Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-06-14

of my sixty horsepower engine be-
gan missing and / attributed the
trouble to the spark plugs becoming
dirty. The stopping of the two CYL
inders caused me to descend slightly
and ] came near plunging into a
clump of trees. Luckily Just grazed
them, but consider the escape one
of the closest ] have ever had.
When ! was all right again /
noticed railroad under me and be-
lieving it to be the Pennsylvania
tracks / followed It. / could not see
the special train anywhere, but
thought that / had outdistanced 1t.
/ kept on following the railroad and
finally saw a stream of water which
looked like the Staten Island mar
rows, or the Kill Won Kull. real
lied that was out of my course but
decided to make short QUITO Gov
ernor's Island. left the railroad
and scared out over the stream of
water (Which was the Raritan
river), when l. noticed what /
thought was nice big field on the
southerly side. My engine was rum
ming all right with six cylinders, but
| thought / would land on the field
two cylinders working.
"The field l thought was covered
with nice hay and ] expected to have
no trouble in ascending again. l
made a turn and gradually settled
on the field, but instead of landing
in hay, ] got mud bath. / then
realized that ! was on a meadows.
If l had known that what seemed to
a q nina HAld xuoa nf MI
marsh ] would not have stopped My
| believe / could have completed the
trip without any further trouble
The news that Hamilton's aero
plane was down on the South Amboy
meadows spread like wildfire and in
less than half an hour after the mis-
hap several hundred people were
writing their names on the planes of
the machine. Automobiles lined up
tie photographers were busy with
cameras getting snapshots
According to the aviator, himself,
1t was about 1885 o'clock when he
descended on the meadows, although
some declare II was after 1 o'clock.
The EVENING NEWS, through the
h4A0ACbD vi 14AW III IAOy0 GILL; a uACilA-
Der of the Goodwill Fife & Drum
Corps, and an .employe at the Stan
dard plant OF the National Fireproof-
ing Company, who was one of the
first to discover the machine, learn
ed of the incident when it happened
as he saw Hamilton land. r.. S.
Hall. city editor of the NEWS. hur-
ried to the Perth Amboy garage,
III - "a :
trouble, the officials Immediately fur
nished a Hupmobile with r. e. GIL
lam, of Newark, at the wheel ia
take the newspaperman to the scene.
Harry Brewer, of the garage COM
pany, also boarded the car and in @
few minutes the party were convers-
Ing with the aviator on the meadows
! The Perth Amboy garage was the
first iirm to have representatives to
Hamilton's assistance.
Other assistance followed from
every direction and soon there were
at least 100 men, women and chill
dren present. Hamilton explained
his trouble briefly to the curious and
said he thought he could make an
ascension. The aer0plane was put
In position by the aviator with the
ncoASSuASC VI bhS PHSCtdlOIH ana the
engine started. Hamilton took his
seat and away across the meadowe
for distance OF several hundred
yards skinned the machine. II
would not rise, however, SO the
plucky navigator OF the upper cur.
rents again stopped the engine. The
machine was turned and another at.
tempt was made, but without sue
cess. During the latter trial the
end Of the thin wooden propeller
was splintered by the contact with
the tough meadow grass.
Hamilton said he would be unable
to fly without a new propeller and
| that he would have to send to Gov
ernor's Island for one. Prior to thli
be said he needed couple of new
spark plugs and G, A. Sexton started
for this city to get them They wer.
not used, however, az Mr.. Hamilton
| later purchased some at the Peril
Amboy garage. The aviator said h,
] was anxious to telephone 10 Cover
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