Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-11
LONG
FLIGHT IS HALTED
BY T0OAY'S Rain

NEW YORK, June 11.-Because the
weather 4 declined to guarantee a
better brand of atmosphere for today
than he had furnished yesterday and
the day before, Charles K. Hamilton,
the aviator who had planned to fly
from New York to Philadelphia today
and return. was compelled late last
Monday.
Hamilton was not, however, alto
gether displeased, because it would
have taken some tall hustling for him
to have gotten ready in time. In the
first place. Hamilton's new gasoline
tank, which will hold twenty gallons,
did not arrive from the Curtis fac
tory, at Hammondsport, until late, and
when 1t did arrive 1t was found to be
so bulky that the radiator had to be
dismantled and fitted anew before the
tank could be sealed. Then the job of
hauling his aeroplane, fully assembled,
from Mineola. Long Island. where he
has been doing practise flights, to Gov
ernor's Island, proved to be more diff
ficult than had been expected.
The plan was to tow the ~aeroplane
behind an automobile, but the auto
mobile vas too fast, the roads too
rough and the turns too sharp. So the
machine had to be hauled by hand
twelve miles over sandy roads and
ferried on a lighter to Governors
Island. In the journey one of the
spruce uprights between the two planes
x.,a q cn1infaraH tond that will hove tD 10
replaced. The oil tank and various other
accessories were misplaced in the
shuttle and will all have to be assem-
bled separately. Moreover. Hamilton
had only an hour and a half sleep Fri
day night, and he ant to start fresh.
with his nerves at normal tension.
Altogether there was fully seven
hours work to be done on the flier be-
fore it could be made ready to take the
air, and, although by working all night
the mechanics could have finished their
task, Hamilton wanted to superintend
their work himself and to take a trial
flight or two with his new tanks hung,
to see how they balance. before he is
off on his long journey.
1t Is probable that If he arrives safely
in Philadelphia, as he Is confident of
doing, he will make a short exhibition
fight over the Front and Erie field, to
give Philadelphiaps a chance to see
his machine perform in the air for a
longer time h q 1t takes him to alight.
On the return trip he is going to COM
pensate the New Workers in the north
ern part of the city for his failure to
start from Van Cortlandt Park, as orig
finally planned. by making a voyage up
the Hudson and return before descend
ing on Governors Island.
incidentally in this way he hopes to
wrest the honors of the air from Paul
han by beating his record of III miles
| continuous cross-country flight by at
least seven miles.
Although there was little likelihood
of abatement of the high wind blowing
across the lower bay this morning.
Hamilton's mechanicians were early
astir, getting in readiness for expert
mental flights this afternoon the aero
plane with which Hamilton proposes
to make his Philadelphia fight.
Albert c. Doyt and Charles Nyquist.
the a%viator's chief mechanicians, ar
rived at Governors Island and set
about installing a new s~even-foot pro-
peller in place of the one recently dam
aged at Mineola. The rest of the morn.
ing was occupied in fitting the new
twenty-gallon gasoline tank received
Yesterday from Hammondsport, and o
newe fve-gallon oil tank. Hamilton
personally supervised the work.
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