The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-11-08
TO PACIFIC
IN AN AEROPLANE
Aviator Rodgers Lands mt Pasadena,
California, after Long Flight.

Calbraith p. Rodgers. approaching a
successful completion Of his ocean
to-ocean jaunt, scared into Pasadena
at 404 p. m. today on the last squirt
OF 20 miles from Pomona, and from
All altitude of several thousand feet
landed at Tournament pa!k. He Will
hy to the coast tomorrow, lending at
tae edge of the Pacific,
OMcial figures of Rodgers fight
given by his manager show: Total
distance 4,231 miles; flying time,
1924 minutes.
Rodgers landed at 4:10 o'clock. To-
morrow he expects to fly over the Pa
cific and thus make the epoch making
feat Of aviation really an ocean-to-
ocean flight
10000 People Saw Him.
Rodgers appeared in the sky line
shortly after 3 o'clock. He was
sighted first by telescope from the
solar observatory on Mount Wilson
and word flashed down the mountain
by telephone brought 10000 persons
to Tournament park.
Flying at a height of about 5000
feet, Rodgers lowered over the city
for few minutes, then circled in a
wide spiral and volplaned down. His
landing was a signal for a rush, and
Rodgers literally was mobbed. Aftcr-
ward the aviator declared his ribs
surely would be black and blue.
Rodgers started on the last dash
of his flight from Banning, Cal, a
little town out in the desert, where
his arrival had interrupted the only
diversion of the year, the funeral
dance of the Mojave Indians.
Taking the air at noon, Rodgers
ascended gracefully in the face of a
2O-mile wind until he had reached
an altitude of 400 feet. Then he set
his course directly west and spanked
his motor up to a 30-mile gait.
Wife and Mother Followed.
Rodgers Wife and mother, who have
been following him on a special train
all the way from New York, left Ban
ming Immediately afterwards. The
ilier arrived over Cotton at 1877 D. m.
with his altitude increased to 1000
feet and he kept this height until he
neared Pomona, 2l miles from Pasa-
dena He remained thereuntil after
3 o'clock, renewing his supply of gas
oline and retilling the tank of the
leaky radiator that brought him near
disaster yesterday.
After leaving Pomona, Rodgers kent
his biplane pointing upward until he
had climbed over the heecy sheets of
Vapor flowing near the tops of the
highest peaks of the mountains. He
park on level with the Mount Will
son observatory and flying close to
the ragged sides of the mountain.
His machine, baby" Wright that
has only an 18-foot spread of wings.
seemed to hesitate for an instant as
the aviator careened it into the spiral
glide. AT this time he was directly
over the park, but as he came down
his fiier decribed ever widening curves
until he was within a few hundred
feet of the ground, Then Rodgers per
formed one of the dips Arch Hoxsey
was taking when he was killed at
Dominguez field within sight of
Mount Wilson last December
Not In Thirty Days.
Rodgers first word after he had
been finally rescued from the clamor-
GUS crowd was:
We'll, one thing is certain, you
can not do a transcontlnenta1 flight
in 30 days"
Rodgers also declared that his own
flight, begun September IL was fin-
ished today, 40 days later, would not
be duplicated for year or more.
There is little danger from cold or
III ON an attack Oe fhn grin avoant - =.