The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-31
FAST FLYING
YESTERDAY
AViatOrS Fly Around Statue
of Liberty
FOR A PRIZE OF $4,000
Moisant for America Makes Fastest
Time, Going SO Miles in 81 M,
1884 Sec.-Grahame-W White
Was Second.

/ New York, Oct. 3l.-TAree aviators
flew from Belmont Park, l. 1, yester-
day afternoon, eircled the statue Of Lib
erty in an aeroplane, swept back through
the upper air without mishap and
alighted, chilled but exultant
John b. Moisant, flying for America,
covered the estimated 30-mile course in
80 minutes, 1884 seconds; Grahame,
White Of England was second III 35;2l 80,
and Count De Lesseps OF France was
third in 4l;5625 None. however, wins
the $4,000 prize for the fight offered
by Thomas +. Ryan, for the rules pre-
scribe that the Contestants shall start
any time between 2;45 p. m. and $3.50
p, m, any day OF the international aYi-
alton meet Under this Interpretation,
Moisant, although he protested, must
await the result Of any possible flights
to-day He is at liberty to better his
flight to-day, as are GrahameWhite and
De Lesseps.
Hardly had the bomb announcing the
statue OF Liberty flight exploded in mid.
air when up from the field scurried De
Lesseps in his 50-horsepower Bleriot
Gracefully be rose with the motor dron-
ing in perfect atunement, circled across
the starting line and. as though to make
sure that his machine was shipshape
for the flight Of SO miles across heath,
meadow and town and bay, few about
the course. Then he pointed its prov
upward and west and went majestically
over the grandstand
Nothing damted BY the Jump" the
Frenchman had got on him, Grahame-
White in less than a minute was in the
air in a Bleriot of 100 horsepower There
was no preliminary jockeying on his
part Once past the starting pylon, the
Englishman was on his journey and,
Gguratiyely speaking, at the heels OF
De Lesseps. Grahame- Whites machine
appeared to be the fastest OF the two,
Passing the grandstand at an eleva-
ton Of about 1000 feet, both ayiators
headed above the railroad tracks, which
took them over the Jamaica Plain and
across the town of Jamaica, Here they
were sailing at an elevation of about
5000 feet, with the Englishman still
chasing the Frenchman and half a mile
astern. Every vantage point was filled
with absorbed spectators; automobiles
blocked the thoroughfares and the mo-
tormen stopped their cars, so that they
and their passengers might witness the
duel in the air
The sky was cloudless. and the two
flying monoplanes silhouetted against
the blue sky made a beautiful picture
Grahame-White was still gaining on
De Lesseps. but the Frenchman was the
first out across the bay and around the
statue at about 1000 feet above the big
black balloon which had showed him
the course.
Then Grahame White sent the nose
OF his Bleriot around above the head
Of Miss Liberty and started back along
the same course be had travelled
De Lesseps still had a slight lead,
but with the wind at his back Grahame-
White put on full speed and began cut
ting down his rivals advantage.
Midway over Brooklyn the aviators
were on even terms, each at an altitude |
Of between 1000 and 5000 feet, but
the outskirts of the city Gra-
hame White forged ahead and set sail IN
earnest with Belmont park as his OBJ
jeetive. De Lesseps kept directly in the