New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-17


minute later. was bbwn at lower ieNe'
over the lake. whence he returned with uil-
ficulty.
Parmalee rose one hundred feet. went
half around the field and descended. For
two hours no ether flyer attempted to rise
Several events haj been called OH. an,
despite the apparent success or Waro anu
Beachey the pilots still expressed rear ~
air conditions. Their Parmalee' aho'ner =.
the Wrights tried - go up again. l"i'e
ftful gusts forced : m to descend
Soon the race foI ipeed ABOUT tie
was called Owing talked 10 'h@i' man
Mudd over the. teltI hone.
say Ovington tclaimed. you are not
going TO attempt Z have us try the infield
course and bank n Sc pylones. are you!
That's IN TO the ,viators." Mr.. Mudd re-
piled "They know about conditions.
yes they thong they knew apout ooii-
ditions Yesterday replied Ovington. heat
edly land you X ow where two OF 'hem
are to-day Wer willing TO ny the ldhe
course. but it me ms certain uealh w a.
tempt to bank tho e pylons.
Following this discussion the aviators
went to the Judge stand. and. as the WIND
subsided, races v ere run over both pylon
and crib courses.
Beachey was al easy winner in the nlne-
mile race around the pylons. finishing in 3
minutes. 2s 2-5 seconds; Earle Ovington' sec
ond. minutes 2-5 seconds; James "ard'
third. 10 minutes Al seconds
fNatG
the DAVIS altitude record. reaching height
of 707s feet
Thomas Sopwi'h won the fourteen-mlle
'cross-water flight In II minutes seconds;
Rene Simon. se ond. Is minutes % 20 sec
onds: Beachey. third. IS minutes 2s seconds
Sounds Note Of Warning.
Protesting az iinst continuation or the
aviation meet, the following was given OUT
to-day by Dr. Stuart Johnstone father OF
St Croix tombstone. the Chicago AVIATOR
who was drowned in Lake Michigan yester-
day after fall with his monoplane
write in protest against this new Moloch
which is swallowing up so many OF the
best Of our young men. MY BOY, VINO never
who was as brave as a lion, is deac, Il
sacrifice To his quality. AS flyer he was
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viewpoint Of the elimination of its dangers.
He was a type of a dozen OF others VINO
are gone and dozens more now on tne
brink Of the same sacrifcial slaughter az
this aviation meet. winch must susseSI >. W
the thousands of spectators a Roman gladi-
atorial arena. Society should endeavor 10
prevent this loss. We cannot, you say:
Man must conquer the air. You can. |
saw and still may conquer the air. II Is
perfectly obvious that these frail machines
will break with a terrible strain put upon
them In the hands of the best mechanlclan
motors will act erratically. break. stop.
Sow let the inventive genius that has
brought them TO their present PERFECTION ne
attracted toward devising lite preserving
agencies. Until this IS done, in the name
of humanity | call on them 10 stop all pup
lie living and to end further sacrifice.
The aviators were inclined to crticise the
local management for not calling off the
programme Yesterday. when Badger was
killed. Harry ~ Atwood flying from St
Louis 10 New York. sent Identical tele-
grams to-day to every afternoon news
paper here characterizing the non-action
Of the management in this regard as
fierce and uncivilized.'
Walter Brookns and Andrew Drew ex-
pressed themselves without restraint
while assent>to their remarks was nodded
by other 0isrs.
we were all urnerved by the accidents
Rrookn= said. but We were not slgnalled
to come down, and so continued our flights.
There wasn't an aviator on the grounds
who felt fit to hardle a machine after
Badgers death. We knew him and liked
him still the programme never halted
No aviator would decline to fly, no matter
how shaken his nerves were. II he did
he would be called coward. and his pres
tige would suffer severely"
Owing to the danger the trial for alti-
tude with a passenger was eliminated from
the programme. and this afternoon the
airmen were warned to avoid spirals. dips
and other hazardous fcats
Major Raeber. United States Signal
Corps; !. A. Baird, jr.. vice-president Of
the Aero Club OF America. and James Ste
vens. an official OF the Chicago Interna-
tIonal Aviation Meet Association, made "A
repc,.t Of their findings after a minute eX
animation OF the machine I'm which St
Croix tombstone met his death yesterday
This committee. appointed solely 10 deter
mine if Johnstones. death was due TO pos
sible structural defects i'm the machine
which he was driving. reported that there
was TO evidence OF any such defects.
Major Raeber said that the wings of
Johnstones machine did not collapse, nor
did the engine explode.