New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-11
FLIGHT TO WASHINGTON
STOPPED BY HUMIDITY
Atwood and Hamilton Make 148
Miles West from Atlantic
City in -Four Hours.
AEROPLANE WOULDN'T RISE
After Three Intellectual Attempts
to Leave Stemmer's Run, Eight
Miles from Baltimore, Avia-
ators Postpone Effort.

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Baltimore, July 1O-Unable to resume
their aeroplane fight TO Washington
this evening because Of unfavorable
weather conditions Harry y. Atwood
stated that he and his companion,
Charles X. Hamilton, would try to get
away at a. m. tomorrow. He. added
that they would stop at College Park.
Md. where the military aviation school
| is situated.
Atwood announced this decision about
1:3O O'Clock this evening, after three
flight from the field where the machine
| descended. Their Journey began at At
lantic City this morning a few minutes
| after D o'clock and ended at 9:23 o'clock
half mile from the Pennsylvania Rail
read station at Stemmers Run. eight
miles east of this city and approximate
ly 14S miles from the starting point.
The flight had to be discontinued on
account Of the intense heat and an at
mospheric humidity so pronounced as to
make it almost, if not quite, impossible
for aeroplanes to attain a sufficient alti-
tude. The same atmospheric conditions
prevailed this evening and forced post
ponement until the morning
Both men We're in excellent spirits
when they appeared at a hotel here this
morning. although tired and hungry.
After breakfast the airman gave an &C
count of his mornings experience.
From the Coast to Farnhurst.
I'VE worked over the machine until
after II o'clock last night" said At
wood. and it was nearly / o'clock when
we retired. We had several hours sleep
and had but little trouble in starting,
leaving the beach promptly at 5:O4
o'clock.
THE first part Of the flight was de-
ightful. The morning air was not so
warm, but the humidity was high, and
even at first we had a great deal Of
trouble in getting any speed or eleva-
ton. At no time during the fight did
we reach an elevation Of more than $50
feet"
The first and only intermediate stop
was made at 6:45 o'clock, at Farnhurst.
DEL thirty-five miles from. Philadelphia.
for fuel. The landing was made in a
lane on the farm of Robert McFarlin, at
Farnhurst. a short distance from the
Delaware State Hospital for the Insane.
Patients filled the windows of the in
sane hospital, greatly excited at the
strange sight and gesticulating wildly
as the machine slowly settled to the
ground. The aviators landed because
their supply of sasolene was giving out.
They had travelled eighty miles without
stop crossing New Jersey, following
route which took them to Woodstown
and over the Delaware River.
Many of the inmates OF the hospital
at Farnhurst were up when the machine
arrived there, and those who were still
asleep We're awakened by the engine in
the air craft Atwood crcled the hospi-
tai buildings several times before decid-
ing upon the lane for a landing place.
and hundreds of residents in that sec
tloh Hdu 81 Splehulu view ol the ma
chine.
After taking on ten gallons of gaso-
lene and chatting with the hospital
physicians the two aviators, thanking Dr.
Hancker, the superintendent Of the hos
pital staff, for his kindness to them,
got into their machine and at 14J
o'clock again took the air. Three min
utes later they passed over Newport
two miles from Farnhurst travelling at
high speed.