Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-14

Beaudette. Mrs. Hamilton was peering
out of the window, her hair fluttering
in the wind.
"Oh, Mr.. Ludlow" she cried to a
friend, 1--WE found him He's with US
But the mother could not speak at
all. She walked up and down the
swaying aisle of the parlor car, wiring
ing her hands. her face flushed. her
eyes moist and shiny.
won't you sit DOWN." entreated one
of the party, offering an arm.
Il can't" she almost sobbed, While
tears of pleasure streamed down her
cheeks.
And truly it was a beautiful sight,
the biplane 400 feet above the earth
skimming directly above the railroad
tracks and straight ahead of the r y
ing locomotive, too far distant as ye
make the crackle of its exhaust he,
above the roar of the locomotive a
the rattle of the train. The motion va
one of continual oscillation.
LIKE SWIFT STREAM
Tilting gently first to one side and
then to the other, then rising and fall
ing over aerial hills and into valleys
the eye could not see, the aeroplane
seemed to heave itself through space
with the rapidity of stream seeking
it's channel.
Hamilton explains this appearance in
his way.
"When you are in canoe" he said,
'you don't try to drive it through
every wave you meet. You let her
ride over the crest and sink into the
trough. That's the way 1 feel in an
aeroplane. Let the air have Its way
with you. Don't fight it, follow it,"
What little wind there was, was in
the southeast. Hamilton said it was
of little hindrance and no aid to him.
He proceeded at an average slightly
less than fifty miles an hour. There
was no question of a race with the
train. Whenever the engineer wished
he easily drew ahead, but the instant
he slackened the speed the aeroplane
was over his head again.
The first point of critical interest
was New Brunswick, where they
crossed the Raritan river, factory
chimneys throughout the city to fly
over with possibilities of a catastro-
phe should he find it necessary to
make a descent.
FLIES ACROSS TOWN
Hamilton held his pace straight
across the heart of the town. In pass
ing through the city the engineer had
slowed down a little and the aeroplane
began to gain. Mrs. Hamilton and
Mrs. Beaudette ran to the forward
coach for a better view. An ambitious
photographer climbed on the tender.
Mrs. Hamilton scrambled after him.
Not to be outdone, Mrs. Beaudette
joined her.
Hamilton himself was barely visible
aloft. The outline of his legs against
the sky could be seen and the hands
grasping the steering wheel were sill
houetted at certain angles, but for the
most part it seemed as if the aeroplane
was alive, guiding itself.
When the train ran ahead of him
and then slowed down to let him catch
up the incessant musketry fire of his
motor could be heard family. 1t
seemed a little irregular, but nobody
guessed the truth until Hamilton told
it to his mechanic.
When he was 1900 feet above the
water of the Kill Won Kullso high that
he could not see the Jersey shore
shore through the fog-one of his right
eight cylinders went back on him and
never picked up again for the whole
journey.
LUDLOW ELATED
Nobody saw the flight with more
pleasure than Isaac Ludlow a New
York lawyer, who was crippled for life
when aviation was in its infancy in
experimenting with a gliding machine
of his own invention, which he had
towed by an automobile. It was in
Ludlow's glider that Hamilton made
his first ascent in a heavier than air
machine when he was only a boy.
This vindicates my faith" said Mr..
Ludlow. 81 am glad I lived to see 1t.
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