The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-24

| 0 Cities: St. Louis, Chicago CieVe- l 0 land. Buffalo and Albany . l c Will beat the worlds long dis . l 0 tance record at Rhine Cliff, when . | n he will be 13 miles more than the c l C present record of 1164 miles. C l c Expects to reach New York c l G Thursday afternoon, when he will c
 q be 1265 miles from his starting . I c point.
 ooocoooooooooooooooooooOc | Castleton, N. Y, August 2S-On the last I lap on his flight from St. Louis to New
 York, Harry N. Atwood, the aviator, to- night has his aeroplane hitched to an apple tree on top of a hill here, overlook | ing the Hudson river and Albany, eight miles to the north. Tomorrow Atwood | expects. in what he calls two bird hops to complete his journey to New York,
 landing at Sheepshead bay. with possi-
 ble preliminary circle over Governors Island.
 On landing the Boston aviator will have accomplished the longest flight through the air ever made by man in a heavier than-air machine. He will hold the
 worlds record for cross-country flight
 and he believes he has set pace in the development of aeroplanes which will re- suit in more long distance attempts and
 a gradual elimination of fatal contests at aviation meets.
 Atwood hopes to sail over the l34 miles between here and New York before mid- afternoon It is not probable he will
 make 1t without a stop on the way be- cause he carries only 12 gallons of gaso- line and uses one gallon to every ten miles. He hopes to make his first hop the longest so that he will be able more accurately to estimate the exact time of his appearance over New York. His &C., tual flying time. from here down, he thinks. will be much less than three hours.
 | When he landed here. Atwood in ten days had flown 1131 miles from St. Louis
 without any mishap more serious than losing his way in run from Lyons. N. Y., to Auburn. His biplane has en- dured the test without damage, It was only because of slight wearing of the bearings of his engine that Atwood de- cided not 10 continue his flight tonight,
 but to put everything in shape for smooth sailing tomorrow. His mechanics prepared to work on the biplane all night, attach ing pontoons for possible landings in the river.
 Leave Early
 Leaving here probably early Atwood
 will take straight course down the lfv-
 fer flying over or near Kingston Pough- keepsie, Fishkil Newburgh, Ossning and
 int ermediate points. His appearance over
 Rhine Cliff, opposite Kingston will rark
 the breaking of the worlds record for
 cross-country flying for at that point nc
 will have exceeded by 13 miles the pres ent record of 1164 miles. At New York he will have flown 1265 piles or 101 niles
 above the present record.
 Atwood's flight today of 66 miles be- tween Fort Plain and Castleton was the |only days run which he started and
 ended before noon. From Fort Plain
 where he ascended in fog at IFS a. m, The swept through the Mohawk valley, turned the corner' for the south at AL
 bany and landed here at 912 a. m He stopped 15 minutes en route for gasoline. making his flying time one hour and B minutes.
 Over villages and cities. disregarding all offers of money bonuses to land In places where great crowds awaited him. Atwood sailed through the valley against @ wind. Whistles and ringing of bells had no .n- |ducement for him, for generally he tour ed around cities
 At Schnectady he went three miles out of his way to avoid demonstration and was seen only in the distance Ap-
 preaching Albany he turned to the south
 and again evaded the crowds When he
 was winging out over the Hudson river, however, thousands saw him and then began a great rush in the direction in
 which it was seen he was going to land. Atwood himself, after stunning hospi- tality all day, landed on the property of an irate farmer, who protested against consequent thrush of people. The more the farmer protested the greater became the crowd and soon nearby apple or chard was half denuded of its fruit The aviator, who has flown over por- tions of six states and along the edges
 of two lakes, said tonight that he sre- garded the approach of New York merely as the preliminary of still longer flights
 be is planning to take.
 A long cross-country flight, he said. was nothing more than succession of day flights, and he believed straightway flying
 at the present development of aeroplanes
 possessed the least danger of any form of av1at1On
 Atwood said tonight he expected to
 leave Castleton at a. m. tomorrow. He
 definitely decided to stop at West Point,
 S4 miles from this place. According to |his schedule he will reach Rhine Cliff
 shortly before 8 o'clock and West Point
 about g. He proposes to start from West
 Point in time to land in New York about 4 o'clock. taking an hour for the trip
 from West Point.
 My course in and around New York will depend largely on the wind,' said At wood eff the wind favors I will con Itinue directly down the Hudson. I will keep four or five hundred feet above the water I probably will pass over tho lower end of New York, but will not go over any more high buildings than is necessary.
 MY circling over Governors Island also will depend upon whether the air is favorable. I hope to land at o'clock.'s Italians Arrested Cleveland, O., August 23.-Detectives