Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-22

! The opening day OF the International
aviation meet at Belmont park dnwned
clear. bright and cold, although the
weather mans outlook was pesimlstic,
promising showers before shutdown!
Thirty aviators and about 10 aeroplanes
were out for the beginning of what prom
tses TO be the most important acronautlc
event ever held anywhere In the world.
The setting at Belmont park, l.. T.. for
what today and the eight succeeding days
Will be an lnternationa, pattle for the su-y
.prcmacy OF the air. was Disappointing.
a green field of cropped grass. set in
n saucer-rlnmed ut the horizon with faint
blue hills. bounded by tho familiar oval
OF the Belmont race track and marked
at the turns with tall red and white py-
Ions; IL huge steel grand stand. painted
To tone with the landscape. gay with the
flags Of all nations and banked to the
roof with tier on tier OF close ranged
benches beside 1t the white. colonial ia
tcade5 Of the Westminster Racing associn-
tons clubhouse: opposite II the broken
aeroplanes OF three nations are housed;
to the east n low clump OF trees and
near them the trim brown tents of the
United States signal corps-such was the
picture that greeted the eye OF the OBJ
server at dayhreak n y
America. France and Great Britain are
the competitors. Neither Curtiss nor the
Wright Bros. the best known American
nviators arc entered in person. They are
represented by Hoxsey. tombstone
and Brockins for the Wrights and Nc
Curdy, Ely, Mars and Willard for Cur
tiss.
RACING MACHINE ENTERS.
curtiss won the James Gordon BEN
declinedFt to defend 1t In person this year.
Instead. both lie and the wriGhts have
built special racing machines. not yet
retain 1t for America, but they will meet
opposition III tile latest lOO-horsepower
Bleriots brought here by the French
team.
Hamilton has n now 11o-horsepower b.
| plane. but 1t has never been tried out to
| the limit and even Its owner does not
know Just what 4 Will do under pres
Moissnnt smashed his Bleriot racer last
Monday. but is busy rebuilding it. j.
Armstrong DreNol will also fly American
who now holds all speed records for for one one
kilometer up to IS miles: Hubert L;lth-j
nm, with. HIS beautiful crratic, dragon
fly Antoinette noncompliance: Alfred lie
Blanc. tho champion cross-courtry flyer:
Emil Aubrun.. his pupil; Count Jacques
de Lesseps. tho second aviator to cross
the English channel. and such lesser cell
simon some of whom fly the tiny de
inoisselles." the humming birds. among
aeroplanes.
England sends Claude Grahame- White.
who took first honors at Boston in the
recent Harvard meet: James Radlsy,
Ogivilie and McArdle. NIL representing tho
Royal Aero club of the United Kingdom.
The definite arrival of tho monoplane
Is one of the most noticeable features OF
tho met. s
Preponderance of the machines nre
Eleriot monoplanes and the new models
OF both tho Nvrights ana Of Curtiss nre
also practically single surface" planes
The latest designs have q compact
ness, soltdtty line and refinement Of
TINT the aeroplhnc has passed out of the
string and kidding wood stage OF mere
#contrivance and has now become n work.
Ing, mechanical actualty. They look
ftaut. powerful ad swift--proper Instru-
ments OF mans extended domination over
the elements.