Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-11
NEWARK BIP[.ANE
WILL COMPETE IN
BIG AERIAL RACE
BOIand Machine Entered for
Sixty.MiIe Contest Around
Manhattan.
TESTED IN FLIGHTS
ACROSS NEWARK BAY
HydroaeropIane Has Proved Its
Reliability and Speed, De-
spite Small Horsepower.

Newark will be represented In the
big Wright memorial aviation meet
which will be held next Monday aft
ernoon on Staten Island under the
auspices of the New York Turner's.
Late yesterday afternoon, following
a severe test in Newark bay, a
Boland hydroaeroplane, owned and
built by the .Boland Aeroplane Com
pany of this city. was entered to
compete in the Aerial Derby, the big
event of the meet.
The Derby will have at least twenty
entrants and nearly every style and
make OF flying machines will be rep
resented. There will be monoplanes,
biplanes. hydroaeroplanes, flying
boats and military aeroplanes, and
several Of the best-known air pilots
In this country will drive machines.
There are three prizes in the Derby,
first money being $1,000, and second
and third money $3.50 and $500 respect
fully.
The Boiand aeroplane is little
known in America, but it has the
reputation of being one of the most
reliable machines built. For the
last three years the Boland machines
have been used in flights in nearly
all of the countries of South America,
and the majority of the South Amer
lean republics have purchased Boland
machines for military purposes.
The meet Monday will mark the
first competitive appearance of the
Newark machines in a contest In this
country.
The Boland machine was originally
built by the late Frank e. Boland.
He was killed last January in an
aeroplane accident at Port of Spain,
Trinidad
OF the many machines entered in
the Derby next week the Boland is
the only one of fifty horsepower, the
majority being eighty and one hun
dred horsepower. The difference in
power, however, will, 1t is figured, be
made up by greater reliability of the
smaller engine made here.
w. Leonard Bonney, formerly with
the Wright camp. will pilot the Boil
and machine in the Derby. He has
used nearly every make and style of
machine and is considered one of
the best birdmen aviation has pro-
duced.
Bonney has been flying the New
ark machine for the last week, the
flights being made from the float
ing hanger of the Boland company
Lehigh Valley bridge.
The machine, in the final test yes
terday. was in the air for twenty
minutes and covered over twenty
miles. flying with and against the
wind. The highest altitude reached
was 1,500 feet. There was no special
effort for height. Bonney, following
the test. declared that he will finish
no worse than third in the big event,
and he is hopeful of taking the long
end of the $1,000 purse.
The Derby will be about sixty miles
around Manhattan Island. A start
will be made from the aviation field,
Staten Island, at $3.50 in the after
noon The route will be over the
lower bay to Governors Island, then
up the East river to the Harlem river
and Spuyten Duyvil creek, and down
the Hudson river to the point of be-
ginning. The contestants will be
started two minutes apart, and the
time will be taken from the moment
the planes leave the ground until
| they return.
Persons who wish to get to the
aviation field on Staten Island by
way of Manhattan should go by way
of South Ferry to st. George and
take the train from there. There is
short walk from the station to the
field at Oakland Heights. From Jer-
sey City the route is by Bergen Ferry
to Port Richmond; from Elizabeth,
by ferry to Rowland Hook; from
Perth Amboy. by ferry to Tottenville;
from Newark. by the Perth Amboy
or Elizabeth ferries.