The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-18
Atwood Puts Another
Gain of 1913 Milesto
His Creait.
LONG JOURNEY
NOW HALF OVER
In Five Days He Expects to Be
Hopping" Over New York's
Tallest Skyscrapers and Gid
ing Into Sand at Coney
Island-Has Travelled
643 Miles.

Cleveland. Ohio. August 17.-With
another gain of 1913 miles to his credit,
Harry n Atwood arrived in Cleveland
from ST. Louis to New York. He COW
cred the 1928 miles between Toledo and
Cleveland in an actual flying time of
two hours and twenty minutes.
Just an easy canter." said Atwood.
as ne stepped from his biplane in a
park on the lake shore of the city.
I'm five days New York will see me
hop ever its talle9t skyscrapers and
glide into the sand at Coney Island"
The Bostonian now has travelled 643
miles from his starting point in st.
Louis. He has still 622 miles to fly to
reach his destination in New York he
therefore has gone just ten and half
miles more than half OF the l.26o-mile
trip which he says will show the pos
sibility of u future oceanic ocean
flight. His total time actually in the
air since he left St Louis last Monday
is thirteen hours and fifteen minutes.
An Ovation In Cleveland.
Blowing of whistles and the cheering
of people crowded ON the roofs of office
buildings marked Atwood's entry into
Cleveland shortly before o'clock. and
equaled the ovations accorded him at
St Louis, Chicago and Toledo. Coming
with the up hill" slant usual with him
when approaching city, the airman
scared TO an altitude of 1000 feet,
whare. enveloped in the misty atmos-
phere. the bipane was only indistinctly
visible to the thousands of eyes turned
toward it.
That an aeronaut cannot quickly
pick out the spot arranged for his
landing in a strange city was again
evidenced when Atwood. by mistake,
at AL P. NJ, descended at Edgewater
Park. in the western section, whereas
Euclid Beach. three miles to the east.
had Leen offlcially assigned TO him.
Not to disappoint the people, Atwood
again assembled, and in fifteen minutes
covered the thirteen miles over the
city and safely landed. a second later
he threw his suit cases out of the bi-
plane and jumped out. his face reddeneo
by the hard drive against the wind.
Leaving Toledo at 1929 a. NJ. At
wood skirted along the edge of Lake
Erie at an altitude varying from 200
TO 500 feet. He made intermediate
landings at Venice and Sandusky. al
though his schedule called for only one
landing. For twenty miles after leav-
ing Sandusky at S:l5 P. NJ. he steered
his machine out over the lake. while
the populations of towns and villages
ran to the waters edge.
Finding that the air currents over
the lake were too uncertain, Atwood re-
turned to a point over the land, and al
Lorain resumed his regular course
over the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern Railroad tracks.
Fifty-five Miles in Fifty-nine Minutes.
With farms woods, villages and riv-
ers spinning beneath him in blur,
caused by mist which swept in from
the lake, he made his best time be-
tween Toledo and Venice. He flew the
fifty-f.ve miles in tifty-nine minutes,
including time lost in searching for a
landing place. According to program
he was to have lande first at Sandusky,
three miles further east, but coming up
at more than mile n minute clip he
saw that the proposed landing place,
where thousands of people were gath
cred. was too small. Quickly veering
around. he retraced his route. and spy
Ing an open area at Venice, landed
there. This accounted for his making
two stops instead of one in the Toledo
Cleveland run.
was uncertain what his program would
be for tomorrow. He said he probably
would not leave Cleveland until the
afternoon, and then would start on q
ninety -five-mile trip for Erie. Pa.
going by. way of Ashtabula, o. and ar.
irving In Erie about shutdown
sim. he said; change In this plan
and going on to Buffalo.