Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-21
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Americas First Interna-
ti0nal Aviation Meet
Ends Thursday Evening" AVia-
tors Narrow Escape.
Paulhan Takes Most Of the Honors
Pauihan Takes Most Of the Honors
And Most Of the Prizes.

Los Angeles Cal. Jan. 2G-As dusk
gathered over the old Domin2uez ranch
tonight four flying machines which
had been circling in the air descended
and the first international aviation
meet held in America was finished Few
knew that while Charles ]< Hamilton
was returning from 15-mile flight TO-
wards the ocean the crankshaft OF his
machine snapped a mile from the field
and he narrowly escaped death. Ham
ilton shut off the engine and 50 ieveled
and swayed his planes that he came
down gently.
Curtiss and Paulhan furnished the
excitement of the closing day. PaulEan
went up at $50 o'clock for an chdur-
'ance flight. After he had done two or
three laps of the course, Curtiss start
ed a 10-lap speed trial, half q LAP, or
more than threc-quarters of a mile, be-
hind Paulhan. 1t was the first real race
of the Today meet. The two bIplanes
came over the grandstand with the
speed of express trains. Curtiss gained
swiftly on Paulhan and on the third
lap he reached Paulhan, flying above
him. The Frenchman for few seconds
held even. Then Curtis in lis American
machine forged ahead q length and fl
nally half a lap.
1t was no race after that. The Amer
lean machine was the faster beyond
question. AS Curtiss rushed over Paul
han he received til" greatest applause
that any Of his efforts had gained.
Paulhan went on until he had Travelled
cA A 10 in, hn 1iy. r.
ly an hour and q half. Curtiss came
down after a 39-mile trip.
This race gives the whole story OF
the meet The Curtss machine won all
the prizes for speed, quick starts, per-
feet landings and those events where a
light. swift machine showed best.
Paulham won all the cross-country,
passenger-carrying and endurance tests,
having a heavier, slower machine and an
engine which he trusts absolutely. Paul
han took more than $1,000 in prizes and
broke the worlds records for altitude and
cross-country flights alone and with a
passenger Curtiss broke no worlds rec
ords and won less than $1,000 in prizes.
There was an odd parade today, show
ing the evolution of travelling. 1t was
headed by old Ezra Meeker OF oregon
trail fame seated in a prairie schooner
drawn by oxen. After him came cow
boys burros, carriages. automoplles, pal
looms dirigibles and finally the various
aerodromes, ending with multiplane
that looked like q wheat harvester. Cur
tiss and Paulhan walked in the van like
bashful schoolboys. The prizes won dur
ing the aviation meet follow:
Hcieht-Frst, $4,000, Louis Paulhan. 416l
feet: second, $1,000 Charles X. Hamilton,
53o : feet: third, $500, Glenn II. Curtiss, no
official height taken. .t''-
Endurance and time-First. $4,000, Paul
han, 1917 miles. 1882; second, s2ooo' HAM
i1ton. 1914 miles, $500 2-5; third, $500, Cur
tiss. 1911 miles. 23.54 rs.
Speed, 10 laps-First, $4,000, Curtiss, l6'll
miles. 344s So; second, $4,000, Paulhan
II miles. 2459 2-5; third, Hamilton, 1911
miles, 3o.34 So.
Three laps with passenger-First. $1,000
Paulhan, 4.S3 miles, SIC Is; no others con-
tested
slowest 1ap-First, $500, Hamilton, lei
miles, 3.36 2-5
Quickest start-First, $3.50. starts 81 feet
Starting and landing in square, $3.50,
Charles F. Willard. won. Score perfect.
Cross countrv-s1O0OO. Paulhan won.
The following are the records for the
course also made:
Speed-One lap. 2.12. Curtiss.
Shortest time in rising-6 % seconds,
Curtiss.
Diricibles-One lap. 457 As, Lincoln
Beachy.