New-York tribune., 1910-09-05
HOPE To SEE REAL FLYING
Crowds at Garden City Patient
When Beginners Hug Ground.
ONLY TWO CIRCLE COURSE
Phipps, Youngest Aviator in
This Country, VIII Test Ma
chine Now Building.


Several thousand persons journeyed 70
Garden City Yesterday and paid admission
to watch for flying machines to go around
The crowd did lot OF watching. but the
fving machines scarcely ever went all the
way around
New Workers are generous of their tine
and money when IL comes to aeroplanz ex-
hibitions There was not a murn1ur of
dissatisfaction Yesterday
Greatly interested in aviation. there are
thousands of persons in this city who
have perststentIy endeavored 10 be some
place at the time aviators were disport-
ing aloft, but have vet to see their first
flying machine in action.
The international aviation meet at Bel
mont Park next month promises to be an
affair where such persons NAV find their
reward It is anticipated that there will
not be fifteen minutes during the exhibi-
ton hours when one or more machines
fail 70 1y. Persons injured 70 dissp-
pointment for DAYS a a time will hardly
complain of a respite of that duration
It has been the subject Of many conversa-
ttons among the aeronautical enthusiasts
of the metropolis that so great A centre
for expert cranks in the newest science
the form OF flying machine contests long
ago.
Ready TO Pay Any Time.
Crowds in this city are ready TO pay ad-
mission on rainy afternoons in the vague
hope that their luck will change, and some
of the spectacIes they have heard of as
daily conmonplaces abroad may break
loose in some mysterious fashion
Except for the free shows Of Hamilton
New Workers. have been more or less dis
appointed.
Yesterdays crowd that sat in automobiles
and grandstand at Garden City until IL was
too cold and dark longer 10 cherish aero
nautic hopes. and then left the field pleas
ant1y after watching two beginners patient
" making the course at low attitudes be
tween long waits. encouraged the belief
that when some genuine flying in this
netghborhood is begun next month the
crush TO see 1t will be satisfactory TO the
promoters.
The most interesting feature at Garden
City yesterday was the presence of Walter
H Phipps, who intends TO become q. pro
fcient operator Of a machine now building
on the grounds
No particular interest would attach to
the fact that Walter intends TO fly if he
were not such a young chap. He is only
eighteen years old. He expects TO begin
to spank the weeds in two or three weeks
He is q student at the Stevens Institute.
Phipps smokes cigarettes at a rate of
speed that older aviators have proved
does not prevent highly spectacular aerial
performances He does not attach any i'm
portance to that habit, however. but thinks
Ha cd he as
from a sufficient number of sides and with
a nonchalant disregard Of other things in
textbooks TO render him something of an
expert in theory before sitting at the
wheel
At School in Switzerland.
Walter attended school three years ago
at St. GaHen. Switzerland There were
twenty-five nationalities represented in his
class. To speak English was an offence
punishable by fine He did not like the
idea. and started baseball nine.
The directors of the institution ruled that
baseball. if played. would have TO be done
with German as the only medium for the
expression of opinions as 70 the decisions
Of the umpire
During the season Of depression that fol
lowed (tha idea of baseball was discon-
tinued) Walter sat at a window overlook
ing Lake Constance. He saw the sheds
that housed the Zeppelin airship. He mused
ir English on the German conquest of the
air until the subject had him by the hip
and thigh Two years ago he came 70
America and continued to dream.
Now he is spending his vacation as aszo-
ciate editor OF Aircraft" drawing flying
machine plans for publication and trans
lating French publications for American
consumption.
The machine in which Walter will fly If
he finds he IS able is being built by William
P Harris, Of PhiIa delphia- Walter is help
ing in The construction. assisted by Wilson
Howell, twenty years old, who is a student
al Columbia University. Howell will learn
to fly, too. if his wish comes true
Youngest in America.
If Phipps makes good he will b@ the
Youngest aviator in America He Will be
discounted abroad. however. by Marcel Han
riot who is only seventeen years old and
has won prizes in his fathers n1onopfane a
the Rouen meet. Young Hanriot is large
for his age. while Phipps is of ideal frame
for flying.
Early yesterday morning Harry Hark-
ness. the wealthy aviator of Cleveland.
made q few half flights at Garden City in
his beautiful Antoinette- Mr. Harzness
will not experiment before a crowd.
Belief grows that when he is through
testing the mechanism of his machine. his
well known love of the chase. displayed in
former years in his automobile. Will lead
him to perform extraordinary feats in the
air His mOdesty Is pronounced. and his
skill abroad has already been proved
Mr. Hardness has two Antoinettes az
Garden Ci+v. and two more are now on the
vav from France He expects to 60 70
California for aviation prize money early
in October. and he Will return here for the
international contest. He says he is in the
game for the money.
CAPTAIN Thomas s. Baldwin was com
PEELED to stand around and do nothing yes
terdav because his machine was on its
wav 10 ST Louis He does not wish the
serOpTane to go 10 ST Louis. but cannot
make il come back He was under con
tract 10 appear there with g B Harmon.
whose machine lies wrecked At Boston and
sent his aeroplane West before the 81.
47I1is people count ternnanded their order
Walter L. Fairchild appeared on the field
in his mOnoplane for two hours in the
morning and ran II carefully on the
ground He is 2 highly trained engineer.
and many believe viii make fine progress
later
slim Schrievsr. in the Dietz hiplane
few in the afternoon. coming down fire.
ouentlv owing to his ineXperience but
getting W again with surprising agility
He has the avator's touch
Joe Seymour made several circuits OF
the field