Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1911-06-15
Ely IN GREAT
STUNTS At BUTTE
Aviator Tops Continental Divide, Feat Which
Has Never Before Been Accomplished.

i he swept across the track. just ca
ressed the ground Of the center
field and tripping almost gaily for
a few yards came to a stop as the
crowd, for a moment hushed by the
magnitude Of the effort, failed to
realize what had been accomplished.
When it did, never q conquering
hero returning to his own received
the acclamations accorded Ely.
The crowd, or part Of it surged
across the field toward the machine
and the police were poWerless to
stop them.
They wanted to grasp Ely by the
! hand, cheer him, carry him on their
shoulders had they allowed it and as
he was hastened to the waiting mo-
tor car where his wife was awaiting
him, the throng was So dense about
the machine that it, was impossible
for the car to move for a time.
!, With a happy smile Mrs. Ely
greeted her husband. Ely, cool, al
most resenting the demonstration
in his honor, managed to climb into
the car and was Whirled away to
| the tent at the head of the stretch.
| The crowd was not to be daulted !
However, and hundreds followed un-
til the police established dead line.
They wanted to see Ely, shake his
hand tell him how they enjoyed him
and his fights and get one GOOD
| look at one Of the greatest aviators
Of his time.
| At the tent there awaited him a
young man, who, with hat in hand
and notebook ready, begged Ely for
his autograph.
Ely smiled. scratched his name on
the preferred book, hurriedly tore
off his leather coat. and donning his
Istreet coat and hat and neVer-to-be-
i #Ileft-behind cane, was himself again.
linconspicuous and trying to hide
from the gaze of his admirers out
side the tent.
i Mr.. Ely's other flights were poems
4 Of grace and skill. A postmaster
3 Of the art or science or whatever
you care TO call it Of flying, his two
other exhibitions were fully as inter-
esting as his last accomplishment,
although not as significant. His
first fight was as pretty an exhlbl-
8 ton as one would wish to see. He
rose from the ground within 100
yards Of the starting point and from
then on during all his seven and .
] half revolutions Of the track, nc
more compelling spectacle could
have been desired. He was trying
+ out the roads Of the sky, yet do
ing it without giving an idea to the
crowd Of his intent. He seemed &c
] float. not fy, and nothing but the
! STEADY hum OF the motor would n
innate that there was any power
guiding his craft, that only dlspell'
:, ing what one most desired to think,
that like the winged denizens whose
region had been 50 suddenly invaded
by a strange kin, he was Wlnglna
| his. way through space TO remain oI
! alight as he wished.
His first fight was q delightful
) alexhibition. his rise and landing be
ing especially worthy Of attention
) from the monster crowd, 50 easily
and gracefully were the start ane
] finish Of the aerial journey executed
! Ely attained 4 height Of betWeel
], 900 and 1000 feet il his first exhlpl
ton, always in view Of the crowd
: vet executing evolutions that demon
! strated fully his perfect mastery Q
the machine. This one fight alon'
! repaid everybody who had come
! many from afar, to witness tt
! event.
Fl The race with Howard P1erc'
! el.showea again perfect handling q
II the craft that bore him, the turns