The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-10

bon ur,S..... ..,,i l..s srfii g.--'-~ show III
Ia.g Br.u. ~ h..I -t.Art'al ipr the "Arh
p,.pi.r The strain ~ m, upward TIP
RrruLtts made Nl- rushing descent Nth
.,. On. da-h mat hls. marked hiS eNhiDl-
tlon performances DrnPptng With evsr
pntNsrrng -g.-,'d ia" maritime rushed down
tbruugn .h- SU1 f..'t - space IA ls'ss than
..v.u minutes, ne. n.rvy driver narrow
iug ha 'ir.lcs until b" mad- h', final
utru ~ithlu ha! the distance h"tween the
peers
Nl-,. IN. machine struck the bsanh and
tie aviator stepped ont men and women
,u t.. Boardwalk and on top of the high
s-ck- IT tn. pis'r- sent up a great cheer
ia. swept th,, cntirr length 81 the city
.. "a. l..rp.r,'d "n yachts anchored ~ the
leach and tie club officials and aviation
-Np.rt. made futile attempts tn grasp his
han or hug hun A. he passed On a run.
e.. rrFa Henry VI. Nsnly and Recorder
Angus u, Post Of the contest COMMITTEES
Of the n. .pral council 81 the Aero Club
OF Amer..a. couvoyei ny - squsd OF
husky lrs guards. rushed 20 tho machin"
, aud tan,lerly removed the dslic0ie hara-
grarh ."L.ch belongs Ia Cllroyu n. Har-
mon and which also regStU ID tia great
Harmon and Post, who ascsnded still
shishar aLfloy the instrument had reached
/ its utmoss recording power The officials
carried thS machine to the Marlborough
! Blerhslul '-h-rc it4 record was taken 10y
two onioisIls, President John J White
OF the Atlantic city Aero CLUB audkien.
". = Jones. who act.Si - official re-
cordar Tor Ia. local Organization.
49, crowd nllghRd hE
thousands toward ths entrance 10 the
ptsr, wha-e grinnlng mechAnicians wsr"
hauling lhs machine tn It's resting place.
ana aftA- urging Brookins s.epped out
Of IN, d-assirg room long enoeRh to again
wave us bunch ~ roses AZ IN" crowd.
which msds = break for the pier IN All
attempt e socurp hun and carry HIM on
their shov'de7L The pohC'' held them
back and .oym~d guard lines 10 get
Brookius To his automobile later.
Fearing AttRck by foreign aviators az
Re,ms % tho sItltuie record male to-
day ofiCiah mode every precaution tn
assure The ssruring Of exact figures that
would 10 beyorJ dispute city Engineer
Nightmare va in charge of the work OF
securing through tTausit- tn" exact lines
Of trianT1Ilatior on which the record Will
he hs>al. r. B. Mount aud William 4.
Craig -,ers ststonsi With tran-its at a
station on Rarke'ev avenue. while former
. civ EnriD ser John " Hackney and Wal
ton Rrislev tool the rccor - through tran
sIts lrsir the sie.l pier just three miles
and halt !u-tf er up the leach
still turtle, ~ verify the figures. an
ether orscrNI.tion was taken from 4 sta
ton on the ieok Of the yacht owned hy
Can't T. A oarker Of the seaside Yacht
Ilb ancl o-ed "A the million dollar pier
and used 90 q mark by Brookins when
slors Oh J~ot were blurred 10y distance.
IL was imported immediately after the
finish that Brookins had failed q cross
ire line % observation of the engineers
for r,ACO-ding OF his highest point. SUCH
a failure vog u. have resulted IN REFUSAL
of the of!"ialI t. accept any hgures above
those seCurrd from the observations when
the record breaking aviator last crosssad
their triangulatlon line. hut II was dis
covered later that the failure To cross
: the line had occurred In two CARRIER circles.
when IA" engineers of one station had
failed 10 find IN" tiny dot IN the sky with
their transIts
We have exact observations Of the
very highest point reached by the plane,
SAID President White tonight
other officials said that there i no doubt
that BrpoknS j. the acknowledged al
titude KING OF the aviation world and they
expect the official hgures 20 vary les
than 2nn feet from the barOg raph findings.
Glenn N CurtiS- made ssVeral short
fights while Brookin- was preparing
20 60 into the air for his final try. but he
made no attempt at cit her altitude or
speed flying
Before Brookinz maze his altitude
record at Indianapolis Of 1859 feet the
worlds record wac held by Plulhan. who
reached an altitude Of t.l64 feet at the
Los Angeles inset ia=t January Paul
ran made hl- record 100 the Farnan hi-
plane that l. now being used by clifford II
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