The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-03-24

nalr nour We nad Wheclcd ner out,
tuned her up and found everything
IN good shape.
"The boys knew how 10 give the
propellers a whirl, and when the
mechanician crawlcd in with me they
save her the right start and we swept
away. II would have been a good
start only one small boy forgot TO let
go wing. which Slowed us around
and we stopped We made another
attempt and skid caught us. and then
the mechanician got out, giving up the
trip.
Il had to make three more starts
because Of the ground, but on the NTH
she slid over the sea wall out over
the water and | was on, going with
the wind.
City a Splash Of Light below.
Talk about daylight flights They
are nothing to that of last night. ]
simply slid into the air on an easy
climb so that | had swung out about
two miles before | had reached 500
feet. | swung then, quartering against
the wind which was Ike "a summer
breeze, came up into it. rounded over
the starting place and then turned my
owes toward the city and toward Cover
nors Island
''In Yachting they would call my
course "A reach as | slid in the direction
OF the town. and I went w and up
until | figure that ! was up about 800
feet. Under me and ahead of me was
n big splash Of yellow and white light
growing brighter and thicker in the dis
tancc.
you can tell Of worlds fairs with
their courts of honor. but none of them
have anything on n trip toward New
York around midnight ON "A Saturday
night. especially If you approach 1t at
something like forty-five miles an hour
thousand or more feet in the air. It's
like running into fireworks spectacle
or a transformation scene on the stage.
"You forget the night. and the moon
and stars above YOU in the golden haze
that surrounds the city itself: YOU run
right into 1t and YOU forget YOU are In
the air as you sail through II.
II don't know how soon I struck
Harlem but I was there before | knew
il. because broad. brightly lighted
thoroughfare with yellow street car
lights crawling over II shot under me.
Late is it was. the streets were crowded.
[ saw the elevated trains crawling along.
T saw the automobile lights shooting up
and down and then | looked ahead TO
see the real town.
nroadway AHame In u silver Sea.
AT 500 feet New York lies under
you from the north clean down to the
sea and you can see that as the moon
splashcs it all over with silver. You
can see its bridges. and where | was |
could follow Broadway's winding down
town 10y "A myriad of lights. | could
see the big hlurs Of lights, which showed
the night life section and then. occa
sionally. there would be tall spires of
lights picking out the big buildings all
the way down to the Battery.
1T was like a tea party up TO then.
but somewhere around Ninetieth street
the other things happened. | don
know where it came from, but the first
thing | knew out Of somewhere swept
a forty-five mile gale, steady and hard.
It gave me a tilt which made me do
some tall warping and 1t swung me
like a top. The first thing l knew |
was flying like a crab over toward
Long Island.
There is only one thing to do in a
case like that, jam her into the wind
and make sldcway so to speak. and |
tried TO do that. II was just like trying
to buck Niagara Falls In a canoe; that
gale didn't pay any more attention 10
my engine than an elephant would pay
60 a caterpillar.
81 could buck and II could buck all it
wanted to, but very quietly, very stead
ly the winds backed me ever toward
Brooklyn. saw the river come along
and then the island. the other shore and
rarhanl connie. ,f they look al