Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-22

noon 70 TeSume MS nl0nI HVWoOo
announced he would attempt to =
travel the entire SO miles to
Syracuse without stopping.
Lyons, N. Y, Aug. 21.-Well on his
way into New York state in his aero
plane flight from st. Louis to New
York, Harry N. Atwood today prepared
to fly SO miles from here to Utica.
He said he probably would stop at
Syracuse and might detour over
Auburn.
II he reaches Syracuse tonight he
will have flown 1,O26 miles since he
left st. Louis a week ago today, and
he will have 239 miles still to fly be-
fore finishing in New York City. He
has been in the air every day since
he started and has never been COM
PEELED to land because of anything
more serious than the using up Of his
gasoline. His daily records, not in
cluding todays plans, together with
the number of stops between the daily
start and finish is:
st. Louis to Chicago, two stops,
2se miles, five hours and 43 min
.utes!
Chicago to Eikhart, Ind, no
stop, 101 miles, two hours and Is
minutes.
Elkhart, Ind, to Toledo, Ohio,
one stop, 1873 miles, two hours
and Sc minutes.
Toledo to Cleveland, two stops,
1923 miles. two hours and 80 MIN
utes.
Cleveland to swanvIIle, Pa, no
stop, "a miles, two hours and
seven minutes.
swanvIIIe to Lyons, N. y, one
stop, 1o4 miles, two hours and II
minutes.
one result Of his flight, Atwood
says, will be to encourage long dis
tance flying in place of aviation meets
"Aviation meets, as they are going
now, will soon be thing Of the past"
said Atwood. "They invite too many
spectacular attempts with fatal re-
suits. Man flight, If it Is to be devel-
oped along the line Of practical re-
suits, must be confined to simple fly
Ing. It Is more credit to civilization
that a man fly across the continent
than he can turn a flip flop In the
air"
Tomorrow night Atwood hopes to ar
rive in Albany. From there on Wednes-
day he thinks he will be able to Fly to
New York.
Atwood's Trip from Buffalo.
Nine hundred and thirty-dve miles
from St. Louis, his starting point At
wood landed in q field at Lyon yester-
day afternoon, after flying 1O4 miles
from Buffalo without stop.
Ascending in Buffalo at 1920 o'clock,
Atwood, who has flown several days
II Soho @n1f Nd fN q h3cvn
altitude, turned eastward, and hit by
q brisk wind from the west, shot over
towns and villages at speed which
kept every telegraph operator busy re-
porting his progress. He anghted in
Lyons at 5:31 o'clock, having covered
the 1O4 miles in two hours and eleven
minutes.
Soon after he returns to Boston,
Atwood says he will prepare for a
trans-continental flight this autumn,
probably from Los Angeles to New
York. He said he thought he could
make the $500 miles In fifteen days,
taking q southern course to St. Louis
and coming north by way Of Ctncin-
natl to New York state.
IN one instance yesterday he went
four miles in three minutes and on
reaching Rochester, sixty-nine miles
from Buffalo, he went around the city
80 fast that people standing on Office
buildings could not get more than
glimpse of him. Atwood Is now 33b
miles from New York, having made
almost three-fourths of the 1,2e5 mile
flight since Monday. BY Tuesday
night he hopes to reach Albany and on
wednesday in one day fight down
the Hudson river he expects to break
the worlds record for distance and
finish his trip, landing at Coney Island
IN New York at sundown. For the
e3o miles already covered, he has been
in the air actually 19 hours and So
minutes.
"The strangest feature Of my trip
Yesterday" said Atwood. was that
ran into clouds Of dust Not far out OF
Buffalo found the air even at great
altitude filed with fine grains OF sand.
steered in all directions. high and
Row. to avoid 1t, but it was not until |
reached Bavstia that l found the air
free. Nearing Rochester decided TO
fly around the city. as the smoke there
appeared n<ely - confuse me-