The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-22


noon at the Sheepshead Bay racetrack.
Are you gong To- take that machine up
in this windg'
Petty said Mr. Mars. who had been
hopping over the infield turf sampling
the breeze with wetted finger. IL you
don't l..t me alone III so up IA the air
without a machine
Which shows you merely that flying
mems nerves get frazzled like other
folks Here was spiteful blow from
the Atlantic. a wind that puHed over the
Geld IN iiftten mile gusts. "a wind that
chased its tai In eddies along the avIA-
ton roads a wind that whisSed up and
down and crossways. And all the time
the turnstilas were clicking steadily. let
ting IN people who were paying 81 and
halt a dollar for the show and getting
wind checks with their tickets.
When you went 90 Sheepshead Ray IN
zee the horses run IN the dear. dead days
you didn't get any mud checks The
ponies raced for Mr. Sweeney or the
public even " the track was what the
racing reporters called a sea Of mud
Bur aviation promoters. like baseball
managers arr servants % the weather,
rain checks for the former. wind checks
for the latter and the Aviators don like
% let 90 II money any more than the
baseball people do.
Besides these nasty atmospheric whirli
GIG are apt TO remind a flying man that
be top- the angels waiting list. There's
no telling what may happen whom you
snap YOUR hand down n signal for the
hostlers 20 let go and the plane bounds
into the twisting airs. Conditions. espe-
oiailv II the sky u blue and Cloudless and
the sm Is keen and warm. may look per
feet to the crowd, hut the aviator knows
what a chance hc Is taking and II may
make him crusty.
That's the way It was yesterday after
noon. Unless you observed how distant
flags were whipping. how the treetoTs
bent first one way. then another. and how
the smoke over Consy Island eddied
orally you never would have known
from your protected seat In the grand
stand what Glenn CurtiSS and his hirdlets
were up against. They wanted to make
good and take their profit. hut they didn't
feel like getting smashed to make holi-
day
There were 1000 persons In the grand
and field stands and fully five thousaI
who hal jumpe,l the fence behind the
stable while the special cops weren't
looking. once ia. nou-paying spectators
were IN nothing hut an army Of policemen
oouli have got them out. They crowded
W TO the track fence north Of the field
stand ant gruwl,.d because the flying
men were ~ slow taking wing The
people who paid KEEP, quiet and patient
Tho, showed -o constant an interest m
th. l'tic that was going Oh that the pro-
motors Of the meet made up their minds
thai aarup.Ane exhibitions were going 20
pay
T.. first flight was scheduled for
p " hut the winds velocity and I'M
stsadines- caused long delay In IN.
betting ring the hicrs paddock. CurtISs
and Bld Mars and McCurdy and Gene
XIV were grooming their birds and a de
tachm"nt OF Signal Corps men from the
First Company 81 the New York National
Guard in this city were rigging up wire
les outht on Curtlss's pet plane. the big
black SKINNER that he drove between
Albany and New York.
Major Samuel R.bar 81 the 81 gnal Corps
L - A. a son-in- law Of Gen Nelson 4
Miles. looked on while H. VI Horton. a
veteran wireless operator, Frank Davis
and>C + Everitt. the g,Iardsmen sig
makers. rugged up their spark coil. key and
battery on the biplane. The Major wanted
To see how practicable u was to wireless
from flying machines. II was his bust
ness TO pick up little points like this
Being feet inches straightup and down
and az least fifteen stone In heft. he
thought he would wait until they increased
the wing spread OF aeroplanes before
virelessing on the wing himself
Horton assembled "A wireless receiving
station on the north end Of the grand stand
roof. using a tall zinc pole and wire guys
for antenniR. while Frank Davis and
Everitt tuned up the sender on Curtiss' 5
plane All they needed for asrials were
the wire stays of the machine itself. con %
Meeting them up with the spark coils
The plan was for Horton To ride with
Curtiss and send 20 Davis and Everitt
on the grand stand roof description.
necessarily brief. Of ms flight
While the wireless people were tinker
ing young Fckei Of the Twenty ninth
Infantry app.ared from Governors Island.
carrying his Tlfe. Young Fickel sho; a;
the earth and mt II while flying with Cur
tiss On saturday afternoon. and no came
over again yesterday 70 Tepeat the eN-
pertinent All dressed Up IL KHAKI and
lugang hls Springfield. young FIckel
freely 90 see hun. pleasuraDle antIcipa a
tons. There were others OF cours,
who did not hide the unselves from the
pubic sazs and added class 20 ths show
clifford h Harmon. who went home -
dinner IL his FarnAD Saturday evening
travelling from Garden city over the
sound TO Gr".uwIcE. Conn came along
with Mrs. Harmon 90 So the Curuss
saurbiuOn and receive congratulations
H. aid he didn't want - brag. but he
md think that ms thirty mile fight over
Ia and water was pns Of the best things
thai mad U@en dono in American ava
uon II Va. annoying. he complained
o. yo' smashed u9 iust a. he landed IN
has own hack yard. but that was part
OF the game. ana anyway he would have d
machine ready " - day ~ two for more
stunts
Naturally ev~ryboiy had 20 keep NJ
syo ca Augustus psf CHAIRMAN 81 tn
yrtf.s gDrlryttts.s and fpp,rfi..r ~ the Aerf