Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-02
P.0. PARMLEE WAS BEST IN
The ENDURANCE RACE
San FRANCISCO.
He Was in the Air Nearly -Four Hours
Sunday Afternoon-Ely, Who Landed
on Deck of Battleship, Was Cheered
by Crowd-Tetrazzini Honored bv
Avoators-Amateurs Have Trouble

San Francisco, Jan. 23.-San Fran.
cisco s aviation meet produced a new
American record for endurance Sunday
when Philip o. Parmalee, plotting
Wright biplane, remained aloft for >
hours 80 minutes and 40 LIS seconds.
The best previous endurance record
was that of A. L. Welch of st. Louis
who established record of hours II
minutes and SIS seconds. At Los Anoe.
les recent meet the late Arch Hoxsev
was credited with an unofficial record of
3 hours and II minutes.
crowd of over $4,000 cheered tbe
birdman as he pursued his monotonous
course, and when he finally descended
he was given rousing ovation. Several
enthusiasts, among them Eugene b. Elv
hoisted him on their shoulders and car.
ried him in triumph to stand in the
middle of Selfridge field, where General
Tasker II. Bliss and other army officers
congratulated the aviator.
81 could have remained up longer.
said Parmalee, "but my hands and feet
grew so numb that l thought 1 had
better come down after clinching the
American record.'
His flight was uneventful. Once.
while sailing close to the San Bruno
hills on the far side of the field. he
dipped suddenly and sharply in order to
force gasoline into his engines.
Crowd Iionizes Ely.
Ely, the daring Curtiss, aviator. who
landed ON the deck of the cruiser Penn
sylvania Thursday a week ago, was lion.
lied by the army and navy in full view
of the crowd. With Major j. p. O'Nein.
in command of the field encampment
and Captain Pond of the Pennsylvania.
Ely reviewed the troops of the second
battalion of the Thirtieth infantry and
a detachment of bluejaekets from the
Then followed the presenta.
ton to the aviator of a gold medal bv
the army.
Goes to Escort Tetrazzini.
Immediately after this ceremony EN-
went up in his biplane to deliver on
behalf of the aviation committee an in
to Nine. Louise Tetrazzini. the
opera singer, to attend the meeting.
Madame Tetrazzini, according to a pre-
arranged plan, was waiting in an auto
mobile at the Ingleside track, about five
miles north of the aviation grounds.
1t was Ely's intention to act as an
aerial escort to the diva for the re-
mainder of her journey to Selfridge
held, but after reascending the aviator
ost her automobile among the crush
If other machines on the road.
The committee was waiting for her
1T the gate, however, when she drove
Up and escorted her to a gayly decorated
box In the center of the grandstand
where she was formally welcomed by
he aviation officials and army officers.
Beautiful exhibition flights and mill
AIRY maneuvers kept the crowd keyed
Up to high degree of interest through
tut the afternoon.
Lieutenant Myron Crissy, flying with
Walter Brookins in a Wright biplane,
'xperimented with dropping bombs, and
jharles F. Willard, the Curtiss aviator,
further tests by sending
messages by wireless.
Amateurs Come in Grief.
Attempts by amateurs to fly added to
he interest. Thaddeus s. Kerns, the
'outhful Chico bird emulator, stood his
machine on its nose in the middle of the
leld' The engine was Jared through
he stanchion, separating the drivers
eat, and Kerns had narrow escape
rom serious injury.
Another novice who came to grief
vas George H. Loose, plotting biplane
wned by Ralph J. Shief of Alameda.
loose negotiated the length of the field
darts and skips. On reaching knoll
ear the limits of the enclosure a plane
'razed the shoulder of spectator, the
machine |swerved and turned over on
Us SIDE, wrecking the car. The aviator,
owever, was not injured.
A throng of excited spectators rushed
p to the wreck and completed the
emolltlon of the aeroplane in the
cramble for souvenirs.