The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-10

Lieut.. Alexander NJ. Roberts. with Lieut..
Marion l. Elliott also on board, dropped
into Lake Erie FIVE miles east of Ashta-
bula harbor and two miles from shore
at :15 In the morning. Before the
sinking of the heavy pane, weighted
with a 400 horsepower Liberty motor,
the two men succeeded in freeing them
selves from their safety belts and they
were rescued by the Canadian steamship
Fairfax. Both men were slightly
bruised They explained that a broken
throttle had KILLED" the engine.
Heavy rain forced Lieut., j. p. Roullet
down twice between Buffalo and Cleve-
land, but each time he landed in safety.
He found In field at Erie three other
planes, plloted by Lieut.. w. c. +. Brown,
Lieut-Co John N. Reynolds and Lieut..
T. Hynes. He decided to remain at
Cleveland for the night.
The i'll fortune which has pursued
Capt. J. s. Marquette and Lieut. c. f.
Horton of De Haviland plane 20 con-
tinued yesterday. On Wednesday the
plane lost its way on the trip from
Mineola to Blnghamton owing to de-
fective compass. and landed at a farm
at Nippeno, near Williamsport, Pa.
Early yesterday, after getting more gas
olene, the ship started out again to find
Binghamton, but this time landed In the
mud near Waverly. n. Y, shortly before
noon. The big plane crashed into a
fence and was almost demolished, but
both fiers escaped injury.
MineoIa Almost Deserted.
The air around Mineola, which for the
last week or more had been filled with
darling planes and the drone of many
motors, was almost deserted yesterday.
Most of the planes which had tuned up
for the great race were scattered from
upper New York State to the foothills
Of the Rocky Mountains and the few
stragglers still at Roosevelt Field spent
no time trying out engines. They went.
The first man to go was First Lieut..
Norman H. Langley. who zoomed his
De Haviland plane over the boundary OF
Hazelhurst Field and dropped down
upon Roosevelt, hastily had his logbook
checked UP by officials of the American
Flying Club and then roared northwest
ward. Langley and his mechanic, Ser
geant Hawkins Clowder, who few with
him, had spent many weary hours on
Wednesday trying to get his motor in
trim while his fellow pilots wen;
blithely skyward. He thought he had il
repaired and set out at 9:36 with the
grim determination to overtake the mer
ahead despite the bad weather into
which he was flying
His hard fortune continued, however
and word reached the field at noon thai
his plane had been forced down at Hud'
sondale, Pa, on the route to Bingham
ton, the first control stop. The machine
was smashed in landing, but both Lieut.
Langley AND his passenger escaped
without injury.
Lieut.. Langley was not the only fiieI
at Mineola who suffered, from some ma.
lignant jinx. Something in the righ
wing of the Newport 100 horsepower
airplane flown by Lieut.. B. Haynes wen
wrong when he was 1000 feet in the all
above the field. Lieut.. Haynes circlet
When the plane got within twenty fee
OF the earth it suddenly dropped thu
rest of the distance, landing on it,
wheels. 1t pranced like a buckini
bronco across the field. and at the third
buck kicked its tail into the air ant
| buried It's nose.
Planes Pilot Is Unhurt.
The plane came over on the pilot
who was strapped in his place, but be
fore soldiers could reach him he had re
| leased himself and crawled out will
only few scratches. Like Lieut.. Lang
| ley Haynes had been unable to get hi!
motor a Clerget, to start yesterday. anc
/ it was an all night task to get 1t int
good condition.
Lieut. Daniel 3. Gish. the pilot who's.
De ,Haviland plane burst into fame
when flying high over Canadice. y. Y,
or Wednesday, arrived by traku>~ a
Mineola and found waiting for him 4
brand new De Haviland, for which h