Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-27
FLYERS BRAVE
A HIGH WIND
Aviators In Wright Machines
Soar Until the Stars
Appear.
BABY" FLYERS SPEED
New Machine of the Wright
Brothers Shows Mar
velous Power.
BABY" FLYERS SPEED

New York, Oct. 27.-After fighting
desperately an hour and half for su-
premacy at an altitude of more than
mile in the cold evening air, Ralph
Johnstone and Arch Hoxsey, the rival
Wright fiers, came down only when
stars studded the sky and the specta-
tors al the fifth day Of the Belmont park
aviation meet became impatient to re-
turn home from day of thrills. John
stones hands were nipped with frost
and friends had to pull off his gloves.
Latham few ten miles across country
in seven minutes. At one time the
wind blew gale.
Scarcely had Johnstone descended
than Archie Hoxsey, also d Wright
camper, brought his machine out. There
has been a considerable bit OF rivalry
between the two men. Hoxsey, at the
risk of his life, arose to height of
500 feet "
Early in the afternoon 1t was an
nounced that the wind was blowing
but twenty miles an hour, and this
encouraged the spectators to believe
that several flights would be made.
Moisant, who on Sunday narrowly es-
capped injury by being wrecked In a
gale, and other aviators shrugged their
shoulders when told that the wind was
dying down and made no attempt to-
get into their machines.
Then the crowd was suddenly cleo
trified by the announcement that John
stone would make an exhibition fight.
After he started 1t was seen that he
was having great difficulty in combat
Ing the strong winds, and as his ma
chine neared the dreaded graveyard"
turn groan went up from the spec
tators. Johnstone was then at n height
of sixty feet. He descended just be-
fore the dangerous hollow was reach
fed, but fifteen minutes later flew up
again. This time he arose to 300 feet
Oryille Wright, at Belmont park,
prophesied speed of eighty or eighty
fve miles for the new baby" fier.
Ahe surprise of the hourly distance
flights was the way Brookins in n ma
chine driven by four cylinder Wright
motor of the old type and capable of
only about thirty horsepower indicated
jumped away from flock of Bleriots
of fifty horsepower and the Antolnette,
which is equipped with a forty-five
horsepower engine and driven by
Latham, the dean of Frances aviators
The official score shows that Brookins
who was flying n Wright climber,
which is smaller than their cross coun-
try machines, but larger than the new
Wright racer and only half as power
ful, made twelve laps with his low
power engine in about twenty two and
one-half minutes, whereas 1t took
Lathams monoplane thirty-six min
utes, twenty-five and fraction sec
onds to circle seventeen laps.
During Brookins' first swirl of the
field in his altitude climber he tipped
by Grahame- Whites fifty horsepower
Bleriot so fast that Mt the end of the
first lap there was strip of sky
about 200 yards long between the tan
OF the Wright biplane and the nose OF
the Bleriot monoplane.
The hourly altitude fight was won
by Hoxsey, who climbed 0,183 feet,
with the second place to Johnstone,
B, 1863 feet.
The total earnings up to this time
are as follows: Hoxsey, $1,S25; Gra-
hame- White, $1,700; Moisant, $1,000;
Latham. 81 100; Johnstone, 1915; Au-
brun, $3.50; De Lesseps, 5000; Drexel,
5000; Radley, $500; Brookins, $50;
Ely. 500; Mars, 500; Parmelee, 500;
McCurdy, $50; Willard, $50.