Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-09-28
SHRIVER HERE
FOR AIR TRIP
Aviator Sends on HiS Contract
for Wilmington Aero Clubs
Meet Next Week
TO MAKE FLIGHTS
In THE AFTERNOON

The directors of the Wilmington
Aero Club have received their con-
tract from the famous Tod. c. shriver,
aviator, formerly of the Curtiss Camp,
now Independent and constructor of
his own machine. and all the details of
the aviation meet at Horse Show
Park will be pushed to what it is hoped
will result in being the greatest sue
cess the city has ever known. The
various additional features will be
announced as they are arranged. The
directors expect to arrange many
novel features that will entertain the
people while waiting the hour for
the flights of the flying machine"
which will probably take place be-
tween the hours of four and FIVE
O'Clock each afternoon. The avia-
tors find that toward shutdown the
wind generally Subsidies and this
hour is the most possible I'm any day.
The committee in charge of the
grounds inspected the center of the
track today with a view of making
such improvements in the ground.
surface as may be necessary. Space
carriages which will give the occu-
pants full view of the field of avia-
ton. Tod Shriver or Slim" as he
was nicknamed when chief mechan-
ician to the Curtiss camp, has been
picked by Clifford B. Harmon, the
holder of the amateur record for
fight, as the one man who will es-
tablish the time record for remaining
in the air at the international meet
at Belmont Track, n. Y, beginning
Saturday. October %. slim" will
compete with every aviator of nation
al reputation I'm this country and some
seven or eight Frenchman are en-
tered, the latter having decided to
form a pool of their winnings.
Shriver's most sensational fight, was
on September is, at Mineola, when in
the presence of the constructors and
assistants of the Aeronautical Camp
and few newspaper men. he by
moonlight for forty-five minutes flew
over the heads of the spectators and
when he at last landed because Of
having used up all his gasoline, the
official recorded announced that
slim" had covered thirty-five miles
in the flight
II believe / could have flown to
ST. Louis, and won the Worlds prize, -
the aviator said after he had descend
ed, had the gasoline not given out. 4"
AS the whirl of the motor broke the
stiffness of the night, persons from
every tent and hangar within ear
shot, poured forth and gazed up in
establishment. Shirver's start was
perfect The biplane rose rapidly and
In a few seconds was out of sight
speeding toward Meadow Brook. al
the rate of forty-five miles an hour
To the onlookers It seemed that he
was out of sight for a long time anC
the intense feeling gave way to alarm
| for fear he had met with an acct
dent but it was really only three min
utes before the wierd throbbing o.
/ the motor was heard and in moment
more the daring aviator was i'm sight
cutting through the air at high rate
of speed his machine under perfec
/ control and riding as steadily as th'
/ Maurentania moved through calm
/ New York bay
1T was a most grotesque exper
/ ience," said Shriver. The earti
/ looked like the ocean. I could no
distinguished objects at all. Il was i'm
possible to judge height, but it seem
ed the easiest thing in the world I,
keep on going"