Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-08-17
HIS FRANKS IN TIE MR. MARVEL
0ES- GOES 80 MILES IN
HOUR.
HIS MANAGER
Arrives at Toledo and is Six Days
Ahead OF Schedule
No Fatigue.

Toledo, OHIO Aug t6-Harry N.
ATWOOD, Who is flying from st Louis
10 BosoH1Yfa Chicago and New York,
arrived bere at 3.57 O'clock this az
ternoon and put up for Tire night. Ills
biplane behaving With the facility of
a baby carriage, the young aviator
tore through 1873 miles Of atmosphere
from 4lhhart, Indiana, TO this city, on
the third day of his voyage, in hours
and 80 minutes, which IS at the rate
of 50 miles an hour. On one stretch
he puf nine miles bebiud him in six
minutes.
Just to show that his big aeroplane
is not a flimsy racing machine but a
utlitafian conveyance, engaged in
marking an epoch in new science,
Atwood carried his manager, Leo
Stevens from TettisVille, Ohio, to this
city. In spite Of the troublesome air
currents that drew on his skill as an
aviator the young pilot sent his ma
chine along the sc miles with its add
ed weight as cool and steadily as II
he had been alone. Atwood has COW
cred 613 miles of his / 1850 mile jour-
ney in a total flying time Of 10 hours
and 43 minutes. He has ten more days
in which to complete the trip mad win
a prize Of $4,000. His present rate
of progress will land him at has des-s
tination six days ahead of schedule.
He will proceed to Sandusky, 81
miles from here tomorrow, but that
than an hour, and it is probable that
he will go on to Cleveland.
Atwood left Elkhart, Indiana, at six
minutes after eight this morning. He
had planned to carry Manager Stevens
on the entire third leg of the long
trip, but when an ascent was at
tempted with the two men aboard 1t
was found impossible to clear the
surrounding country and Stevens was
left behind. He hurried by train to
Tettisvile, 81 miles away, and as At
WOOu ltllidIitu JutlC oCNCldl 1Oul
he was able to overtake him.
Flying at an altitude of 300 feet
above the tracks of the Lake Shore
Railroad, Atwood covered AZ miles
during the first hour out of Elkhart.
The road beside the railroad tracks
was lined with farmers who had driv-
en- many miles to catch their first
glimpse of an aeroplane. Between
Kendalyille and Gorunna the rural
spectators were treated to a grand ex-
hibition, as the machine maintained
a steady speed of mile a minute on
the six mile stretch. Crossing the In
diana-Ohio state line, however, At
wood flew at rate that would have
made even the seasoned critics on
Chicago's lake front marvel. From
Butler, Indiana, to Nina, Ohio, he
sent his biplane ripping through the
air about two hundred feet above the
ground, at ninety miles an hour The
nine miles between the two towns
were traversed in six minutes.
Atwood dropped into Tettisville
looking as fresh as if he had just made
his morning toilet. He said he was
not in the least fatigued and readily
accepted an invitation to ride in one
of those slow going, old fashioned
contrivances, called automobiles, to
Wanseon, Ohio, for luncheon. He re-
turned to Tettisville at O'Clock and
after making a careful examination
of his biplane, especially the engine,
he took Stevens aboard and set out
for this city at 1920.