The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-21

Lyons, N. Y, August 20.-Nine hun dred and thirty miles from his starting point, Harry N. Atwood, the young Boston aviator, who Is fast approach ing the worlds long distance record in his flight from St. Louis to New York. landed in a field in Lyons this after noon after flying 104 miles from Buff falo without a stop.
 Ascending in Buffalo at 3:2O o'clock D. m., Atwood, who has flown several days without a mishap, climbed to q high altitude, turned eastward and, hit by a brisk wind from the west. shot over town and villages a speed which kept railroad telegraphers busy report ing his progress. He alighted in Lyons at 5:31 D. m, having covered the 104 miles in two hours and | minutes. In one instance he went four miles in three minutes and on reaching Roches- ter, 69 miles from Buffalo. he went around the outskirts of the city so fast that people standing on office buildings could get no more than d glimpse of him.
 A train which left Buffalo at the same
 
 aeroplane almost all the way to Roches- ter, but arrived there IS minutes after the aviator had passed around the city and disappeared in the east. The train, however had many stops en route
 Atwood is now SS7 miles from New York having made almost three-fourths of the 19ss mile flight By Tuesday night yAe hopes to reach Albany and Wednesday. in one-day flight down the Hudson river, he expects to finish his trip. landing at Coney Island in New York before sun down. For the 930 miles already covered he has been in the air 19 hours and 5S minutes
 Atwood will have broken the worlds long distance record when he flies along the Hudson south of Albany at a point between Greendale and Rhine Cliff. At Rhine Cliff he will have flown 1iI1 miles. CT 1s miles more than the present record of 1J64 miles. won by European aeronarts in flights over Germany. His flying time, he expects will be 10 days, as compared with 30 days taken by the present record holders At the finish the aviator, in dis tance, will have broken the worlds record by l01 miles.
 Eighteen towns and villages saw the aviator today as he swept over them, sometimes flying as low as 150 feet so he could read the names of the railroad stations as he passed. few miles out of Buffalo he ascended from a race track, in a breeze off the lake so strong that it carried him around in circles of mile before he could get his speed. Atwood struck out eastward over the New York Central railroad tracks which are to fix his course all the way to New York Batavia, 37 miles from Buffalo, reported him there 3S It s.t,r nAtt fy,rr ft,f fea- ward Lyons, Atwood found he had not sufficient gasoline to carry him to Syracuse so he picked out clear field on a hill near the town and glided down to the ground.
 ",rhe strangest feature of my trip today" said Atwood, was that l ran into clouds of dust. Not far out or Buffalo I found the air even at great altitude, filled with fine grains of sand I steered In all directions, high and low to avoid it.
 Nearing Rochester I decided not to fly over the city but to go around It, as the smoke there appeared from distance to be likely to confuse me"
 Atwood intends not to reach Albany before Tuesday night. At Albany he will provide his bipiane with pontoons for possible emergency landings in the Hudson river or in the ocean near New York. Leaving Albany Wednesday morning he hopes to cover the 142 miles to New York with one interme- diate stop, sailing over the city and landing at Coney Island in the after noon.
 Soon after he will return to Boston Atwood said he would prepared for a trans-continental flight this autumn probably from Los Angeles to New York He said he thought he could make the $500 miles in 5 days, taking a south ern course to St. Louis and coming York state.