Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-13
WILL TRY TO CONTINUE
JOURNEY TO NEW YORK
Scars Across State on West
ward Flight Without Hitch,
Followed by Special Train. i
HAMILTON'S TIMETABLE ON
RETURN FROM PHILADEL LpFIIA.

monmouth junction. .12s2b
New Brunswick .................. 1874
Drops at South Amboy.
The first airline express from New
York to Philadelphia by the upper
route went through on schedule time to
a minute today, but on his return trip
Charles K. Hamilton seemed to miss
his way, and turned southeast at
Metuchen toward Princes bay. The
special train that was following him
lost sight of him a few minutes later
at Menlo Park, and there was no fur
ther news of him until the telegraph
wires brought the brief news, "Hamil-
ton stuck in the swamps at Perth
Amboy."
Fuller advices later established the
fact that Hamilton had landed on the
south shore of the Raritan river, two
miles above Perth Amboy. His descent
was deliberate and he was not hurt,
nor did 1t appear at first sight that
his aeroplane was in any way damaged.
He at once started repairs with the in
tention of continuing his fomeward
flight.
The fact is that Hamilton made his
journey from Governors Island to
working His eighth cylindertwent out
of commission when he was alta height
Of 1,500 feet above the harbor. Newer
theless. the first leg of the trip was In
every way a most remarkable SUCCESS.
Hamilton travelled the eighty-eight
miles from Governors Island to the
aviation field at North Penn Junction
in hour and 80 minutes.
He left (4oyprnnr'r faIand of .. &c ~
alighted at 1928. At Philadelphia he
stopped two hours and seven minutes
for food, gasoline and oil, and rising
again at 1888 hurried ahead of the
special train, which had become tan.
gled In the railway yards.
For thirty-five miles the train chased
him at speed sometimes reaching
seventy-five miles an hour before 1t
caught up to him, just after passing
Lawrence, and finally came abreast of
him two miles beyond Princeton june
ton, forty miles out 1t was noticed
then that his engine was coughing ir-
regularly, and when he turned off from
the tracks at Metuchen sailing low
over the tree-tops, it was feared that
he might have thought it necessary to
seek a landing place.
Charles K. Hamilton, the American
aviator today accomplished the daring
task of flying from New York city to
Philadelphia, distance of Sc miles,
in / hour SO minutes, and at 11.30
o'clock started back on his return trip.
The total round trip distance is the
longest city-to-city flight ever made
by an aviator. exceeding the record
flights of Curtiss and Paulhan.
Hamiltons outgoing flight was spec
tacular from start to finish, and his
arrival at Philadelphia was the signal
for enthusiastic demonstration by vast
crowds of people He started from
Governors Island, New York. at 7:35
a. M, passed over Metuchen at 500.
New Brunswick at S:19. Monmouth
Junction at S:29, Princeton Junction at
S:3S, Trenton at $50 and Cornwalls.
Pa, at Oil, landing at Philadelphia at
9.2S a. m.
The speed of the flight was at an
average per mile of l minutes 10 sec
onds, or about forty-six miles an hour.
The special train arrived in Jersey
| City at 1:14.
| Bitter disappointment was the lot or
the hundreds of persons about the
centre of the city who took advantage
of the noonhour and the proximity OF
high buildings with obliging janitor
service to look for Hamilton. The fifty
or sixty who crowded the roof of the
Firemen's building were several times
sure that Hamilton had been seen, and
the report spread that Hamilton had
passed over the city a few moments
after 1 o'clock.
| The Prudential tower the Scheuer
| building and practically all of the roofs
| of the larger office buildings bore their
quota of sky-searchers.
| Hamilton, on his arrival at Phila-
delphia landed easily, but before he
could get out of his machine the crowd
broke through the police lines and
rushed at Hamilton. The aviator was,
however, quickly surrounded by cor
| don of police.
| The first thing he asked for when he