The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-31
>rE\ O\ BRO0kLI> RRIImE.
FnrrS ~ First seemed to B~ Gun. TakinE
o. HIgh On the wins

There were scarcely more p.opis ON
thu Brooklyn Bridge YESTERDAY after
noon than the Usual sunday ozone -.''N
ing crowd when two Il the AIrm-r how"
! 10 -Ish' A. ~. one over Brook .yu Heights
and the other nearly over the navy ward
word 81 the fIgh'- spread rapidly -
thai when Mol-ant cam" INTO view an
hour later there was better turnout
Of -kygayrrs
IN. difference. bst we-n a guli up .1u
feet and a fnonoplane ,Ip usp f,.e' - con-
fined entirely 20 the fact that m. blrd
moves IT, wings Will" the plan" apat-
Sometimes the bird foai- too. and 'hI-
kept IA" nridg" watchers guessing A.
az sharp they realized suddenly that
'Un particular g.ll- had hoat"d uu VIug-
mort longer than well regulated guIi-
had any right 10 foa' Then M" after
noon -un began to flicker on ia" on" over
toward N. navy yard and IA" d".u-lou
was dl-p.llsd
Ihl- one Wa -" Ia.-sep- ~ the same
'Im. Graham.-Whi's wa- sighted over
the Heights No one on the. bridg" Wa
arle 20 ra.ognIZ. the numbers ~ a. 20
know who the men wer" II was -opn
cl"ar thar the maChln" over the Heights
Wa "A ht'l. nearer the S'atu" than m.
other The two wer. lo-' IN the after
noon -un
Then IN" Frenchman appeared a. a
do over IN. bronze ladv dong buoy
duty with her torch aud = csptIv" buoy
balloon several hundred feet dbOv" her
H.. went - lIrtle 20 ~" west and seemed
20 stand stIll m m" AIR Then b" was
seen 20 be coming back literally on m"
wings Of the breeze HIS speed had svi-
IDENTITY increased He cIrcl"d over ne
statue Almost "NaCtly mInut" later
Grihama-N hit. Crawled across N" top
Of the afternoon han" and "ame about on
ms nOiucvard run Grahafn"-N hii" went
back m. way h" Cafn.. hut DE l'.sseps
preferred his cour-. over the Brooklyn
end 81 the bridge and the navy yard
He went over the end ~ m" hridg. -
little less than flN" minutes after hs first
crossing He was too high for even the
h,IzZIng Of the propell"rz 10 h" audible
Tho reflection % m" sun on m" blades
- they wer" spinning could he seen win
- glass Tn" river birds w"r" very much
A. -'urDed about ~" stranger they FOL
lowed nm up aloff untIl they looked like
80 many white dots ~ his wake Then
they VrIrl"i about ~ nervous curiosity.
lu. Two machines w"r" m sIghi all
ipg"tt.T about eight minutes
Almost exactly an hour after he first
two had disappeared MOI-dni cam" INTO
view dO~u eastward on IN" sam. course
th4t ~. I..s-"I,- had followed oyer the
Brook lyH end ~ m" bridg" and around the
z'atu" H.. H"w lower than ~" others
Nv about 2'1 feet H.. crossed the bridg.
~ I2S just - h." Na- abOv" the end ~
the EtTIotur.. h. took the sliRht"zt dip.
~ ~" -afu" I'm" slaLilug his wings = little
IN the horizontal In. crowd was about
to mold IT, breath when b." vas steady
again lie consumndfi NO minutes from
M. bridge Ia the statue against m" wind
and q vas ~ once evident that b" was
doing h.tt"r than the others
After ha had mad" hts circi" above the
statu" NoIsaut headed over toward
BROOKLYN Heights ~ ~" direct path ~
the wind ~. seemed - b' travelling
very fast Thus he took M" Do i..--s,.p-
COURSE ~ going So the -tHiv" and tho
(rahaFu"- Mht" Cpufs" ~ returning To-
Belmont park II wls thought fhar by
these rOtIrs"- and taking id
, antaga - m" wind he vas able to- baat
GrahaTne- Into