The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-28
AviatOrS Not Daunted by
BOreaS at Belmont.
HOXSEY GETS HOUR RECORD.
Birdman In Wright BipIane Climbs
6,193 Feet--He Now Leads Prize
Winners at international Meet.
Johnstone Thrills Spectators.

New York, Oct. 2T.--Daring the ad
yard turn, Ralph Johnstone, in a
Wright biplane, flew in the teeth of a
gale and risked life and limb to make
the sensation at the fifth day of the
Belmont park aviation meet.
The spectators who had been wait
ing at the aviation meet for hours and
who had begun to give up hope of wit
Messing any flights, loudly cheered the
courageous birdman when he rose 300
feet
Scarcely had Johnstone descended
than Archie HoXsey, also a Wright
camper, brought his machine out. There
has been a considerable bit of rivalry
between the two men. HoXsey, at the
risk of his life, arose to a height of
500 feet.
Early in the afternoon it was an
nOunced that the wind was blowing
but twenty miles an hour, and this
encouraged the spectators to believe
that several flights would be made.
Moisant, who on Sunday narrowly es-
capped injury by being wrecked in a
gale, and other aviators shrugged their
shoulders when told that the wind was
dying down and made no attempt to
get into their machines.
Then the crowd was suddenly elec-
trified by the announcement that John
stone would make an exhibition fight.
After he started it was seen that he
was having great difficulty in combat
ing the strong winds, and as his ma
chine neared the dreaded graveyard"
turn a groan went up from the spec
tatars Johnstone was then at height
of sixty feet. He descended just be-
fore the dangerous hollow was reach
ed but fifteen minutes later flew up
again. This time he arose to 300 feet
Orville Wright, at Belmont park +,
prophesied speed of eighty or eighty
five miles for the new baby" flier.
The surprise of the hourly distance
flights was the way Brookins in ma
chine driven by four cylinder Wright
motor of the old type and capable of
only about thirty horsepower indicated
/ jumped away from a flock of Bleriots
of fifty horsepower and the Antoinette,
which is equipped with forty-tive
| horsepower engine and driven by
| Latham, the dean of Frances aviators.
/ The official score shows that Brookins,
who was flying Wright climber,
which is smaller than their cross coun-
| try machines, but larger than the new
Wright racer and only half as power
full made twelve laps with his low
power engine in about twenty-five and
one-half minutes, whereas 1t took
Latham's monOplane thirty-siX min
utes, twenty-five and a fraction Sec
onds to circle seventeen laps.
During Brookins' first swirl of the
field in his altitude climber he tipped
by Grahame- Whites fifty horsepower
Bleriot so fast that at the end of the
first lap there was a strip of sky
about 200 yards long between the tail
of the Wright biplane and the nose OF
the Bleriot monoplane.
The hourly attitude fight was won
by HOXsey, who climbed 6,1S3 feet
with the second place to Johnstone
8, 763 feet.
The total earnings up to this time
are as follows: HoXsey, $1,S25; Ora
hame-White $l,70O; Moisant, $1,000
Latham. $1,15O; Johnstone, $S75; Au
, brun, $3.50; De Lesseps, 5000; Drexel
5000; Radley, $500; Brookins, $3.50
Ely, 500; Mars, 800; Parmelee, 800
McCurdy, $50; Willard, $50