New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02
COMES TO n. Y. BY AIR
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air There were gusty puffs of wind
that made the aeroplane dip and bank
frequently.
1t was just after the curb marke: in
the middle of Broad street had opened
Tor the day. There was a faint clack from
the propellers that first attracted the at
tention of a messenger boy and then
started him running up the street crying
'Airship." Stocks were forgotten and all
turned their faces upward in time TO see
the flyer slide into view over the bank
ing house of !. p Morgan & Co.
Such news flies faster than any aero
plane. Crowds gathered from every
nook and Granny and persons pushed and
Jostled one another in the narrow streets.
Thousands of windows held their quota
If half a dozen gesticulating. shouting
spectators to tins greatest of all free
exhibitions
The machine was approaching the
Singer Building from the northeast, first
having gradually been brought 10
height only one hundred feet above its
flag pole. Atwood had determined TO cir
Gle the tower, but a wind of perhaps
eighteen miles an hour struck him from
the northwest. and when he remembered
where he was and that he had never been
there before, he went right on by the
tower and permitted the wind to carry
him over toward the East River.
Before reaching the river he turned 10
the north and flew still above the city
in the direction of the Brooklyn Bridge
then turned to the left and, keeping an
airline very nearly over Broadway, ar
rived thousand feet above Battery
Park. flew out over the waters Of the
bay. circled a Staten Island ferryboat
crcled the steamship Saxonia, of the
Cunard Line, that was on its way to her
dock, dipped in salute 10 the outgoing
steamship st. Paul. of the American
Line. took a squint at Miss Liberty and
then dropped lightly among a lot Of pris-
oners who were unsuspectingly cutting
the grass that borders the reclaimed
ground Of Governors Island.
Gives Lieutenant a Ride.
Lieutenant J. Z. Fickel rushed 20 meet
the aviator 10 ask him his name and
where he came from and how long he
intended to stay LieutenaH Fickei ad-
mitted he had flown as messenger sew
eral times with McCurdy.
After awhile Atwood inquired:
Would you like TO take ride
Would l." italicized Fickel
Then jump in" said Atwood.
Curious ones were still craning their
necks and staring across the water from
the Battery, trusting the aviator might
take another chance at the air
There he goes again shouted the
multitude.
Fickel was his passenger, and 1t was
exactly 30 o'clock.
The instant the gazers on the Battery
saw the machine they rushed to the
waterfront. expecting it TO fly across to
Manhattan. But the aeroplane merely
arose TO a height Of three hundred feet
and few in a westerly direction away
from Governors Island, and made two
complete circles in the air. now swoop-
ms, down within a few feet or the water,
then beating its way by short upward
curves 10 several hundred feet. when
about half a mile out the aviator turned
again flew close TO the water and made
straight for the place from where ne had
started.
moment later he landed with his
Messenger back of Castle Williams AFTER
. eigbt NJ seven minutes. He slid 10 the
ground with little more than jar sun
holding his craft in perfect control.
Atwood did this before accepting the
ir,.itation Of Lieutenant Fickel to break
fost with him at the officers mess The
machine was placed under military
puard and then. shortly after noon Al
wood repaired TO the Hotel Mammalian
whore he got under shower ana INTO
fresh linen. and then said
81 did not know that ! was going to
a., over New York l took sudden
liking 10 the town after l mad passeu
the last of four bridges, and said 10
myself that ! would find out about those
air currents among skyscrapers.
High Buildings Like Hills.
well" he continued. the high "uiiu-
i,ge have the same effect as hills-that
all II YOU are going with the Wind
toward a high building or hill you are
shot up when you get close to either one
and YOU feel a downward pull on the
other side.
"But. although | felt these sensations
among the tall buildings here to-day ana
especially around the Singer tower / eX-
nerienced no tendency at any time to be
nulled into the street"
Atwood has not yet obtained Pilots
,,oanse from the Aero Club of America.
,,,houeb he made his first flight alone
on Nav 30. he has travelled about two
,housand miles in three Burgess-W Wright
rnacb,nes since that time
The speed Of the machine he used yes
to-day is fifty-two miles an hour Dut
,,,o ,y,pd was favorable during most VI
bic tourney. except for its gusty chaiao-
r,s,ics az that half way to New haven
he nicked up an express train tha' Ae