The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-30
HOXSEY .
FLIES OVER
MI. WILSON

AVIATION FIELD. Los Angeles.
Dec. 29.-Arch Hoxsey. OF Pasadena,
Cal, holder of the present wOna
record for altitude OF 11.i7i feet, TO-
day flew over Nc. Wilson, the hlghes,
peak OF the mountain range. which
rims the yd1ley In which Los Angeles.
Pasadeza and the towns OF the orange
belt he Under ideal weather condi-
cfons he scared 10.005 feet into the
sky and cleared the crest Of Mt VIII
son, With 1920 feet TO spare.
Could Transport Armies.
Lieutenant Vernon Boiler and sew
efal other army officers, who are here
TO see the sights, were quick To OBJ
sorve In HoxseyS performance new
WAY of Transporting armies across
mountain ranges. and predicted the
early relegation Of the army mule as
an essential In scaling heights.
Lieutenant Boiler, who came here
from Fort Whipplc, Ariz., said that a
thousand hiplanes could transport an
army OF 10000 men across mountains
as high as the Alps In a day.
Hoxsey used a heavy stock Wright
biplane. equipped for passenger sery-
Ice, and he made the journey from the
field 10 n point beyond the mountains
In one hour and IS minutes. The dis
tance Is estimated at 81 miles. On an
air line the distance from the field
to the mountains Is less than that,
but Hoxsey circled over the field un-
IN he had reached his maximum
heieht before he pointed the nose OF
a
was out of sight OF the crowd before
he made the attempt at topping the
peak
Liked the Trip.
The news of his success was flash
cd 10 aviation field by ;e ephone from
the Carnegie Solar observatory on MI.
Wilson and directly above which the
aviator SCARED
1T was fearfully cold, and when
got TO a point just above the summit
| found that III. horizon. which oh
scured the mountains from the ayia-
tion field was a heavy pail of yapoT.
filled with fine Ice pa ticles that stunG
my face. | am certain that II ! had
had q recording thermometer with
me It would have shown the temper
ature of the upper altitude to be far
below zero. However. hurdling
mountains is much easier than climb
ing II 900 feet over VALLEY or the
nway."
Latham Saves Martin.
Hoxsey's performance was the only
interesting feat accomplished today.
but lust before the close OF the days
events the crowd got n thrill by an
accident which nearly resulted in the
death OF Hubert Latham. The French
monoplnne expert who made a vail
ant attempt To save Glenn Martin, the
California novice. when The latter lost
control of his machine and was blown
into fence by n twcnty-mlle wind
After successfully negotiating the
course once Martin was blown far
TO the south of the field. where he
narrowly escaped disaster several
times. BY skiltull maneuyering of his
machine he finally tackled back TO the
course and the crash came as he was
trying 10 make a landing. Two or
throe thousand men and women were
within a fe1. fec. Jt him when he
dashed into the fence In front Of the
grandstand Latham was in front of
the JUDGES booth when Martin
brought his machine TO earth The
Frenchman Immediately realized the
danger and rushed out and caught
hold of the machine and desperately
tried TO turn IL away from the fence
but he mlscalculated It's speed and
the force of It's momentum, and was
dashed To the ground The running
t.1. It,
900 pounds. missed Latham's face by
only few inches and Martin and his
biplane sped into the fence with such
force that 1t broke the iron stanchlons
upon which the wire fencing was
stretched, Martin was hurled over the
fence and he fell upon sawdust. TO J.
ing almost under the grandStand, bat
got up unhurt,