The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-28

The fifth day OF the international
aviation meet opened ful OF promise
and closed in a bowling Wester mat
Illled tle air with Wllrllug autumn
leaves. slammed down the benches in
the 6fauQstandI ripped out the canvas
screens that bar the view of those who
nave not paid, but hope to see. and
sent such "a skIrmish line of dust dane
ing around Tie track that the lamps
had 10 Doe llglaed outside the hang8rs
Tor tile mechanics fO find their way
ABOUT. IL was "a curious euu tU "a day
of 0sipouemeuts, appointments and
scattered feats uf the most daring air.
manslip that has vet been Witnessed by
an American crowd.
Officially. flights for the Gordon Benz
nett elimination trials 90 pick an
American team which shall defend tle
international trophy won az Rheims last
year by Glenn a. Curtiss. opened az .
o clock tnis morning, bar nobody cared
10 come out Tor them IN the wind that
was blowing.
None Dared Try.
AT half past 4 o'clock the specIfl
prize of $4,000 offered by Thomas r.
Ryan for flight from Jhe field 20 the
statue of liberty and return was
opened 10 amy aviator. but none of them
dared try il. They chose 10 take ad-
vantage, instead. of the latest largesss
allowed them DE tine commlItee-per-
mission TO compete between 1880 and
800 o'clock any afternoon during Tile
meet provided only that they should
finish before $3.50.
That narrowed the program down 90
one hourly event Tor distance and allie
tude. Latham. En- an Antoinette mono-
plane. for distance. and HoAsey and
tombstone of the Wright team. for aIti-
tude, were tie only ones 90 brave gale
an hour.
tombstone and Hoxsey tried to set
their wings aud soar into the gale with
cut effort. buI they showed that the
"a IA sHH HH. Dr. e a.
of the things men do not understand.
They kept their p0lse beautifully but
although the speed of the biplane they
We're FLYING is normally rhirty-fiVe
miles an hour and their engines were
running wide open, they were pushed
steadily out Of view ana down over the
edge Of the horizon.
Neither Mould give Ia.
The upper gale they were tanning
must have been more Than forty miles
an hOur, but neither was willing 10
come down before tine ether. Ihey stuck
it out until forced TO land By sheer COM
pulsi0n of the elements.
Both were driven miles off the course.
Word came from HOKseE first that h8
had landed safely at Brentwood, Long
island. aD 1ut twenty-five miles distant
JOLnstons was carried fitty-fiye miles
10 Middle Island village L. J.
These were the two longest flights
of the daV- Each uelcphoued ia that
they hoped TO fly back TO the course to-
Neither Of them could be caught on
the telephone again after they had
reported TO Wilbur Wright. and from
him came the details Of their adFen-
lures.
Incidents. llr Wright said. there
were none. Ii was just one straight
forward progress backwards. When
thev g0t zap a thousand feet OF more
they struck "a wind blowing about
twenty-five miles an hour faster than
they could travel / estimate that II
must have been between sixty and six
ty-five miles an hour. That's all there
IS 10 iI. / guess it is the first time
in the history Of aviation that any
body made flight Iail-end foremost
Only one EHfrHnt.
For the first hourly distance event,
the only routine number remaining on
the program the sole eutranr was
Latham. in an AntOiHette. Tie finished
the hour with only d laps OH miles,
i'm IS minutes -4-5O seconds, and tne
figures show how persistent was his
battle with the gale but they cam
not bring out as did the visual image
itself OF his beautiful maneuTer-
ing One thousand feet above
the grand stand he journey his way
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