New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-01
TRlUMPHs or cURTIss.

lhlUMFHS Vi CUhIISS.
Career Of the Famous Aviator In Air
Navigation.
Years of study and patience In the
face of seemingly insurmountable OBJ
stacles have gained for Glenn 81. Cur.
tiss, the American aviator, his success
as an inventor and aviator. He has
made record after record in the air.
Few men have taken the risks Curtiss
has, few men have sailed as many
miles through the air, and few men
have met with SO few accidents. Only
once was Curtiss near death while fly
ing biplane. That was at Rheims.
in France, when he was preparing for
aviation week. In a practice fight
leak was sprung in the gasoline tank.
and his aeroplane swooped to the
ground. For several days Curtiss
walked with a cane.
Curtiss won his greatest success at
the international aviation meeting in
Rheims. He also won the admiration
Of his foreign rivals at the meet Cur
tiss flew for the title Of champion avi-
ator Of the world at Rheims on Aug.
%, 1909, when he won the Coupe In
ternationale d'Aviation. In a biplane
invented by himself he made two
rounds Of the ten kilometer course. a
distance of 1912 miles, in Is minutes
and SO 3-5 seconds This was at the
rate of forty-seven miles an hour. 1t
was a great victory for America, and
Frenchmen complimented Curtiss on
his wonderful feat.
Before Curtiss went to Rheims he
made many flights over Hampstead
plains at Mineola, N. Y. These flights
were sensational, for Curtiss estab.
lished record after record. His first
important fight was made at Mineola
on July Is, 1909, when he was in the all
twenty minutes and forty seconds, the
best American record up to that time
The following day Curtiss tried again
for record, and this time he stayed
up ffty-two minutes and forty seconds
setting another American record and
coming within twenty-five minutes OF
the Wrights' record.
1t has been Curtiss' knowledge OF
the gasoline engine that has been the
greatest aid to him in perfecting the
acceptance Curtiss, who is not yet for.
ty years old, took an interest in gaso
line engines when he was but boy
at his home in Hammondsport, N. Y.
where he conceived the idea Of put
ting a motor on a bicycle to aid hin
in climbing the village streets. His
idea was successful, and the machine
he built became the wonder Of the
countryside. He has since built engines
for dirigible airships, for submarine
| boats, for motorboats and for aero
| planes.
1t was in the dirigible airship Of
Thomas F. Baldwin that Curtiss frs
! became known as an aeronaut. Ii
June, 1907, he esta blished world:
record in one Of Baldwin's airships a
Hammondsport. Baldwin piloted tht
airship while Curtiss tended the mo
tor. The airship attained a speed O.
more than twenty miles an hour.
It was a little more than three year
ago that Curtiss began building motor
| for aeroplanes The June Bug, bull
at Hammondsport, was one Of the frs
| biplanes to gain serious attention i
| the United States. 1t was wonderful
thing when the June Bug, navigate
by Curtiss, few few hundred feet
and sensation was made when. 0
July 4, 1908, Curtiss won the $3.50
Scientific American trophy by GOVERN
Il mile in better than / minute 45 sec
onds. Curtiss gave the first public e1
hibition in America in an aeroplane.
/ Curtiss has made fights in many G
the leading American cities. His col
scientious efforts to fly whenever
has been possible won him hosts {
friends The inventor has often riske
his life rather than disappoint til
I spectators at aviation meetings. Whe
he was flying at Hampstead plains b
once went up in a fog in which b
could not see ten feet ahead Of him.