The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-18
ATWOOD THROUGH
WITH HALF TRIP
COVERED 1913 MILES BETWEEN
CLEVELAND AND TOLEDO
IN 8 HOURS, 20 MINUTES.
GAS NILES FROM START
Thirteen Hours Tstal Length d
Time Spent in Air-Hopes to
Be III New York in
Five Days.

Cleveland, Ohio Aug, 17-with
another day to his credit of 12s
miles, Harry N. Atwood arrived in
Cleveland this afterpd(n Oh bis
aeroplane flight from st. Louis to
New York. He covered l23 miles
between Cleveland and Toledo in ac-
,tual flying time Of hours and 20
minutes.
: Just an easy canter.' said At
wood as he stepped from his BIZ
plane at the park here. Il almost
went to slep with the monotony Of
1t. In five days New York will see
me hop over its tallest sky scrapers
and glide into the sand at Coney Is
land
The Bostonian is pleased with his
progress He has now travelled 643
miles from his starting point in st.
Louis. He still has 622 miles to fly
to reach New York He, therefore,
has gone just 10h miles more than
half of the distance of the 1855
mile trip in which he says he will
show the possibility of future
ocean to ocean flight.
The total time In the air since. he
left st, Louis Monday Is 13 hours
and Is minutes. Coming into Cleye-
land with the uphill slant usual
with him when approaching city
the aviator scared to an altitude ol
f,50o' feet. Where enveloped In the
mystic atmosphere the aeroplant
was scarcely visisiesto the thousands
of eyes turned up towards it. At
wood by mistake at 4:41 p. m. de,
scended at Edgewater Park in the
western part of this city where, as
Euclid Beach thirteen miles to the
east, had been assigned to him.
Not to disappoint the people At.
wood descended and in fifteen min.
utes covered the thirteen miles over
the city and safely landed
Leaving Toledo at 1929 a. m. At.
wood skirted along the edge of Lake
Erie at an altitude varying from zoo
to 500 feet.
He made intermediate landings al
Venice and Sandusky although his
schedule calls for one landing. For
twenty miles after leaving San.
dusky at 3:15 p. m. he steered his
machine out over the lake. Finding
the air current over the lake too un.
certain Atwood changed his course
over the land and landed at Lor.
raine, resumed his regular route
over the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern railroad tracks. He made
his best time between Toledo and
Venice. He threw the SIS mills In So
minuts, including tie, lost 1t search.
ing for landing place.
According to programme he was
to have landed first at Sandusky
three miles farther east but cominf
up at more than mile a minute he
saw the proposed landing place
where thousands Of people were
gathered.
He retraced his route and spying
an area at Venice he landed there.
This accounted for his making
two stops instead Of one In the rur
from Toledo to Cleveland. q.
1.-The fact that I am in CLEVELAND
tonight when did not expect t
reach here before Sunday shows how
far ahead of my schedule I am" say
Atwood. These numerous stops tina
I am compelled to make are keeping
me back. am not half trying TO
speed. But see no reason why
even at moderate speed, canno
make the $40 miles between here an,
New York in five or six days. Th
beating against the wind along tn
air currents near the lake are put
ting my wings and engine to sev
ere test and they are standing tn
strain beautifully.
"Since left st. Louis not sin
gle thing has been done to my bi
plane except to put In necessary ol
and gasoline"
Atwood tonight was uncertai
what his programme would be to
morrow. He said he probably woul
not leave Cleveland until in the al
ternoon and then would start on
95-mile trip for Erie, Pa, going b
way of Ashtabnla, Ohio, and arriy
ing in Erie about sun down.
! Still, he said. a change In thi
plan might result IN his atartin
eariier and going to Buffalo,,