The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-21
ATWOOD CLOSE
To THE END 0E
LONG JOURNEY
Boston Aviator Certain to
Break the Long Distance
Record Now Held by
European Airmen.
TRIP ACROSS THE
CONTINENT NEXT
Start Will Be Made From
Los Angeles, and Route
Will Be by Way of
st. Louis.
TRIP ACROSS THE
CONTINENT NEXT
II YONS. y. Y. Aug 2O.-Nine hun
dred and thirty miles from st.
Louis lis starting nnllt Harry \

II YONS. y. Y. Aug 2O.-Nine hun
dred and thirty miles from st.
Louis. lis starting point. Harry y.
4 Atwood, the Boston aviator, Who
is fast approaching the worlds
lonE -distance record In his flight 10 New
York landed in field nj LYONS this
Buffalo without stop.
Ascending in Buffalo n, 2;30 o'clock.
Atwood climbed 10 high altitude. turned
the west shot over towns and villages
at speed which kept telegraph opcr-
aSoIs busy reporting his progress. He
covered The 1Of miles In two hours and
eleven minutes.
In one Instance he went four miles In
ester. siNty-nine miles from Buffalo. ne
went around the CITY fast that pao
pie standing on office buildings could
not &c, m2Ts ore 'hsn ls, r,,Sl, glimpse OF him
did ran in sight OF the acroplane almost
all the wny TO Rochester. but arrived
there eighteen minutes after the aviator
had passed around the city ana disap~
peaTed In The east The train. however.
had made stop eD route.
Will Break Record.
Atwood is now cas- miles from New
York. having made almost three -fou7ths
Of tho 12samile flight since Monday. By
Tuesday night he homes 10 reach Albany
rHu w III Il but-idN AIsUN
down the Hudson river he expects 10
break the worlds record for distance and
finish his trip. landing at Copey Island
ready covered lie has been in the air
actually nineteen hours aud fifty eight
minutes.
distance record II he reaches point or
the Hudson south of ALBANY between
Greendale and PmneciIff. II he reaches
Rhineciff he viii havo flown ll77 miles.
r..~t ,t,t ,,.lH NJ q hH
rresent record of 116i miles by
European acronauts. His flylnc time. I've
expects Will be ten days. ms compared
With thirty days taken by thc present
record holders. II he reaches New York
Cilv the Bostonian will have broken the
worlds record ny IoI miles.
Eighteen towns and villages saw the
aviator today as lie swept over them.
sometimes flving as low as $50 feet 40
he could read tlin names OF the ranroad
stations as lie passed
Dust High in Air.
THE stranEest feature Of nay "trip to-
day. said Atwood was that ran into
clouds Of dust. Not far out Of Buffalo l
filled with fine grains OF sand steered
In all directions. high and low, to avoid
u, but i was not until ! reached Batavia
ester. decided 10 fly around the city.
as the smose there appeared likely TO
confuse me"
ATWOOD does not lNtcnu 20 iVacI ~
bany before Tuesday night. Leaving
there "Wednesday morning, ne hopes to
cover the i42 miles from Albany 20 New
York with one intermediate stop. sail
ing over the CITY and landing at Coney
Island In the afternoon,
Soon after he returns 10 Boston Atwood
said he would prepare for trRnsconu-
mental flight this autumn. probably from
Los Angeles TO New York. He said he
thought ne could make the $500 miles In
fifteen days taking n southern course &c
St Louis and coming north by way or
Cincinnati TO New York state