New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-14

.ilton. Stuck in Swamp. Scars
,,,,erhly from Narrow Rest
~ m place to Last Stretch.
rsOWD AMAZED AT SIGHT
from His Predicament
I s.sred Impossible, When OAR
10 Aviator Plucked Victory
N the Hour of Defeat.

-. title wizard Hamilton wound up his
T. ..,sav with one OF the most spec
. ,.- esats he has performed since he
=, zane The aeroplane, even If he
-, make his trip 10 Philadelphia
-..,,rn according 70 schedule
ols. broken. patched and riveted
H. which he had threatened 10 dis
at Garden city and had refused to use
-,or,s Island, and an engine that
Kissing explosions. he lifted his ma
nth marvellous precision out Of a
sizes Of which the wings scraped.
W thousand feet in the air, and shot
the last lap Of his trip over the
lr1s g s-aren Island and the waters OF
--re- Bay. travelling the eighteen
-1.s from the Anboy marshes. in twenty
20 minutes.
- after his drop into the Raritan
he pnr his machine safely into the
-, zosd near South Amboy, he was
- sQuanently as safely as though a
--s-s nailed OF. The spread Of his aero
vss - feet 5 inches from tip 10 tip.
-. .be width OF the road from gutter to
- zss barely more than 80 feet On
= -. sj6e was q line Of telegraph poles
=. 1i-ss. and on the right a thick forest
.-rshed the way
.-+o--obfles formed solid phalanx
-, feet behind his rear 7Idder, and
-, hundred yards ahead another solid
..sv n motor cars hid the road for & mile.
-. sir thousand men. women and chill
..,- c-owded every foot Of available space.
Quiet Work Before Start.
-.s-e was twist Of the propeller and
..-,ss If irregular explosions. The engine
stonoed and tinkered with. Then an
s....- Urn OF the propeller, and this time
-, r,,eses we're somewhat reduced in num-
- TIE voungster with The drawn face
:. anxious eyes took :. quick glance along
* .nrward r1dder. waved 10 a man whose
.ss5 was projected into the road. climbed
:, +he sea-. nodded. and mas of
- n Yards the machine dashed straight
- 4ba automobiles ahead. while the ir-
,.ruls- EXPLOSIONS Of the engine n1imicked
"a hssrhests Of the crowd. And just as
-s4 Slaughter seemed inevitable the planes
zs-s fitted and the machine scraped above
.,s4 heads Of The bewildesd throng
s--sszhtszav for half a mile. rising con-
rs-tly higher. then
aTThsre is he going-back 10 Phfladel-
rtisT' came the CRY
rr the seroplane. inclined at an acute
snrle Tsz turning. soaring and disappear
M andy 10 the west But the turn con-
ti-usi n e great circle more than two
-Ies il diameter. and a. a height Of a
theusand feet tia determined little pilot
: 7cksd ID his course where he had been
trcs5 70 abandon L for the drop TO the
swamp. and dashed away for the final
izziing place. On Governors Island.
Many Threats OF Disaster.
err II TIE dav-rishaps that threatened
= end TIE great effort in disaster. The
s- rzo-rhirds of the road 10 Philadelphia.
Ts-s travelled with only seven cylinders Of
e engines working. Less than one-third
r Ire way home one cylinder again dropped
IT u commission, ard twenty-six miles
t1-.her On Only six were working
--ar A---ES LlII -, EL-l Il11l-AAL-I1 AJ-E ilAS
VaT He cut ou- ~ the track in a wide
asds and in the attempt 70 find himself
= into Z worse position. He nnistook the
nd again and swung out over the Raritan
g7s- a. Perth Auhoy when he should
az beer astonishing Newark Bay at
t1soethpo-t.
twas here that Re decided not 10 try 10
* tie haE with his engines working
saE. decision that he changed five
z7rz later 70 one 10 fly without any en-
= L Necessary, 70 finish the trip. A
= green fed spread itself out beneath
= and ne cI-cled II twice, selecting a
flzhle place 10 land. and glided softly 10
i'sz;lng Place about eighteen inches deep
Soy slime half z mile below the county
n1Es from Perth Amboy across the
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