New-York tribune., 1910-10-31
PAYS $4,000 FRANCS FOR IT
Crowds at Battery and Else
where See Grahame White
and De Lesseps Also
Circle Statue.
FLY OVER BROOKLYN HOUSES
All Three Drove Bleriot Machines,
the English Champion Having His
100Horsepower Motor, but
the Other Two Only So
Horsepower Engines.


Miss Liberty was at home to them
all yesterday. but she saved her most
alluring smiles for her last visitor. the
only American aviator TO call. John 3.
MOisant, of Chicago. Claude GTahame-
White. representing the British Lion
and Count Jacques de Lesseps. the re-
public of France. paid their respects
earlier in the afternoon None seemed
anxious to tarry. but the man from
Chicago simply wouldn't
MOisant made the fastest time yester-
day, and as to-day is only an extra day.
the Ryan prize of $1,000 is his. At
first fights TO Liberty and back We're to
be allowed to-day. but this plan was
changed
Miss Liberty was at home to only one
at a time. beginning at $50 D. m. sharp.
Grahame- White showed her what he
could do for the honor of his country.
and then. allowing her only one minuts
to recover her accustomed Placidity.
Count de I,esseps kissed her upraised
hand and flew away.
The man from home gave her time to
arrange her hair and see that her skirt
hung all right in the back. and ar
though she was short of breath she as
sumed the honors of the occasion with
fine dignity when Moisant. who Is a
little fast i'm his ways. could not stop
for te at As o'clock because fifty
Thousand visitors were waiting for him
out at Belmont Park
When Moisant arrived at the aviation
grounds il was found that he had flown
over the hOusetOps of Brooklyn and the
intermediate country. an approximate
distance of thirty-fve miles. in perhaps
a ten-mile wind in "a minutes IS 34-1eo
seconds. or in 43 seconds less time than
his closest rival from England
The time consumed by Count de Les
seps was II minutes IS 25-1tO seconds.
or more than minutes longer than
Moisant All contestants drove Bler1ot
monoplanes. but Grahame-White used
his 1OO-hOrsepOwer motor. while the win
ner and his French colleague did their
little best with One-half that power
Wins in Brand New Monoplane.
For many reasons the performance OF
Moisant was the most remarkable in the
history of aviation He had never driven
the monoplane In which he won the race
for the Thomas F. Ryan $4,000 prize.
More than that. no one else had ever
driven it. 1t was green IN experience
and was intended for MOisant. anyway.
If MOisant had not been a native OF
the Western Hemisphere. filed with
twenty-first century methods. il is GER
tain he would not have flown. as he did.
two thousand feet high over the house,
tops of Brooklyn. IN which case the spec
tators at Belmont Park and all along
the pale blue way would not have suf-
fered last night from such an Indigestion
of impressions as they did
Count de Lesseps and Cfrahame- White
had started for the Statue Of Liberty at
800 and sos O'Clock. re-
spectively. had faded from view in the
northwest and southwest and Moisant.
who was announced to fly for America.
was still on the ground.
Earlier in the afternoon MOisant had
met with one of those setbacks that to-
tally set back a man. they say. unless
he is familiar with the alkali Of the
American West and knows well his
State street
His BleriOt. while running along ths
ground of the inner field. bumped into
HarmOn's Farman. which Grahame-
White. in a moment of forgetfulness, had
left lying where no stationary flyer had
a license to be- 1t was the only thing
beyond the red flags that the Pinker-
tons had not insulted. at least once. II
was the last straw, because it was
Moisants last hope. He had no mora
Bltriots To knock to pieces.
Moissnt Quick IN Resources.
This fact struck his brain with a thud
when the impact of the two aeroplanes
to the sheds MOisant's mind was made
up.
He did not weep as he ran TO green
house No. Il. the field home Of none
other than the great Leblanc. He did
not shrug his shoulders when In French
he ordered the Frenchman's mechanical
guardians of the racing flyers To list
- horsepower BleriOt unbrOken To the
air of any country. MOisant shouted:
place my entry number u, upon
this machine. Put il on at once. That
is. put IL on right away. I've taken a
fancy To- this bus, and. believe me. I
have a strong notion that there is go
ing 70 be something doing before night
Get my automobile, Get it, hs
shouted To- the skies above.
To the clubhouse go!" he commanded
a willing friend at the wheel of the tour
ing car.
Make haste, I demand "a telephone az
once" resounded through the corridors
Of the clubhouse a moment later when
found. give me the Hotel KnickerbOcker.
Pretend you are In Chicago. friends. and
move along. The KnickerbOcker? Give
me Monsieur Leblanc. He's in bed? C;et
him up. He is sick with his face? Get
him to the telephone. Tell him MIR. Moi
SAINT. of Chicago. has business prOpo-
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