The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-10
FOG PREVENTS
CONTINUANCE
Of AERO TRIP
Flight From Chicago to New
York Last Night Stopped
Short
ENGINE OF MACHINE FAILED
ToSPARk AND AVIATOR AL|GHTED
Advanced the Spark But the Carbu.
reter Had Been Permanently Ad.
justed and He Was Forced to Come
to Earth Just Outside the City.

chicago, Oct. 10-A thick fog pre-
vented Eugene Ely from making an
early start with his aeroplane today
from the spot where he landed last
night after starting on the Chicago
New York flight. The mist was so
dense that the machinists ON the
opposite sides of the flyer could
scarcely see each other,
Ely met with another accident
when he attempted to start. He rose
seventy-f1ve feet. when he noticed that
the gasoline feed pipe was leaking.
He came down to make repairs, but
landed in ditch concealed by weeds.
He was not hurt. 1t was said that II
would take five hours to make re-
pairs.
The young aviator descended be-
cause of q clogged carbureter. Re-
pairing this was matter of a few
moments. but in the rapidly gathering
dusk in trying to start again, Ely ran
the machine onto rock and the front
running wheel was torn away. A new
wheel was brought up and the force
OF mechanics began work, while Ely
went to Gary to spend the night in a
special car.
Two hours before the start, Curtiss,
Willard, McCurdy, Ely and a num-
per OF mechanics went over the BIZ
plane with the most careful scrutiny.
fhe propeller developed thrust"
OF 32O pounds. worn wires were re-
placed and nuts and screws frightened.
10 make assurance doubly sure, Mr..
Curtiss made trial fight of a few
moments and upon alighting pro.
nounced the machine ready for the
start. There were twenty gallons Of
gasoline in the tank to feed the sixty
horse power, eight cylinder engine
and lubricating oil in proportion
enough to have carried the flyer $50
miles.
Ely was garbed from head to foot
in light brown leather. On his right
wrist compass was strapped and in
| front of him, attached to the machine.
was a watch. In nine seconds the
aviator had left the earth and utter a
short turn, set his course in the d.
rection of South Bend. A telephone
message from Laporte, Ind, stated
that crowd Of fifty thousand persons
awaited the aviator at that city and
another from South Bend said that
$4,000 were awaiting his advent at
that point. where he had expected to
spend the night.
AS Ely related his experience aft
erward, he had been in the air about
ten minutes and going like an ex-
press train with the wind behind him,
when the engine began missing. He
was able to advance his spark, but
the carbureter had been permanently
adjusted and he was unable to reach
it. Members of the Beverly Golf club
peering through the dusk, noted the
missing of the spark and started in
automobiles on the trail of the aero
plane to render assistance If neces-
sary. The motorists recognized trou-
BILE "in the air" and correctly calcu-
lated that Ely would have to descend.
The aviator. however. came down in
prairie distant from a road and be-
fore help had arrived he had adj
iusted the carbureter, which had be-
come clogged and performed the diff
ficulty of starting unassisted. Before
he had gained sufficient headway to
leave the ground the front running
wheel struck rock and was wrench
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