The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-18
Atwood Is Several Days Ahead Of His
Schedule in Flight From St.
Louis to coney
Island.
HALF WAY THROUGH
Wl,en He Reached Cleveland Last
Evening He Had Conc 64s
Miles In Thirteen
Hours.

CLEVELAND, o. Aug. 1s.--WiR an
other gain to his credit of 12S miles
Harry N. Atwood arrived in Cleveland
Ia his aeroplane flight from st. Louis
to New York. He covered 1913 miles
between Cleveland and Toledo in an
actual flying time OF three hours and /
twenty minutes
Just an easy canter," said Atwood
as he stepped from his biplane at the
park on the lakeshore in the city. Il
almost went to sleep with the monot-
ony OF 1t. In dve days New York will
see me hop over its highest skyscrap-
ers and glide into the sand at Coney
Island
The Bostonian Is pleased with hia
progress. He has now travelled 643
miles from his starting point in st.
Louis. He still has 622 miles to fly to
reach New York. He therefore has
gone just ten and one-half miles more
than half OF the 1265-mile trip, which,
he says. will show the possibility of
future ocean-to-ocean flights. The total
time in the air since he left ST. Louis
Monday Is thirteen hours and fifteen
minutes.
The blowing OF whistles and cheers
Of people crowded on the roofs of Of
fce buildings made Atwoods entry in
! to Cleveland shortly before o'clock
as thrilling as the ovations accorded
him at st. Louis, Chicago and Toledo.
Coming with the uphill slant usual
with him when approaching a city,
the aviator scared to an altitude OF l.
800 feet. where, enveloped In the mis-
ty atmosphere. the aeroplane was
scarcely visible to the thousands of
eyes turned toward it.
That an aviator can not quickly pick
out the spot arranged for his landing
In q strange city was again evidenced
when Atwood by mistake at 4:41 p. m.
descended at Edgewater ParA in the
western part of the city, whereas Eu-
cid Beach, thirteen miles to the east
had been assigned to him. Not to dis
appoint the people, Atwood ascended
and In fifteen minutes covered the
thirteen miles over the city and safe
ly landed Later he threw his suit case
out OF the aeroplane and jumped tc
the ground, his face redeemed by the
hard drive against the wind.
Leaving Toledo at 1929 Atwooc
skirted along the edge of Lake Erie
at an altitude varying from 200 to b0s
feet. He made intermediate landings
at Venice and Sandusky, although hi
schedule called for only one landing
For twenty minutes after leaving San
dusky, at 3:15 p. M, he steered hi
machine out over the lake, while th'
populations OF towns and villages raj
b the waters edge.
Finding the air currents over tn
hike too uncertain, Atwood veered nj
course over the land, and at Lorain
resumed his regular route over tn
Lake Shore and Michigan Souther
railroad tracks. With farms, woods
villages and rivers spinning beneat
him In blur, and because of mis-
that swept In from the lake, he mad
his best time between Toledo an
Venice. He flew the fifty-five miles !
fifty-nine minutes, Including time los
in searching for a landing place. AZ
cording to the program he was to hav
landed first at Sandusky, three mile
further east; but, coming UP at moT
than mile minute, he saw the pr
posed landing place, where Thousand
of people had gathered. Immediate
veering around, he retraced his rout
and spying an area at Venice, lande
there. This accounted for his maxim
two stops instead Of one, on the ru
from Toledo to Cleveland.
The fact that am in Cleveland t
night, when I didn't expect to reae
here before Sunday, shows how fl
ahead of my schedule | am, said A
wood. These numerous stops whie
am compelled to make are keepir
me back. am not half trying 4
speed, but see no reason why eve
at a moderate clip can not make u
622 miles between here and New Yol
in f1vel or six days The beatir
against the wind along the treache
GUS air currents near the lake are pt
ting my wings and engine to seve
test, and they are standing the stra
beautifully. Since left st. Louis, n
q single thing has been done to my
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