The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-21

Lyons. y. y, August a0.-Sine hun
dred and thirty miles from his start
ing point. Harry y. Atwood. the young
Boston await tor. who is fast approach
ing the worlds long distance record
in his flight from ST. Louis to New
YORK. landed in a field In Lyons this
afternoon. after flying lo4 miles from
Euraic without stop.
Ascending in Buffalo at 1870 P. NJ,
Atwood. who has flown seven days
without a m!shap. circled to high
altitude. turned eastward, and. hit b.
brisk wind from the west. shot over
towns and villages at speed which
kept railroad telegraph operators busy
reporting his progress. He allghted
In Lyons at 5;3l p. NJ. having covered
the io4 miles in exactly two hours
and eleven minutes.
outdistances Trnin.
a train, which left Buffalo al ex-
actly the same time that Atwood did.
ran in sight OF the aeroplane almost
all the way 10 Rochester. but arrived
there eighteen minutes after the avia :
tor had passed around the city and
had disappeared in the east. The
train. however. had made e stop en-
route.
Atwood is now 3ss miles from New
l.265-mile flight BY Tuesday night
he hopes to reach Albany. and on We'd
nesday. in & day flight down the
Hudson River. he expects to break the
worlds record for the distance and
finish his trip. landing a Coney Island
in New York before shutdown. For the
$50 miles already covered he has been
In the air actually nineteen hours and
ffty-eight minutes
Eighteen towns and
the aviator to-day as he swept over
them. sometimes flying as low as $50
feet, SO he could read the names OF
the railroad stations as he passed A
Few miles out OF Buffalo. where he as
cended from race track In a breeze
OF the lake SO strong that 1t carried
him around IN circles OF a mile before
he could get his speed. Atwood struck
out eastward over the New York Cen
trail Railroad tracks, which are to fix
his course all the way TO New York
1t was between East Palmyra and
Newark that Atwood made the best
recorded time OF the day. covering
the four miles between these two
points in three minutes. Getting in
toward Lyons. Atwood found he had
not sufficient gasolene to carry him
on to Syracuse. SO he picked out a
clear field on hill near the town and
slided down to the ground
To Utica To-day.
Atwood's flight tomorrow will be
to Syracuse and Utica, with stops at
each OF these cities and a possible
detour to Auburn.
He intends to reach Albany not be-
fore Tuesday night.
Soon after he returns to Boston. At
wood said. he would prepare for a
transcontinental flight this autumn.
probably from Los Angeles to New
York. He said he thought he could
make the $500 miles In ffteen days.
taking a southern course to St Louis
and coming north by way of Cincin-
natl to New York State.
May BE a New Record.
Chicago. August 2o.-The worlds
record for altitude again was reported
hanging in the balance when the nine
day meet of the International Aviation
Association closed tonight. Lincoln
Beachey. in a Curtiss machine, after
an hour aloft. out OF sight of the
spectators. had just volplaned to earth
and an unofficial reading of the baro-
graph indicated the machine had
reached q height OF 11.15e feet. Or
dinarlly this is liable to a change of
200 feet either UP or down.
The meet came to an official close
when Harold F. Mccormick, of Chi
cago. son-in-law of John D. Rookie
Teller. and chief promoter of the meet,
circled the held several times in a
monoplane driven by Thomas Sop
with Exhibition flights will be given
tomorrow. however. by all Of the
aviators in a benefit performances for
the widow of st. Croix tombstone, who,
with william Badger. of Pittsburg,
fell to their deaths last Tuesday
The grand duration prize. the chief
financial plum of the meet, was won
to-day by c. P. Rodgers. who had
been in the air over IS OF the al Ia
possible flying hours. The prize was
$4,000, in addition to all OF the other
unearned prizes, totaling about S1s, 900.
Rodgers Will receive half OF this sum
and the residue will be divided among
the next two highest records.
Thomas Sopwith was the chief
among the aviators In point of per-
sonal profit. taking total Of nearly
$4,000 in prizes.
The twelve miles speed event for
biplanes was won by Eugene Ely,