The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-09-16
Entries Received for the Flight
from New York City to
Chicago.
ONE ENGLISHMAN ARRIVES
QUALIFYING DAILY TESTS WILL
De HELD At CHICAGO BEGIN.
MING ocToeER FiRsT-sEvER-
Al TO RACE.
palladium Specially

Chicago, Sept. l6.-Wtth the arr1-
val of J. c. Mars. the aviator. today
the final arrangements for Americas
greatest aviation meet will be COM
pleted. This will be preliminary to
the twenty-five thousand dollar race
between Chicago and New York for
which the prize has been put up by
the New York Times and the Chicago
Evening Post All the competitors in
the race, according to contract. must
qualify daily in speed and altitude
tests at the Hawthorne race track.
Chicago. These daily tests will be-
gin with Saturday, October LIST and
continue until the following Saturday
when the air men will get away on
their long flight.
Should there be unusual setbacks in
the way of wind or weather. there will
be a lee-way of one week both for trial
flights and the start to New York.
However, a reference to the statistics
of the weather office show the aver
age first week of October to be I'M
usually balmy and otherwise favorable
to air contests.
The main competitors for the rich
prize are Charles X. Hamilton. j. c..
Mars. Charles F. Willard. ]. A. D. Nc
Curdy, Captain Thomas S. Baldwin.
Joe Seymour. Todd Shriver. Philip w.
Wilcox, o. p. Hellings. Eugene Ely.
| and the English aviators Charles G..
| Harmer ald James Radley. A Wright
machine is certain of nomination but
its aviator has not been chosen.
curtiss May Compete.
In the exhibition flights. Glen H.
Curtiss and Clifford B. Harmon will
compete. the former certainly and the
latter in all probability. Mr.. Harmon
has the question of entering the race
under consideration. But II he COM
petes it will be as an amateur and
should he be successful the twenty
five thousand dollar cash prize will
be converted into trophy.
| The two Englishmen who will be In
the contesting fields have had inter
esting careers. Radley, who drives a
Bleriot monoplane. holds the British
speed record for a mile which he made
in Al 2-5 seconds. Harmer began the
study of aeronautics in experimenting
with kites when ne was a student at
the Royal Naval Academy in Green
witch. Before getting around to the
aeroplane he was balloonist: as an
aviator he has made flights with J.
Armstrong Drexel and the late G. s
Rolls. Like Radley. Farmer drives a
Bleriot monoplane and will bring one
especially constructed for this contest
as we'll as substitute machine. That
Harmer was cut out for deeds of dar
ing can be inferred from the fact thai
as youngster he rowed across the
English Channel in shell.
Hamilton drives a Dietz machine
and in this type made the memorable
trip from New York to Philadelphia
and back. Shriver is building new
Dietz of a higher gear than Hamil
toms. He is pupil of Captain BALD
win and is also SO good a mechanic a:
to have constructed the plane will
which Curtiss won the Internationa
cup at Rheims.
The course to New York in ever,
probability will be- nearly along the
line Of the Lake Shore and New Yorl
Central roads. The conditions Of tht
race do not impose any controls bu
the air men are likely to stop in an!
of the following towns:
In Indiana-Hammond. Valparaiso
La Porte, South Bend, Goshen, Ken
dalville. Waterloo.
In Ohio-Bryan, WauseOn. Toledo
Sandusky, Lorain. Cleveland. Paines
vile. Geneva. Astabula. Conneaut.
In Pennsylvania-Erie.
In New York-Westfield. Fredonia
Buffalo. Rochester. Syracuse. Utic;
Albany, Poughkeepsie and the destina
ton.