New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-14

scarcely more than fifteen miles an
4 hour.
! TIE final. preparations for the nlsh'
occupied something over two hours
from the time that Ward stepped or the
first ferry to the minute he rose IN the
air. Three mechanicians under the
command of big Blackie," in blue
shirt and purple tie, supplied the
machine with oil. gas and water, WhlIe
Mrs. Ward. of four months standing,
sat by and looked "weepy."
You haven't much fear about the
outcome?" she was asked.
NO" YOU might have heard her say
if YOU had been very close by.
The only thing I'm anxious to get
said Ward, "is across this bay. Then
/ don't care what happens
With the machine about ready for
aight. Hudson Maxim arrived on the
run and shook hands with the aviator
Maxim who had been designated as
official timer OF the start, asked the
time of a bystander set his watch ana
shook hands with Ward. The flight
was then ready to start. Ward got IN
TO the air in fifteen seconds, made one
urn of the island and was off.
When the aviator of proverbial luck,
he who has lived through some Si'
fights. if his manager says sooth,
turned westward from the historic
Hudson. he was for once at odds with
the tickle goddess. out of the maze OF
tracks that spread out underneath him
he chose the wrong line. For about
twenty miles he foated along in bliss
full ignorance OF the fact that he was
putting more and more miles between
him and the place where he expected TO
spend ;he night. Susquehanna, Penn.
At last il dawned upon him and he
came To earth in Ash Brook. y. j., at
9:53 o'clock.
Along about > o'clock in the afternoon
Ike" Bloom and Mrs. Ward and sundry
other interested parties took Erie train
No. 3 for Susquehanna, bindly trust
full that Jimmy" would get there
somehow. Ten minutes after they start
ed word came from Mr. Cole, chief dis
hatcher at the Erie station in Jersey
City, that Ward had risen from Ash
Brook about an hour before, heading
for the Erie tracks. 1t was not long be-
| fore dispatch arrived from the sta
/ ton agent at East Orange, saying that
strong winds had driven him to ground
at that place at $40 o'clock.
Then the wires stopped talking. In
quiries poured into Mr.. Coles office. but
he could answer nothing. Ward was on
the ground, so far as he knew, and IL
looked To- him as if he were going to
stay there. Four o'clock came and =,
and at last the watchers stirred eXcit-
edly when Wards name was licked off
by the instrument. But it was only
message from the Middletown agent
telling OF a telegram ne had received
ing for the wind to go down. and was
signed Ward"
At u O'Clock Mr.. Cole departed in de-
spair. Hardly had the door shut behind
him when the Bloomfield operator re-
ported an airshp flying over his tower
The next news came from Rutherford
at 6:O1 After a brief lull, SoIth Pater-
son reported Ward safely on the ground
in the outskirts at 60.
1t was a beautiful fight up the Pas
sale Valley, said those who saw it,
Crossing high above the racetrack at
Clifton, the aviator grazed the top of
Carrot Mountain, circled over the fur
Their slope. picked ont a field directly
opposite the house of William Il. Gour-
ley. forme: chairman of the Democratic
state Committee of New Jersey, and
sank lightly 30 earth. II was no time
at all before crowd Of 800 persons
wanted souvenirs of the aiTman's visit.
Ward said late last night that he would
e Jntnue his flight this morning. and eX-
pectcd TO spend tonight two hundred
miles nearer Buffalo.