The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-23
HAMILTON To FLY
To CHICAGO NEXT
When Only Eight Years Old He
Almost Scared His Mother to
Death by Jumping Of House,
Using Parasol-Been Doing

Oe6In py Jumping On House,
Using Parasol-Been Doing
Stunts in Air Ever Since.
NEW YORK. Special I'm
NEW YORK. June Tim
going TO fly to Chicago i'm the near
Charles n. Hamilton. the little
red-hcadcd daredevil, who yester-
day performed the most rcmarka-
Die aviation feat yet accomplished,
when he flew from New York TO
Philadelphia and back, following
time table, has made this
statement when he appeared from
his rooms at the Hotel AStOr.
Save for stiffness i'm his joints
and the burning skin OF those
who have been exposed TO n high
wind all day long, he gave no
signs of his magnificent feat of
yesterday.
II don't feel any strain at ALL"
me said.
To Fly Over New York.
At the same time that he announced
his intention of essaying the 960-mile
New Nork-Chicago flight il was made
known that Hamilton will soon make
an exhibition flight for the benefit of
New ork. Hundreds of thousands of
people lined the Hudson and crowded
skyscraper windows yesterday in the
hope OF seeing him fly up the Hudson
on his return from philadelphia, but
the mishap which sent him into the
swamp along the Raritan River pre-
vented him from making a record
long distance flight, as he had intend
ed. tbs ma who startled the world
yesterGay with what is declared by
his fellow aNlators to be the finest
Hight ever made, paid little heed to
the compliments he received today,
save for those from the few birdmen
who know the difficulty of his flight,
especially as compared with the easier,
but longer, London-to- Manchester
made by Louis Paulhan. Hamilton,
said one aviator today, surmounted
more difficulties in half of his 172-
mile trip than did Paulhan in the
whole of his 1S6-mile flight for $780,
Mrs. Hamilton Enthusiastic.
Mrs. Hamilton, however, could not
restrain her enthusiasm.
Il knew he'd do il. but isn't it
wonderful?" she said. II don't think
I'm prejudiced when 1 say that this
latest flight of my husbands is the
most magnificent thing that has been
done in the air in America since the
pioneer flights of the Wright brothers.
Mr.. Hamilton was thoroughly pre-
pared for the flight and he knows all
there is to know about the machine
and probably more about air condi-
tions than most aviators. So it was to
have been expected. But il is mighty
fine, isn't it?"
Mrs. b. j. Beaudette, the aviator's
wife.
They can't get ahead Of my boy"
said she today, beaming with pride.
L never doubted his success, but I'm
awfully proud just the same"
Hamilton was still putting his
cigarette when found today. He was
not very anxious TO talk, but finally
consented TO say a little.
lone of the chief lessons in this
flight is its proving the possibility of
flying over Cities" he declared. Il
few over Trenton yesterday as safely
as IL L were over a desert, and Tren-
ton is bad place for an aviator to
finger over, as there is no landing
place.
Yesterday was the first time 1 had
ever flown over a city and the first
time any aviator had, except for a
trip made over 81 Paso, Tex.
Machine i'm Bog.
Another ticklish job that 1 had
wtth-was starting after 1 had got
the machine out of the bog in New
Jersey. On one side of the road were
telegraph poles and on the other
heavy foliaged trees. They didn't give
me foot of leeway all told, and the
auto parties that came up refused 10
get out of the way TO help my start.
1T took some steering and lodging
between branches TO get away from
there, but / was rather proud of the
job when 1 finally did get up.
II had a clear score TO Philadel-
phia, and 1 think that had one as
good, considering all things, on the
return. was compelled to alight by
the breaking of the porcelain in a
spark plug, and IL wouldn't have been
a five-minute delay If / hadn't hit a
bog instead OF a field and broken my
propeller in getting away.
when over Jersey City two of my
cylinders stopped. leaving me going
on siX-not enough TO keep a con-
slant elevation, much less rise. 1 look
ed down at the housetops and Chin
neys 5000 feet or so below me, and
then j scooted for the open bay. 1t
was foggy and I had some trouble
finding Governors Island, but when I
picked up the Statue OF Liberty and
found that it really was not a Man
haitian skyscraper, ] got my bearings
all right and went home without any
frills."
NEW YORK Special at was a
great trip said Charles X. Hamilton,
after his New York-Philadelphia flight
was all over. "Of course 1 am sorry
DIRK without a stop and go on up
the Hudson to Yongers, and back to
make a new worlds record for a flight
without landing. But / feel satisfied
1t was good days work. Everything
went in great shape on the way to
Philadelphia. The engine worked we'll
and kept along with the special train |
without trouble and reached Phila- |
1elphia jsut as had planned.
ION the way back i noticed that the |
motor was sluggish sometime before |
ID Al L..