The Washington herald., 1919-10-19
LIEUT.. MAYNARD IS
FIRST HOME IN RACE
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Lieut. e. C. Kiel and Lieut.. NJ. z.
Queens. close on Smiths heels, and
Lieut.. r. worthington.
sixty-three started the race. One
has completed both laps. seventeen
have finished one lap: twenty-three
have been eliminated. and nine have
been killed.
Sergt. W. E. Kline. his mechanic.
and Trixie. a Belgian police dog. made
the entire trip with Maynard.
Hundreds Greet Him.
Maynard's last lap started at 6.5s
a. m, today. When he arrived at
Rochester he found an oficial mes
sage waiting. ordering him to re-
main there until further orders, be-
cause of q dense fog at Binghamp-
ton. Before the half-hour period
required for waiting at all control
stations" had elapsed another mes
sage announced the fog had lifted.
and he came on.
Several hundred persons had mo-
tored to Roosevelt Field to await
his arrival. His wife and their two
daughters. Evelyn. five. and Rose
lyn, four. were on the field several
hours before he was scheduled to
reach there.
The De Haviland was sighted
at about 1:45 p. m. bearing toward
the field from the northwest. IT
maintained a good height until 1t
was almost directly over the ield,
then coasted down in gracefui
spiral.
Babies Bring Him Apple.
The first person to greet the Sky
pilot" was his wife. They embrace
ed and he kissed her several times.
II knGS you would do it." she said.
Then Maynard took the two little
girls in his arms and kissed them
Each presented him with a big red
apple which they had brought to the
field in anticipation that their Dad
dy'' might be hungry. He was. out
the apples had to suffice him until he
had passed through an ordeal of in
teryiewing by newspaper men and
American flying club officials which
lasted more than two hours.
The enthusiastic reception given the
famous flyer when he stepped from
his plane embarrassed him and he was
bit diffident for several minutes.
San Francisco Fliers.
Maynard was asked what pleasures
and hardships he had experienced on
his trip.
well. we got quite bit Of pleasure
out of 1t, considering the number OF
States we traversed," he said. we
didn't have any actual hardships
guess.
"At San Francisco the whole city
z,,.. hated IN leave The
shin was in good condition and did
not need much repair. invited the
King Of the Belgians to take little
trip with me and he replied he was
very sorry but his stay there was so
short. He invited me to lunch with
him, but ] had to reply that couldn't
accept, as my stay there was SO short.
too.
Left West Tuesday.
"Wben we left San Francisco Tues
day afternoon we got away IN good
shape. They gave us a wonderful re-
ception at Battle Mountain on the
way back. 1t is the home OF Capt.
Smith. They gave me gold nugget
and three arrow heads and told me to
divide them with the rest Of the
party.
I'VE ran into SnoWstofH near
Green River and almost ran into
snow-capped mountain, missing 1t by
about 200 feet
"~while nearing Omaha we figured
on being in New York last night
The motor was going good at an
altitude Of about $500 feet when
suddenly 1t quit. We made a safe
landing and found we had broken
q crank shaft. remembered see
ing in the papers that Capt. Fran
els had crashed near Omaha I
'phoned from a farm house and
found he was down about ten miles
from US. The control station got
permission from Washington for us
to use one OF his engines. took
the engine before we got the sane
tion, however. Kline and a me-
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