Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-07-01
Fiirts with Death.

Fiirts with Death.
Before him stretched the narrow and
tortuous course of the river crowded
with traffic and spanned by four lofty
steel bridges.
As If playing with his perils, Atwood
crossed the river to Long Island City
near the Williamsburg bridge, turned
back to Manhattan island. crossing the
river a second later, flew over the city
at no great altitude to the lower end
of the island, oircled the Singer tower.
DETECTED his course past Trinity
Church and eastward south of the lib
erty tower and the New Bankers
Trust building to We'll street, and how
cred In smooth spirais for a monienr
owe ira amazed curb brokers In Broad
street below.
The demonstration Was az complete
as II lay in the power OF human
has been a principle held to by all
aviators that whenever there was a
dangerous spot to cross the higher one
could rise the safer.
Between New Haven and Bridgeport
the airnan had some fun with a pas
E6DReT Train Oh Lie NEW T1dhCn IOdtts
Dipping and soaring, he raced" with
the locomotive, circllng the moving
train three times within short dis
tance. Then as the train slowed down
for station he again headed westward
and was soon out of sight.
so Feet Below Pinnacle.
1t had been calculated that for every
foot of drop a properly executed vol
plane would carry an aeroplane for
ward three feet. Thus to glide safely
out of danger to proper landing place
it was only necessary to rise high
enough But Atwood made his turn CT
the Singer tower at height of 525 feet
from the street, a little more than
eighty feet below the pinnacle of the
tower and barely above the Jagged
Gothic roof of the city investment
building, directly below and beside the
tower.
The fiuttering flag at the top of the
tower showed there was a wind blow
ing OF perhaps fifteen OF twenty miles
an hour--not enough to bother Atwood
IN his steady going Wright Burgess
biplane.
Atwoods fight today Is really q con-
tinuation of his flight yesterday from
Squantum Field, Boston, to New Lon
DON where he cut fancy figures above
the winning Harvard shell as II drew
to the finish line IN the eight-oared
varsity race. His distance then was
1856 miles, covered In 2 hours and 10l
minutes. Best previous record was t0s
miles, made by p. C. Parmalee, a
Wright pupil, with LieuteLant Foulois.
u. S. A, as passenger. Atwood oar-
ried his mechanician for a companion
yesterday and repeated the feat today,
His distance this morning, estimated
from the map, is 122 miles, and his
time was 3 hours and 20 minutes.
Goes Around Train Thrice.
Rising from New London at 7:05,
he passed over Bridgeport, Conn. at
S:2S, 1900 feet in the air Al South
Norwalx which he reached at $3.50,
he was well out over the sound, hying
powerfully at an even level
Between New Haven and Bridgeport
a moving passenger train on the tracks
OF the New York, New Haven anFI
Hartford Railroad tickled his fancy
and descending within easy sight of the
amazed passengers, he followed it.
headed 1t, crossed the tracks in front
of the locomotive, and repeating his
performance made three complete cir
cles Of the train before he resumed his
southwark course. AT Port Chester the
aviator was still following the shore
of the sound at 900. Twelve minutes
later he passed over Larchnlont. and
1t was here that his determination TO
dare greater difficulties first became
evident.
Pointing his planes toward New YORK
he steered inland over Mount Vernon
and at 9.20 headed directly for the
thickly populated Bronx From there
on to the finish his fight was one con
stant succession of perils spurned and
mastered
Atwood was stin and cramped wiys'-
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