El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-02-13

Rene Barrier starting on altitude flight
in = Monoplane.
again crawled into the seat, gave the
signal and was away for q high flyer
in the clouds. He made one trip around
the air course, then went higher and
made a shorter circle, gliding down 10
a lower level, when he struck an ad-
verse air current, then up again to
climb the clouds. He glided around TO
the north and then attempted land
ing but could not make 1t. He come
within 20 feet of the ground as If 10
alight then tilted the rear control, shot
up and out and was away again on his
merry race with the crowd cheering
the first bit Of fool flying the aviators
had dared during the meet. He then
turned on the speed works and flew
autoA He came down after being in the
air II minutes and a seconds and had
been up to an altitude Of 1000 feet, &C
cording to his paragraph
Simon next assayed the upper realms
and flew off to the southwest out over
the river and over the center of the
city. where he was watched by the
people who were unable to get out 10
the aviation meet. This was the first
cross town flight that has been made
In FL Paso and the dragon-fly ma
chine, with the little birdman sitting
under the a. braces attracted much
attention from the people on the down
town streets. Simon was lost to view
at the aviation field for almost 10 min
utes, when he appeared over the trees
to the southwest and came raclnS
around the course twice with dips and
glides interpersed before he could get
down to earth with his engine shutting
off. and starting up alternately to get
him in the right position.
Hamiltons flight closed the days
meet, the first successful one to be
given by the international aviatorS
Joe Seymour could not race his auto
mobile because Of a break in the inner
workings of his Vanderbilt racer.
Go to Mexico City Next.
The International aviatOrS will prob
ably leave Ell Paso tonight for Mexico
City by way of Laredo, Tex, where one
of the biggest meets of their tour wtll
be held. In addition to the seven bird
men who are at present in Ell Paso
Mexico will also probably see repre-
,, sentatives of another flying organi'
cation at the same time that the in
| ternationals are in their city.
Alfred ]. Moisant president of the
International Aviators, inc, left 81
Paso several days ago to arrange fol
the Mexico City meet which, according
ably two weeks or more.
The other aviators who will be il
Mexico City are the Wright and Cur.
tiss type biplanes and a battle roya
is expected if these two rival aggre-
| cations of flyers go into the air a
| the same time
From Mexico City the birdmen viii
go to Vera Cruz and then on to Ha-
! vana, Cuba, where thousands of dollars
in prizes have been offered by the Gu
! ban government
LOvelaee Goes to New York.
| T. T LOvelace, the aeroplane con
structor, of the International Aviators
| inc, who has been in FL Paso for the
past three days, will leave tonight fol
I New York.
| Mr.. Lovelace has just shipped a car.
| load of wrecked machines. or what il
| the remnants of the machines, to New
York, where they will be repaired anC
sent to join the international aviators
; either at Havana, Cuba, or in one o.
the California cities which the bird
men will fly Immediately upon theil
return from Havana.