Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-16
AV|ATORS PROMISE
RECORD FLIGHTS
At ASBuRY MEET
HOxsey to lombard "Warship."
BrOOkins to Try to Regain
L. Altitude Record.
IRON a STAR correaponasnt.l

- - 20 correspondents
AsBURY PARK, Aug. 16.-weather
permitting, some record : breaking
stunts are promised at the aviation
Held at Interlaken this afternoon.
Among the things promised are cross
country flights from Interlaken to Sea
Grit, a distance of twenty-five miles,
by Ralph Johnston; the destruction of
n near battleship b. Archie Hoxsey,
who will drop orange bombs from a
height of 500 feet in an attempt to lane
them on the deck of a canvas shin
forty feet in length. 1t was first In.
tended to build the battleship 400 feet
in length, but Wilbur Wright put a
stop to that.
Said Wilbur: Build the battleship
only forty feet long and in proper d.
mansions. and when Hoxsey is 500 feet
up it will appear the same to him as
though it was a 40o-foot ship The
local booster committee agreed with
Wright, SO a pretty white canvas bat
tleship in miniature now graces the
Interlaken field.
Just how Wilbur Wright figured out
the dimensions he refuses to tell.
Anyway, he insists hat if Hoxsey hits
h ship from 500 feet in the air
1t will be in effect the same as If
he hit one four times as large from ten
times the distance in the air.
And I will hit that ship with every
of the dozen oranges l will carry
with me-" said Hoxsey this morning.
THAT poor little bunch of canvas and
chalk mark will look as if a dozen
gallons of o~rangeade had been splashed
on it when | get through"
New Wright Machine.
The new Wright machine to take
: the place of the one wrecked when
Walter Brookins fell on last Wednes-
day was being assembled on the field
today. orville Wright did not come
with the machine, as he expected, and
no one knows just when he will be here.
"Orville viii be here" says Wilbur
Wright, but l don't know just when
The aviation committee is anxiously
awaiting his arrival.
Some secrecy attended the arrival of
h new machine, which 1t is claimed
will be able to carry five passengers.
1t arrived in its separate parts at six
O'Clock this morning and was carried
to Bradley Beach, a mile below Asbury
Park. where IL was unloaded. why
was 1t taken to Bradley Beach?" was
asked at the headquarters of the avia-
ton committee this morning. No an
swer could be given by any of the
committeeman this morning.
One unfeeling newspaper man sug-
gested that it was taken there because
Bradley Beach had as yet not beer
mentioned In the press notices SEM
out. He was squelched at once. &
At noon the machine was in the
Wright tent at the field and was rap
idly being assembled by Flank Coffyn
Ralph tombstone and Arch Hoxsey, who
for once, had his. many-hued glad-rags
off and was In a real working costume
Walter Brookins, with a half-dozer
teeth missing, his nose all askew and
a big bundle of bandages hiding his
face, was at the tent and looked the
machine over critically as it was being
set up. Brookins said at noon that to-
morrow he would probably AXE the
new machine out and make a start tc
recover the altitude record taken away
from him the other day by Drexel.