New-York tribune., 1910-07-20
GOODALE OVER CITY \
IN FIRST NIGHT FLIGHT
Biu Crowd in the 'Great White
Way" Cheers Young Aviator
from Jersey.
PALISADES PARK AND BACK
Makes Round Trip in 40 Minutes
and Gives Blase Roof Gar
den Audiences a
Real Thrill.

Real Thrill.
The first night voyage in New forA
air currents was successfully accom-
plished last night by Frank Goodale'
known a year or so ago as the boy aero
naut. who travelled from Palisades
Park. on the Jersey shore. to Broadway
and 42d street and back again in forty
minutes
Broadway did not give the daring
young man the reception that woutd
have been accorded to him, had ne
made the trip in daylight, or had herald
ed his coming. The streets were crowd
ed when Gooda1e. who had been steer
ing his craft southwark over Eighth
avenue, swerved to the east and al
lowed himself to be borne along in the
current which sweeps the Times Build
ing on it's south side
The streets were crowded at the
time when he arrived, the presence OF
a certain negro pugilist as the princlpaI
attraction at a roof garden in that
neighborhood bringing out hundreds OF
the curious who want to see the man
white champion back to the obscurity
to which he voluntarily retired several
years ago.
PuqiIist Ceases to Attract.
But the tickle multitude demonstrated
the strength of the fame Of an exemplar
of f1stic prowess when compared TO
sure enough demonstration OF mans 8
supremacy over the air. Johnson's au-4
tomobile, standing in the street oppo-
site the stage entrance Of the theatre
where he is appearing, ceased to inter-
est the throng. and all necks twisted 10
give the eyes above them a free view
of the marvel that was being unfolded
before them.
Goodale could be seen plainly as he
manipulated the machinery of his craft
the dirigible Strobel, built especially Tor
his use by a manufacturer of Toledo
The aeronaut was sailing along h1gh
above the heads of his audience, but a
Eumber OF searchlights on the Hotel
Astor, playing on his dirigible. made his
movements easily discernible to those
who were standing on solid ground
The streets became more and more
packed with humanity. Traffic was
practically suspended for the ten minutes
that GoodaIe remained in the envirOns
of Times Square, and the first desuItOry
cheers of those who stood below and
marveIled finally grew in volume until
they reached the man in one loud cur
rent of sound. Audiences at roof garden
shows heard and wondered And the
more they wondered the less the theat-
ricaI entertainment that was being pro-
yided for their amusement seemed to-
interest them.
Excitement on Roof Garden.
The patrons Of Hammerstein's Roof
Garden were thrown into great excite
ment when, in the middle of the fourth
act. the sounds of ''chug. chug were
heard overhead Somebody yelled Air
shipr'' and instantly thousand necks
were stretched toward the sky. Barely
fifty feet overhead they saw a man on
the f1imsy framework of what looked
like a flying caterpillar. He sang out.
Hello. Hammerstein's." and the crowd
scrambled out to the open roof to cheer
the aeronaut as he passed by. Few IN
the crowd knew that it was Goodale-
Late diners left their tables in nearby
restaurants and cafes and rushed out
TO add TO the troubles Of the sorely DIS
tressed patrolmen. Everywhere was ths
snarl of traffic except in the air. Good
ale had the air to himself Few OF tnose
who fought for place to view his evo-
lutions would have disputed his mastery
with him.
Sweeps Over Big Buildings
To show how complete that suprenASt
was the young aeronaut threw his rud-
der over and veered around the Times
Building in a majestic curve AFTER.
making one complete circle he put his
r,,ddar over and swerved around ths
new building at Broadway and 4Sd
street. where the new George NJ. conan
theatre is being constructed. and tnen-
bv daring manipulation of his machine
described a perfect figure eight by once
more encircling the Times Building
,goin he repeated this feat and then
sailed northward in the direction 1ron1
which he had come
The ewes of the multitude followed hliis-
until his machine disappeared IN tina
darkness. Only the searchlfght on the
Hotel Astor. which was the first TO PICK
hin, I'M refused 10 surrender Goodale 10
the mysterious gloom into which he had
to trust his machine. and FOL
roved him until he had completed his
tourney and had alighted safe and sound
at his starting point in Palisades Park
c,oodaIe left the park at exactly S;1O
o,cIock AT $50 O'Clock he came back
=, Garth to face a crowd that threatened
70 crush him and his dirigible. so deter
mined was it's desire TO congratulate the
voung man who had shown the ferry
boat, that the competition begun by
the tunnels under the river bottoms
might vet be increased by aerial trans
portation routes.
Only a Beginning, He Says.
The aeronaut himself said after his re-
turn that his trip was only a beginning
His trip from a point on the Jersey
shore to Broadway and 42d street Occu-
MED less than fifteen minutes, and he
could have easily made landing. he in
sisted. right in the centre of Times
Square IL he had sent his men there to
assist him.