New-York tribune., 1910-10-02

There is also a possibility OF the entry OF
- Wright bIplsne 10 be guided by walter
Rrookins, who won a prize of $lo,eco for
continued fight OF 1S7 miles 20 Springfield
III. from Chicago last THURSDAY
Eugene Ely made his best flights at
Sbeephead Bay recently. Charles Willard
hsd until last week the record for passen-
zer-carrying capacity. having flown with
three persons. McCurdy few first in Can
ada. and was one of the men who worked
zifl, Alexander Graham Bell in the Ham
mondsport experimental shops
Aur1Jstus Post is the only Grant who is a
novice His expedience with q Curtiss bi-
plane is the briefest of any entrant, al
though he has flown for more than an
hour without halt.
James Radley, an English air pilot. eT-
poets to use BIeriot monoplane If the
machine arrives in time; otherwise he viii
use a Curtiss biplane. His air craft VIII
land in New York on Tuesday.
Hamilton, III, viii Fly.
Charles h. Hamilton. who until Brook
ins's flight on Thursday was holder Of the
American continuous flight record, is in the
care of = physician on the way from Sacra-
4nento He has wired that he will fly.
Thomas s Baldwin. once a balloonist
tafer a dirtgfble baIloonist and now dis
ciple OF the aeroplane, is expected TO arrive
from Kansas. where he is making eXhlbi-
tion flights, Just before the race begins.
Todd Schriver is another of the Alexander
g. Bell experimental camp. he built for
Glenn Curtiss the biplane in which Curtiss
won the International championship cup at
Rheims.
J. c. C'Bud'') Mars is best known as an
exhibition flyer ana previously has not at
tempted long distance flights. except once.
Judges have been announced for the 1000
mile race as follows: General Frederick ID.
Grant. L. : a. commander of the Depart
ment of the East; Edward i. Clark, a
Washington newspaper correspondent. and
Major Samuel RebeT, L. ;. a. The judges
win remain in New York. and viii accept
the time start taken by a Chicago repre-
sentative.
Considerable interest has been aroused
in regard 10 the route 10 be chosen for the
long flight because Of the necessity Of
crossing the ApIa lachian Mountains and
the recent anflounceu1ent of Clifford 3.
Harmon or New York. that he would divide
the S5.ea0 he contributed 20 the purse into
two features: -Four thousand dollars goes
10 the aviator who aights in Belmont
Park. where the International meet will be
skinC place. and the other Sl,@E1 Y i'll 20 10
the flyer who Ssils five hundred miles IN
any nifty consecutive. o" elapsed time,
Nhours
N Glenn Curtiss. whose advice II is ex-
Vnected al least several Of his pupils will
heed has advised a direct line from the
lower end Of Lake Michigan to Cleveland:
thence along the shore Of Lake Erie, avoid
ing Buffalo where he says rough country
makes air currents dangerous: thence
shrouCh the Mohawk VALLEY 10 the Hudson
River and down 70 New York. Others have
advocated the route of the Baltimore & ONO
Railroad disregardinG TN. necessity for
high hyiug over The mountains.
Those who have flown regard the flight
merely d. one Of physical endurance and
roneervativeness. Tho reckless or dare
devil aviator VIII be outclassed, in the
opinion OF experts. ny the steady aviator
u no flies a certain distance, alights. rests
q brief in1crH al, and goes on.