The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-03
Filler TO TRY LEAP
1000 FEET UP IN AIR
French Army Officer Plans
Daring Feat With Parachute
at Seashore To-day.
Special Despdtrh to TnE suN.

ATLANTIC CITY, n. j.. May "A leap
from the wing Of an airplane flying
at an eighty mile an hour clip at an
altitude Of 1000 feet will be the daring
feat here tomorrow morning of Lieut..
Jean ors of the French army to demon
strate that the use of the proper kind
Of parachute makes aviation safe even
when accident overtakes the pilot and
his passengers In midair.
The Lieutenant, who has had wide ex-
perience IN parachut.ng, will make sew
eral descents under varying conditions
from different attitudes during the morn
ing and afternoon. sharing honors In the
days events scheduled by the Pan-Amer-
icen Aeronautical Convention with col.
lege fiiers who will enter the first compe-
tition for the intercollegiate seaplans
races over an ocean course in plain view
OF the Boardwalk.
Officials Of the Aero Club of America
announced tonight that Lieut. Ors
would be the first to try for the prize
OF $500 offered by Mrs. Louis Bennett
OF New York. mother of Lieut.. Louis
Bennett, one OF the American hiers
killed at the front. It is her belief
that her sons life and those Of many
other fiers could have been saved had
their planes been equipped with n para
chute or the right model. II Is with
the idea OF encouraging the development
OF parachute which will be to the
aNiators and air travellers what the life
preserNers are to sea travellers that
Mrs, Bennett has offered the award
The irrepressible Eddie Stinson, one
OF the best known American flying aero
bats. demonstrated this afternoon at the
air port that the present day air pilot
can land In his own back yard. Mount
Ing high over the field in a tryout of
the Pan-American aeronautical course
Stinson volplaned down at a sharp angle,
Strengthened out and then dipped to the
held. making a landing in a fifteen foot
circle that had been painted on the
ground. To demonstrate that the land
Ing in the narrow ring was not a case OF
luck Stinson shot into the air once moro
and landed with the same accuracy and
repeated the feat eight different times.
Representatives OF six universities
reached here to-day to participate in the
intercollegiate contests to be held to-mor-
row.
Harvard will he represented by Lieut.,
II. Gregg and Ensign Dougherty Co
lumbia University by r. VI. Craigmyle,
TAFT, NJ. s. Martin and f. L. Smith
Princeton University by Ensign Charles
II. Payne. Amherst by Augustus Post
and Lieut. Ralph Decastro, California
University by Lieut.. Stewart Morgan,
Boston Conservatory of Music by Lieut..
G. w. Shaw, U. 8 n.
giant "blimp" that cruised up the
coast from Cape May to-day under or
ders from the commander OF the Fourth
Naval district, bombed the convention
hall of the Pan-American Aeronautical
Congress en- the Steel Pier and later the
Boardwalk with Liberty Loan literature.
The big dirigible with navy crew en-
tertained the thousands along the Board
walk with its maneuvres over the
combers.
Major Mapes. in charge OF tho avia-
ton. department Of the New York Police
Department, wigwagged commands to
the ship" which responded instantly to
the signals as they were delivered, TAX
ing direction and turning as instructed.