The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-05-31
Aviator 10 BipIane Covers
$50 Miles
FROM ALBANYTONEW YORK
Travels at s4-mile Rate, Exceeding thl
Speed Of Fastest Limited Train,
and Time Of Paulhan in Lon.
n-Manchester Trip.

New York, May 81 Glenn r. Cmtiss,
tired ont BY his record areoplane fight,
stayed ia his room at tile Hotel Aston
yesterday morning, resting, Hc left Of.
ders not 10 be disturbed It was said
he had earned bis holiday, though he
might answer questions later
After the official dgurers got at his
records yesterday. it appeared that Cur
tiss flight from Albany Sunday, Gov.
cred 1877 mikes IN l52 minutes, with but
one stop az poughkeepsie, before he land.
ed within New York City limits.
He dropped at spuyten Duyvil and
then added ay Is miles in Just ls
minutes more, going down to Governors
Island
His actual total distance and time IN
ain figured UP just about $50 miles Ia
40 minutes But the FIRST stop uptown
oinehed the record and $4,000 prize
The date q May ~, 1910, which was
Sunday, ia going to BE- a historic date
i'm the annals Of the Hudson river, and
10 lees IN the history Of aviation On
~ one flight has So far been made By
aeroplane Ia any respect overshad0wink
that Of Sunday That flight WAS Paul
hams from London 10 Manchester made
on the night 81 April "a % Of this year.
81 Just month and d day before Cur.
tiss' achievement Panlhans total ais.
tance covered was 1875 miles. OF this dis.
lance he few M miles without stop.
ping, 50 his feat seems to have a little
the better Of b over Curtiss' ia the mat
ter Of distance, if not in time and other
features.
Cmtiss rose from the tide Of hats Of
Van Resselaer island at Albany, at T.0s
o'clock Sunday morning IN the smallest
biplane that has figured seriously IN the
worlds great flights sped upward 70
height Of 1000 feet, maintained IL for
40 miles swung then over the Catski1s
at far great height once attaining
q maximum Of almost 5000 feet, dropped
down above the Hudson waters for an
other 40 miles, and landed finally az
Governors island 81 noon
Ele had covered $50 miles IN an actual
flying time Of hours and 46 minutes.
and bad won the New York World prixs
Of $4,000.
The fight which sets new mark in
the conquest of the air. was made
through a territory presenting q great
variety Of perils, far greater than ans
other stretch that aviators have tried
Wide canyons, high cliffs. eddyTng cur
rents and reverse currents shooting ont
Of gulches into the Hudson yOlev alf
played their part. One stretch made
Curtiss fight every inch 81 his way.
while bis tiny craft tossed and pitched
like yacht in hurricane Through
The difficult places, which include the
treaeherous Storm King pass Curtiss
pumped oil into his craft SO pentifully
that a long blue haze hung out behind
him tanning itself into shape oehind
Ike q comets tail
Curtiss' average speed was 5A.ls miles
an hour which Is equal to mile III
every minute and ak seconds
0urtiss, who has raised his name to
a sort Of kinship with those Of Hudson
and Fulton al il . morning is man
somewhat under 40 with record az
clever mechanic, a builder az gaeDene
engices, and 4 prudent and successful
aviator ne went over to France inst
at the time when the foreign avlat0fs
we're distancing The Wrightis records and
there captured al records for air speed
guYiiss was no hero Sunday morning
at o'clock. Far from It, II was true
that triumph lay only few hours away
But the feeling alta th moment was
anything but favorable 70 the man wh4
had given notice some DAYS before that
he would Ay from Albany t0 New York,
Curtiss hadn't flown. 1t seems odd to
look back on now but 1t is none the
less true that there had been some pretty
loud grumbliing against Clirtiss.