New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-09
AVIATOR DRIVEN DOWN
IN SIGHT OF CAPITAL
Stalled Motor Forces Wood to
Land When Only 10 Miles
from Washington.
MAKES RECORD, HOWEVER
Also Distances Pennsylvania
Special, Which Speeded
Up to One Hundred
Miles an Hour.
rFrom The Tribune Bureau. J

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| Washington. Aug. SC. Murvin
Wood, the twenty eight-year-old cow
! boy aviator, fell sixteen miles short OF
achieving nonstop fight from New
| York 10 Washington to-day, when a de-
| fective engine drove his monoplane
/ down on the farm OF John Il. Diamond
at GaithersburG. Nd after the aviator
/ had covered approximately 2ST miles
| from Hampstead, Long Island. beating
the American record for distance in a
single fight.
/ The aerial Journey brlstled with stir
ring experiences At the very start
/ Wood was lost in a dehse fog over the
Atlantic, a mile off Great South Bay.
/ L. l., with a motor that suddenly
stopped at high altitude. but caught
{ its stroke in time to save him from
failing into the ocean. Later he was
enveloped I'm the smoke OF Baltimore
and lost the direction 10 Washington.
a Pennsylvania special train. crowd
/ ed with officials OF the Aero club
of America beat all Pennsylvania
records in its run between Philadelphia
and Baltimore, but lost its race with
/ the aeroplane when II lay for twenty
seven minutes at Philadelphia trying
/ to get news of Wood, who was not
+ sighted from the time the special left
( New York at 40 on the foggy morn
ing.
Beats Special by Hour.
! Wood, noundering through haze
while following guiding river courses.
never once saw the train, and during
| this period Of doubt as to each others
whereabouts he passed the waiting
| train. flying far east Of Philadelphia to
avoid falling into that city If his motor
| should stop. one hour before the spe-
| cal arrived in Washington he had
alighted on the Diamond farm.
a bulletin saying the aviator had
passed over Trenton at 5:56 a m. at
speed OF sixty miles an hour started ].
Regan. Of the division superintendent
office OF the Pennsylvania, on mad
chase 10 overhaul the monoplane,
which was already thirty-three min
/ utes ahead. All along the line work
men and station loungers and sight
seers on the factory roofs raised hands
and pointed derisively onward In the
wake of the aeroplane, indicating that
IL had already passed and was beyond
pursuit.
| The Pennsylvania Railroad had laid
| itself out TO put a crimp in the CLOCK
and II did just that, even though Wood
.'beat il TO it," In the run between
philadelphia and Baltimore many long
standing speed marks went by the
| hoard and the train reeled off at Least
one mile in thirty-six seconds hat-one
hundred miles an hour On completing
its trip at Washington 1t was found the
sneciaI had negotiated 139 miles in l3o
minutes.
Sets Record Pace for Road.
"Never was such speed shown be-
,veon Philadelphia and Washington
.a,d Mr. Regan. The outside limit
of runs is seventy miles an hour on
,b,s section. The 'Bluebird Speciar set
mace that will be a long time uh-
broken. you may be sure.
on the special train were Allan A.
uav,ev. president OF the Aero CUB
Mortimer Delano, secretary and other
c,rh officials. Guests OF the Moisant
1,,orrational Aviators were captain
Albert Gleaves, commandant OF the
brooklyn Navy Yard Clarence r
wynee president of the Aero Club OF
ponnsv,vania. and representatives OF
the newspapers
At Washington three "ai.n'e ,"o'O
cars whirled the Aero Club off1ciais ana
newspaper men on breacknech race
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