The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-08-06

craft. Up toward the burden Of build
ings on the Manhattan shore there were
many excursion boats carrying Satur-
day crowds to the beaches. A lean fruiter,
nosing her way into the main channel
for good luck.
BY the. time Robinson made the turn
and was back again ready for a fair start
up the river Beachey was out OF eight
and Ely was dim cross mark q thousand
feet over the liners berthed at Hoboken.
ROBINSON TAKES HIS OWN PATH.
Reachey's course was straight up the
middle of the North River as far as the
Chelsea Piers. Ely followed him closely.
but Robinson swung far out toward the
Jersey shore. From the beginning Rob
inson marked out u course for himself.
Swinging in toward the Gimbel store
at T'hirty-thrd street and Broadway
Beachey sailed across the housetopss
full thousand feet in the air He passed
to the east of Broadway and then crossed
the top Of the building. making an easy
turn to the left Ely close behind.
The store was the Official starting
place of the race. Beachey crossed the
line at .:47 O'clock and Ely passed min
way so thickly that the surface cars
could scarcely burrow their way through
set up a shout. IL was taken up by the
multitudes on the tops Of the buildings.
There was hardly rooftop in the neigh
borhood which was not packed Men
climbed even to the submits of water
tanks to give the aviators a sendoff
Robinson passed much further up the
river than did the other two His course
carried him to the north and west of the
store, and he made a right hand turn
in order TO get a fair start. Beaohey and
back to the North River. coming out
above the wide line of blue near West
Twenty third street. Robinson e machine
went singing over the top Of the Pennsyl-
vania station. and he kept straight on
across the river, picking up the trail
where the tunnels come out on the Jersey
side.
The other two made down the west
shore of the North River toward the
Kill van Kull. They we're picked out from
Governors Island almost as soon AS they
swept out over the river and they were
| side Of the Statue Of Liberty.
FLYING WITH ELY.
Ely went on, picking up the line Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad and following it
into New Brunswick. As he drew near
the city his motor began to splutter in a
way which he didn't like. That same
motor Ely had driven ll8 hours. and in
the whole Of that time 1t never had missed
a pulsation.
He knew he had to descend. He
dropped to the turf near Franklin Park
n. j.. to look things over.
leaking. That explained part Of the
trouble. He sent for some petrol and
got away in hustle. As he was climbing
into his seat to go on with the fight he
heard the songvof Beacheys motor away
up in the sky. and before he was able to
get under way Beachey passed him and
slipped on into the distance.
But Ely was no more than we'll UP when
he heard more complaints from his motor
Something was clearly the trouble. He
went on for fifteen minutes, however.
before he admitted to himself that the
when he was nearing Princeton Junction
He made a long decline and ran across
a field. coming to n stop in tall grass. He
got out OF his seat and sc. to tinkering
with the machine.
ELY's MOTOR TOO BAD TO GO on.
There was no help for it. He couldn't
go on. He laid the trouble to dirt in the
gasolene tank. He figured that the new
machine hadn't been properly cleaned
before it was put together and that the
new tank had not given his motor a fair
chance. SO he sat down to wait for
somebody to come along who could watch
the machine for the night. When that
person came. and he did IN a minute with
many others. wild at the coming of the
aeroplane, Ely walked to the station at
Princeton Junction and took tho next
train for New York.
Ely got back to the Hotel Astor at about
7.30 o clock His wife had been teiephon-
ing all over New Jersey trying TO find out
where he was. She said last night that she
was glad when he came in.
1t was no fault of his she deftly ex-
planned HE was sorry he couldn't
finish. and so was |. ! told him il was too
bad, and then he said ne would go back
and finish no Tomorrow He won't make
any money out of 1t. but he will show that
he can do it,"
Mrs. Ely added that he couldn't wait
until Monday, though the Curtiss Office
here said last night that Ely could do so
and still be within the rules governing the
race He couldn't wait, for he is planning
To be in Chicago on Monday to get tuned
up for n meet " hich begins on the 18th