The Washington times., 1919-10-10
BOY, 8, FLIES
1000 MILES
WITHM0THER

NEW YORK, oct IO.-To hold tn
distinction OF being the first boy t
make. a. cross-coUntry flight in Al
aeropIane means nothing out OF Ordi
nary in the young. life Of Seymour
Cox. il.
When the nine-year-old lad yester
day hoped out OF the Curtiss Oriol'
machine IN which he and his mother
dew from Houston, Tex, to Hazle
hurst Field at MineOla, Long Island
his first concern was to appease az
appetite sharpened BY the bracing ali
IN the clouds.
Flying Is as commonplace to thi,
y0uugster as automobiling Is to othel
lads whose daddies own motor cars
And so he couldn't understand WIN
guch cOnfounded fuss should bC
kicked up when he and his mothei
completed the air journey OF more
than 2. 600 miles.
Uothlng UnuguaI To HIh
10 his boyish mind IL mattered lit
tls that he, his mother and Harold @
Block former United States army
lieutenant, who piloted the machine
had made q new record CFoss-country
flight FOR civilians
Seymour, whose daddy is q wealthy
on operator OF Texas and an aviation
enthusiast, took q good stretch and
geWned when he aliEhted- The fact
that he had flown more than 1000
miles % attend school In the East,
and his mother, had made the trip to
do little shopping in New York,
didn't strike him ag being anything
cut Of the ordinary.
.fnrrnr .-1~r-- A. r-F-T- u-n 1--a r.-rrernre
an aeroplane, last July, this tousled
headed nine-year-old has been going
aloft He got so used 70 flying that
when it was decided 60 send him to
private school At POuEhkeepsie, N.
7. he suggested to his indulgent
father that the trip be made in the
new aeroplane which the old opera
tor had just purchased.
Beatg An OtheF SpoHt.
So q week ago Sunday Mrs. Cox and
her son started on the journey from
Houston 70 Mineola. Seymour viii
tel you that flying beats all hollow
Baseball or any other sport. But
when it comes TO mighty long flights
ft becomes pretty irlzsome and mo
nOtonous, particularly when q lad is
% small that he has 70 stand on his
tip-toes to gaze at the landscape be
low.
And, again. one ofttfmes speeds for
hours through heavy cloud banks,
With nothing 70 view and nothing to
DO but enjoy the thrill Of vvhfzzfur
through the air thousands OF feet
shove the land
After luncheon at the Garden City
Hotel he and his mother and Pilot
Block motored 70 the Vanderbilt Ho-
eel IN Manhattan. Although unable
70 realize Il fully, he discovered there
thar fame had come upon him when
9 score Of reporters sought to have
him uaFrGte HIS experiences.
AfEuldg Net Seymour.
Bat Seymour was as shy as a
school girl reciting her first piece in
class. In typical boyish fashion he
tried to convey the impression that
he had accomplished nothing great,
inasmuch Gs he. had been flying a long
time When one Of the interViewers
inquired IL he vas ever afraid during
the nights he flashed q disdainfuI look
and hung back, what forFP
Ehgn he Cuddled mp on q couch IN
the hotel lobby. closed his eyes and
announced that he was aVTfuIIy sleepy.
The night was made without Incl
cent, except on last Saturday. when
Block narrowly missed crashing into
g. tree at Tuxedo, N. Y. IN a dense fog.
I7e missed Il by 9 few feet.
The cFoss-country diers spent efEb-
teen hours and forty minutes in actual
nyiug. From Houston they few to
Dallas then 20 Hope, Ark, to Loanoke.
BellSViles Indianapolis, Dayton, CIeve-
land, Buffalo, Binghamton and Min
neola-