New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-15
A|RSH|P At WHITE HOUSE
Grahame-White Lands There
After CirCIing CapitoI's Dome.
THOUSANDS CHEER AVIATOR
Makes Remarkable Flight and
Landing-Has Two Mishaps,
but Escapes Injury.

Washington. oct 14-After a flight OF
more than six miles across the city Clauoe
Grahame- White, the English aviator TO-DAY
dropped his aeroplane at the side door Oh
the White House. On the way there dt
height Of nearly five hundred feet ne
circled the dome of the Capitol and passed.
the lofty Washington Monument level Win
the apex He landed between the great
building of the State. War and Navy DE-
partments and the low structure or tne
executive Offices in a space where the
slightest deviation from his course woulo
have been disastrous.
The airship struck the street squarely IN
the middle and rolled two hundred feet
further i'm as straight line as an auto
mobile could have made.
President Taft was not lat home" to re-
ceive his unexpected caller from the air,
but Admiral George Dewey and other Of
fcials We're there to grasp the hand Of the
aviator and offer congratulations.
80 hour later he again assembled from
the spot where he had landed and returned
to his starting point, the Benning race
track, without mishap.
Mr. Grahame- White started on his re-
markable flight shortly after II o'clock IN
the forenoon. He rose to a height OF eight
hundred feet by circling about the GROUNDS
and then darted away toward the city, SIX
miles distant Making his object point the
Washington Monument. the air man on
reaching that point turned his machlne
northward and sailed directly over the
White House. He then Ctrcled the state
War and Navy Building and turned north
ward again directly toward Executive
avenue.
Police had closed the street to traffic, but
several thousand persons had gathered in
the White House grounds and, in addluon
to those who crowded every window of the
government building and stood on the steps
and portico. watched him land.
Having paid formal call upon Brigadier
| General Allen. eMr. White was invited 70
! luncheon with officers of the army and
navy at nearby club. In an hour he
/ was back again After walking through
! the narrow street TO look over the ground
! and see how the air currents we're, ne
| Jumped into the seat of his aeroplane
again. The motor was started at full
| speed and the biplane darted forward
| straight away through the narrow street
| The machine rose off the pavement quick
/ w. and by the time il had reached the
/ middle of the block was twenty feet IN the
! air He drew the controlling lever back
ward and the ascent became more rapid
| BY the time he had reached the end OF
/ the block he had risen to height OF 1uty
| feet and cleared the tops of trees in SAFETY
| He directed his course toward the WASH
/ ineton Monument and then over the city,
| back TO Benning. landing safely within the
| inclosure.
| Later in the day. while giving an exhloi-
ton flight at Benning. after he had gone up
a distance of 200 feet, pipe between ms
motor and the gasolene tank became ue-
| tached. The motor stopped and he was
IcompeIled to employ gliding tactics TO reach
| the ground in safety. He succeeded In eS-
| ecuting the glide perfectly. but as ne neareo
the ground a breeze caught the biplane and
tilted it so that the left bottom plane
| struck the ground There was crash ano
1.-THE framework was badly broken Mr.
| Crahame-White succeeded in keeping MS
seat and was not injured in the last.
An hour later ne started to make an ex-
hibition flight in his Bleriot monoplane'
The motor was started, and before the
monOpIane had risen more than few feet
! from, the ground, the breeze caught it and
evervad II 10 the left Before he could stop
the motor the machine crashed through
the inner fence, knocking over two posts
1t then dashed across the racetrack anu
through the fence on the other side, shoot
inc off into a field to a spot hundred
wards hevond. The aviator was badly sha-
ken I'm hut sustained no other injury After
a hrief rest he pluc6ily set TO work repair
ing his machines. in order to make Night
| tomorrow.