New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-14

that place was a mile and half ahead
OF the train, the business Of which 1t
was to go as fast as the flying ma
chine
Mo Frilis in This Flight.
II. was introducing no frivolous frills,
no double dips, nc wonders other than
the single. marvellous. ever inthralling
spectacle of fight in a heavier-than-air
machine-hight by man on schedule
time 10 a certain green field as destina-
ton. from one woTld-city to another
world-city and return. There was an
occasional graceful wavy motion IN the
air
Ramiltons wife and mother saw him
now Their tremulous time while wait
ing for news of the actual start, similar,
IL is said. TO waiting for the first word
cf q jury foreman in its electric posi-
hili;ies, gave way to deep breaths of sat-
isfaction and confidence in the outcome
knowing what he could Go. there was
Joy and peace in seeing him do it.
Descending TO a height of four hum
dred feet. Hamilton permitted the spe-
cial to struggle along Immediately be
meath him. and. except for occasional
side flights over fields of daisies, that
relative position was we'll maintained
throughout the historic ride.
From Elizabeth to Philadelphia he was
greeted by church bells. fire bells. fac
tory whistles. shouting multitudes, col
iege wells and the excited attention OF
countless country citizens-those of the
pasture community.
Hail the Newest Postman.
Bayonne bayed its deafening welcome,
Railway rah-rahed itself hoarse at the
man who carried a message to the Gov
ernor Of Pennsylvania from the Gov
ernor Of New York and from Mayor
Gaynor to Mayor ReybuTn. He was the
newest sort of postman, and was going
post haste. He was creating the first
fast mail by the overhead route TO Phil
adelphia and return, and demonstrating
that an aeroplane could deliver mail
from one city TO another with the pune
tuelity required by Uncle Sam. During
the whole Of his first lap he never varied
more than two minutes from his time
card. He passed Railway at 1:5S about
tive hundred and fifty feet from the
ground. The working Of his engine could
be distinctly heard.
Hamilton flew over New Brunswick
soon after O'Clock. The train then was
about an eighth of a mile ahead Of the
aeroplsne. and both were estimated to
be making about forty miles an hour, the
airship up $50 feet.
As the aeroplane scared over the city
scores of factories set up a chorus of
whistles. and the din was increased by
the ringing of the bells of three
churches. The bells in these churches
are connected by electric wires and are
usually rung TO advertise a fire Hamil-
ton was considered TO be the warmest
cenfiegration that had ever required at
tention. He was admitted to be illami-
mating. but not dangerous.
No Time to Use the Hose.
The people OF New Brunswick did not
have time TO turn the hose on him, for
st SIS o'clock he was out-out of the
county.
1t was while above the busy factories
of New Brunswick that Hamilton noted
with regret how one cylinder of his mo-
tor had given up the ghost. In his
hurry to get away from the island he
had neglected 10 clean his spark plugs
But the nose OF his aerial steed was kept
pointed toward Philadelphia.
Unlike Curtiss. he carried no pontoons
although he few thirty-two miles over
salt water With mis- engine baking, he
took chances on rooftops. bridges and
over moving trains-chances that have
never been even thought of before, let
alone attempted. The party on the spe-
cial train did not know of the aviator's
predicament Other aeronauts would
have come TO earth and explained. But
the weather was ideal for flight, and
only the weather, Hamilton had prom
Used, would keep him from making the
trip
And so he hurried on 10 Monmouth
Junction. which he reached at S:19
O'Clock. and to Princeton Junction, at
SIS O'clock, and to Trenton, at $40
o'clock.
Flies Into Pennsylvania.
over Bristol, on the Pennsylvania side
of the river, at 9:0e o'clock. Hamilton
few directly over the special train and
was n7ah--g about forty miles an hour.
The aeroplane was about three hundred
feet in the air and was flying steadily
cornwelIs was passed eight minutes
later. and then all minds turned toward
Philadelphia, where for hours crowds
had been waiting, only partly convinced
that there really WAS such an institu-
tion as IN aeroplane and that a man
lived who would risk his life to fly it.
If Philadelphians had known as much
about flying machines yesterday morn
ing at 8 O'Clock as they knew a few
minutes after nine, more OF them would
know to-day how an aeropiane appears
when sailing through the air. The
twenty thousand persons who went TO
the aviation field at North Philadelphia
and the ten thousand spectators who
stood On the roofs and in the trees
round about, wanted TO believe in the
advertised trip of Mr.. Hamilton, but
were not inclined to take really seri-
Gus view of the possibilities of the aero
plane until they saw the little mechan-
ism hanging in the sky.