The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-09
Fitzgerald Goes UpW ith
English Aviator in
Biplane.
TAFT WITNESSES
THRILLING EVENTS
Participants in Meet Guido
Themselves for Chief Execu-
tive's Benefit-Daring Work :
of Johnstone Arouses En-
thusiasm Brookins
Makes New Record.


Boston. Mass, September S.-With
President Taft an interested spectator
at the Atlantic flying field to-day. the
aviators participating in the Harvard
Boston aviation meet outdid them
selves for the Chief Executives bene-
ft Three machines were in the air
at once, Claud Grahame- White, the
Englishman. furnishing the principal
feature by taking up Mayor John +.
Fitzgerald in the Farman biplane for
three laps around the field.
Meanwhile, Walter Jonnstone, In a
Wright, who was soaring in dis
tance and endurance test high above
his fellow aviators. watched for a
clear course. and then swooping from
his lofty elevation he put his airship
through some fancy exhibitions of
dipping before the President, his dar-
ing work arousing great enthusiasm.
Then came a dash by Glenn Curtiss In
his Hudson Filler" in an unsuccessful
attempt to lower Grah2 2me-White's
speed record of 6 minutes, 3-5 Sec
onds for ia miles. Before the Pres
ident left Charles f. Willard went up
in a Curtiss machine, and Walter
Brookins climbed the SKIES for an al
titude mark in Wright biplane.
There were eighteen events alto
gether to-day. and two other passen-
gers besides Mayor Fitzgerald went
up-James f. Lord, formerly of Chi
cago. Thomas W. Lawson's son-in-law,
flying with Grahame-W White in the
Farman, and Lieutenant bailey. of the
torpedo boat destroyer Stringham,
going up with Willard
Roe's TripInne Bumps Earth.
While trying to land with his tri-
plane in front of the grandstand from
an elevation of about twenty-five feet.
A. v. Roe. the English aviator. SO bad
ly damaged his machine to-day that in
all probability It will be out OF COM
| mission for the remainder of the meet.
| The wheels struck In the soft dirt,
| throwing the triplane on its nose. The
forward planes were broken, and both
1 blades of the propeller were splintered.
I The engine of the machine was almost
buried in the earth. Roc was unia-
jured. although he received bad shak-
/ Ing up. This was the second accident
! in which Roe. has figured during, the
| gathering of aviators here. He said,
/ following the crash, that his engine
was not sufficiently powerful to elevate
the triplane
Both the professional and amateu.
| - PAAost' Sldteu lo-Ody tAat they would
attempt to clip whatever records have
been made at the meet. spurred on hy
the large lead in the number of points
held by Claude Grahame- White. the
professional ayiators made preparation,
To-Day to attempt to overcome the Eng
| lishman's advantage
! Amateurs Are Active.
! For the first time since the NEE,
opened the amateurs showed an active
interest to-day, five Of them being on
the field shortly after dawn.
William NJ. Hilliard in a Burgess.
Curtiss btplane covered half the course
in a practice fight at an elevation OF
about fifty feet. Augustus Post in a
Curtiss biplane made several short
/ flights around the course.
Horace F. kearney brought his
Pntzner monoplane onto the field dur
Ing the early forenoon and slid up and
down the course few times Occa- :
sionally he would rise five or ten feet
| IN the air, but in nearly every instance
he struck tho earth with bump
] Despite the misfortune he has en-
| countered, Roe said to-day that he is
| hopeful Of getting his triplane into
/ shape before the meet ends next Tues
day night.
White Again the Star.
Grahame-Whlte as usual was an ln-
/ dustrious point winner. He scored
/ firsts in speed, getaway, accuracy and
| bomb throwing tests. The Wright
brothers. two hiers pressed him close.
~, Johnstone and Brookins getting
first and second in the duration test,
| and Johnstone first in distance.
/ Grahame- Whites bomb throwing at
model battleship added to his al
4 ready good total of points in that
\ event, with II for the day against 3
made by Willard. One of the English
mans bombs dropped squarely into
4 the funnel. He made another new mark
4 for the meet when, in the accuracy
landing test, he came down in 100
foot circle, and stopped 33 feet inches
from the centre.
Johnston in his Wright biplane SET
J the first mark in the slow lap contest
making the 51-4 miles in - minutes
\ 463-5 seconds