New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-28
Ely Drops in at Manhattan
Beach. Alights and Flies Back
to Great Welcome.
MARS FALLS IN LOWER BAY
Dives 500 Feet When Engine
Refuses to Work and Is Res
cued Mile from Shore
Unframed.


Eight hundred aliens dropped in on the
steamship Kaiserin Auguste Victoria to
look over this country at their leisure
! Q. Mars one of the Curtiss avia-
tors, after looking over some of the
country early in the morning at the
rate of z mile of il a minute. dropped
| IN the Lower Bay in his aeroplane and
| smiled afterward at Sheepshead Bay as
! he told again the tale Of his thrilling
! rescue.
/ Eugene Ely. tall and lean and sincere
/ ly modest as to his personal right 70
/ the fame that seems soaring toward him
| dropped in at the Manhattan Beach Ho-
/ tel FOR dinner at go o'clock last night
! having flown in his aeroplane from the
same racetrack He dropped into 4
warm corner in the heart Of Father
| Knickerbocker when he few hack to the
racetraCk again.
AS entertaining and-as the pro-
gramn1e states it-instructive as was
the 'cross-country flying by Mr.. Ely. in
justice 70 the mana cement should be set
forth the fact that the demonstration.
beautiful as it was, amounted TO not
much more than 2 drop in the bucket
compared to the show as whole
Ely was the light and graceful boy
throughout the afternoons entertsin-
ment.
Mars delighted by his novel wheel
grazing hurdle flights.
NcCurdy's Wireless Test.
J.. A. .. McCurdy. a pipe loving Cana
dian. interested. if falling entirely to
convince. in his alleged wireless tests in
rr7idafr. But he proved himself a real
flyer.
And last-although he barely escaped
being thrust into the first paragraph Of
this story: if his propellers had been
travelling a little faster he would have
landed there-fiew by in the cleaning
the protected countenance of Augustus
Post
The days aeronautical activities, be
ginning almost with those Of the milk
men. were maintained at full rated
horsepower until 4 D. m
And then several thousand excited and
ralkative men and women were hushed
long enough for the track lecturer TO IN
yi+e them all to visit the racetrack this
afternoon at ) instead Of 4 o'clock 1t
would not be surprising if all of them
returned to-day and took their friends
along
The Curtfss men qualified yesterday as
possessing the aerial temperament
Evidently the only thing they do not
like is 2 breeze. There was no wind
Yesterday. and the show was worth more
than the price of admission,
Ely's Sustained Flight.
Promptly at O'Clock Ely began to
,-o,-i4e material for the announcer lie
few two or three times without turn
ing
FINALLY he described complete circle
almost as Convincingiy as the announcer
proceeded TO do. This was
at 4:45 o'clock.
Mars flew around the course. low.
making several short turns IN front or
the e-andstand. The lecture man SAID
the last performance was known as the
i,s.Iv famed Mars circle dip, and in
sisted it would be good policy for ali to
t,,,,. programmes that told all about how
the dip appeared
Ely next made the prettiest night that
the C11rtiss men had produced during the
several DAYS Of their metropolitan en-
gagement-
II vas only ten minutes in passing
hit ten minutes is a long time 10 sIaho
en+-snced when ten seconds has peen
all +l,e demand made on spectators Tor
several days running
A. 5.1o o'clock Ely started toward
.be favorite clurnp of trees to the
northeast. and in generous circles maze
those trees four different times at an
altitude that averaged at least five nun
dred feet.
rro7,7 the centre Of the field the waV-
;n~ handkerchief Of the six thousand
or eight thousand spectators showed an
eliminated district on his green ana
l,roV-, map bass relief.
,1oC,7rdv went the way of Ely. after
r71,, camA down. bearing down little
closer to the tree tops than MS PIeo
ceesor but that was because MS motor
mas NOT of the going up type In mas
.er,, If the apparatus there is htlie
doubt that McCurdy flies hlsn-
Saws He Sent Wireless Message.
u-ror, the front rudder or thereapout
hung wireless wire. technically re-
tered TO by the press agent as a coun-
,.rnoise. II was rather feverishly re-
cited that wireless messages were oeiiis
ea shed By Mr.. McCurdy TO a man Oh
= Of the ersndstand. who did not know
;, Was said. the nature of the greetings
T. ,,,as hard to take the press agent
II was explained that MT
,rccurdy was an expert operator OF the
,eIsg-a nh instrument, and was busiiy al
work right then
Major Samuel Reber. chief signal OF
eoer of the Department of the t'as|
st,od out of hearing of the press agent
IND reiterated that he could not vouch
Far ANYTHING of a wireless nature, be
cause the machine carried no operator
II could not be definitely ascertainea
that any wireless message was received
p,t Mr.. McCurdy was positive he sent
the following:
Another chapter in aerial achieve
nenf IS recorded in the sending or the
wireless message from an aeroplane-
At 6:15 o'clock Ely started for the
Manhattan Beach Hotel He few SO as