The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-01-18
THRILLING EVENTS
At Los ANGELES

Los Angeles. Cal, Jan. 17.-1f you
were placed in the center of whop"
ping big merry -go-around-above you
and around you a canvas panorama
and plain and river and mountain, all
painted In the vivid blue and green
and white OF the peripatic artist-air-
ships buZZing around you instead OF
the ancient hobby horse and the wob-
oily swan-then you woUlo realize the
sight at aviation field today.
That wonderful ride that You took
was not more entraucing than the
sight that tho blue sky gave In the
main part Of the, program, as Paulhan
and Hamilton and Curtiss rode round
and round
Paulhan kept II up for nearly two
hours-l hour SIS minutes and p %
seconds. to be eXact-covering In that
time 20 6-10 miles. Had he kept up
the speed for two hours more he
would have beaten Henry Farman .
cup record time for l4a miles, n feat
which the FreDchman promised 10 do
tomorrow, Parlhan descended on ac-
count of a leak In his fuel tank.
Hamilton came down after his elev.
enth lap of the mile and half course.
He was called from the air by one OF
his mechanicians. who discovered
that a part of the machine was out
of place.
In their air marathon the biplanes
passed under and over each other
many tines without mlshap. Paulhan
kept the high course-200 feet-whilc
Hamilton rode the lower,
Curtdss went out TO beat his own
record for ten laps round the course.
He succeeded in doing this, His time
was % minutes and 3-5 seconds. His
fastest lap was made in 2.15. Paul
han tried to beat Curtlss in this 10
lap race. but his time was registered
as 25 % Is.
II was a day OF clearost atmosphere
and great crowds came out Curtiss
was the first 10 get into the air. After
a short flight TO test the wind, which
had sunk to a slight breeze. he took
Lieut. Paul w Beck, u. S. A. Signal
Corps. as a passenger and made a
short low flight.
Then be took up Frank Johnson oil
San Francisco.
The fat. wormlike dirigible was
! lugged out by soldiers and soon was
twisting around the safe middle OF the
| course
Lincoln Beachy made one lap In
! 5:3I, after the air had been cleared
OF the racers The Gill-Dosch aero,
| plane. Baltimore entry. which has
met with a series OF trifllng accidents
| that has kept it off the course. was
brought out 1t made two feeble at
| tempts TO start, bat could not rise
Later in the afternoon q new start
was made. The machine hoped along
for a few yards. rose TO a five-foot
height and then settled down with 2
bump that broke the wheel carriage,
Mason and CurtiSS came out and
! flew at dusk. Clifford B. Harmon Of
New York, an enthusiastic amateur,
made a short fight alone In his new
Curtiss machine. President Cortland.
F. Bishop Of the Aero club Of Amer
ica, received a cablegram during the
afternoon announcing that both Ger
many and France had sent challenges
for a balloon flight for duration and
altitude during 1910. France also an
nounced that M attempt would be
! made to lift the Gordon Bennett cup,
won by Cutiss at Rheim, for speed,
Curtiss covered 1912 miles In l5 min
utes 80 3-5 seconds.
Each country will enter three bal
looms. There are eleven countries In
the federation to be heard from,
Mr.. Bishop will leave for New York
at the end of this meet and the time
and place for the contests VIII be an-
nounced there.