New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-01
AVIATORS IN HARD LUCK
Harmon Makes Only a Few Feet
in HeraIdeG Sound Flight.
NOTHING SEEMS JUST RIGHT
Seymour, Russell, Hamilton, Ali
Hover Close to Earth IN
Tame Exhibitions.

No one had 10 pay anything to see the
avire st Garden City yesterday. "hch
MAS we'll, because of flying there Was no'h-
ing uorth while
Ii was q fine DAY TO gather names o.
well known persons. to marNei AT INC
clothes on view and TO grunole at 'lie pc
culiar whirls of aviators and lheii Aioio
necIllisr motors. If the motor on d "1a.
chine was all right something else "ouio
60 wrong or he discovered to be "FoHS oe-
fore any start was attempted
Five thousand spectators ehJoSeu ''i0
sunset and the cool evening breezes- MANY
Of these came in automobiles at hlsh speeu-
Afto- tbe first excitement Of seeing the
aeroplanes in their tents anc hsieNiiie ~
The ice cream man not d Ae"
why they hurried So
The Garden City aviation grounds are
,5aal when living far beneath some daring
a,1a3or. but they are too fat for interest,"
,.,s scenery TOO much like somebody Dig
backyard
-rba largo crowd came to see Clifford b.
Harmon. the amateur aviator, fly III MS
beautiful Farrnan machine over the Souho
70 Greenwich Several other crowds from
1iroe to time have gone TO Garden CITY 10
sc. Ny. Harmon fly to the home OF us
1sthar-in-law above the green grass anu
-le nine waters until he dissolved away
from their enchanted gaze In the green
and lemon sky. The trip has been descrlbed
.o-3scfer1iousiy many times and the lateS'
,.rne set for Il was yesterday afternoon
Mr. Harmon was there with Gal n
brown leather suit and his goggles were
everything that could be desired mere
Was some wind in the early afternoon anu
II received the usual amount OF cTl'icIsiii
for the alleged things that II coulo GO "
any aviator who persisted in defElne 1t
Friends of Mr. Harmon talked ferventy
against winds Of ali kinds and particular
IL disapproved OF the direction in which
yesterdays WAS headed.
Before 5 O'Clock word came from the
Harmon shed that the waters of the Sound
would not be waves tTemulous with reflect
ed beauty cast by his yellow flyer yes
terday Some other day. when Mr. Har-
mon did not have a headache, his shadow
would travel rapidly along the surface OF
Long Island Sound. When? Some other
day. that was near enough
The wind died at O'Clock, and rumors
Of g postponement died. too, when the man
and the machine appeared, both faced tow
ard Greenwich. Seven O'Clock came 1t
-as the motor after that II new
motor Motors that fail are always either
ole OF rev. Three men struck at the
cylinders. joggled the propeller, conferred
IN French became suiled and excited and
then the motor aNoke. Mr.. Harmon went
across the field a few hundred yards. and
the motor went 10 sleep again- The auto
mobiles honked for an exit passage~ay-
From she north George s. Russell came
Al z height OF fifteen feet He circled the
field without getting higher Charles Il
Hamilton, suffering from having no aero
ulane in which II do something. tried to
make RusseIl's CUTtiss machine so higher.
but The propeller was not right Joe Sey-
rnour grazed the grass in his machine, but
il was explained that his engine was too
light OF new or something, and he was seen
no more
Harmon got UP again and CirCled the
grounds several times. throwing out
oranges in front OF the grandstand- There
was no admission yesterday. because, Mr.,
Harmon said, 1t would hurt his status as
an amateur
General Nelson 4 Miles, L. 5 4 IRE
tiredl. vas again E student of the aeroplane,
end said the machines were a revelation
10 him