The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-11-08
ROGERS ENDS LONG JOURNEY.
AVIATOR RESTS AT PACIFIC
COAST AFTER TRANS-CONTI-
MENTAL FLIGHT.
mas Fio"n 1921 Miles, His Flying
lime 1921 Minutes-For,y-nin
Days on Trip.

Calbraith P. Rogers, approaching a
successful jaunt, scared into Pasadena
at 4:04 p. m. today on the last squirt
OF 80 miles from Pomona, ard frc
an altitude Of several thousand fe
landed at Tournament park. He viii
fly to the coast tomorrow, landing at
the edge Of the Pacific.
Official figures Of Rodgers flight
given by his manager show: Total
distance. 4.231 miles; flying time,
1924 minutes.
Rodgers landed at 4:1O o'clock.
Tomorrow he exects to fly over the
Pacific and thus make the epoch
making feat of aviation really an
ocean-to-ocean flight.
Rodgers appeared in the sky line
| shortly after o'clock. He was
sighted first by telescope from the
solar observatory on Mount Wilson
and word flashed down the mountain
by telephone brought 10000 persons
to Tournament park.
Flying at height Of about 5000
feet, Rodgers hovered over the city
Tor few minutes, then circled in a
wide spiral and volplaned down. His
landing was signal for a rush. and
Rodgers literally was mobbed. After
ward the aviator declared his ribs
surely would be black and blue.
Rodgers started on the last dash
of his flight from Banning, CAL,
little town out in the desert, where
his arrival had interrupted the only
diversion Of the year. the funeral
dance Of the Majove Indians.
Taking the air at noon, Rodgers
ascended gracefully in the face Of a
20-mile wind until he had reached
an altitude of 400 feet Then he set
his course directly west and spanked
his motor up to 30-mile gait.
Rodgers wife and mother, who
have been following him on a special
; train all the way from New York,
1
The flier arrived over Cotton at 1877
p. m. with his altitude increased to
1000 feet and he kept this height
| until he neared, Pomona, FL miles
from Pasadena. He remained there
until after o'clock renewing his sup
ply Of gasoline and reflling the tank
l "a 1aol lxxyr hot
him near disaster yesterday.
After leaving Pomona, Rodgers
kept his biplane pointing upward un-
| til he had climbed over the fleecy
sheets Of vapor flowing near the tops
of the highest peaks Of the m oun-
tains. He sped on to the finish at
Tournament park, on a level with the
Mount Wilson observatory and flying
close to the ragged sides Of the
mountain.
His machine, "baby" Wright that
has only an 1Sfoot spread IF wings,
seemed to hesitate for an instant as
the aviator careened it into the spiral
glide. At this time he was directly
over the park, but as he came down
his f1ier described ever widening
curves until he was within a few hun
dred feet Of the ground. Then Rod
gers performed one Of the dips Arch
Hoxsey was taking when he was
killed at Dominguez field within sight
Of Mount Wilson last December.
! Rodgers first word after he had
been finally rescued from the clamor-
Gus crowd was:
well. one thing is certain, you
! can not do transcontinental flight
in 80 days"
Rodgers also declared that his own
| flight begun September II was fin
ished today. 49 days later would not
be duplicated for a year or more.
BEATS ATWOOD 2.s66 MILES.
New York. Nov. 5.-Calbraith p.
Rodgers, the aviator, who practically
completed his ocean-to-ocean flight
by landing at Pasadena, Cal, today
started from this city 49 days ago on
what was to prove his record-making
trip. In a Wright biplane he rose
from Sheepshead Bay race track at
4:25 p. m. September II and arrived
at Pasadena at 4:10 p. m. today. He
left behind him at Marshall, Mo. on
October 10, a broken worlds record
for cross-country flight, having then
travelled 1898 miles as against the
record of 1,265 miles previously made
by Harry Atwood. Rodgers mileage
over the Atwood record kept piling up
day by day until today he had eclips-
ed IT by q total OF 2.966 miles.