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FLY FROM ALBANY
To new YORK
Glenn Curtiss Wins Newspapers
$4,000 Prize.
1877 MILES IN I52 MINUTES
Establishes New Record For Sustained
Speed, at Times Making More Than
Sixty Miles an Hour.

Speed, at Times Making More Than
Sixty Miles an Hour.
New York, May 30.--Glenu H. Cur
Albany to Manhattan Island. doing 1877
miles in 1872 minutes, better than any
limited on the New York Central ever
made, and limiteds do not loaf.
He not only won the $4,000 prize
offered by the New York World. but
he made an international record for
sustained speed. There were times
when his little biplane. which is only
half as big as Paulhan's famous flyer,
split the air at more than a sixty-mile-
an-hour clip. and his average speed
was 54.S miles an hour.
The windsa were good to Curtiss.
and a finer day for boarding space and
time couldn't have been picked from
the calendar. B4 once the mischiev-
Gus air currents of the Highlands al
most got him. Airs, warmed by an
eager sun, ran twisty ways up the
mountain sides. Swinging around old
storm king. his aeroplane dropped full
forty feet ikea plummet For seconds
there was just nothing under 1t. and
Curtiss had three seconds to review a
blameless past. But the capable bird
slid off into kinder airs and went on
to the finish steadily about her bust
ness.
Beat ?auIhan's Record.
r There was never in this country
anything like Glenn Curtiss' achieve
ment. Like Paulhan. the Frenchman.
he proved that it was possible for an
aviator to say Il am going to start
here and | am going to finish there;
to fly from one town to another as GER
tainly as a man may proceed In an
automobile, with little more danger.
to hear Curtiss tell it. But the French
man, although he astonished the world
by flying from London to Manchester,
1876 miles, took more than twelve
hours. and he made two stops, while
Curtiss stopped once only, at Camelot,
below Poughkeepsie, before shaping
Manhattan Island with his heels, and
he went a lot faster than Paulhan
travelled.
The bells of Trinity were giving
noon to Manhattan when Glenn H.
Curtiss, having already made sure Of
his $4,000 by landing at Spuyten Duy-
vii, swooped down the North river air
road, sailed past the Battery and de-
scended with a beautiful dip on Gov
ernor's Island. Every whistle with
steam in its throat shrieked and bark
ed and rumbled. Down at the Battery.
where folks. as elsewhere in the city.
had been fooled by the fash that Cur
tiss had finished his flight at Spuyten
Duyvil and wouldn't exhibit himself
at the toe of the island. there was q
great scurrying when the high riding
smudge resolved itself into the clean
lines of a flying machine, and Curtiss
was made out at the wheel.
He was SO quick. 1t seemed to those
who watched, that he appeared in
sight, swooped by and was at rest on
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Greeted by Soldiers.
It was a few seconds after noon
when the army gathered him in over
behind Castle William and. as Is the
army's way, invited him to have one
great big drink. 1t is not on record
that the army was disappointed. Few
men have showed less citation than
Curtiss did when he stepped out OF
the biplane and shook hands with
Major Hoff and Brigadier General
Walter Howe, commanding the depart
metn of the east He smiled family,
said he was glad he had finished the
job and then turned to watch de-
tachment of soldiers roll the machine
into the aerodrome. Even when Mrs.
Curtiss appeared few minutes later
and kissed him there was no fuss and
feathers. Curtiss acted as If he had
done nothing more exciting than ar
rive on a ferryboat. But the spectacle
of the wife greeting the daring hus-
band was one the photographers could
not miss. They prevailed upon Mrs.
Curtiss to kiss him again. Curtiss
frowned at the photographers. but they
got the picture.