Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-17
AIR RACE FROM
PARIS To LONDON
Moissant, Spaniard, Succeeds
in Crossing Channel and
VIII Go On.
LIE BLANC IN GREAT FEAT
Half OF Paris Stays Up All Night to
Cheer Him mt the Close of
485-MiIe Contest

London, Aug. f7.-Aeoordins 20 q
dispatch from Deal, Juan MoIssant,
the aviator, who today flew the chan
mel With passenger, Is an American,
born In Chicago.
Spantnrd Crosses Channel.
Calais, France, Aug. 17.-Moissant,
the Spanish aviator. who yesterday
few from Paris to Amiens ON the first
leg Of fight to London, left Amiens
at 500 this morning and arrived here
at 7:15. He crossed the English chan
mel in approximately 81 minutes, de-
scending at Tilmanstone, England,
north of Dover. He was unable to i'm
mediately continue his fight to Lon
don so numbed was he by the cold
but is preparing to resume his journey.
VIII Continue Tomorrow.
Deal, England, Aug. 17.-Moissant
decided to make no attempt to con-
tinue his journey to London until to-
morrow.
Stay Up to See Finish.
Paris, Aug. 17.-Half OF Paris for
sock their beds last night and remain
ed in the streets until morning to
watch the conclusion Of the great cross
country aviation race, which was won
by Leblanc in a Bleriot monoplane.
Aubrun, also in a Bleriot, took second
prize, finishing 20 minutes behind the
winner, although his total time in COM
pleting the course was somewhat
longer.
Makes 40 Miles an Hour.
Leblanc started from Amiens at SOB
and descended at Issy in the suburbs
of Paris, 60 miles, hour and % min
utes later, making the total time for
485 miles of the entire fight IL hours,
80 minutes and SO seconds, an average
Of nearly 40 miles an hour as the crow
flies. without making any allowance
for detours or for the time spent in
battling with a storm in the fight from
MeZieres to Douai last Friday.
Caeered mt Finish.
The crowd cheered as Leblanc ap-
peared above Issy In the early dawn,
and from height of nearly a quarter
of a mile planed down toward the
earth and swooped across the line like
giant hawk, alighting with the ease
and grace of big bird. He was re-
ceived with tumultuous cheering by
the great crowd, which broke through
the Gordon of police and soldiers in an
irresistible rush and bore the victor
on their shoulders to General Brun,
minister of war Brun congratulated
Leblanc heartily in the name of the
government
Beats the Birds.
Amiens, France, Aug. 1.-THE first
aerial race between the birds of nature
aud Of mans production took place in
The course of the great aerial cross
country competition, and was easily
woh by man. A flock of AZ carrier
pigeons was released at Doual, Mon
day, at the same instant LIE Blanc in
his Furman bi-plane started on his
50-mile flight to Amiens.
The bi-plane soon outclassed the
birds, and when lie Blanc reached
Aniens the flock was not yet in sight,
the first pigeon arriving six minutes
ard 20 seconds later. Before the last
OF the flock had come in Legagneux,
who started at the same time as lie
BIanc, but consumed nine minutes
more on the trip, arrived, beating the
last pigeon by IL minutes.
starts Race to London.
An aeroplane race between Paris and
London started yesterday when Hubert
Latham and Moissant left Issy, in the
suburbs of Paris, and announced they
intended flying to London, with stops.
Latham assembled first and drove
through the air at great speed, but mo-
tor trouble forced him to land in a
fold near La Faloise. Moissant reached
Ariens in two hours and stopped for
the night.
ONE TERM NOT ENOUGH