Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-08-15

Chicago, H., Aug. IA long dash
in tobasco in aviation, already pep
perry with excitement, WAS given this
evening by the arrival in Grand Park
of Harry n Atwood, OF Boston. He
had flown every foot OF the 2S3 miles
from st Louis in his Burgess Wright
biplane.
Much of the dist@nce WAS covered
faster than mile Il minute. With
man and machine looking fit to con
tinue without stopping the ,i60 mile
flight TO New York and Boston At
wood settled gently i'll front of the
grandstand on the Lake front at
6.24.30 o'clock in the evening
The start from st. Louis was made
at S:30 O'Clock this morning. Amid
cheers from the throns that has been
listening for hours TO bulletins OF his
approach to Chicago, the cross cotH
try Voyager brought his obedieHt ma
chine to a perfect landing,
Although he was 9 hours, "a min
utes and 80 seconds Ell route from
st. Louis to Chicago, counting from
the time he left the sod i'll Forest
Park to the moment his wheels dug
into the mud Of Aviation Field, At
wood was not flying all that time. He
stopped two hours and a half at
Springfield and two hours more al
Pontis c. On the straight stretches out
in the country Atwood went al a clip
that would have left the fastest eX
press train in the eXtravagant Ian
: guage of horsey days, standing still
j He averaged close to a mile a min
ute for the time he was in the air
According to the aviator's own
statement upon his arrival at the
Grand Park aviation field, he will
leave Chicago sometime tomorrow af-
! ternoon.
Il am so far ahead of my schedule
that | won't need to hurry" he said
laughingly, when asked when he
would start the second leg of his
flight If the same luck attends him
on the balance Of his trip to New York
and Boston, every endure nee and dis
lance record of the world promises to
be broken and new epoch marked in
the history of aviation.
Atwood's actual flying time in the
/ ir for the entire distance from St.
Louis to Chicago was six hours and
fifty-five minutes, or an average
of ALP miles per hour. He was to
have landed at the Fair Grounds In
Springfield, but the crowds were so
great that he was forced 10 bring his
machine to rest a mile or more
north OF the city. At 70: As he took
to the air gain, his next scheduled
stop being at Bloomington, but here
again crowds interfered and as they
occupied the only available landing
ground he was forced to continue on
to Pontiac, where he landed again at
2:30. Here he took on Oil and gaso-
line, the first and only supply during
the entire day. Shortly before 6
O'Clock a bulletin was received by
the Aviation officials in Grand Park
that the cross country flyer was due
in Chicago at $50 and from that mo-
ment thousands of eyes were glued to
L the sky towards the Southwest wait
ing for his appear nee. At 6:1O tiny
black dot scarcely bigger than pin
doomed up against blue. A mighty
shout that it was Atwood. From that
moment the contestants on the field
were forgotten and the dot loorhd
larger and gradually took the form Of
a biplsne. Eight minutes later he
was above the field and instead OF
lighting at once, joined the aerial pro-
cession already in the air and twice
circled around the pylons, waving his
hand good naturally to the frantic
grandstend as he passed.
In spite of police restraint, when
he finally came to earth without ev-
en- jar, crowd rushed out to him,
lifted him to their shoulders and
formed triumphant procession, car
rying him to the official box Dressed
in natty gray Norfolk suit, he was
clean and cool as if he had just
alighted from Pullman car.