Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-21
Speed al Times Greater Than
Fastest Express rains.
One Stretch Of -Four Miles Is
Made in 3 Minutes Flat.
Atwood Now Plans a Los Angeles
TO New York Flight.

Lyons, y. Y, Aug. 2O-Nine hun
dred and thirty miles from his start
ing point, Harry \. Atwood, the young
Boston aviator who is fast approach
ing the worlds long distance record III
his flight from St. Louis to New York,
landed in a field in Lyons this after
noon, after flying 1o4 miles from But
falo without a stop. Ascending in
Buffalo at go 2. n. Atwood. WHO
has flown seven days without a mis-
hap, circled To a high altitude, turned
eastward, and. hit by brisk wind
from the west. shot over towns and
villages at a speed which kept train
dispatehers busy reporting his prog
ress lie alighted in Lyons at 5.31 z
NJ, having covered the 104 miles In ex-
actly hours and II minutes. IN ore
instance he went four miles in mir
utes and on reaching Rochester -
miles from Buffalo. he went around the
outskirts of the city so fast that peo-
| pie standing on Office buildings could
not get more than a glimpse of him
A train which left Buffalo at exact
| ly the same time that Atwood did ran
| in sight Of the aeroplane almost all
! The way 10 Rochester. but arrived
| there Is minutes after the aviator hal
| passed around the city and had dis
appeared in the east. The train, how
| ever, had made stop en- route
Atwood. who is now 335 miles from New
| York. has covered almost three-fourth of
his 1865 mile flight. BY this time Tues
| day night he hopes TO reach Albany, and
on Wednesday, tn one-day flight down
| the Hudson river he expects to break the
worlds record for distance and finish his
| trip, landing at Coney Island in New
York before shutdown, For the $50 miles
already covered he has been in the air
actually 10 hours and SIS minutes.
Atwood will have broken the worlds
long distance record when he flies along
the Hudson south of Albany at point
between Greendale and Rhinecliff. At
RhinecHff he will have flown Hi miles,
or Just l3 miles more than the record of
1854 miles won by European aeronauts in
fights over Germany. His flying time,
he expects. viii be 10 days, as compared
to 80 days taken by the present record
holders. ~ the finish the Bostonian in
distance will have broken the worlds
record by l0l miles.
Eighteen towns and villages saw the
aviator today as he swept over them,
sometimes flying as low as 100 feet so
he could recognize the railroad stations
as he passed. A few miles out of Buffalo,
where he assembled from a race track. in
a breeze off the lake so strong that it
carried him around in circles of over
mile before he could get his speed. At
wood struck ont eastward over the New
York Central tracks, which fixed his
course all the way to New York. Run
ming at his usual mile-a-minute clip, ne
passed over towns at intervals OF y to
Is miles Batavia. 81 miles from Buffalo,
reported him there IS minutes after his
! start.
1t was between East Palmyra and New
ark that he made the best recorded
time of the day, covering the four miles
| between these two points in three min
utes Getting in toward Lyons, Atwood
found he had not sufficient gasoline to
carry him on to Syracuse, so he picked
| out a clear field near the town and glided
down to the ground
Atwood's flight tomorrow will be SYRIA
cuse and Utica. with stops at each of
these cities and a possible detour to Au-
burn
Soon after he returns to Boston At
wood said he would prepare for trans
continental flight this autumn, probably
! from Los Angeles to New York. ic SAID
he thought he could make the $500 miles
in Is days, taking southern court 10
| st. Louis and coming north by way oil
| Cincinnati 10 New York state