The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-17
Arthur Stone Has Mar
row Escape From
Death.
JUICES INSISTED
THAT ZEN 60 UP
Airmen. Unnerved by Badgers
and Johnstone's Deaths Pro-
tested Against Further
Flights, but Officials Could
Not Be Moved-Several
Have Close Calls.

Chicago, August l6-Arthur Stone.
driver of Queen monopIane. was
snatched back from death at the In
ternational Aviation meet here to-day
after hopes for his life had been given
up.
Howard Gill, in baby Wright, came
almost as close to death. but escaped
unhurt from under the wreck OF his
machine.
Lincoln Beachey. after being driven
far to the south. and lighting his way
back over the field. glided three thou
sand feet in safety.to the earth, after
his engine had stopped suddenly.
James Ward had an equally hard
task to make his way from far out
over Lake Michigan. but descended
safely in the field.
Stones machine fell into the lake
Just at dusk. He ieaped from the
falling plane. and was rescued. at the
point of exhaustion. by a motor boat
after he had supported himself in the
water for more thar half IN hour.
His machine was not wrecked
That Stone was rescued was attri-
buted largely to the insistence of his
wife that he guard himself with a
life preserver Unnerved by the deaths
yesterday of William r. Badger and
ST. Croix tombstone, and deferred by
a high wind. many of the flyers here
protested against going UP. and warn
ed the contest committee that the
aeroplanes could not be controlled in
the half-gale that prevailed in the
upper air.
The judges were ins!stent. and final
u half dozen flyers rose for a cross
water race from the shore around the
Carter H. Harrison crib. three and
nalf miles out.
Fate Was Unknown.
Thomas Sopwith had completed tho
second lap of the race. and been de-
clared winner, when a cry arose that
stones machine had fallen into the
water, and that the aviator was
| drowned. stones fate was unknown
until Commodore James Hughes's mo-
tor boat Disturber II. reached the Chi
cago Yacht Clubs landing with Stone
alive and we'll
Report that Stone had been drowned
were flashed tc the hangers. Almost
the first to hear of his disappearance
was his wife. Mrs. Irene Stone, who,
with her baby, awaited stones return
from the race far over the lake.
Then Robinson's hydroplane. pilot of
the Curtiss team, darted in and told
that he had been unable to find any
trace OF the missing aviator
At this Mrs. Stone began to weep.
She turned over the child to friend:
Here. take the baby" she exclaimed
I'm going out to the lake to help
find Arthur"
AS Mrs. Stone darted out from
group of friends who sought to have
her return TO the hotel. an automo-
bile came in from the lake front and
assured Mrs. Stone that her husband
had been picked up. alive and merely
the victim of a duck!ng.
I'm mighty glad made Arthur put
on that life-preserver." Mrs. Stone ex-
claimed. her tears quickly drying.
I'm sure 1t saved his life"
Howard Gill; of the Wright team,
promised the first feature OF a Roman
holiday when his machine. suddenly
checked. as 1t SKINNED over the
ground after perfect landing, top
pied over with terrific force. Gill was
pinioned for an instant twist tangled
wires and taut canvass of the baby
Wright. Before startled spectators
had reached him he dug himself from
the ruins. He declared afterwards
that he was not hurt but that his ma
chine was wrecked.
Hnd Narrow Escape.
Gill really had a narrow escape. He
probably owes his life to the new
the baby Wright biplane. The engine.
instead of resting in the rear of the
aviator's seat. is fixed to one side.
Gill had made a perfect landing and
was Swimming over the turf at forty
miles hour speed. The wheels of
his machine struck a rut. The skid
supports snapped. and the machine
toppled over head foremost
The effect OF Tuesdays tragedies was
manifested both upon aviators and
spectators. There was a noticeably
free seats were unoccupied. On the
field and at the hangers the flyers
grouped and presented objections to
further flying.
Walter Brookins expressed the feel
ing OF others
NO individual dare refuse to fly"
he said. his reputation as an aviator
OF daring and courage would be gone
and he would be branded a coward
Every man here feels the loss of
Badger and tombstone, though. and no
one wants to go up"
At the starting gun at $3.50 o'clock,
when usually dozen machines are in
the air. not one had started Finally
Beachey and Ward got up. Beachey
went high in the air. and was blown
for south. Ward. q minute later. was
blown at lower level over the lake,
whence he returned with difficulty,
armalee Prose 100 feet went half
around the field and descended. For
two hours no other flyers attempted
to rise.
Several events had been called off,
and despite the apparent success Of
Ward and Beachey. the pilots still ex-
pressed fear of air conditions.
Beachey was an easy winner in the
nine race around the pylous, fin
ishing in . minutes IS 2-5 seconds
Earle Ovington. second. 9 minutes
80 2-5 seconds; James Ward, third, 10