Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-29
When tombstone Returned
With a New Record,
Reached Altitude Of 847I Feet
in Thursdays Flight.
Thrilling Experience AIoft and He
Admits Being Scared"

the second he has added to his string
| in the international aviation meet
! but the interest OF the dviators was
rentercd on the action Of the Aero
cab of America. which after a mid
night session. chose Hamilton. DreX-
Ell and Broo:;inS early this morning
to defend tie Bennett international
speed trp0Ey. .AudemarS. in IL
! DemaiSelle suffered the first accident
of the tournament but came of with
no hurt To himself and only minor
damages to his machine
| Just before the passenger carrying
| 'roSS-countrV rae" WAS started at
o'clncli this afternoon Il rlnte in the
S',N W.':> -.."n IA Ia the ,t"th,~t. 1t
| was uohn~tone. r'-.Dpearin-; itlSt
| whore ne had Vanished IN Yesterday s
gale. He rircled the field and settled
in front OF the Judges stand. while
| the crowd waved chcered and
stamped. For once he had the center
of the stage and Hoxsey had 10 take
the background.
Tell YOU what boys, said the
nero. lit was just the mercy OF provi-
| dence that / saved my neck. When
| thought | was within touching dis
kind OF forgot all about the wind and
| began 20 reach out for NOR" height.
Tnen suddenly said to myself; Young
| man. YOU better see how much gas
| you've got It's the truth | had just
| enough to turn over the two pro-
p, Hers When | kept her nose up the
Juice ran down into the engine and
size coughed. The minute [ pointed
down | lost my fuel and she began
to miss.
1T was lust like shooting the chutes.
| First I'd take a header with tie
| power off, and when the wind began
| to carry me out of control Id point
up a bit. get little Roadway run level
70" a hundred yards, then dive again.
| I wasn't much scared till | got down
| to earth ana saw what a gale there
was Then was frightened Tor Ialr.
The only spot | could find to land III
| was a little patch not tire times big
| ger across than the stretch OF my
| wings from tip to tip. II ! Went
iarther I was afraid I'd wipe out the
| entire village OF Middle Island. II
didn't come down the village would
| wipe me out. While | was tossing
pennies with myself the wind TUNED
| me clean around and landed me front
and backwards. but that was lusr
| what saved me. If Ia come down
| head first tho wind would have picked
NE M. tipped me over and smashed
| me to pieces
| What nuttered the hands far more
| than the new record or than Johns
tones narrative was the selection of
| ,lafn no
| don Bennett international speed
trophy 1t had been intended to mar
| row the choice by eliminating trials.
| but windy weather forbade. and when
| the limit named under the intcrnation-
al rule for the entry of Il team ap-
| preached it was necessary to SubSti-
tute an election Hamilton with his
800 horsepower Hamiltonian; Drexel
| with a 50-horsepoWer Bleriot and
| Rrookins in the new Wright racer.
We're named.
| Curtiss who brought the cup to this
country, thus has n" part in defending
it and his new racer remains untried.
1t and other dark horses will have u
chance to show what they can do in
| the grand speed trials. which carry
prizes of $4,000 for first place and $1,000
for second. There was SOME chagrin
over this outcome. but on the whole,
the American aviators acquiesced in
| the action taken and took it's decision
as necessity. The American substi-
tuteS are Mars of the CurtisS team:
Moissant with a Blcrot and Hoxey of
the Wright team.
The French team consists OF Latham.
| w IA
Blame with l00-horsepower Bleriot, Au-
hrun with a 50-horsepowor Blerot. Simon
and Barrier. both with l0-horsepower
| Bleriots are substitutes.
For Great Britain. Grahame- White with
| lN-horsepoWer Bleriot Radley with Il
3"-horsepower Bleriot, are the team,
with oeilvie of the Wright Co. of Great
| Britain and McArdle i'm a Beriot as the
substitutes
| There was no flight to the statue of
! Liberty today because of too much wind.
! Moisant and DeLesseps both tried. but
neither finished. Moisant took up Fred
| Thompson. the theatrical manager, and
left him four miles away in a cabbag
patch. Count DeI.esseps took up his broth
| or and landed unhurt in Garden City.
| Audemars. one of the two men in the
world who dares to drive tiny Demois-
ellie. took his butterfly ont in too strong
n wind and was capszed
| Tho summaries.
| First hourly distance-Won by
Latham tAntionette) four laps; time
| II minutes. 81 seconds; second. Au-
dermars Demoiselle. one lap, > Minis
| 24.5 sec: third. DeLessepS (Bleriot
| y
Second hourly distance-Won by
Latham (Antionette) l. laps. Time
40 Minis. 3l.1 sec; penalized 3 laps
for fouling pylons. No second, no
third.
First hourly altitude-Won by Hox-
Soy Wright sos feet; second, Par
malice (WrighO 1919 feet. No third.
Second hourly altitude-Won by
| Parmallce tWright 1886; second.
! Drexel Bleriot 324O. No third.
Yesterdays second hourly altitude
! Won r." tombstone (Wrieht %4Il.
new American record; second. HoX-
sey (Wright) $780,. no third.
TotaliZation of duration for the day
Won by HoNsey (Wright hour 81
minutes 1925 seconds: second Par
malice Wright l hour. 40 minutes
! 95I seconds third Latham tAntiOn-