Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-18
Atwood GIides into CIeve-
land Thursday P. M.
Does Double Landing Stunt, 10
Please The People.
Is Now Half Way on ST. Louis 10
New York Journey.

Cleveland. Ohio, Aug. 17-With an
other gain to his credit of 123 miles.
darry N. Atwood arrived in Cleve-
land this afternoon on his aeropIane
hight from St. Louis to New York. He
covered the 123 miles between Toledo
and Cleveland in an actual flying time
Of hours and 20 minutes.
Just an easy eanter," said Atwood,
Is he stepped from his biplane In a
ark on the lake shore in the city. 81
almost went to sleep with the monot-
)ny of it. In five days New York viii
see me hop over its tallest skyscrapers
md glide into the sand at coney Is.
land'
The Bostenian Is pleased with his
progress. He has now travelled 643
niles from his starting point in st.
Louis. He has 622 miles to fly to
each his destination in New York
lis total time actually flying since he
eft st. Louis last Monday is 13 hours
ind Is minutes
Blowing of whistles and the cheering
# people crowded on the roofs of Of
ice buildings made Atwoods entry in
o the city shortly before 4 o'clock rs
t st. Louis, Chicago and Toledo. Com
G with the uphill slant" usual with
i'm when approaching a city. the air.
nan scared to an altitude of 1900 feet,
here, enveloped in the misty atmo-
phere; the biplane was only indis-
inctly visible to the thousands of eyes
arned toward it.
That an aeronaut cannot quickly pick
out the spot arranged for his landing in
A strange city was again evidenced when
Atwood, by mistake, at AL p. M. de-
seended at the Edgewater park in the
western section, when Euclid Beach, l3
miles To the east, had been officially as
signed to him. Not to disappoint the
people. Atwood again assembled and in Is
minutes covered the 10 miles over the
city and safely landed. A second later
he threw his suitcase out of the biplane
md jumped out himself. his face red
dened by the hard drive against the wind
Leaving Toledo at 1923 A. NJ. Atwood
skirted along the edge of Lake Erie at
an altitude varying from 200 to 500 feet
He made landings at Venice and Sandus-
KY although his schedule called for only
one landing. For 20 miles after leaving
Sandusky at 3.15 p. NJ. he steered out
over the lake, while the populations of
towns and villages ran to the waters
edge.
Finding the air currents over the
lake too uncertain, Atwood returned To
a route over land and resumed his
regular course over the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern tracks. With farms,
woods and villages and rivers spin
ming beneath him in a blur caused by
a mist which swept in from the lake.
he made his best time between Torledo
and Venice. He flew the SIS miles in
50 minutes, including time lost in
searching for a landing place. Accord
ing to program he was to have landed
first at Sandusky, three miles further
east, but coming up at more than
mile-a minute clip he saw that the
proposed landing place where thou
sands of people were gathered, was too
small. Quickly veering around he re-
traced his route and spying an open
area landed there. This accounted for
his making two stops instead of one
in the Toledo Cleveland fight.
This fact that am in Cleveland to-
night when / did not expect to reach
here before Sunday, shows how far
ahead of my schedule I am said At
wood. These numerous stops which
| am compelled to make are keeping
me back. I am not half trying for
speed. But I see no reason why at
even a moderate clip I cannot make
the 500 miles between here and New
York in FIVE or six davs."
Soon after his arrival here Atwood's
aeroplane was attached for claim of
$500 allowed to be due it by the Standard
Oil Co. 1t later was released on bond
furnished by Atwood.