Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-21
NEW RECORD SET ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
All But One Broken at Ava- High Wind Sweeps City With
ton Meet Downpour of Rain.
PAUL HAN CURTISS RACE |GETS OFF WITH $50 FINE
Test A. WEIGH Pleads Ignorance Of
in Contest-Curtss Clips the Liquor Law But Has to
Ten-Iap Time Put Up $500 Bond.
PAULHAN CURTISS RACE

LOS ANGELES, January o1--After
duel in the air which marked the close OF
the great international aviation to'lrna-
ment at Dominguez Park yesterday. LOUIS
Paulhan Of France and Glenn II. Curtiss
of America last brought their machines
10 the ground just as night was falling
with honors even
PauIhan has been able 10 remain in the
air longer than his rival. Curtiss, IL a
race of ten laps, with which the endur-
ance test began, was not only able 10
prove again that his binane was tieeter
than the Frenchman' but broke the
track record for that distance.
He made the ten laps in .4.O2 Is. or
- seconds faster than when lie won his
first great race here with the French
man. Paulhan's time for the distance
rs 10 miles-was 26,O3 -. This was lower
than in his previous race.
Twenty-Five Per Cent Profit
The aviation carnival has been Il great
financial success. 1t was stated that
there will be a profit Of at least ., per
cent on the investment Gate receipts
and the sums paid for privileges Will
amount 10 S230.0N to S:aN.Gn
w Dell tilP meet closed all NOflu AVA
ton records had been broken with the eN-
ception of one. This was Henri Far
mans distance and duration record OF
~ miles. made in -four hours. seventeen
minutes and thrty-tive seconds at Cha
Ions. France, last November.
The record here, made hy PauIhan last
Sunday, is 1913 miles in :5S:o1 80 Had
II not been for growing darkness the
Frenchman might have been able to break
this record yesterday afternoon.
tiS-c- 1i.rl,t a1 =, II
ening into darkness. because he had run
out of fuel, owing to the small capacity
of the gasoline tank he had carried ON
his racing biplane. He was in the air
- minutes and ; seconds and covered q
distance of IS. l.; miles.
Paulhan descended because Curtiss had
alighted and because night was closing
down. lie was in the air 1919 minutes
and 40 As seconds. and covered a dis
tance of 40 miles.
Paulhan has won the big prizes for
high altitude. passenger carrying, endur-
ance and cross-cOuntry flights. Curtiss
took the prizes for speed and quick starts
and Hamilton carried off the prize for
starting and stopping on twenty foot
target.
Evolution Parade"
Yesterday afternoons events began
with al Evolution parade" illustrating
the progress that has been made by man
in conquerng distance In the lead was
man upon a horse. Then followed 4
team Of oxen, driven by California
forty-niner, who at the age of seventy
nine has just crossed the old Oregon
trail for the purpose once more of visit
ing scene in which an exciting period
of his youth had been spent.
Other vehicles followed. Then came the
bicycle. the motorcycle and an automo-
bile. Back of these were several aero
planes built by California and Arizona
amateurs. representing uncertain stages
of aviation. The parade closed with a
line of airships which had been used In
the flights during the tournament. Cur
tiss, Paulhan. Hamilton. Willard and
other avators took part in the review.
After the procession had passed the
grandstand twenty gold medals wele pre-
scented to the aviators by the aviation
committee. Lieut.. Paul w. Beck If the
United States Army also presented
with a gold medal for his part IN the
meet
Charles X. Hamilton made another of
his flights during the afternoon in the
hope of breaking Pauhans 1000 feet rec
ord for altitude. He rose in the air about
HW feet and then, owing TO difficulty
with his crank shaft, was forced to re-
turn TO earth.