behind Castle William and. as is the
lrmy's way, invited him to have one
great big drink 1t is not on record
hat the army was disappointed Few
nen have showed less elation than
Jurtiss did when he stepped out of
he biplane and shook hands with
Major Hoff and Brigadier General
Walter Howe, commanding the depart
netn of the east He smiled family
aid he was glad he had finished the
OBJ and then turned to watch a de-
achment Of soldiers roll the machine
nto the aerodrOme