Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-09-06

mishap, tonight were planning q pf6,
coed here as early as, possible tomoSs1
row. where a rearranged program Of
ceremonies Is to be carried out. Then,
according to arrangements made by
Maj. Gen. PATRICK. the planes will be
overhauled. the pontoons removed and
landing gear substituted. On Sunday,
according to plans, they will push on
to New York City. They will land at
Mitchell Field. from where they win
continue their flight to the Pacific
coast.
Major Oliver A. Dickinson. general
STAFF, U. S. A., speaking for Maj. Gen.
A. w. Brewster. commanding general
of the first corps area, announced to-
night that the program arranged for
the reception of the army world hiers
for this afternoon would be followed
tomorrow. The expected hour OF ar
rival of the fliers was set as 1880
A. NJ
IL regret that the boys were unable
to hop into Boston as planned" Cen
eral Patrick said afterward. but add
ed: THE fact that they did not do so
is just another fine indication OF the
way they obey orders. ! told them not
to take undue chances.
when the fog came up they did
WHY tneS SHOULD nave UOne. neN
came down. i was especially glad they
came down all safe"
Turning then to his own unsuccess-
full efforts to meet the airmen. In which
he was halted by fog off Portsmouth.
\. H.. General Patrick said:
eve flew close to the coast at an
! altitude of about 5000 feet. Then we
encountered the fog. low-lying. not
, more than 1000 feet high, in white.
tleecy strips.
I'VE hoped to see them above Il. but
as it thickened l handed q note to
Lieut.. STREET., my pilot. saying that
| Lieut.. Smith and his party must have
landed in the fog. So instructed him
to fly back. The squadron followed"
General Patrick, in preliminary dis
cussion of his plans. said that the fiiers
on reaching New York would fly over
| the city at an altitude of 1000 or 5000
| feet before turning back TO Mitchell
| Field. l.. l.. to land.
| For the crowd awaiting the arrival
| of the homeward bound aviators whose
voyage has taken them $4,000 miles,
from the tropics to the far north. 1t
was an afternoon of mixed disappoint-
ment and satisfaction. There was dis
appointment over the non-arrival of
the fiers and satisfaction over their
Ssiie arrival anu ldIuinS III IdSCO bay.
Beginning early. before noon, Wis
| itors began streaming slowly into the
great field, which is half surrounded
/ by water. The incoming crowd was
! Swelled hourly. police, state patrol
men and troopers being detailed ev-
erywhere to handle the throng.
On the official barge before which
the planes will alight tomorrow to
| taxi TO their mooring buoys. were
| high dignitaries of the state. city and
nation. in addition to two distin-
guished British visitors. They in
cluded Major General Andre W.
| Brewster. commanding the First
Corps Area; Governor Claiming II.
Cox of Massa chusetts: Rear Admiral
| Luis lie Steigeur. commandant of the
| Boston navy yard: Sir Esme Howard,
! British ambassador to the United
States: Major A. Stuart MacLaren,
| British aviator who attempted TO cir
Gle the globe and who was halted In
| the northern Pacific, and Mayor
James NJ. Curley of Boston.
After the cscortinG planes had
| hoped off to meet the aviators, tho
| crowd waited with expectancy while
bands played and army planes per-
formed loop loops. nose dives
and the falling leaf. Four hours
came ana passed. without WORD. no IN
| formation having come from the
fiers since three quarters of an hour
earlier, when they passed Bath,
| Maine.
Then came word that the airmen
| had landed off Portland. But tho
| eXDcCtant crowd waited while the
clouds came up and obscured the sun
and it was not until the evening had
come and the airport was quite in
| shadow that they began to struggle
| from the grounds