The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-01-14

Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. Ion the
bulletin board at Dominguez aviation
field. a sign In chalk letters foot
high. THE Biggest Events Are Yet
TO Come" set the thousands OF aero
maniacs to wondering when Paulhan
would attempt today some flying
feat as spectacular as his "trip 10
Paradise OF Hades" Wednesday.
The sight of man merely flying
has come to be so common that it
requires something really thrilling To
gain attention now. This was dem
onstrated yesterday when the race
between the Frenchman and the
American, Curtiss, failed to evoke
more than a perfunctory cheer Cur
tiSs passed Paulhan twice while fly
Ing around the course in an attempt
to establish a record for sixteen
miles. Then when Paulhan sought to
lower his rivals mark OF "a "a rs.
and failed by five seconds. there was
hardly any demonstration of enthu.
siasm.
They are ennui." said Paulhan, as
he supervised tho morning coddling
of his Farmans and Bleriots by his
mecbanicians today 81 shall have
10 do something to remove that blase
feeling"
Are YOU not satisfied with having
flown higher than any man over Gid?"
he was asked
"Mais. non," he replied. hitching his
shoulders up to his ears, and throw
ing up his hands, palms upward.
fingers wigEling IL havo forgotten
that. Records, more records. better
records. until. pouf' breath goes out
and / really find that path to Para
dise-or TO Hades."
One OF the earliest visitors OH the
field today was Charles NJ. Schwab,
former president OF the United States
Steel corporation, who arrived this
morning on special train from Ne
vada, where he has been inspecting
mining properties. He brought with
him Mrs Schwab his sister, Miss
Gertrude Schwab and party of ten
New York friends. They were shown
through the aeroplane tents in the
center OF the vast field by Clifford b
Harmon. the New York sportsman.
who extracted from the steel magnate
a promise to accompany him on
DHllOOu tIlD tbH1Oiion vi oohN ptbCi
day before the close of the meet,
Mrs. Schwab did not seem entbusi-
astlc over her husbands possible avi-
alton.
Mr.. Harmon made his first real
flight as an aviator on board his own
aeroplane last evening. He made two
short journeys In the air and then
regretfully permitted the machine TO
be retired
After a three-day struggle with OK
tenslve tables OF logarthms, the
board of aviation judges have final
ly arrived at the figures which shall
stand as the official record of Paul
hans world-beatjng high flight A
statemept regarding the performance
and the Judges findings was made
public today II read:
In the afternoon OF January -.
1910 on the aviation field of San Do
minguez. near Los Angeles. Cal.
Louis Paulhan, in a Farman aero
plane. propelled by a gnome motor.
made an attempt to accomplish the
worlds record for altitude. \ series
of observations was made during his
flight and they we're carefully COM
pared. and calculations made from
them by the approved methods of
trigonometry. These proved that Mr..
Paulhan reached the altitude OF
4,lG5 feet, which is equivalent TO
1857 meters. 4 cable received from
the international Aeronautic Fedora
ton In France certiiies that Hubert
Latham on January Z. 1910. reached
the altitude Of 1850 meters (e1uiva-
lent to 3,iii feetl. and that was thon
the worlds record. In his flight Mr..
Psulhan carried an ancroid barome-
ter which he examined during his
flight and noted that II marked $500
feet. In view of the unreliability OF
q barometer for this purpose, the
committee is unwilling to trust TO this
method IT therefore. adopts The re-
cord of i,lG5 feet, and declares that
Mr.. Paulmap has exceeded the record
of MI Latham by 721 feet (21e.7