The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-27
WRIGHT AYIATORS
THRILL CROWDS
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began to glow faint through the evening
haze. Like a gray bug attracted by the
glow The speck buZZed evenly toward
the star and blotted il for a moment, and
then clrcled wide into the southeast, still
rising, 10 leave the faint star winking
feebly again.
iIoxsey had gone OF toward the south
east as tombstone headed toward him
On the field below them monoplanes ana
biplanes, whirring around for the hourly
distance prizes. had so little ligh TO
guide them that even when they were
across the field from the fur-coated folks
on the clubhouse lawn 1t was difficult TO
distinguish their lines in the dusk, Hox-
sey at his height and distance some
where up in the slaty sky Of the south
east was lost TO view altogether in the
quickening night.
But for a while longer the crowd on
the lawns. nervous but happy and the
groups near the cross field Wright hang
airs. nervous and unhappy. could see
tombstone, a ghost Of a mote. as he faded
into the night
Worried About Them.
Gosh darn en-" sighed a form behind
the GLOW of a long cigar. and the voice
was the voice OF Secretary Barnes, OF
the Wright Company. who with thoughts
| for the lives OF the avatOrs and lives OF
the company's machines, often has had
to express the same general idea when
! HoXsey and tombstone are going against
! each other for supremacy.
I'd put the rollers under those tygo
lads. II I could only get Al them" but
! he couldn't
/ With the coming OF darkness, the stars
began 10 sprinkle the sky with diamonds.
| On the grand stand side OF the field
| those who remained. and there were
many. raised their voices IN excited ar
guments as one assured his neghbor that
he could see the stars blotted out where
/ the aeToplanes were coursins aloft IN
| the blackness
| Not until nearly 5.45 O'Clock was there
sign OF them. Long before Hoxsey's
/ plane could be seen the whirr OF his
motors tinge fell downward. BY orders
/ OF the Wright brothers, two patches OF
grass were set blazing before their quar-
ters. The yellow IRE carried high into
/ the air.
JOhBstOne Comes Down.
A moment later Johnstone's engine
swooped down IN spirals directly above
/ the center OF the field
'Whew,'' he muttered. that was some
| cold up there. Help me of with those
gloves will you? Ouch"'
Some one had gripped his stin fingers
and the cold BIT into the skin. So he
/ showed them how 70 unwrap the fasten-
/ ings and off came the gloves.
'Hoxsey down YETI was hts next
question. 7 think I've got him because
/ 1 didn't dip at all TIL I saw him on the
/ way down At that I took a few more
nofches up Just 10 make sure"
/ 10 one knew then that those notches
didn't do tombstone any good He
hustled over to the Wright camp 10 get
those hands in a pail OF cold water and
/ one OF the officials stripped his barograph
and took Il of for the reading
/ Wanted to Know Altitude.
/ HoXsey had slipped 70 the ground heel
ing down IN circles before any one knew
It. He found the bitterest sort Of a re-
CeptiOn alOft. too but he didn't worry
about his gloves. lie wanted 10 know
/ how high the other Wright plane went
"Johnstone1 l didn't see him I'D there
/ at an." he said. Let's get that baro-
graph over TO be read" said re and
+ then he added:
Y wish 10 thunder that T could have
stayed up rVe minutes more I'd have
climbed some, But IL was getting so
dark that l was afraid OF missing the
home plate I could see the park all the
/ time. all right and those bonnres helped
/ lot B-r-r-r but It's cold"
II was dark when the $50 bomb ex-
ploded, and still there were kissing
/ shapes in the opaque night. Somewhere
up in the astronomers land Hoxsey and
! tombstone were fighting IL out, two mites
4 In world apart
VIII Fly Over City.
! A whole lot Of people won't have 10 20
of their own front stoops tomorrow 10
/ see an aeroplane II the plans OF Moissant
stand. He is planning 10 set his course
20 the Statue Of Liberty straight over
! Brooklyn. Drexel wasn't willing 10 say
/ tonight which way he was going TO take
! it, but he has intimated that the over
roof route seemed better 20 him than GO
/ ing around.
! You can take my word for IT,. said
Moiss3nt tonight. that the man who
/ wins that race must fly over the city"
/ A flight 10 the goddess is for a prize OF
/ $1,000 donated by Thomas F. Ryan. II
/ goes 10 the Qier who makes the best
elapsed time from the starting line at
/ Belmont Park, around the statue ana
/ back 10 the starting line, The starts can
/ be made any time between PAS and $50
and the flights have 10 be finished by $50