The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-02
HOXSEY GAVE ALL HE
MADE TO HIS MOTHER
Wright Brothers Will Settle a
Suitable Sum on Parent of
Dead Aviator.
Concluded From Page One.

to ascend. After rising hc encountered
gusts that threatened his control over
his machine. and he promptly descended.
That is the last for me In winds Ike
this | am taking no more chances,
Ely Has Close Gall
While Ely was making his flight. a
guy wire parted, and becoming tangled in
his propeller. broke piece OFF one OF
machine downward, taking sharp angle
to get to earth as quickly possible.
This was when n shout OF apprehension
control of his planes and landed safely.
though with jolt that Jared him con-
siderablv
The crowd was so somber spirited
tho close OF the events the mechanical
clown OF the meeting-a tiny monoplane
was brought out 10 create laugh and
The spectators laughed hit as the
little machine spun and dsrted about
before rising. then they rclapsed into
when an aviator seemed in danger OF
suffering Hoxseys fate.
Mrs. HovXsey, the mother OF the dead
aviator. Will receive approximately 3d.
mittoc. as the winnings Of her son dur
ing the present meet. The altitude prize
OF $4,000 was won by him last Monday
His American endurance record of three
hours and seventeen minutes. made the
day before his death, undoubtedly VIII
stand, and this will add $4,000 more to
the purse. Then HoNsey's winnings in
daily altitude and endurance prizes will
amount to $1,000 additional. according to
estimates made by the judges.
After being removed from Aviation
brought @ 'fq to this city od Today is 'Vs Was re-
moved to Pasadena, whore II will lie in
n mortuary chapel until Roy Knaben-
shue, manager of the Wright team, COM
,11A> Il.
Gift From the Wrights.
All funeral expenses will be borne by
the Wright Brothers and a generous sum
Will be given Mrs. Hoxsey. She stated
that she had depended for some time on
the earnings OF her son for her living
and now that he had every promise OF
making moro money. she had boen count
ing on passing the remainder OF her days
in comfort II was learned last night
that every cent which Hoxsey has made
during his aviation work has been given
to his mother
Mrs. Hoxsey is quiet. little woman.
nineteen years. all Of which time she has
llvod alone with her boy.
Boxsey was fatalist. He believed
That when his time came 10 die that he
would die no matter where he was or
what he was doing; He talked OF this
to believe the same as he did. which
accounts much for his fearlessness and
for the resignation OF the mother.
my neighbors always worried me and
wanted me to have Arch stop flying.
she said. But somehow or other ] had
no fear.
when Ralph Johnstonc was killed in
Denver my neghbor rushed in TO see me
and coaXed me to have Arch stop but
did not because always rather
thought he would not be hurt. 1t seems
impossible. hut. of course. it is So
Hoxsey Cool to the Last.
"IioXseys last effort seemed to be to
adjust his machine and keep on flying"
said Phil Parmalee, the speed aviator
IF the Wright camp. after he had viewed
The aeroplane in which Hoxsey rode to
ieath.
1.-THE indications from the way the
leroplane fell arc that HoXsey used "A
mighty effort to right himself. II he had
mad fifty feet more between himself and
he earth, he might have succeeded. for
he machine struck almost on Its bottom.
This indicates that II was being rlghted
wen while the aviator was being whirled
n n series OF somersauts.
"HoXsey worked with a cool head to
he very last second of his life. He new
sr lost his nerve for an instant. When
ne went UP "a few minutes after l o. clock
here was light wind blowing. In tho
hour and fifteen minutes this
had increased to Il gusty deceptive gait
HoxSey was unaware OF this and he
,lided down from an altitude Of 1000
'eet with his motor shut off and antict-
,ating no danger