The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-30
HOXSEY FLIES HIGH
OVER MOUNT WILSON
Aviator Shows Army Officers How
Troops Can Be Transported
Across Ranges.
GOES UP ALMOST TWO MILES
Latham. the Frerchman. Tries To
Catch Biplane and Nearly
Loses Life.
GOES UP ALMOST TWO MILES

AVIATION FIELD, Los Angeles. Dec.
2e,-Arch Hoxsey, the former Salt Lake
ehauffeur. who is now tho aviator hold
ing the worlds altitude record OF IL. .47f
highest peak OF the mountain range
which rims the valley in which Los An
geles, Pasadena and the towns OF the
conditions he scared 1ooo5 feet into the
sky and cleared the crest OF Mount Will
son with 1900 feet to spare.
Lieutenant Vernon Boiler and several
other army officers. who are here to see
the sights, were quick to observe IN
Hoxsey's performance a new way of
Transporting armies across mountain
ranges and predicted the early relega-
tion OF the army mule as an essential
in scaling heights.
Lieutenant Boiler. who came here from
Fort Whipple, Arizona. said that a thou
sand blplanes could transport an army
OF 10000 men across mountains as high
IS the Alps In q day
HoSsey used a heavy stock Wright .bi-
plane. equipped for passenger service.
and he made the journey from the field
TO point beyond the mountains in one
hour and twenty-eight minutes. Tho dis
lance is estimated Mt thirty -four miles
Soon Out of Sight.
On an air line the distance from the
held to the mountains is less than that
but Hoxsey clrcled over the field until
he had reached his maximum height be
iore he pointed the nose Of his machine
toward the range He was out Of sight
tempt at topping the peak.
INC news or his success was flashed TO
aAviatlon A field by, telephone from the
1arnegie Solar observatory on Mount
scared.
''It was fearfully cold, and when I got
to point just above the summit I found
that the horizon, which obscured the
mountains from the aviation field was
heavy Isall Of vapor filed with fine ice
particles that stung my face. I am GER
tain that II I had had a recording ther-
mometer with me it would have shown
the temperature OF the upper altitude to
be far below zero.
However. hurdllng mountains is much
easier than climbing 1000 feet over
valley or the sea. The earth docs not
seem so far away"
fioXsey's performance was the only In
terestins feat accomplished today, but
Just before the close OF the days events
the crowd got a thrill In an accident
which nearly resulted in the death OF
Hubert Latham. the French monoplane
save Glenn Martin, the California novice,
When the latter lost control OF his ma
chine and was blown into fence by a
twenty-mile wind.
Latham g Narrow Escape.
After successfully negotiating the
south OF the field where several times
he narrowly escaped disaster BY skillful
maneuvering Of his machine he finally
tackled back to the course. and the crash
came as he was trying to make a land
Ing.
Two or three thousand men and wom-
en- we're within a few feet of him when
he dashed into the fence in front OF the
the judges box when Martin brought his
machine TO earth. The FTenchman i'm
mediately realized the danger, and. rush
ing out. caught hold the machine and
fYt1-
the fence, but he miscalculated the force
OF Its momentum. He vas dashed TO the
ground. The running gear of the ma
chine, which weighs 900 pounds. missed
Latham's face by only few inches. and
Martin and his biplane collided with the
fence with such force that 1t broke the
iron stanchions on which the wire fencing
was stretched, Martin was hurled over
the fence and he fell upon sawdust roll
ing almost under the grand stand but
got up unhurt.