New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-14
IA NDING AT PHILADELPHIA

and he made only brief comments on the
events of the voyage
The first cylinder stopped at Trenton.
right over the railroad station
The second stopped at New Brunswick. -
| y left the railroad q Metuchen."
4 thought it was q meadow before hit
It"
That was his conversation. To general
remarks he replied with only a blank look.
His mind was on his machine and for the
time he could think of nothing else.
| When he hit the swamp and found him
self buried above the hubs he did not
give up the job and wade away. Hamilton
got his machine as far out of the marsh
as one man could lift Il. and made three
! attempts TO start the engine and find solid
ground.
The propeller fouled in the long farsh
grass on the third trial. and was split be
vond all hope of use. Only then did he
abandon the machine temporarily and look
for help When he went for the spark
| plugs and telephoned TO his wife. he tele-
| phoned also 70 Glenn Curtiss to hurry over
with q new propeller. and hunted UP men
10 help him get the aeroplane to a safe
resting place.
Au that part Of New Jersey had been
watching for the return from Philadelphia,
and when Hamilton got back to the swamp
he found many willing hands to push. pull
and carry the aeroplane to q narrow but
solid road that ran through the marsh.
It was T2:54 o'clock when Hamilton sank
in the mud hour and % minutes after
he had circled the big United Gas Com
panv's gas tank in farewell TO Philadelphia,
and by o'clock the engines were ready for
a test again. But il was a long and tedious
wait for the propeller. It had to be brought
nv ferry from Governors Island to Manhat-
tan. then by ferry TO Staten Island and by
automobile 70 Tottenville. Once more the
ferry TO Perth Arnboy, and then the motor
car trip TO the little spot of hard ground
in the middle of the swamp
Hamilton was so impatient that he tried
10 charter a tug to take him 10 Governor
Island to get the new propeller And when
ar last II arrived. instead Of being q new
nfece IF timber il was the old and rotten
affair that Hamilton. daring as he has al
wsvs been. had already refused TO trust
But now II was the only hope, and he came
with il triumphantly, and required only
that rev bolts should be used TO hold It IN
place.
Meantime all the Arahoys gathered IN the
swami and declared that at last they were
on the map.
s'T reckon they will know where the Am
hovs are now was the declaration
odd Arnbov is having its day"
while Young and old came on foot
t5ro,,gh the marsh. automobiles. wagons
carriages hughes and an occasional horse
with 2. rope around his neck and a blanket
over HIS hack for two barefoot riders gath
cred IN the Shore Road
Hamilton saw them not and cared not TOT
them. but neither did he disappoint them
4 ten-foot road offered. seemingly, the only
eeress from the swamp for a thirty-foot
aeroplane. Hamilton saw another way The
light machine was lifted above the heads or
eftv rrold citizens Of the Arrlboys and car
ried AZ arms length across half a mile Of
marsh TO a road that had just the width
of the airship and no more
There was no Unnecessary delay here,
either Edward Cleary, who once futilely
tried 10 manage Louis Paulhan. had hur-
-ied over from his Staten Island Factory
n helm Hamilton out. and with much
tramping back and forth and many "elru
e,,l1abIes he did valiant work in clearing
The road Hamilton still tnkered with
the engine and measured the runway with
his eve. Only once did he appear TO real
iza that there might be aught in the world
baei6e aeroplanes and round trips to Phil
.de1nbis That was when he saw Curtiss
in the crowd
.eyErI,o,s on the island?" he asked.
~ enc answered, and he forgot that he
had asked
rru,ice he started to climb into the ma
chino h,t each time Cleary insisted that
there should be a longer runway, ana
hamilton shrugged his shoulders and gave
D,av. He was not fighting men The air
mas his nrev. TWO hundred yards were
slowly cleared Clearly demanded more
room Hamilton climbed into the ma
chine Cleary ran suddenly from the BACK
- the front of the aeroplane, brandished
mis- fists, shouted. ducked, and at o-lS tne
n,Iot of the skies had once more lert the