The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-17
He WINS $4,000
LIE Blanc Flies into Paris From
Amiens, so Miles.
Completing the Cross Country
Race of 4S5 Miles.
AUBRUN is SECOND.
They Are Followed Closely by
Flock of Six Aviators.
Victor Is Welcomed by a Crowd
of 100000.

Paris. Aug. 17.-Half Paris forsock
its bed last night and remained in
the streets until morning to watch the
conclusion of the great cross country
aviation race, which was won by Le-
Blanc In Bleriot monoplane Aubrun,
also in a Bleriot, took second prize.
nnlshing short 20 minutes behind the
winner, although his total time in COM
pletlng the course was somewhat long
er.
LeBianc's flight from An,iens, some
60 miles, was made in the same s,Inerh
style as the previous laps in the race
he ieft Asniens at 5:O3 and descended
at issy IN the suburbs Paris one
nour ana 70 minutes later, making the
totai time for tho 485 miles of the en-
llie nishl IL hours o5 minutes and SO
SECONDS, an average of nearly 40 miles
an hour as the crow flies without max
Ing any allowance for detours or for
the time spent in battling with the
storm In the flight from Mesieres to
Douai last Friday
AEbrIn, whose time from An7iens
was one hour and 81 minutes cornple-
ted the circuit in 13 hours 27 minutes
"a seconds. None of the other com
petltors completed The entire course,
lnough Leganerx, who was forced to
retire in the early stages of the race
finished with Leblanc and Aubr11n.
Ihere was a moment of tumultuous
cheering as Leblanc appeared above
1ss-- in the early dawn and from the
nelsnI OF nearly quarter of a mile
pianed down toward the earth and
swooped across the line like a giant
hawk.
Victor Is Mobbed.
The authorities, in anticipation of the
excitement of the enormous crowds.
had cordoned the lighting place at
!ssy with hundreds of police, backed
by a regiment of cuirasseurs of long
experience in handling the Parisian
crowds on days of demonstrations
Nevertheless the spectators in an ir-
resistable rush broke through the line
and bore the victor on their shoulders
to General Brun, the minister of war.
Who with his staff and other high Of
f1cials had appeared at the finish at
this early hour to welcome him Cen
eral Brun congratulated LIE Blanc in
the name of the government A mill
tary band struck up THE Marseillaise .
Before the cheering for LIE Blanc died
down Aubrun, in his monoplane. shot
into sight at the very point in the sky
where Leblanc had first been seen and
following the victor's wake, crossed the
line and made an equally graceful
landing.
Aubrun came Leganeux and five army
officers, who had acted as escorts to
the contestants in the last stage of the
flight, the successful trip of eight
aeroplanes across the country stimuli
taneGus1y and under prearranged con-
ditions, demonstrating to what an ex-
tent the conquest of the air has been
carried.
Such a gallery of spectators has
| never before been seen in Paris. Eiffel
tower was a chosen point of vantage
b. crowds of spectators, and the tow
ering steel structure was black with
people. watching the finish.
Crowd of 100000.
| On the field at Issy, where the avia-
| tors finished, 100000 spectators had
gathered, the crowd including Prince
Roland Bonaparte, General Dalstein,
the military court of Paris and hun
dreds of distinguished men and women
! who when LeB1anc's monoplane was
| first sighted as a black speck high
above the city. were seized with per-
| feet delirium.