The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-08-06
.BEACHEY winner
IN $4,000 AIR RACE
Continued from First Page.

earth until just after 325 the megaphone
man, with his ear to the telephone. bawled
, out: Two machines passed over New
Brunswick at 32s and 3:3i A third. some
distance in the rear. il approaching.
All are too high to be recognized"
Then in q minute: 1.-TWO machines down
just outside of New Brunswick. Not
known what is the cause of their descent. v
WORD or REAcHEYs LEAD.
For another stretch Of long minutes
folks on Philadelphia roofs strained their
eyes at the black cloud bank over the
elbow OF the Delaware River to the north;
then came the shout through the tele-
phone:
| "One machine. believed to be Beachey's,
coming down near Milestone Junction,
four miles south of Trenton"
| 1e!ore long all the streets far below
knew that there was not one OF the
machines still in the air and il was not
until the wireless spun web OF hope
from roof TO roof that the sporting blood
OF the Philadelphians pulsed high again.
For just as line of glistening wet began
to move up the uneven pavements of the
roofs from the Camden shore the tele-
phone spoke again:
"Beachey landed near the Trenton
Fair Grounds to repienish gasolene and
oil and took the air again at 405."
! At about the same moment word came
| from Trenton again that Robinson. who
had been hung up thirty minutes at New
Brunswick, had just settled down at the
Trenton Fair Grounds with hot motor
and a lack of oil His machine was ur-
hurt and he would continue the fight
the telephone said.
BEACHEY OUT OF THE SKY.
When the last bulletin came the rain
| had slackened and the clouds lifted some
what The cimctar of the Delaware
showed like dull steel. marking the course
that the oncoming airnen were to follow
the judges with telescopes sought to
spear an eyeline through the mist away
down in the street. still jammed from
curb to curb despite the rain. a ripping
murrnur of expectancy passed up and
down
"There he s."
| II was girl in bsdrag ggled white duck
who leaned far over the edge Of the finish
roof and pointed ont in the direction Of
North Philadelphia Hardly had she
called when the heavens opened and the
pencils Of rain wrote weird patterns on
the shining roof surfaces,
But that girl had eyes and she had
beaten all the telescopes. Away Of and
away up over North Philadelphia and the
Pennsylvania railroad bridge was little
speck that second 10y second grew larger
and split itself into two little parallel
dashes like the equal" marks in arith-
netic. The watch said 4:i2 when the
aeroplane was sighted.
| Beachey was about / 800 feet in the air
when sighted. but just az he crossed over
the Delaware near the vicinity of the
Christ Church spire he rapidly dropped
to the 500 foot level He did not turn
abruptly from the river into Market
| street. but cut corners from North Phil
adelphin. coming straight for the Gi,nbel
| Building out of the northwest.
GREETINGS TO orR CITY.
! Every whistle on the river cut loose.
| the Jets of steam ripping holes in the low
! lying cloud blanket. Up from the Market
street slit cane a roar as the jam below
caught glimpse between canon walls
of the gossamer shape above the roof line.
Beachey struck squarely across the
Gimbel roof jus, IA Paul B. Huyette.
official ting; snapped his watch at
4.i7:22 2-5. Tho aeroplane was not 5Oo
feet above the little grand stand on the
roof top when it went Apping by.
The race his. Beachey started to give
! Philadelphia a show. He turned sharply
when about abreast of the Bellevue
! Stratford roof. swung over TO the south
| and made of straight for the top Of Will
lam Penn's Quaker hat surmounting the
pinnacle of City Hall.
over went the hiplane in a steep spiral
not more than $50 feet above the statue.
Once around the head of Philadelphia :,
founder the bplane sw>pt. then it righted
| itself and foated quickly into the dis
tance headed for Belmont Plateau.
On the broad field chosen for a landing
place out there over hundred policemen
were having all they could do TO keep tn.
edges Of the crowd pushed back from a
900 foot space OF green, the landing place.
But Beachey was not ready TO land imme-
diately. He still had few tricks in his
bag
keel at top speed while the crowd yelled
APPROVAL; then he went tho length of il
in what he calls the Dutch roll" his
machine taking invisible air breakers like
! a surf boat.
Then up to 900 feet he nosed the BIZ
plane turned and came down in hair
raising spirals.'
LANDS AND rs HUoGED.
When he landed his wife, who had cone
started only short time before Beachey
took the air was the first to say something
| to him. She whispered il in his ear with
! her arms around his neck
Then Ellis and Daniel Gimbel did some
back patting and hustled Beachey through
the crowd to an automobile
An hour later he was on the roof of the
Bellevue -Stratford taking dinner as
quietly AZ il winning out on a ninety
mile air line straightaway was all in the
days work,
ROBINSON ARRIVES
Pretty nearly every one on the roofs
and in the streets believed that Beachey
would he the only one to finish, for the
news that Robinson, who had dropped
at Trenton. was up in the air again was
not buletined TO Market street just
as the hands on the City Hall clock
pointed to 525 another biplane sailed over
the Gimbel roof and on out to the landing
place in Fairmount Park.
of hours rs minutes So 2-5 seconds He
said when he came down that he had been
! forced 10 descend at New Brunswick
because of a skipping motor and that he d
stopped at Trenton to load up with gaso-
lene and lubricants.
When the time that Beachey had spent
in Trenton renewing his gasolene and oil
supply was subtracted from the tota
elapsed time, the judges announced that
he had actually been in the air hour 81
minutes and II seconds, That beats the
Pennsylvania express train schedule by
about five minutes.