The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1910-01-27
CARRIES OFF THREE WORLD
RECORDS AND $4,000.
IN PRIZES.
IN SLOW, RELIABLE CRAFT
Contests Are Few.-Hamilton Has
Narrow Escape as Meet
Comes to End.

Los Angeles.-As four flying ma
chimes that had been c~ircling in the
air sailed to earth, the great crowd
left the field, and the first information
al aviation meet held in America, was
over.
Few know that n nan had been
near death in those last few minutes
While Charles X. Hamilton was re-
turning from a 15-mile fight, the
crank shaft of his machine snapped.
Hamilton shut off his engine and so
leveled and swayed his planes that
he was waited gently down.
Curtiss and Paulhan furnished the
excitement of the closing day. Paul
han went up for an endurance tight
and after he had gone two or three
laps of the course Curtiss started up.
Instantly it was e e that a great
race was on. The two aeroplanes
came over the grandstand with the
speed of express trains. Curtiss crept
swiftly On Paulhan's heels and on the
third lap after starting he reached
Paulhan flying above. The French
man for a few seconds held his own,
but Curtiss forged ahead and it was
no race after that. Paulhan went on
until he had travelled GA miles and
had been in the air nearly an hour
and a half. Curtiss came down after
a 3O-mile trip.
Curtlss the Speedy One.
This race gives the whole story of
thn nnnat Tho TprtiCC machines houn
won all the prizes for speed, quick
starts, perfect landings and those
events where a swift machine showed
best.
Paulhan has won all the cross coun-
try, passenger carrying and endurance
tests, having a heavier, slower ma
chine and an engine which he trusts
absolutely. Paulhan has taken more
than $4,000 in prizes and has broken
the world records for altitude and
cross country flights alone, and with
a passenger. Curtiss has broken no
worlds records and probably will take
less han $4,000 in prizes.
Hamilton and Willard have taken
second and third prizes in most
events. The meet ended with a I'M
ique parade showing the evolution of
travelling as a feature. 1t was headed
by old Era Meeker, of Oregon trail
fame, seated in the prairie schooner
drawn by oxen that took him over the
plains. After him came cowboys,
automobiles, buros, carriages, bal
looms, dirigibles and finally the vari-
GUS airships ending with a m%ultiplane
that look like a harvester. Curtiss
and Paulhan walked behind the van,
like bashful school boys.
A medal presentation took place and
then Paulhan went on his endurance
flight.
Tho Prizes Won.
The prizes won during the aviation
meet here, follow:
Height-$3,0 600, Louis Paulhan, 4,165
feet; first, $4,000, Charles X. Hamil-
ton, 530.5 feet, second, $500 Curtiss,
third.
Endurance and Time-s3,O 900, Louis
Paulhan, 1877 miles, 1:5S:32, first,
$4,000, Charles X. Hamilton, 1914
miles, $500 2-5, second; $500, Glenn
II. Curtiss, 1911 miles, 24:54 2-5, third.
Speed, 10 laps-s3,0O0 Glen H. Cur
tiss. 1911 miles, 23:43 3-5, first; 81, 1000,
Louis Paulhan, 1911 miles, 24:59 2-5,
second; $500, Charles X. Hamilton,
1911 miles, 30:34 3-5, third.
Three laps with passenger-S1,O 900,
Louis Paulhan, 4.83 miles, S:16 1-5.
No others contested.
Slowest lap-s500. Charles K. Ham,
ilton, Lei miles, 1885 rs.
Quickest start-s250, Glenn H. Cur.
tiss, SO feet, won.
Starting and landing in square
$3.50. Charles +. Willard won. scor.
perfect.