New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-08
FLYING
AGAIN, KILLS GIRL

strength. and guyed by wires Of the same
| resisting force. These were the specifca-
lions given by Beachey himself. Experts
| throughout the world had said that no
| biplane could possess enough resisting
strength 10 withstand the strain OF
looping the loop" but Beachey declared
that he would prove the experts wrong.
Beachey had promised the Aeronautc
| Society that he would have the machine
completed in time 10 compete in the So
ciety's aeroplane race around Manhattan
Island Monday. Beachey's fame as an
aviator was relied on to attract immense
interest in the race, and Beachey himself
had promised to repeat his feat OF loop
ing the loop" over New York Bay. in full
view OF thousands.
Beachey sent a statement. through his
assistant, 10 the Aeronautic Society, IN
which he said that he was returning from
a tryout over the lake, when the accident
happened He desired that the society
should state emphatically that he was
not attempting any stunts at the time
these being reserved until to-day.
Lincoln Beachey called himself deaths
pacemaker." He boosted that he was the
inventor of the vertical drop the
Dutch roll" and the spiral and re-
verse" Last summer AT the Olympic
Club. in San Francisco. he described
himself as being responsible for the
death OF nine aviators who tried 70 imi-
tate his thrilling tricks in the air.
Before Pegoud "looped the loop IN
France Beachey was known as the
worlds most daring aviator" Pegoud
feats had not been achieved when
Beachev retired from the air He had
already flown over Niagara Falls and
svooped from 200 feet into the mist Of
its caldron 10 pass through a space OF
only one hundred feet between the CIR
ders Of a bridge.
He had hunted ducks from an aero
plane, flying over the Potomac anu
dropped to the water 10 pick them UP.
lie had played the CHASTITY Joke OF pre-
tending TO fall for 400 feet into the gully
al Los Angeles where Arch HoXey had
met his death year previous. Crowds AT
san Francisco and Chicago were startled
when he masqueraded as a woman IN WIZ
and skirts and cut capers In the air ana
IN 1912 ne was debarred from the army's
FIXING field. al College Park. Nd, because
his flying was too dangerous.
Then followed his retirement This was
his announcement at the time: You could
not make me enter an aeroplane at the
point Of a revolver. am done. They
called me the master birdman. but there
was Just one thing which drew crowds u
nv exnibitions-a morbid desire TO see
he. orc
would be killed and none wanted to miss
getting in on II. They paid TO see me die.
They bet and the odds were always
against my life.
In Chicago last September Kearney's
mother begged me not 10 teach Horace
any more tricks. Kearney turned ana
said: Mother I must be a top-liner.
must be as good as Beachey or take
back seat. ] must try the same tricks
he does Three months later he was
dead" Beachey won't on. "Welshs VIE
begged him to cut out the spiral
| Beachey does them he said. must 40
them TO get the money. Charley was do
ing the reverse spiral two weeks lat''
al Trenton. n. j.. when a wire snapped
They picked him up dead. l felt as If
had murdered poor Charley.
His wife said to me. You made Char
lev do it Some time ago / sent tickets
10 Mrs. Ely. She sent them back, writ
ing: Eugene would be with me now II
| ne had never seen you fly.
II will never fly again. Fear has driven
me out of the game for all time. Not
fear of my own death or the dread Of bod
uv injury 10 myself has made me give up
an art / dearly love- but the blame and
! the remorse for the death of brother
| a,dators who went TO death. trying 10
| ont Beachey Beachey.'
w e. Hildreth. the wealthy father OF
| Miss Ruth Hildreth who was killed by
| Reachey's aeroplane, was at the Hotel
: Breslin. here when a telegram was
, ,ropeh, 10 him giving information of the
| accident. With Mrs. Hildreth he started
al once for Urbana. n. \.
| Mr.. Hldreth was formerly president OF
the Rreslin Hotel Company, and for some
time has been president of the Urbana
| ,,,, cop,nanv at Urbana, y. Y.