New-York tribune., 1910-06-04
SyRhN'S DOUBLE LIFE READY RIDER UP IN AIR
Hamilton ChaSeS a Scared Pup
and Destroys Stability of Horse.
HE'S A REAL AERIAL JESTER
Mother Tells About His First
Flight with an Umbrella
from a Barn.

Charles h. Hamilton. the red-haired
ready rider of the aeropIane, was in the
air above and about Mineoia yesterday
afternoon total of thirty-nine minutes.
tWenty-three and three-fifth seconds,
and travelled approximately thirty-five
miles. not counting his numerous drops
TO within eight and ten feet of earth and
trouble.
He made two fights. The first, at $40
o'clock, lasted six minutes and Il sec
onds. These were consumed by the
foremost heavier-than-air comedian in
circling the field. chasing a panic
stricken black pup that tried to go fifty
miles an hour. diving toward the auto
mobile spectators in such daring man
ner that smelling salts were at a pre-
MUM, in turn, and generally enthralI-
ing and convulsing the. crowd as no
aviator in the East has ever tried TO do.
The wind was from the northwest,
and was blowing at the rate of ten miles
an hour. Asked about it. Hamilton
said:
Il didn't know it was here; is it? I've
flown in a forty-mile wind in the West
His Mother Sees Flight.
His mother had never seen Charley
fly in an aeroplane, so she came down
from her home at New Britain Conn,
and listened while lot of reporters ex-
planned to her how proud she ought to
be of her boy.
I've always been proud of him she
said Hes my only child. and I've al
ways felt he was rising SON.
When did he first evince an interest
in aeronauticsg" she was asked
when his first tooth camss 7 think,
she replied And when he was nine
wears old he made his first descent from
our barn. carrying my best umbrella as
a parachute The ribs of the umbrella
were stout or his neck might have been
broken I've never used the umbrella
since. it's still inside out. think more
OF IL than Charley does of his aeroplane .
DO YOU think your son has any sense
of fear?
Il don't think so. and 1 believe he got
some of that from his mother. I have
never known fear myself
The aviator's wife was also present
yesterday She said she never was
afraid when her husband flew. but she
hated to see him written UP in the. news
papers as possessing "a hawklike pro-
file" She comes from Bridgeport. Conn.
The second flight by Mr.. Hamilton was
begun about 6 o'clock, and lasted 33 min
utes and E 3-5 seconds. During that time
the lightweight heavier than-air expert
delivered straight iab off 20 the right.
and followed il up with a quick left hook.
went back to his corner. and then made
arena. He made a feint for the four
legs of the horse of Egerton l. Winthrop,
ir. president of the Board of Educa tion,
but did not land. Mr. Wmthrop's horse
saw il was coming and sat down. willing
10 take the count
Hamilton combines beauty and daring
with hearty laughter when he flies.
Yesterday. on the last flight. he visited
Hicksville and Farningdale. five or six
miles TO the eastward of Mineola. re-
turned TO the Hampstead plains and cir
cled many times at attitudes of from
four hundred to eight hundred feet. un-
expectedly grazing sheds and telegraph
wires. and then started off To the west
ward. where he looked down upon the
church spires of Garden City and re-
turned by way of the postoffice at Mine
ola. Short turns. long turns. gentle
waves and five hundred feet drops to
about the height OF man, followed each
other with marvellously dramatic G.