New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-11
VETERAN A|RMEN At SHOW
|, ist includes Baldwin, Coffyn,
Ovington and Vannlman.
WHY ONE OF THEM LIKES IS
crrtiss Aviator to Begin Hydro
Aeroplane Flights On and
Over Hudson To day.

honest-to-goodness aviators strolled
Ugh the aisles Of the First Annual In
national Aeronautical Exhibition at the
-, Grand Central Palace yesterday, ON
~ opening day Of the show, when hun
W. ~ eager noviccs jostled each other
.,a the strange machines of the air
n.olI known modesty Kept them home.
w. o., yesterday. things having Quoted down
So, they slipped into the hail to take
took around for themselves
o., was old Captain Tom Baldwin,
-toso only original Red Devil holds down
sreqt place i'm the eastern gallery.
-, was Frank CofIyn whose hydro
"nnrlane In which he visited Miss Liberty
ssyeral times last winter stands patiently
20 II There was Earle l.. Ovington,
49, man 10 carry the first United States
ali in an aeroplane. And, IN addition to
nun,ber of lesser lights in the aerial fir
s,an,ert there was Melvin Nanniman,
"'snse Transatlantic dirigiblc Akron stands
Is, IN its shed at Atlantic City to sail
Co.. Kurore when he gives the word.
~ his fellow aviatCrs went into the lect-
-oon, on the north side of the main hall
80 o'clock to hear Oyinston deliver talk
:. has Personal experiences as hirdman.
holland Forbes, chairman Of the lecture
.or,rn,ttee. introduced bin.
o,,ington told how he happened to become
.,,sched IN the number IL. which appeared
on his aeroplano at Nassau Boulevard last
s,,-,,,er when Dr. G. b Clarke was killed
irving 10 fly it.
Il learned o. fly at tho Bltriot school, in
pan" Ovington said. In the Hotel d.
! ondres I was assigned to room No. Is
7 was pupil 40. Is IT the school. ] ordered
nv first machine on January Is and tiled
=, IN March e. When / brought il 80
tb;e co,lntr, / bonded it through the Gus
tom House, and on the corner Of the bond
snpeared i'm large figures IS l bought my
second motor on July g. and l made my
first flight on my birthday, which is IS
backward
Among tho Storoorticou pictures which
Illustrated his talk Mr.. Ovington showed
one Of a grotesque stuffed brownie his
mascot. He said lie had never had an
accident while it was on his machine. It,
name he lded. was "Treize,' the French
word for thirteen.
II was announced yesterday that Monday
would be army anu navy hdN. ''tIl'l q"
James Allen. chief signal officer, will repr'-
sent the War Department at the show. The
committee also stated that any man in the
uniform OF the army or navy would be
admitted 20 the show free at any time
during its progress. Admiral Csterhaus.
his staff and the officers Of the Aero club
viii be entertained at the summer home
of Robert j. Collier, president Of the club,
az Wickatunk. y. J., this afternoon, ard
any Of them who displays a desire 70 ride
the clouds will be taken mp 10y Walter
Brookius or ". L. Simmons in one of Mr..
Golfers machines
g. g. Wilmer, the Curtiss aviator. Will
begin his hydro-aeroplane flights from the
Colonial Yacht Club, l3Sth street and the
North River, this afternoon. Among those
who have booked flights with him are Leu
tenant Edgar Won Schroeders, naval attachc
10 the CHILEAN Legation; James \. Bar,
IT.. Colonel James Elberscn, OF The Phi. a
delphia Enquirer; Major Samuel Reher
and w. Irving Twomby, chairman Of the
pian and scope committee of the Aero Club.
Mrs Harold Mccormick, daughter OF John
D. Rockefeller, and her husband. pres. dent
Of the Illinois Aero Club, were interested
visitors at the SHOW yesterday afternoon.