New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-31
MUCH PRAISE FOR CURDSS
kilograms of Generalization
Pour In on Successful Aviator.
NOT AFTER OTHER PRIZES
Flight from New York to Wash
ington Suggested as Suitable
One for New Offer.

Glenn H Curtiss after his successful
A1bany-New York fight on Sunday, spent
busy day at the Hotel Astor yesterday
reading kilograms and receiving the con-
gratulations Of friends. He will be the
guest Of honor tonight at a dinner TO be
given by THE World" at the Hotel Aston
Mayor Gaynor will preside, and invitations
have been sent TO some fifty distinguished
persons within reach OF New York Mayor
Gaynor will receive Curtiss at the City
Hall ct $50 o'clock this morning.
Mr.. Curtiss IS signing for new worlds 10
conquer
Now that the whole thing is over and
that you have won the $4,000 prize and
demonstrated the feasibility of flying down
the Hudson, what is the outstanding SEN
sation which you experienced? was the
first question fired at him
We'll, hardly know how to express it.
but this has made change in my exist
ence" he replied ''I have been so wrapped
I'D in this thing for so long; planning at
Hammondsport- then having delays there
while I adopted my machine TO hotaIlon
in case had to come down to the water,
then with the leng delay at Albany while
waited for the most favorable weather
conditions-al1 these things have made this
fight the great idea which has occupied
my mind for weeks past to the exclusion
of all else.
Hard 70 Realize His Success.
NOW Z have done the trick. and it is all
over, and it seems hard for me to get used
to not thinking that I have it al TO do
yet don't know whether that just con-
veys TO you how I feel, but that is the
best expression 7 can give TO It just now
How long have you been preparing for
this particular fight?''
well, thought It over little last year.
At that time however I thought possibly
Captain Baldwin would take the prize with
his dirigible, for which built the motors
I had already done some experimenting
with the June Bug. my first successful ma
chine, over Lake Keuka, and was always
| Of the opinion after THE World made its
| offer Of a $4,000 prize that the way to DO
| the distance in an aeroplene was by follow
| ing the course Of the river. That de-
manded careful preparation. however. With
our present knowledge Of aviation we can
not make a start from the water. although
that is the object have sought for some
time to accomplish
when cane back from the West last
fall resumed experiments over the lake,
try for this prize After I returned from
Memphis and San Antonio this spring, how
ever, I finally settled on suitable floats to
| keep the machine out of trouble should ]
be forced to a1ight in the Hudson, and
| then I made I'D my mind to try for the
prize. did not send word to THE World, -
however. until I was ready to go to AL
bany TO assemble my machine for the
start
! Great Advance in Flying.
Mr.. Curttss called attention TO the re
markable advance that had been made in
the use Of aeroplanes- He won on Sunday
| for the third time the trophy offered by
1.-THE Scientific American for the longest
continuous fight Of the season. PauIhan
led for this year up to Sunday, but the
seventy-f1ve-rile fight from Albany to
Poughkeepsie again puts Curtiss In the
| lead 1.-The first year, 1903" said Mr. Cur
| tiss, Il won the trophy with the June Bug
in a fight Of kiIometre, or fve-eighths of
a. mile. Last year. ar Mineo1a. I went ap-
proxin1ately thirty miles, and this year
| seventy-f1ve miles I'D to date"
Have you any other plans for long
fights7''
We'll. no. have no plans Just now that
I can give out at all I do not like TO say
| that am going to do a thing and then
not be able 10 do it. lot of avtators
do that Most of them are sincere about
| it. too, but we cannot always do what
we propose I may be a little too careful
along these lines. but the Hudson-Fulton
| celebration experience has made me very
careful in that respect hate to disap-
point people as we did on that occasion.
so I do not care to say anything about
what I am thinking I may do later
Suppose some one wanted to offer a prize
for much longer fight than that Of Sun
day, what route would you suggestY'
Suggests Flight to Washington.
well, that is a difficult question IF
YOU wanted to leave New York to go to
some other point, or to come TO New York
7 do not know Just what would be the best
route I would want TO go over the ground
I would not advise crossing the state of
Pennsylvania for it is mountainous, and in
the present state Of aeronautics II would