The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-31
ATWOOD, DARING AVIATOR, REACHES n.
Y. THURSDAY
DISTANCE OF 1855 MILES
The st. Louis to New York Aero
plane Journey, which Ended Sue
cessfully Friday Puts Flying on
New Plane.

New Plane.
=
Distance covered, 1866 miles
Detours bring total to 1866
miles.
Started from ST. Louis Aug.
14th.
Finished on the 18th day
August 25.
Time for trip, IS hours.
Number of stops, 90.
Surpassed worlds record by
Average speed per hour on
flight from st. Louis TO New
York, 46 miles.
#% + + =
Flying in the same aeroplane,
driven by the same motor with
which he started from ST. Louis IL
days ago, Harry \. Atwood Friday
afternoon finished splendidly his
record-breaking air journey of l.
265 miles and landed safely on
Governors Island, at New York.
The previous record of 1,164
miles, made by Koenig and Buech-
ner i'll Germany, required thirty
days under conditions far less try
ing than those which The American
aviator pluckily surmounced.
Starting from the metropolis of
the Mississippi Valley at five min
utes after eight on the morning of
August IA, Atwood has flown over
the Mississippi river, the Illinois
river, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie,
the Mohawk river, the Hudson and
many lesser streams and inland
lakes too numerous to mention He
has travelled over the table-like
praries of Illinois, the wild desc
late sand hills of upper Indiana
the thickly populated agricultural
country of Ohio, the manufacturing g
regious of Pennsylvania and the
rugged, picturesque landscape OF
northern New York.
In virtually Flying half wa!
across the American continent to hi!
goal on the Atlantic coast he has
passed over the cities of st. Louis
! Springfield, Chicago, Elkhart ant
Cleveland and has made detour.
around Erie, Buffalo, Rochester, Sy
racuse, Utica, Schenectady and AL
bany and flown the length OF New
York City.
In the course of his special jour
ney Atwood guided his craft thru
the atmospheric conditions that pre-
vail over virtually every section OF
this continent. He has flowT
against winds that blew with such
velocity that his craft almost stood
still He has scudded over the
countryside with winds that drove
his aeroplane so fast that he trav-
eled 120 miles an hour. He flew in
sunshine, in transforms and with
thunder and lightning playing
around his frail vehicle of laths
and canvas.
He has done these things flying
continuously day after day. Yet,
in spite of the fact that his ma
chine began to show the signs of
| terrific strains when he landed at
Charleston, near Albany, on We'd
nesday, his pluck and perseverance,
! backed by his marvellous skill as a
pilot of the air, enabled him to fin
the remarkable journey with no
essential part of his craft chang
cd.
The motor in Atwoods biplane is
practically wrecked. 1t will need
overhauling and it requires
thorough rest. But the biplane it
self, which has passed through such
unprecedented vicissitudes, is as
good to-day as on the morning it
began to carry the young aviator on
i'iS ii6hI W ANS" lol
But Atwood seems brighter and
fresher now the flight is done than
when he started. His reserve of
nervous power seems inexhaustable.
His lean face shows no sign of
WEAKNESS, his blue eyes flash
imperiously brilliant as if he had
just started. The flight that would
have wrecked almost any living avi-
ator has seemed diversion to
him.
On Thursday Atwood landed with
the wind on a narrow peak 1900
feet above the Hudson. He clear
ed it like a bird when he started
Later in the day he landed in the
Hillside arena at Upper Nyack. six
ty feet square. which stood rockily
at an angle of fifty-five degrees.
From similar slope yesterday he
took his flight passing between
two trees that just a few inches
further apart than the width of his
biplane.
In these feats, Atwood, during his
Tight from st. Louis to New York,
has opened entirely new phases of
aeroplane possibilities. He has ac-
hieved the things that Wilbur
wright and other eminent authori-
ties have pronounced impossible.
He has shown that the aeroplane
can land and start from the noun
tain peaks as we'll as from valleys.
This practically means that the
aeroplane has subjugated all condi-
Jions of the earth.
Threw Away at least $50, 900.
He refused to fly to Sheepshead
Bay race track because 3e did not
like the way the promoter of the
had planned the event.
II don't care to finish this trip in
this way for the sake of a few thou
sand dollars" he said last night.
This is Enthusiastically Atwoodian.
Because something about the
offended his fastidious