New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-24
ATWOOD 134 MILES AWAY
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here and New York can easily be COW
cred in ono day if the machine is ready
for IT, and the best stopping place Is
Poughkeepsie. sixty-one miles from here
and seventy-three miles from Ne"
York"
If the biplane's engine is working
smoothly Tomorrow morning. in Ste
vens's opinion. Atwood will jump from
Castleton to Poughkeepsie early in the
day. The seventy-three- jump from
Poughkeepsie to New York will probably
he made during the afternoon. and the
stop at Poughkeepsie will give New
Workers plenty OF warning. so that they
can get to vantage points along the
North River front before the flyer comes
down the river. He decided tonight that
nc would make n stop at West Point,
eighty-four miles from here.
one thing is reasonably certain. and
that is that Atwood will not risk an un-
successful ending to his fight by going
over the skyscrapers of Manhattan
again. as he did on mis- Boston Wash
ington trip. His conduct to-day i'm that
respect. over the smaller cities of this
upstate country. indicated that he has
changed somewhat. IT may have been
HIS DdlkN 'llElllf. Ut II may UdN' b''ll
the effect of the double killing In the
Chicago air meet.
Atwood isn't talking about ii at any
rate, but he is evidently avoiding any
thing in the nature Of aerial Joy rides"
and attending strictly to business. To-
day marked his tenth day out from st.
Louis. He left Fort Plain at 30 "A. m,
stopped for about fifteen minutes at
Glen, and arrived at Castleton at 81
a m, in one hour and thirty-two min
utes of actual flying time.
When he slid to earth here this morn
ing he he'd flown 1.132 miles since leav-
ing st. Louis. Rhinccliff, which Atwood
was anxious TO pass to-day is fOrtyfve
miles to the south and If he had landed
there to-day he would have flown LII
miles from ST. Louis. which would break
the worlds distance record Of 1.16S
miles. made i'm something like thirty
days in the recent German circuit race.
II Atwood passes Rhinecliff tomorrow.
or I'm fact any day within the next
twenty DAYS. he will have established a
new worlds record.
In Air IS Hours 10 Minutes.
His actual flying time to-day of | 80
brings his total actual flying time for
the 1,132 miles from ST. Louis up to
- hours and 10 minutes. His speed
varied during the day from a little above
fifty miles an hour over the open couD-
try to something around thirty miles
an hour when skiItting cities over AL
bany he flew almost as slowly az was
possible and consistent with safety.
Residents of the capital city were in
the streets and other places to see him
and watched him swervc gracefully off
to the south end of the city and float
along.
81 want TO ny over New York by day
light" said Atwood tonight. and I
am feeling confident that the long flight
will be finished Tomorrow
The time OF Atwood's arrival here. bar
ring accident, was announced yesterday
afternoon at the rooms Of the Aero De-
Nelopment CLUB. No. 1880 Broadway. The
aviator will come - che ground AT Sleeps
head Bay racetrack as close 10 4 o'clock
to-day as he can arrange his flight. having
mapped out the final lap Of his journey
I'm such a way as to avail himself of the
recention he will receive at the hands Of
local flying enthusiasts
l.. Walter Lssbergcr, secretary of the
company, was in telephone communication
with 4. Leo Stevens. Atwood's manager.
yesterday. and the time was definitely set.
The reception committee, which Will be
on hand at the arrival point this after
noon. numbers more than five hundred.
Fire Commissioner Johnson will head the
committee. and efforts are being made 10
induce Mayor Gdynor 20 welcome Atwood
personally. Members Of the Union League.
New York Athletic. Lambs. Harmonic,
assist in making Atwood's arrival pleas
ant one.