The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-12-29
|SLOCATED A RECORD FOR HEIGHT. G
BRAVES HURRICANE TO CLIMB BATTLE,
MEhTS OF SKY.
TWO MILES ABOVE CROWD.
:fSch HONsey, in Wright Machine,
T. matches Worlds Altitude Hon
orS From French Aviator.
Received as Hero.


Los Angeles. Cal, Dec. 2G.---Sev-
enty-five thousand people saw Arch
H"Xsey of the Wright team of avi-
ators break the worlds record for
altitude here to-day He scared
more than two miles up into the
Sky, his biograph registering. H.
4'4 feet. or almost ,000 feet above
the altitude of 10499 feet, recently
&ttained by lie GagneuX at Pau,
France. This is the second time the
existing worlds altitude record has
been broken in Los Angeles. the
first time being last January, when
Louis Paulham rose Il little over
1900 feet
HoXsey accomplished his feat in
Il 40 mile gale that wrecked HUI
bert Latham's Antoinette monoplane
and kept more cautious ayiatorS on
the ground.
Sailed Into Sky.
HoXsey sailed into the sky at
o'clock and at 2:45 his barograph
slowed the greatest height while
he sailed over Venice, 4 seaShore
resort, more than 20 miles from the
aviation field. Coming down he
made series Of thrilling spiral
gfdes while thousands Of feet in
the air. Before he came lightly to
the earth, the crowd was on its feet
cneering. He was lifted from the
btplane by fellow aviators who psr
AIDED up and down before the gra i'd
stand bearing the intrepid flyer up-
on their shoulders.
The crowds insisted on making a
hero of Hoxsey and did not rive
him time TO doff his furs but
marched him back and forth before
the grandStand
Was IL windy UP there?" be was
asked.
Was Cold and Windy.
1T blew 30 hard" replied Hox-
sey. that my machine hardly NOV
ed shd barely held its own. II was
30 cold that more than once I
thought my carbureter was about TO
freeze. / made the record because
! determined to keep on going un-
I'll ! passed lie Gagneux's recn.d or
Until the carbureter froze."
lhe gale which Hoxsey and his
brethren OF the Wright camp, Par
melee and Brookins. braved sue
cessfuIly wrecked Latham's beauti-
lui Aptoinette machine completely.
Inc frenchman was among the ayi- !
ators who answered the starting
gun at l O'Clock. For two hours |
anG rifteen minutes he fought the |
wind which blew directly off the
ocean, six miles from the aviation
lheh an adverse current SLAPPED his /
aeroplane downward, hurled il in !
tc fence under the brow of a hill [,
and threw the aviator into a gully (
Inc trenchman WAS unhurt but his I,
ne chine was tangled mass of
wire and silken fabric. The motor !
was the only part left intact and |
Latham declared that having !;
enough parts for three extra ma
ch ines, he would build new mon
orlane.
Records Photographed.
Telegraph certifications OF the
rarograph reading OF Hoxsey's rec
ords We're sent 10 Clifford B. Har- /
mon and j. K. Duffey, the president !
and secretary of the National Fed !
e'htlon OF Aero Clubs of America
Inc one O'Clock gun started the !
programme. Parmalee, in one of
the big Wright biplanes rose for n
Try at the endurance and altitude
prizes. He was followed by Hubert
Latham. Of France. in an Antoin-
-tte monoplane. A fifteen mil.
hreeze was blowing from the ocean
nut nut did not seem TO bother them.
eugene Ely, of the Curtiss team.
ascended to contest with Hoxsev
80 farmalee in their Wright ma
SIiines ior altitude. He came down
"hen the wind reached 80 miles an
hour ah
Latham battling against a gale OF
hearly 40 miles, gave a remarkahIe
exhibition of remaining in the air
or nearly two hours. The wind
ore sightseeing balloon from it's
,,'ple. Anchor chains hastily
,Erown out saved the balloon from
oelng blown away. After brakinp
US cable the balloon finally was
LrlVen upon one of its anchors and |
exploded. No one was hurt.