The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-24
Not Satisfied With the
Speed Course at Bel
mont Park.
NO FLYING YESTERDAY
M0isant's and Grahame- Whites
Machines Wrecked When
They Tried.

| wv N'fAlhl HAN" AIT ~ any IeNlTPft
Temperature from ve-y ho, around ths
hangars 10 chilled westerly winds blow
ing across Belmont Park Yesterday from
the time he field bomb explosion marked
tn" official opening of he secoud iav ~
the international aviation tournament
untIl the crowd Was dispersed by the
me IA phuHed 1nnou ncemsnt that the wind
was 10 strong for IN" avia'ors Only
Ia" crowd ~ about $40 persons who had
/ paid real money was calm and seemingly
sal lsfied throughou, an afternoon of air
blasts that sometimes rose 10 thirty or
more miles an hour
John MOl-ant. IN" American skipper ~
a Bl"rint cross country machine. and
claude Grahnine White who came out
with his Farman after II had been officially
, announced ~ the hangers that tho ana
mometer registered a westerly wind Of
oniy about fifteen or sixteen miles an
hour. attempted To hy. hut their machines
were smashed The Wind n the timo
was blowing somewhere bei wcen twenty
five and thirty miles an hour and % the
puffy sort tha, is especially danger OIe
TO aViators
The accidents 80 the Bl6riot and Fav-
man put stop 10 further attempts NJ
aviation A. the hours dragged on with
No signs Of the gale b"haying ard no OK.
PRECISION ~ desire 80 ry corning from A..
Of the foreign or American Tiers exceps
at the Wright camp Allan RYAN raced
across 10 the Wright hangar t a..
Brookins. Hoxsey and Johnst"ne to- saw
the day
WRIGHT MACHINES WOULDN'T PLY
These three iiers had their machines
tuned and were rugged mp to start. h.t
had To- await the permission 81 Vnbu'
Wright. who announced on Saturda''
that no matter what the weather comb.
lions he would not permit any IL his
machines Go take the air yesterday bs-
cause u the esta blished rule of the WrightI
never to send their machines up on sun.
day Brookins. who seems To be closest
to Wilbur Wright. was selected to do the
pleading over the telephone with Mr..
Wright who was at his hotel in Manhat-
tan He would not switch from the Wright
rule. and 80 there were no hights
YRENCHMES MAY Not COMPETE.
But stormier than the storm yesterday
was the feeling Of the members 81 the
French team. lie Blanc and Latham. here
tn lift the Gordon Bennett interna tional
speed cup when asked whether they
intend 20 withdraw from the meet lie
Blanc and Latham vehemently confirmed
earlier rlimors that the inteTno tional cup
course j. 50 little TO their liking that they
probably will not compete at all. There
are too many buildings, trees. wires. rail-
road tracks and other dangerous things
along the route. say the frenchmen. and
they fear the abruPtn"-s 81 the turn at
the western end 81 TIA" course.
tn. matter IL their hving or withdraw
ing according to the Frenckmen now
li.- IN IA" hands II the Aero club %
France 4 slnRl. protest against tn.
course j. enough to MAX" TN. international
-peed event which Is IN" Ing feature Of
IN" meet officially invalid. Ten days ago
NM. H. blanc and Latham wrote IN the
Aero club Of France officials in PARIS
telling 81 the unde-irablity ~ the course
from the French teams viewpoint and
asking for Cabled Instructions as to-
" neither or not the French aero authori-
lies want the team To risk lifting the cup
~ Belmont They expect a reply by to-
morrow. and one gathers from their talk
hat the expected reply will br instruo-
lions not Ia Az over the Belmont course.
THREAT To PREVENT rHE FIioHTs
On top 81 this news came a lsttsr yester-
lay to Zach ~ III. aviators ~ all countries
from a civil engineer who signs himself
William Ellison and who gives his address
~ aH Fulton street. Brooklyn. which
,dds further complications 10 tho inter
national race The letter IL tho result Of
u feeling among the property owners
,utside the park over whose fields and
zardens the big race IL To he hown next
saturday and who are aroused because
he promoters 81 the meet have erected
lolaa for a canvas fence which will shut
N the view 81 the flights from the win
lows 81 these property owners houses
AviAtoTs heard yesterday that this dis
lppointment was so great among few
Il the folks living near the park that the
hreaf has been freely made that aviators
Eho Nv abov" certain adjacent proper
ies will be winged with BULLETS II thsy
~ ernpt Ia hy the longer or international
,oursa ~ five kilomeiers No msntion
4 extremes like shooting tho hiers 10
mad. in the Letters that came 10 the han
,ar- Yesterday The writer contents
himself with saying that tho property
,wn.rz are amply supplied with means
Z these ol,strIctions 1.-The canvas fenceal
ire no, ~ once removed tn block your
lights Il attempted at any but q very
elevation The means Of
preventing the fights, says the wrttSr.
will be Legitimate and scisntiiic
Allan RYAN and other officials ooNnad