New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-25
JUST A REAL BIRD THERE
But One Man Looked and Looked
Again, Though Many Laughed.
THE CROWD KNEW 1T ALL
But While It Wasn't Large, the
Aviation Audience Did Have
Some Thrills at Flights.

~. .GtIng aeropianes were crUwding the
...sseru turn Five others were trailing n
.vrerusrg sequence around the course
huge, clumsy. plugging biplasFes; swift,
.-scerui nonopianes: last Of al the whiz-
ztng. whsezinE. dipping little Demoiseile-
zen nsen N the air az once. II was a sight
never before seen on this side Of the ocean.
But there was one man IN the crowd who
took that as a matter Of little moment His
attention was TUNED elsewhere He was
looking straight overhead. lips wide apart,
as IL IN wonder. lie seemed 70 be gazing
At some new thing, something not seen by
mortal man before He seemed TO be lost
in aurestruck contemplation, as If q mira
Gle had suddenly happened IN the sky A
hundred curious eyes followed MS. They
saw a bird. one poor lone bird
A ripple Of laughter ran through the
crowd Probably trying for altitude.
seTne one drawled- But the man still gazed-
Maybe he was an inventor. trying 10
CLEAN new pointers for the airship IN his
head Maybe ne was a tender-hear7ed gen
tIeman. benoaning mans cruel conquest OF
the birTs God-gfven realm. But then,
maybe ne was Just an ordinary man with
a little primal wonder sin left IN his SOUL
II the latter suppositiOn is correct there
were not many like him at the Belmont
Park raoetrack yesterday. Every one
seemed 10 know everything about every
thing. Every one seemed 70 think flying
the most natural thing in the world.
why" said a man who looked as If he
ought to know. tits Just as safe as auto
MODELLING now
On a dav Ike yesterday it seemed as If
Il were * o" the signal board told the
early corners at the field who wished 70
know what the prospects were mat
wasn't a mistake for 20. K" IT was only
a short way of explaining 10 those who
were provided with programmes that the
wind was blowing some twelve miles an
hour. but the prospects Were O. X. and
more When they are able In the not so
distant future 20 regulate the weather as
they Wish. The men of the sky will produce
s,,ch q day as that Nothing better could
have been desired. To be sure, the camera
men svrora at the heecy clouds far up above
tl1st covered the sun when n wasn't needed
Tor a bit of wsrth, but the camera men
were in the minority there
II wasn't such great minority. though !;
not so great as II should have been All
New York and all the country round should
hsv. turned out 10 feel the thrills of yes
terday But they missed the opportunity
all exc-spt six or eight paltry thousand
That was a poor showing IT did not even
equal the crowd Of Sunday, which fact
some may hay UP against the city as show
ing its utter abandonment But the char
liable prefer 60 think that the reason for
Yesterdays decrease was the adverse con-
s1itions on the two preceding days, and the
resultant lack of action az the field.
Though there were many who did not
come. those that did came early and stayed
late From the time BrooEins first came
across the field between his two slight
planes. half en- hour after gun fire. until