The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-28
FURIOUS STORM
STOPS FLIGHTS
Fifth Day of international Avia-
ton Meet Marred by Bad
Gale.
TOMBSTONE AND H0XSEY
DEFY FIERCE TEMPEST
Go After Record for Altitude.
and Make Record for
Distance.

NEW YORK. Oct, o7.-Such are the
caprioes of October weather that Ralph
Johnstone and Arch Hoxsey OF the
Wright team of avistors went up for alti-
tude at Belmont Park this Afternoon and
brought down the record OF the day for
distance
The Nth day OF the international avia :
lion meet opened fun OF promise and
closed In bowling wcster that filled
slammed down the benches In tho grand
stand, ripped out the canvas screens
that bar the view Of those who have not
paid. but hope 10 see. and sent such a
slSirmish line OF dust dancing around
The track that the lamps had to be
lighted outside the hangers for the mo
chanicS TO find their way about. II was
furious end TO day OF postponement.
disappointments and scattered feats of
the most daring airmanshlp that has yet
been witnessed by an American crowd.
Officially, flights for the Gordon Ben
nett elimination trials. TO pick a; Ameri-
can team which shall defend the inter
national trophy, won at Rheims last year
by Glenn II. Curtiss. opened at o'clock
out for them in the wind that was blow
ing. At 1:30 o'clock the special prize Of
1000, offered by Thomas F. Ryan for
a flight from the field 10 the Statue of
Liberty and return. was opened 10 any
aviator. but none Of them dared try II.
They chose to take advantage instead
OF the latest laTReSSe allowed lnPIn Dy
the ommittee-permtssion 10 compete
between 1:30 and 3:4o o'clock any after
noon during the meet. provided only that
they should finish before $50
one hourly event for distance and alti-
tude. Latham. in an Antoinette mono
plane. for distance, and Hoxsey and
Johnstone of the Wright team, for altl-
tude. were the only ones TO brave gale
ef from twenty to twenty-five miles an
hour.
Johnstcne and Hoxsey tried to set their
wings and soar into the gale without efs
fort but they showed that the way OF
an eagle in the air is stil one Of the
things men do not understand. They
the speed Of the bipane they were flying
is normally fhirty-ive miles an hour and
their engines were running wide open,
they were pushed steadily. out OF view
and down over the edge OF the horizon.
The upper gale they were jamnrins must
have been more than forty miles an hour.
before the other. and they stuck II out
until forced to land by sheer compulsion
of the elements.
Both were driven miles off the course.
Word came from Hoxsey first, that he
had landed safely at Brentwood. Long
leland, about twenty-five miles distant.
Johnstone was carried hfty -nve miles 10
Middle Island village. L. l.
These were the two longest flights of
the day. Each telephoned In that he
hoped to hy back to the course tomor-
Neither Of them could be caught on
the telephone again after they. had sre-
ported to Wilbur Wright. and from hlm
came the "details OF their adventures.
incidents" Mr.. Wright said. there
we're none IT was just one straiShtfor-
ward progress backward, When they got
up thousand feet or more they struck
a wind blowing about twenty-five miles
an hour faster than they could travel
I estimate that II must have been be-
tween sixty and sixty-iive miles an hour
That's all there is to II. / guess IL ia
the first time in the history of aviation
that anybody made flight tail-end fore
most"
For the first hourly distance event, the
only routine number remaining on the
programme. the sole entrant was Latham.
in su Antoinette. He finished the hour
with only IA laps, 21.f miles In 55 MIN
utes. 24.50 seconds, and the figures show
how persistent was HIS battle with the
gale; but they cannot bring out as did
the visual image itself, Of his beautiful
rnancuvering. One thousand feet above
the grandstand. he Journeyed his way
around tho turns by sheer resourceful-
climate that he had to point head into
and steer due north, In order 10 edge
sideways. like ferryboat in run OF
tide, and mahe distance 10 the west.
a special event for distance and alti-
tude was added TO the programme TO
amuse the crowd, but II was long be-
fore any one came out for II. Finally,
Audemars. a Swiss. In tiny Dcmoisello