The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-30

NEW YORK, May 30.-Glenn H. /,
curtiss sped down the air lanes from
Albany to Manhattan Island Sunday,
doing 1877 miles in 152 minutes-bet-
ter time than any limited on the New
York Central ever made.
He not only won the $4,000 prize
offered by the New York World, but
he made an international record for
Ystained speed There were times
when his little biplane, which is only
bslfa big as Paulhan's famous flyer,
split the air at more than sixty miles
and hour. His average speed was 54.8
miles an hour.
The winds were good to Curtiss, and
finer day could not have been
picked But once the mischieyous air
currents of the Highlands nearly got
him. The airs, warmed by an eager
sun, ran twisty ways up the mountain
sides. Swinging around Storm King,
his aeroplane dropped some forty feet
like a plummet. For second there
was nothing under it, and Curtiss had
three seconds to review his past. But
the capable bird slid off into kinder
airs and went to the finish steadily
about her business.
There was never in this country
anything like Glenn Curtiss' achieve
ment. Like Paulhan. the Frenchman,
he proved that 1t was possible for an
aviator to say: Il am going to start
here and am going to finish there
to fly from one town to another, as
man may proceed in an automobile,
and with little more danger, to hear
Curtiss tell 1t. But the Frenchman,
although he astonished the world by
lying from London to Manchester,
iS6 miles, took more than twelve
hours and made two stops, while Cur
tiss only stopped once, st Camelot,
below Poughkeepsie, before hitting
Manhattan Island, and he went lot
faster than Paulhan travelled.
The Twentieth Century Limited
goes the route in three hours and
three minutes. The Lake Shore Limit
ed says goodbye" to Albany and
'howdy" to New York in three hours
and twenty-five minutes, while the
Empire State Express needs three
hours and eight minutes. The trains
cover 1922 miles.
Curtiss and his friends figured that
'he aeroplane, from the time she rose
over Van Rensselaer, Island at Albany
until she settled on the Isham estate
y Spytenduyvil, flew 1877 miles But
thls necessarily is guesswork.
curtiss followed the Hudson river,
out ne was able now to save time by
cutting across country where the riv,
ef dipped or curved. On the other
nand. he had to Jockey for helpful airs
and dodge the evil currents that tried
70 twist the wings off his machine. Sc
lnat 1t is probable that he flew at leasl
~ miles; maybe a little more.
An official timer for the Aero Clut
" America held the watch on Curtiss
snen he cut loose from the earth, ant
Sllh special train kept him in sigh
ana timed him all the way down tn.
nudson although that train had tt
auseie to do It. AT the finish the,
uneo him when he lit at Spuytenduy
~ ana again when he put his biplan,
NJ NJ tne aerodome at Governors Island
'ne distances will have to be verified
course, by the Aero Club. but Au
sus'us II, Post, the clubs official REP
osehtatiye, said that 1877 miles in 15
uihutes will about stand.
me bells of Trinity were giving
sooh 70 Manhattan when Curtiss. hay
lug already made sure of his $1,000
landing at Spuytenduyyil, swoope
ssoh the North river air road, sale
PAST the battery and descend
~ with a beautiful dip on Coy
taor s.a Island. Every whistle wit
a.esm in its throat srieked an
~ taiAed and rumbled. The fussy littl
Az boats snorted and wheeled an
ashed around as their captains 10
Nv eu the aviator's graceful course
o,s "h at the battery, where folks, a
4, hseWhere ~ in the city, had been foole
(. 'ne hash that Curtiss had finishe
NJ, nsht at Spuytenduyvil and woul
H.. Il. exhibit himself at the foot OF tn
shs .here was great scurryin
,e,s as' Inc high-fying spot resolved i
n'o the clean lines of flyin