The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-24
|VDDD TO FINISH
/ LONG TRIP TODAY
4, Aviator Expects to Land in
=, Work. Some Time This
Afternoon.
sr.rN TO BREAK REcoRD
- TO Take a Straight Course
c,wn the Hudson on the
Final Lap.

..srrEroN, N. Y, Aug. 2S.-on the
!. q, his aeroplane hight from ST.
:, New York, Harry ~ Atwood to-
-, his biplanc hitched 10 an apple
|. ,on Of a hlll here. overlooking the
.ysr and Albany, eight miles To
Tomorrow Atwood expects. In
@ @.s,Is two "bird hops" TO COM
~ ~ tnurney TO New York, landing at
Say with a possible prelimin-
80 oyer Governors island.
9nS,nc The Boston aviator will have
sshsJ the longest flight through
,s sycr made by man In q heavier
machine. lie Will hold the
Il. ,srord for a oss-comtry flight,
hslcyes that he has set an exam
sviatlon that Will result In more
nSsnce trips and a gradual ellmi-
n ''cIrcus" contests.
- homes to sail the lS4 miles be-
tsre and New York before mid
rn He hopes to make his first
tSs longest SO that he will be
ar. accurately TO estimate the
X sJme Of his appearance over New
4 Will Start Early.
vd exnects to leave here at a. m.
~ He has decided TO stop at
Point, eighty-four miles from here.
-SlpR to this schedule. he Will reach
<stNF shortly before S o'clock and
Poipt about 9. He purposes to start
Test Point In time to land in New
about o'clock, taking an hour for
bip from West Point,
sss ne landed here Atwood. In ten
lad flown 1131 miles from st. Louis
Vol any mlshap more serious than
4 Nj, way In n run from Lyons. n,
4 Auburn. His biplane has endured
i,sl we'll. II was only because of a
4 wearing Of the bearings OF his en-
ihat Atwood decided not to continue
1 dght tonight. His mechanics pre-
y % work on the biplane all night, at
- aluminium Pontoons for possible
DTs In the river, Leaving here, prob
arly, Atwood will take u straight
h down the river, His appearance
Rhineclift, opposite Kingston. will
3 The breaking Of the worlds record
ro<z country flights, for at that point
|Fin have exceeded by thirteen miles
,rssent record Of 1854 miles.
/ New York he Will have flown 1865
or l0l miles above the present rec
Wednesdays Flight.
moods flight today OF siXty-six miles
IA Fort Plain and Castieton was
.ny days run which he started and
y before noon, From Fort Plain,
Il be assembled In Il fog at 7:25 a. M.
f7ept through the Mohawk valley,
"a the corner" for the south at AL
and landed here at 9.12 a. m.
stopped fifteen minutes en- route
Fs0llne making his actual flying time
bur and thirty two minutes.
IA villages and cities. disregardlng all
y Of money bonuses TO land in places
3 great crowds awaited him, Atwood
Trough the valley In the fog
u wind. Whistles and ringing OF
"a no inducement for him. for gen.
be detoured around cities.
ring Albany he turned 10 the south
fa1ed the crowds, When he was
p1s out over the Hudson river, how :
nouSands saw him and then began
rush In the direction In which he
Eufng.
,ed, after stunning hospitality al!
anaed OH The property Of an irate
Fho protested against the pres
stne aviator and the consequent in
people, The more the farmer pro-
ne greater became the crowd and
hearoy apple orchard was half
~ rf fruit.