The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-30
'BROOE|NS SETS
WQRLD'yR|EC0RD
FOR LONG FLIGHT
Scars in Aeroplane
From Chicago to
Springfield.
TWO STOPS MADE
[ In THE 1877 MILES
Young Aviator, in Wright BIZ
plane, Races Entire Distance
With Special Train, Winning
This Contest as Well as
$4,000 Prize Offered by
Chicago Newspaper.
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gracefully with his ncrOplanc In the
Stntc Fair Grounds mt d;27 +. NJ. To-
day, seven hours md four minutes out
from Chicago, nfter having smiled his
Wright bip1nne the 1s7 miles with
two stops.
nve miles south OF his starting point,
In Washington Park, Chicago, mt 1880
A. NJ, and mt Mount Pulaski, ILL.,, 1853
miles from Chicago, nt 3,2O r. NJ. The
first stop was for water, oil and gnso-
lene, the second for supplies and be-
cnuse his pump had broken and the
engine become hot.
The railroad distance from the start.
In Chicago to Springfield is 1877 miles,
His official starting time svns 915 A.
NJ. The longest surtnined flight was
from Gilman, Ill, to Mount Pulaski,
eighty-elght miles.
Brookins thus broke Charles X
HnmiIton's record for sustained CROSS
country flight of eighty-xix miles from
New York to Philadelphia. He also
made the longest cross-country con-
tinued flight In Americn, and thereby
won the $4,000 prize offered by the
Chicago Record-HernId.
In both places where the aviator
altshted vast throngs gathered.
Heads for Springfield. :.
~Ae' - ccih'-iso SnCPt Out tfle UelO
ut Mount Pulaski one OF the smaI,
rubber-tired wheels on which he rolls
In making headway before arising
struck hummock, and was wrenched
OFF. Brookins. not knowing of the ac-
cident. rose 1000 feet, and, heading
TOT Springfield, swirled away, leaving
behind - Aa1
This was the second railroad loco.
h<. ,tct :
oehind IN fair race. Engineer W. r.
Burt. who made the first attempt to
deteat the aircraft. had to give up
the attempt at Clinton. Ill.
Brookins reached the State Fair
grounds eight minutes before the Illi-
nois Central fast special train reached
the Springfield station three and half
miles short of the fair grounds. The
actual flying time was five hours,
forty-four minutes for the 1s7 miles.
an average of thirty-three miles an
hour.
The crowd at the fair grounds surged
about Brookins. threatening to crush
the machine. till he had to make per-
sonal appeal to get the tilrong back
When those on the special train
reached the aeroplane nearly half an
hour after the aviator landed. he said:
where have you been all the time; I
got here and have been waiting to
lunch with you as ] promised. You
have kept me waiting half an hour.
Asked abo;lt the fight. he said:
why, 1t was nothing, only staying
up. that's all. 1t merely took more
time and that's about the only dll-
ference from a practice hight ! knew
I could make IT..
Good for Same Thing.
"1t was one of the prettiest flights
eyer made. There must have been
three.nuarters OF a million people look
ing up. at me- My arms are tired. ana
i twas quite a strain. because = haa
TO watch all the while, but am '"S soou
for the same thing right now. - heees7
sary.' 80 i ,n,ent vas:
~ woman says, Il told you so.
+ l.tsr MI. Wright added: There was
,,avays a time when felt he would not
make II. II think this trip mas shoWn
,cinsiyely that the aeroplane is
.,,,.cassful navigator of the air, anu anu
.nose who followed the machine from
Sh,capo In the train with me probaply
fae, as confident and as sure otslt as
i do ,,a,, ssoc,a,,n-
,vhn had accompanied the newspaper
man on the Illinois Central hDeclal'
were iubilant over the success OF tne l'
flight. !. ,.,,,,,
!, ~ n'.., Stood I'd between Bruolsins and al
continuous. sustained llght petWeen
Chicago and Springfield
Never was there a prettter race, say
those who witnessed a part OF 1t, than
that II between the aeroplane and the
snacial train on the Illinois CentralS
Two locomotives were used, each rum
Ming about half the distance. but nell
ther was ahead when the aeroplanu
made its descent, Each time the
watchers, craning their heads out or
the windows Of the train, saw BrooRlns
Salight, and the conductor stopped the
train when It came@up to the aeroplane,
Il Aboard the train all was excitement
3continually Every window was filled
with heads peering up into int the SKY.
and on overturned suit cases, many
wrote to friends OF their remarkable
experlence Of racing with an aero
plane. Every country ross-rolas mad
its quota of ga2ers; and every village
was filled with sky gazers,
Makes First Stop.
The first stop at Gilman. Ill" was
ma d by arrangement, There Brookins
ilishted "a cornfeld He had no diff
tbulty In pushing the machine out into
tke open ground, wAsre he waited
fotrteen minutes forth train to come
supI He called ont to the passengers:
"II\w am i making "? have been
'gheH more than an hour, 1T seems tome,
5'NWh\re are the rest of the fellows With
myspil and gasoleneY'
A;ter these necessarles had been
EproNded Brookins conyersed with the
.newPapert reporters and said Veil