New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-26

Harry Nelson Atwood arrived at Gov
ernor's Island in his Burgess-Wright
aeroplane at 2:35 o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon. He few from Nyack down the
Hudson twenty-five miles, in forty-two
minutes.
He started from ST. Louis for New
York on August II at 500 a. m. 1t was
q cute little country Jaunt or l'-o0
miles that gives Atwood the world
championship as a long distance aviator.
He made the trip without changing ma
chimes.
He won the prize OF $4,000 offered by
Victor J. Evans, a patent lawyer OF
Washington. who called on Atwood at
the Hotel Knickerbocker last night ana
gave him the money.
Al midnight last night L. Walter Llss-
berger. Of No. 17sO Broadway, offered
Harry y. Atwood 5000 If he would
Av from Governors Island 70 the
Sheepshead Bay racetrack. landing there
at3r m. Atwood accepted the offer
Atwood is only twenty-seven years old'
Wright camp at Dayton until May II.
The aviators there who tried to teach
him the trick Of flying were discouraged.
When he left Dayton they said that At
wood was not cut out 70 be a flyer.
There was something very requisite Tor
an aviator 70 possess. they said and that
was knack In aying. And that, they had
discovered. was what Atwood did not
have Good fellow. and mighty careful
IN his dress and department. but 70
handle an aeroplane something else was
needed than that one should wear i'm
maculately polished shoes and be reck-
less in the matter Of spotless linen.
How He Got a License.
L was rather remarkable. too perhaps,
that the world beating fight should have
been so readily attended TO by the man
70 whom the Aero Club Of America re-
fused license on July 3.
This license was withheld after At
wood had flown over New York city
or his record trip 20 Governors Island
from Boston After thirty days the club
him az St Louis. on August l. Then
b. had a comparatively easy time OF
IL while flying over Illinois, Indiana
Ohio. Pennsylvania and New York,
rever parting with the Aero Clubs IL
ceuse a moment. day or night through
cut ;he journey that will go down IN
history
Tanned. clear-eyed. handsome in
light brown Norfolk suit. Atwood turned
o. the left when midway between the
Statue OF Liberty and Governors Island
yesterday afternoon. and with a final
glide landed on the sands 10 the south
Of Castle Williams.
He took-a man-sized cigar from his
vest pocket and Immediately might have
acquired several hundred matches. The
admiring spectators were tremulously
insistent on seeing 20 II that all the
comforts Of home were supplied 20 the
unassuming hero.
The young Bostonian had jockeyed
with express trains. buffeted the WINDS
OF the plains. the Great Lakes. the gusty
blasts around West Point and the north
east breezes that caught him alongside
the Palisades
He had landed on mountain tops
mountain slopes. in courthouse squares
marshes and rocky meadows on the
start Of his last lap. from Nyack to New
York. his gasolene tank caught nre'
When he was within half a mile OF his
destination AZ Governors Island MS
motor skipped and made him wonder
whether. az the last moment he mlght
have 10 utilize his pontoons ana De
picked up by a shn or ferryboat
He had mastered every difficulty IN
Guiding the overreaching financial am
bitions Of a group Of promoters ana had
landed as he had said he would when
he took wing at 81. Louis eleven days
six hours and thirty minutes before he
had travelled by air 1885 miles IN %
hours and q minutes
After he had lit his cigar ne salu
Il shall have 10 hnd a hat shop. l
was waving my cap 10 the people oi
Yonkers and it few away
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