The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-07-06
Lands In Long Island Sound.
hut Gets Back to Pal
iSades Park. .
CROSSED THE CITY UPTOWN
GOOdalc's Helper Accounted For
Aftrr Some Hours Of
Mystery.

pounds of rock for ballast slipped from
the hands Of six mechanics Yesterday
evening at the Palisades Amuse.
ment Park, and floated into the air,
carrying with 1t IA 21-year-old boy,
ieorge Gay. an aeronautic enthusiast,
Like pun OF cigar smoke on a
Dreezeless day Il driftcd over the
Palisades. maelstrom current created
by the sheer blum picked it up like a
toy balloon. Turning twisting. yeer-
ing. 1t shot 1000 feet into the air.
Gay was pitched forward and back.
ward. With hands and feet he cluus
to the bamboo framework 10 those
below 1t appeared tina, he must be
tossed into space at any moment.
Lands In Long Island sound.
The youthful aviator fell into Long
Island Sound after dizzy flight across
the Hudson. Harlem and the shore of
Long Island. He alighted mile and a
half off the shore that skirts Howard
Gould's country place at Sands's Point.
startling 500 persons on the steamer
Sycamore of the Montauk Line.
He was picked up by a motorboat IN.
hurt. The dirigble was wrecked.
The descent was gradual and was
brought about by the leakage of gas
from the balloon bag. The airshtu
SKINNED the water, going at good
clip for some distance before it finally
settled and sank. =
Wireless messages were sent to
stations on the Sound all the way to
Newport, giving news of the accident
and asking that watch he kept for
the drifting dirigibc.
In few minutes after the balloon
was carried over the edse of the Pail.
sades gust Of wind drove 1t to the
northeast. When seven minutes had
passed the dirlgible and the boy were
out OF sight. There was no escape
valve In the gas bag and no one kneWit
better than The young aviator's friends.
Passed over Brondwny.
He crossed broadway at lssth street
He was seen by people on City Island
a few minutes later. The residents OF
Harts Island looked into the gathering
DUSK and saw huge rocket shooting
across the sky. An instant later IL
was out of sight
Thirty minutes after the airship left
the Palisades Park it was seen from
Long Island city The New Rochelle
Yacht Club caught glimpse of tho
dirigible shortly afterward
AT i:i1 belated yachtsmon AT the New
York Yacht club anchorage at Glen
GOV" caught sight of the airship. The
hnderhansing framework was fairly
discernible, but there vas no shadow
whsr" the figure of the aviator should
have been.
scarcely had the spectre ship passed
INTO the darkness beyond the anchorage
when Il sharp suuall sped by from the
northwest II is thought that the souall
'arri'd III" airship across the Sound
toward Connecticut. If il did not and ,
N" balloon continued over the Sound IL
$ feared the aviator fell into the water,
Assistant T." Go"dnI-.
Gay has spent thrc. years STUDYING
'eronautics. He was employed at the
'"ginning Of the summer by the PAIL
'ad"s Amusement Park as an assistant
q Frank Goodale professional
'viator who makes business Of
operating diricihlc balloon for the
,ark.
Ph" boy got into Goodale's nirship
hr"e weeks ago and went off for
wenty minutes flight. II was his first
scent alone. He made the craft carccn.
ip. dive and rise in manner that
"emcd bit foolhardy to experienced
eronauts.
l'ut ne managed tn" flight with such
pparent ease and grace quite as IL ba
ad been born with the bird instinct
hat the park managrment determined
D build second diririble, give It To the
outh Tor flights and arrange races be-
ween him and Goodale.
The new airship named tho Palisades
amusement Park H.. was filled with gas
'r the first time yesterday afternoon.
was drawn ont of the hangar and
nlled over near the cliff for inspection
nd lifting test
Expected Race To-dny.
AZ the plans were laid out an engine
nj rudder were TO have been attached
the proper points during the night,
nj the first race was to take place TO-
ay.
IL was matter OF Importance to
stablish the lifting power of the gas
az, cigar shaped AFFAIR like the
eppelin models, so George Gay strad-
led the bamboo framework while six
lechanics held on.
Gay weighs only ll9 pounds and his
eight didn't seem TO have much effect
the airship's attempts to dash aloft.
D half dozen canvas bags containing
.ch about ten pounds of rock were
tached. They discouraged the highty
ature OF the hag somewhat, but not
Efficiently. and two more bags wcre
I'd on.
None Of the six men who were SUD-
'sed to bc holding on seems to know
iactly what happened after that. Tho
amework was about five feet from
e ground 1t w thought. however,
at In order to zee what the two extra
lgs were going to do. all six men le,
at once. In that instant the airship,
Hast and hoy. rose couple Of feet.
Fails 10 stop Balloon.
tine or the men lmDci into the air.