The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1910-12-23
no TRACE OF
CHANNEL Filler
LOST IN FOG
Altman. Nephew of Late Mayor
Grace, Left Dover, Trying For
$4,000 De Forest Prize
Especial from United Press.)

London, Dec 23.-The name of
'Cecile Grace, nephew of the late
Mayor w. r. Grace, of New York.
today, was tentatively added to list Of
victims of the air. Flashing out over
the French coast. yesterday after
noon, in his aeroplane, he headed for
England. An hour later he was seen
above the death-sucking Goodwin
Sands on the coast OF England, ap-
parently lost as to sense of direction.
He was headed for the North Sea.
Since then no word has come from
the aviator and it is believed he has
persisted.
The strictest search of the English
coast has revealed no trace Of Grace.
In the hope that his engines would
keep and that he might have reached
the channel and made either the
French. Belgium or Dutch coasts,
they have been closely watched by
vessels and coast guardsmen but
without any sign of the missing air.
man. Grace's family and friends have
about abandoned hope that he has
is being maintained for the body of
the aviator, for he wore a cork life
Jacket which would keep him afloat
Indefinitely and, unless he was caught
in the wreckage Of his sinking aero
plane, he might be washed ashore.
Grace, flying in a Short-Wright BIZ
plane, the English made Wright ma
chine. was q participant for the
$4,000 prize offered by Baron De
Forest for the longest fight across
tho channel. The trip was unevent-
full. the aviator passing over Calais,
France, at 10:45 and heading for
Paris. Inland, however, he met adj
verse winds and went as far as the
Belgium frontier where he turned
back and landed on the outskirts Of
Nal ofc H. f~ty vx-ff III
engines and prepared for the return
trip A cross-channel mail packet
was lying In the roadStead. Grace
went on board and asked Captain
Boucher regarding weather condi-
tons. Captain Boucher advised him
to follow the mail boat back, starting
his return trip 20 minutes after the
boat started and steering by her
smoke. To this Grace assented but
the vessel was delayed by the Christ
alarmed to see Grace appear over the
city and head across the Channel 10
minutes before his boat started. The
captains alarm turned to fright when
he noticed that Grace was steering
! in q northeasterly direction with a
English coast altogether.
Grace was soon lost to view. Boats
have been plying the channel all re-
port that they did not see the aero
q. D
on the Goodwin Sands saw an aero
plane flying high and fast, approach
ing Ramsgate. At that time the
aerial craft was six miles off shore.
The watchers expected Grace to head
inland at once and were alarmed
when the aviator turned his airship
from the land direction.
Cecile Grace is the son of the late
John Grace, of the banking house of
w. r. Grace & Company of New
York. He is 80 years old. He was
born In Chile but lived for some time
in New York and was a graduate of
Columbia University, there. About 10
years ago he went with his family
to England to live. He is leading
spirit in the Royal Aero Club and
was a gentleman aviator" All the
popularity that belonged to the late
Captain Rolls was transferred to him.
If Grace has been killed he makes
the seth victim of air flights since
the death Of Lieutenant Selfridge, at
Fort Myer, Va.