Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-15
BREAKS IN ON
CHICAGO MEET
BIRD-MAN WAS INAIR OVER FIVE
HOURS NOT COUNTING THE
TWO STOPS MADE.

miles from St. Louis to Chicago will
only two intermediate stops and il
the actual flying time of hours anG
43 minutes, today, Harry N. Atwood
of Boston believes he has set a pac;
which will result in his establishing
new record.
As it is, Atwood appears to have
broken the American record for q
single days flight. The best previous
American record was made by At
wood himself when he flew 14S miles
from Atlantic City to Baltimore, July
10, 1911. The best international cross
country record is held by Andre Beau.
mont, who in the Paris-Rome contest
covered 401 miles in a single day, but
he made three landigs, while Atwood
landed only twice between the start
and finish.
Left at $50 a. m.
Atwood in a Burgess-Wright BIZ
plane, left St. Louis for New York at
$3.50 a. m. He landed in Chicago at
6:19 p. m. His total time between St.
Louis and Chicago, counting the de.
lays occasioned by tie two stops was
10 hours and II minutes, but his &C.
tual time in the air computed by de.
Quoting the delays was hours and
43 minutes.
Atwood's descent into Chicago was
thrilling. Sailing from the south.
west lone speck in the clouds, he
made direct for the downtown district
and for a time hovered unnoticed in
the distance over the skyscrapers.
Thousands of people were crowded
at the lake front intent upon the
flights of aeroplanes competing in fly.
ing contest. Atwood appeared on the
scene as a stranger unheralded and
expected only by a few.
Crowd Discovers Him.
Suddenly the crowd noticed the on.
coming stranger and voice shouted,
that's Atwood from St. Louis" I'm.
mediately the vast assembly was in
an uproar. Two or three of the air.
men sailed out to meet the fast sail.
ing air man. Coming steadily onward
Atwood sailed gracefully over the avi-
alton field and circled around it, while
several of the machines listed in the
meet followed behind as an escort.
Once around, Atwood descended cas-.
lily, touching the ground for the first
time since his stop at Pontiac, ILL.,, 81
miles from Chicago.
Originally setting te days as the
maximum time for completing the
1,460 miles to Boston his final desti-
nation, Atwood believes he will be
able to materially reduce that time.
His first stop was made at Spring.
field, SO miles from St. Louis, after a
flight of hours and rs minutes. In
stead of remaining there until 2 D. m.
as he had intended, however, he got
away two hours earlier.
Crowds Too Dense.
He was scheduled to stop at Bloom.
ington, ILL.,, but the crowds assembled
at his proposed landing place there
were so dense he would not find a
clear space enough to land in safety
so he swept low and nodding his head
negatively at the people, continued.
At Pontiac he descended to replenish
his supply of gasoline and lubricat.
ing oil.
All tlat was suffered by the man
who thus shot through the air at a
speed greater than that Of an express
trail, was the slight buzz in his ears
caused by the chugging Of his engine.
Landed his feet he was as calm as
ihough he were merely a spectator
who had dropped in to watch the 9th.
er aeroplanes in the spectacular
flight on the lake front.
Atwood, according to an aunnounce
ment made last night, will resume his
flight. to New York from the Grant
park aviation field at $3.50 O'Clock to.
day. He will start out over the water
and will travel across the lower end
of the lake into Indiana.