The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-02
MAKES FLIGHT
OVER NEW YORK
Harry n. Atwood Gives Spectac-
ular Exhibition Far Above
Roaring Streets.
RN Associated Press

By Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July lone of the
most spectacular flights Of American
aviation was ended at Governors
island this morning by Harry \. At
wood with wonderful half circle about
the Singer tower, almost grazing the
roofs of the craggy skyscrapers below.
Nothing so daring has ever been at
tempted BY any aviator before. In
France the Eifel tower has been circled,
but the battling cross current from can
yons and cliffs from Manhattan island
had hitherto daunted all American avI-
ators
Atwood rose from New London at
five minutes past this morning with
the intention of flying down the Con.
necticlt shore and crossing Long island
sound to the aviation field at Mineola
When he got into the air he found his
motor humming so steadily and the air
currents so favorable that his conf
dence grew and instead of crossing the
sound he turned inland off Mount Yer
non, turned like a falcon TO reconnoiter
and headed for Hell gate, at the mouth
of East river,
Danger Very Great. G
Below the aviator lay An uninter
rupted stretch OF roof tops. to touch
any one of which would mean instant
destruction.
Below him stretched the narrow and
tortuous course of the river spauned
by four lofty bridges
AS if playing with his perils, At
wood crossed the river to Long Island
City, near the Williamsburg bridge,
turned back to Manhattan island. cross
ing the nver a second time, flew over
the city at no great altitude to the
lower end of the island. circled the Sin
ger tower DETECTED his course past
Trinity church and eastward south of
the Liberty tower and the new Bank
ers Trust building to Wall street and
lowered in smooth spirals for a mo
ment above the amazed curb brokers
in Broad street below.
Hitherto ~ has been a principle strict
" held &c by all aviators that whenever
there was q dangerous spot TO cross. the
higher one could rise the safer. But At
wood made his turn Of the Singer tower
at a height OF 525 feet from the street.
pinnacle Of the tower and barely above
the Jagged Gothic roof Of the City In
vestmen: building. directly below and be-
side the tower.
tower showed there was wind blowing
Of perhaps fifteen or twenty miles an
bour-not enough to bother Atwood In
his steady going Wright Burgess bi-
plane
Atwood's flight today is a continuation
OF his flight yesterday from Squantum
field. Boston to New London. His dis
two hours and ten minutes. The best
previous record was 10e miles made by
R: c Parmalee, Wright pupil. with
as a passenger. Atwood carried his
mechanician for a companion yesterday
but did not do so today. His dis
tance this morning. estimated from the
ix nd n lie lr1n u u
hours and twenty minutes.
At Bridgeport, Atwood descended with
In easy sight Of the amazed passengers OF
moving train. crossed the tracks in
front Of the locomotive. and. repeating
his performance made three complete
circles OF the rrain before he resumed his
southwestwerd course.
Landed for Gasoline.
IT'S PITY had to- to land Slo.s;at said A. A.
williamsburg bridge I ran out Of gasoline
and landed IN Long Island City in va
can't lot behind some gas tanks to take
on two gallons. There were few people
there to see me, and suppose most OF
the city thought l had made an un-
interrupted fight. The fact that I did
not Will have some effect, on my chances
for new American records.
People on the street may have
thought I had clrcled the Singer tower
but that's another mistake. | attempted
it, but gust Of wind caught me Just
as l was rounding a corner and buffeted
me backward so rudely that 1 did not
dare push the attempt,
You tell me everybody in the city
mechantcian: with me. That's still an
other mistake; I flew alone.
MY average speed I estimated roughly
at flfty-1ve miles an hour.
my first intention was to follow the
shore and cross the sound to Long ISL
and, but was unable to get a steam
ship to follow me and as I had no pom
t1 To tCly fha rf7a ~
falling into the water"
Atwood could not explain the psychol-
ogy by which. to avoid the danger OF
drowning, he courted dangers ten times
as imminent over the roofs OF Manhat-
tan.