The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-16
ESTABLISHES NEW RECORD
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his Journey. Here was the wide Del
aware river to cross with steep banks
at either side; here was a broad city
with no path dividing it but railway
tracks, and here was the possible
danger Of those erratic air currents
that often follow a river. Hamilton
had planned to go up 1000 feet in
crossing Trenton, but he rose only
to some five hundred, for the wind
was blowing head on and harder
aloft For that reason, he said, be
flew at a nearly uniform level of $50
feet.
Now the train was beginning to fit
through the suburbs of Philadelphia
Hamilton left the train for the avia-
ton field. Instead of alighting, he
circled the field four times slowly,
to give the people a full chance to
see him, and then settled with a dive
that made the crowd catch its breath
Hamilton stepped to earth, boyish
and diffident. Mayor Reyburn and
Governor Stuart were there to ex-
change messages for those carried
by Hamilton from Governor Hughes
and Mayor Gaynor. Hamilton hur-
ried away in an automobile for a cup
of coffee as soon as he could dis
pense decently with the formalties.
Then he was back to the field and
off again before the special train
could be disentangled from the yard
where it was sde-tracked. 1t looked
like rain and Hamilton wished to
take no chances. But in his hurry he
overlooked detail that later cost
him an unwilling descent. He forgot
to clean his spark plug.
There was no sign of anything
2 wrong. however. as he scared straight
into the distance, and in five minutes
he was vanished in the haze.
l At Metuchen he swerved sharply
to the southeast, away from the rail-
+ road tracks, and at Menlo Park, two
miles further, was lost to sight be-
hind the trees. When last seen, he
S seemed to be flying lower, as If stoop-
ing to a landing. Therefore it was
Y not a surprise to those on board the
special, when the train reached Jer-
a sey City, that Hamilton, who should
+ have reached Governors Island in ad-
vance of it, had not been reported
There followed an anxious hour Of
S hurried telephoning and speculation
Finally came this brief announcement
n by telegraph to New York Hamilton
stuck in the swamps at South Am
boy"
n The remainder of the flight was
patchwork but it brought him safe
n home On leaving South Amboy he
headed for Staten Island, crossed the
+ Kill Won Kull, whirled over the is
land, and quarter of an hour after
g he had started was in sight of his
landing place. He crossed the har-
Dor at almost the same height as on
= his outward voyage, fifteen hundred
. feet up To the little knot of faith
full who had awaited him on Cover
nor's Island, he came into sight at
IL 6:35. A shout went up from the
crowd. The whistles on every vessel
$ in the bay vocferated their applause.
e In another moment he landed, thor
IL oughly tired out, grimy but smiling
IL and COOL
l. To his friends he explained his
T. misadventure at South Amboy. When
e the engine failed. the aeroplane in
/ descending to the only level spot
available, was badly mired but mud
had no terrors for the thousands who
Hooked on to the meadows Hamilton
- called for volunteers and from the
" tive hundred who oaffered, he chose
picked team to carry the machine
e on their shoulders through slime
waist deep to a stretch of level road
, way, where he could make a get
70 away With clean spark plugs and
!, a new propeller he had no further
=, trouble The last lap of his journey
:, home was the easiest and it was
u the shortest.
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