The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-13
PEARY, IN PLUNGE DE l2OO FEET, IS
 BLIND TO DANGER
Arctic Explorer In Long Aero Fall But Doesn't Know
 About It.

New York; Oct. 1S.-f you dropped 1,20O feet through the air. would you know it?
 Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, re- tired. did that yesterday afternoon in aI Curtiss flying boaat at Long BeAch and did not know he had fallen until told so by Truman w. Post. who had arranged the flight He appeared a ] bit dazed at the news
 ''J0ves It was thrilling" he mur- mured, '-but I thought every one de- lscended that way
 Rear Admiral Peary, Alberto San tos Dumont and Mrs William H. Bliss, wife of a lawyer living at No East Sixty-Gfth street were the guests of the officials of the Aero Club of America at a meet held at I Long Beach There were thrills in plenty. The first one came when it | was announced that Mrs. Bliss. at Esixty years, was making her first might
 Hhe final thrill was felt when the bmagneto went strike when Peary land Frank Burnside, the aviator, ! cough and a long sigh the engine kstopped and the machine was seen to tip suddenly to the left, right itself almost instantly and then swoop l downward in spirals toward the sea- Didn't Disturb Him There was gasp from the party on the beach, followed by a sigh Of relief as the machine settled firmly on the water and Peary was seen calmly lighting his pipe.
 ! Mir. Post and a party of his friends put out in a motor boat and lowed the craft to the landing. As his friends rushed forward to congratu- 1ata him. Rear Admiral Peary saw a fRreat light
 There vas an ss,cident?'' he in kquared- fWhy, I taough every one k1anded that way pad nc, idea there Twas anything wronG '@The flight was tI Iri1ling. We were having most deIigktful sail through H4he clouds when Mr. Burnside turned kto come back. heakd the report but kBurns1de turned to lle and said, ~It's kAIn right We're in nts danger I know now that we came d4.wn suddenly, but G assure you did not know at the time that anything unusual had hap pened Will I go up again? Most certainly will IfR fine sport V
 Mrs Bliss FEFst to Fly
 Alan R. HawIey, President of the Aero Club of Ameriea; Henry A. w Wood, 2. member of @he Edison Naval Board of Inventiont Henry Wood house and Lansing 6 Tevis of Call fQrnia accompanied the party.
 Mrs. Bliss was the, first to make a
 
 as, with flushed chee KS and sparkling eyes. she was lifted znto the seat be- side the pilot lire 1zusband stood Oh the pier and watcheB her with prida
 The flying boat baunded over the water and rose into the air. Mrs. Bliss was gone about ten minutes, fly. ing sixty miles an kpur at a height of about 400 feet
 My. Its hard t. breathe!'' she said, as she left thfs boat .sBut I enjoyed every minuse of it. It is simply wonderful,
 Then santos-D Dunt nt, pioneer of flying, the first man b make a public flight and the first pisot of a dfrlgib1e balloon, entered the znachine for his first flight over Amesdcan soil
 Again the Ens4ae Baked
 The next trip waa that of Rear :. { Admiral Peary Onc3 again the en- zine baked and it took nearly half an hour before it coutd be induced to run Finally the msgneto decided to reconsider and produce another spark.
 The machine rose usziI it was about 1,30O feet above the eszrth. Then came the motors extra 1okd cough that meant trouble and the machine swerved and dropped. Burnside manN | aged to YoIplane i.3 circles and brought the machine back over the water and facing the wind. Tn this way he averted what night have beeni a serious accident