The sun., 1910-11-01
LAST DAYS CHAT And DOINGS
THINGS 0BSERyED AND TALkED
or Ar THE MEET.

AyiAtiea Fans Educaied Quickly-R Rad
I leys Comment On Grahame-whitr's
splii- Drcxeas winnings do 20 char
ny-The Aviaters sent Down the Line.
Il doesn't take very long to get an
American crowd educated to anything
After the Belmont fans have seen the
graceful sweeps Of the Antoinette and the
speedy certainty OF the Bleriot the look
Of heavy biplans doesn't inspire a great
deal OF respect. They smiled lndulgently
when Farman buxzed around the track
yesterday. just a. people used TO do few
years ago when they caught sight OF
hard tired. large wheeled safety bicycle.
What will send these machines into
antiquity. asked some one yesterday :
wings that flap instead of the rigid ones'"
And much pondering followed.
The aviators get a cheerful way OF
looking at possible disaster, just after
Grahame- White took his spill Radley
was watching them bringing back the
crushed remains Of the machine.
What was there he was asked. to
prevent Grahame- Whites head from hit
ting the ground hard?"
Nothing at all. remarked Radley:
absolutely nothing.
J. Armstrong Drexel isn't In quite the
same position in regard 20 the prizes
Of this meet a. his competitors But
he il glad 10 get them just the same. and
the reason is this. according 10 an expla-
nation offered by a friend yesterday
His mother has a certain charity in Lon
don in which she In greatly Interested.
and the young aviator donates Tn TINS
everything that he makes in his school
in England a. well as whatever comes
to him In prizes.
In the intervals between flights there
was a peanut seller at the park yesterday
who caused more nervousness than a
hair raising dip Of the hiers.
Get busy. folks: do something he
would say with an insistence that COM
PEELED attention; get busy. stir around
and do something! Buy some peanuts
or some popcorn. but do something
Don't just stand there that way. Get
busy He made a lot of sales. appar-
emily just by shaming folks At their own
idleness.
Simon and Grahams-w " hiie are the ones
who like heat TO stir up scar" in front of
the hangers. The uneven line tetween
strassled too far out yesterday when
simon first gave IL a lesson. lie aimed
for the people came head on until he was
PERHAPS a hundred feet away and the
circled over their heads about fifty feet
up. And they had Just recovered enough
courage to venture out again when
Grahame- " hite did the same thing and
then did II again and again.
First run one way and then run the
~ I Il nd aae for
the lightning to strike. said man who
had been dodging. They ought to have
traffic cops for the mir around here.
tor the first few days Of the meet no
one seemed to realize that what the crowd
likes hest 10 To get good look At the
sviators whom they have seen brushing
the clouds or burning past the stands.
I heir curiosity wasn't humoF-d for
long time but toward the end of tk. meet
the committee began To realize that
it was '.ood thing. and 10 VAS whispered
that son1e of the Hers didnr think IL was
had idea themselves. anyway an i'm
portant event wasn't complete until fhe
winner had been carried up and down in
an automobile while tn. hand played his
rational air. \ largo percentage OF th''
gate money was evidently raid for the
privilege " hero worship.
The eyes of thos. who have becn fol-
lowing tn. planes closely for eight days
t-gan 70 give out Yesterday
Il can't SOC Ralph Johnsfnne." was
heard frequently but I can 900 a lot of
little white whirligigs up there all over
the sky
When the news came that Radl"y was
negotiating with Wilbur Wright for an
American machine. the patriotic w-r"
all puff.d up. But yesterday IL was
learned thai an American hirdmhn
Hamilton. had bought n Bleriot. It's
a 10 horse power machine. and hs exp""ts
to use 10 a good deal. The only saving
point from a Star SpangIs.d viewpoin.
il that il was made in an American factory
-wharea . the baby inquired one ~ -he
fans rs h. Cran"d his reck in vain
search of the skies during the grand
altitude contest when .iohnstone in the
Wright Baby Roadster and Dre>el IN
his swift monopiane were fighting II out
somew here up in the hiue.
Il bis black man kidnapped her his
friend volunteered.
-Who7- chorused the innocent by
standers. !
-Nhy. JOhnstone. You've heard oF
him
And To sn,,ar. himself the joker had to
escort every one within reach To the club
house.
you'll notice one thing about the three
accidents that occurred to-day said one
OF th. officials sp~aking unofficiAllv.
They all happened on the ground. In
each case the trouble came in making &
landing. There was no wind blowing 20
speak Of. and the landing places ~ers IN
ah hAy N ~
the meet began. SO il looked "a me that
che aviators themselves were TO blame.
Probably they did not take as much pain-
In landing a. they would have il the wind
had bean blowing strong or II Il had not
been ths last day Of the meet
The weather.
Nov High pressure ard fair weather pre-
vsiled o-er all the country yesse-ra,y. The baron
stsY did not register beiS- h.rty incnes any
shers and M stogu formation vas visible.
Tho principal ridge OF hIgh pressure. With which
,ae cooiar weather tr1v eiir~ eastward central