New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-23
Fate Prophecy Proves True
After Braving Death
Often.
DARING FLIGHTS
THRILLED NATION
Injured Several Times During
Course Of Adventures
in Air Trips.

Charles Is Hamilton. twenty-eight
Years old tho aviator after bravlns
death in many daring aeroplene Nights
died oarlr Yesterday morning from
homorrhaee az his home. 80. 225 West
loeth street Ho had always said that
Pc would "do in bed.
Hdmfton's greatest light was made on
Jurc Ic. 1910 wncp he flew TO phiiadel-
phia from New York and then few back
AN in 2 single day. It was on his return
when near South AmhOv. that he nouccd
the engine was missing FIRE. He was up
b some distance. but. instead OF flying
lower. ne ascended 10 An altitude OF some
Two thousand feet. and kept that altitude
until he neared Governors Island.
You SEQ" said Hamilton, explaining
his move. Il thought I would have a bet
Ter chance that way II the propeller
went had. I could glide to the finish with
ont having TO be dropped into the water
I'm New Britain. Conn. where Hamilton
was born. Il Nas'said that even when
/ child Charlie" Hamilton showed signs
: Of becoming a great aviator. He was
very small lad when he first dropped
from the top Of barn with his mother
parasol as a parachute.
J Next he went up in a balloon with
man VINO assembled al a fair near his
home. When he got little older Ham
Uton began ballooning on his own &C
/ count Dirigiide balloons came in FASH
ion. ard Hamilton for four years was
one Of the best known operators In tnat
line. Afterward he worked with Israel
] III vi
became interested in aeroplsnes.
/ lie made his first ascent in an aeroplane
November g. 1909.
: From that time until about A year ego
Hamilton did great work with aeroplanes.
His first narrow escape from death was
AT Paterson. y. J., before he had essayed
/ the aeroplane He was $50 feet from the
ground when all Of mis- sandbags fell from
the dirigble balloon he was operating
and I'm a jffy the balloon assembled TO
height Of some six thousand feet Hamh-
TON all the time endeayoring 70 open the
outlet valve. which had become TANNED.
lie rose 70 a height OF $4,000 feet. still
irving TO open the valve, and then decided
10 climb up TO the envelope oE;he oaliooh
and cut the valve, so that the gas would
escape. but the big envelope burst In the
refined air. and the balloon began 10 drop.
Hamilton weighed only 10 pounds,
and 10 that fact ne attributed his escape.
As the balloon descended the SILK en-
velope formed parachute, and Hamilton
came safely to ground.
At Seattle in the early part or 1917
Hamilton was doing one OF his famous
dins while over a lake. lie intended 70
come 10 the surface OF the lake. touch II
lightly like a seagull. and ascend, but he
miscalculated his distance, and instead
or gliding along the surface or the water
nluuged into the lake. In January OF the
same year he made a daring flight at San
Diego. cal. passing over into Mexico. III
doing so he flew thirty miles out 10 sea
Uamilton's first famous glide was the
result OF an accident 10 his propeller
This is the way Hamilton described the
glide
AFTER reaching as great height as
desired. the aviator stops the motor tie
noints the deHector downward and begins
~ slide through the air at rate tnat
sometimes reaches one hundred miles an
bour When he has dropped as far as ne
thinks necessary. all the aviator has to
90 is to point The dehector upward and
1.-THE trick IS done"
The last of Hamilton's bad falls &C
Cured in February. 1918. at JacksonVliie'
lie was two hundred feet In the air wneh
the drop occurred. His left thigh was
fractured Hamilton suffered nervous
breakdown in July, 1913.
Hamilton married twice. His wife VINO
rss with him when he died was Miss
Augusta Lawson OF New YORK ine'
we're married in october.