The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-31
IN "! oisant, Ora h anne
White and D e L Lesseps
MakePe Flight
.AMERIC, II DOES
TT in BEST TIME.
Most Spectacular Event Of In
ternational Aviation Meet Won 4
by Moisant, Who Will Take Il
$4,000 Prize Unless
Time Is Bettered n
To-Day.

lime Is Bettered
To-Day.
New York, October 3O.-yThrec ayia-s
tors flew from Belmont Park, 3. IL.
THIS afternoon circlel the statue ot
Liberty I'm aeroplanc, swept back
through the upper mir without n; MIS-
X hap and niiShtcd chill ed, hut exnitnnt.
john u. Moisnnt, hxinE for Amc ricn,
covered the estimated thirty-six-inIt,
course In 81 minutes 1854 8scconds;3
eGInl,aine-yvbitc,s OF England, wns seq
{ oi,d,. i,,s s35 !: is3O, and Count Dc Lesseps,
of France, ,yns hir,l, iii A 1,5G..J.. None,
4 however, wins the 1000 for the Hight
offered by Thomas r. Ryan, ms the rules
#preacribe that the "contestants en-,
start any time between .:45 r. NJ. anu
f s $50 r. MI any day of the Intcrna-s
national aviation meet, Under this ln-s
stertatlOn Motsnnt, although he protest
i ed, must await the result OF any posnibl,f
lights sto-norrow. HI sis Mt liberty To 4
ibetter his time OF to-day ms arc
nni DC Lesscps.
N1oisant used a tifty-horsepoWer
IBleriot, purchased from the srench
team day for $4,000. He had pre-
lsviouslys smashed his own monoplanc.
5lboth Dc Lessens and Grahame ~ htte &
sthad finished. De Lesseps started at 4
5I3.OS, and Grahame White less han q
minute later. The written rules pre-
.liscribed that no contestant should start
latter $3.50 Il. Nj, but they were not
Eenforced to-day
4 Hardly had the bomb nnoitncins
1.-The Statue ut Liberty flight exploded
lin midair, when up from he iieid
Fscurried Do Lesseps in his nifty
horsepower Bleriot. GraccfniiS he rosu
| With the motor dranins perfect att1ne-
ment, circlsd across the starting Inc,
Land, as though to. ma ure that ms y:
lmaehine Was ship shap pe tor . ~ u L.
LOT thirty-siS mi les sasross ID y. ea.n.i Y
inca dow. town and bay. flc wv Q u bo.ftsst tnss
i + course and then pointed It's proy ~ u
s.ward ana west. anu went satlln ma "a 4
!testically over the grandsta
II Heels of6Dc Lesseps.s
Nn,4f fla,,nted by: the jump the bt'r 'rench--i
lssiu, =! Shn,l 90 on him, G rahame- W te.S
In less thansa min ute, was IN y ne ~, ~
| in ii Bleriot of 50-horse power. ere
was no preliminary skirnishln ss 9 -.
his part Once past til sstartllig ps
Isthe sEnElishman8w was off on his jour-
and 5figuratiyelS sneaking. at the heels
of Dc SLesse ISIS rahame-W White a ma ma
chine appeared to be the taste set = 1ile = 4
two ;l3 s,sI 3 3s IA
Pa ssinsg. the grand dstand at an eleyii-s
ton OF about ,006 fe Dol ava
headed aboI the railroad trac ksssNsi
took hem over Jamaien l'latn u s1l'l an ~
across the town OF an,aica y ersS
they we're Saline, at an eleyattoa q
+ about s3.0 90 feet.
Cirahame White gained steadily on L
De Lesscps, but the Frenchman vas
first out across New ork Bay and !
around the statue. about 1000 feet
above the big black balloon that had
showed him the course.
Theni Grahame White sent tn nose
sof his Bleriot around above the head &
lof Miss Liberty and started back along
the same course lie had travelled. l.
De 8Lesseps still had a sill It Lead,
sbut with the wind at his bacls, Ora
shame-White put on full speed, and
began cutting doWn his rival IS aadva1t-3ss
ttage. Midway over BROOKLYN the ayia-
I tors We're on even terms. eEGh q q an
altitude of between 1000 and 5000
feet, but, reaching the outskirts OF
and set sail in carnes wit IL BE lnont&
Park as his objective.
AS on. he&outwar iourneEs the sane 81
scenes We're enacted by " the S@ great
crowds Glow except that 1T seen1aii
as though thousands more D \ spec s
stators had gathered to tness tile y
1ight, Passing hack over Jamaica,
Grahame-W White llad Il lead 5si,f about s
two miles. n t33 = sglssl ssss
.AllEhtS Grace fully.
Mi Arriving at the aviation field, Il the
English airman started his descent S
from aheightS of Il bout 3.00c feet, i 10 III
came down In a graceful swoop over
the tops Of the great t. trees with stha II
nose Of his 8mach nine poin ted downward s
at Ia + angle 9 al trees. III 3w;,s
going ightnilis fast. and the q eroWds
held their 5breatl in the fear that the IS
ilIngll lshman mi Sht, lose con troll OF tha 81
monoplane m III he dashed with IT. to Il
3eartll.95s g] .Ss q sS III
But Grahnme- White was cool and
collected 81 for he q luickl ly brought TIL.
machine on M ven te eel gain anl sS
then, soaring Sgl.acefu ly.&s downward,
passed over the Gtnish line, While tha 5s
cheers nt the thesilss,an as In ias md a,
outside the field sssrnngs n snls ears.
While the crowds We're sssathere6,
about the Englishnan showsrtng con-
iigra tnlations upon him out Of he blue s
distance came II he III enc mar All eyes I.
h foctlsse sed 5srlp pom him: ii keY G;rp-
5hame- hite had been N he was 8 900 H
feet l,p5 and coming downa Il Sthe wind 5s3
flew y over I he grandstans
With scarce " any diminution az
speed, and them oltt over the course 81 SsS
each igmolnent coming tower an ii u d Nc u. Sg
stSinallys he settled near his hangar
with not even SO much as in inr.S Ffn Z
received N cheers Sns hearty as thoss 8ss
iNwvihie had grseted ;rahaNna- -Whtfe3 n
# lss5 stoIsn nt Is M n u
Meanwhile, NJ olsant WAS tlI.ftn ii, i, i, #
his newly hpilg ia Hleriot sprspar I'D torYs s
70 mai ing St start, Is Y first, II Is mo toss M
did not sing true. but tina lly they, n Iir q
came ~ tun anti shot d ii in ti,a Ri
;,ir a. 40 sta u ting py lors,9
on ver lhs gran stand K seTtnss NJ ss
the compass fosg loe.s 81 " lutlst sssai Sg
which stu he3 s'ta Nc II of Lissrt1.