Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-09-07
CROWD Gets
MONEYS WORTH
Spectacular AirshIp Flights by
Grahame- White
lie ENTERS every CONTEST

lie ENTERS every CONTEST
Not Only Thousands of Harvard Bos-
ton Aviation Grounds Are Enter
tanned, but EngIishman Dromes
Over Hilsides and Roads Outside
and Performs Wonderful Tricks
Captures Many Points
Boston, Sept. 6.-Grahame- White
outdid himself yesterday at the Har
ward Boston aero meet. Not only
did he capture the points for the day
establishing a new worlds record for
bomb throwing, speed record for the
course and duration record for the
day, but he put himself out to enter
tain the crowds that braved the threat
ening weather to attend the meet.
He was brought to earth in the
duration trial just a few minutes short
of a new record for the course. That
he landed On dry ground and not in
the Neponset river, was due to his
remarkable control and self posses
sion
While he lowered over the river the
magnetic brush went wrong. The en-
CINE skipped, then stepped He was
over the river. BY wonderful jockey
ing he glided along, alighting quietly
and easily on the very edge Of the
river. His narrow escape, occurring
in the mist, was not appreciated by
the spectators.
He went into every contest anyone
else entered, going some better every
time. From the very outset he was
spectacular. He took his rise from
the lane between the hangers, tearing
directly toward the main grand stand,
rising into the air and shooting over
the heads Of entranced thousands.
For five minutes he performed
stunts for the people in the main
stands. Then he seemed to catch
sight of the people away over in the
island stands Over there he dromed
For them, too, he went through his
tricks. He doubled back and forth on
his course, clipped out fancy circles,
swOOped perpendicularly down, to
catch himself just above the ground
and rise again, his dragon fly respond
ing to his control like a spirited
trained horse.
in 7o !, IF
people outside the grounds, gathered
in the roads and on the hillsies, he
made a great detour toward them
For their special benefit he again
went through his breath catching
feats.
All day long he was greeted with
cheers. He never failed to acknowl-
edge these demonstratiOns-he waved
his hands in answer, sometimes both
hands at once.
When Willard took up woman pas
senger, carrying her around the
course once, not very high in the air =,
Grahame- White, not to be outdone in
gallantry, invited Miss Marie A.
jumped from his Farman, ran to
meet her, picked her up in the air,
carrying her to the machine and seat
ing her in the extra seat.
Grahame- White took Miss Camp
bell, who is New York society girl
around the course twice He took
her twice as high and swooped and
whirled in his course, and then after
alighting, rode her around the front
Of the auto park, and wheeling
stopped in front of the main stand.
Throughout his whole performance
remarkable especially because he was
capturing first honors in every contest
bomb throwing, speed, duration
distance and getaway-he was his own
gracious self, winning every heart
the way he made fun of his work
fun for himself and fun for the spec
tators.
In short bursts of speed, both Will
ard and Curtiss in the Curtiss biplanes
made the spectators catch their
breaths. In the bomb throwing con-
tests, in which both Willard and Cur
tiss participated, the short laps over
the outlined battleship called forth
exhibitions of sharp turns, although
in the speed tests the Curtiss plane
fell % seconds behind Grahame-
Whites record of 6 minutes l sec
ond for the five and one-half miles
of the three-lap course.
During this contest, at the close OF
the day, tombstone in the Wright, and
Grahame- White. in his Farman,
were circltng the course in the dura-
ton contest.
The Wright machine and the Far
man raced neck and neck for several
moments, and at nearly every lap,
the Curtiss machine, on its short laps
over the battleship target, slashed IN
under them.