Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-23
World Racers Back
To Starting Point;
Gone only 20 Days

They broke the old record by 4
days and % hours.
They stepped from an automobile
az Battery park last night az S:2l
o'clock. completing a journ by boat
and airplane which they began from
the same place the morning OF June
%.
With them. barking enthusiastic
ally, was a little s~ealyham terrier.
named Tailwind. who had sped with
them over two oceans and three
continents.
Last Hop Worst
The last leg of their fight, from
Minneapolis, they found one Of the
most difficult Of their entire trip.
They were forced 10 battle fog and
low lying clouds for the last part
Of their flight. detouring BIZ what
~ayiators call the scenic route
down the Suscuenanna river TO the
Delaware river al Middletown. Pa,
where they cut across New Jersey 70
Miller field, Staten island.
Swooping out az the mist in their
Fairchild cabin ~monoplane. the City
Of New York. IN which they mad
made an the air parts Of their jour
ney. they landed at 6:55. The jour
ney from Miller field 70 the Bat
terry was made by automobile and
ferry.
Started Jun 90
By his trip Mears ain became
co-holder Of the record Tor circling
the globe. breaking that Of Linton
Wells and Edward Evans set in
1926. The Wells-Evans expedition
had broken the record Of 50 days
which Mears set in 1913.
Mears. Collyer and Tailwind took
off in a seaplane from the Battery
June %. Off Long Island they over
took the Olympic aboard which Mas
their plane. Landing ct C~herbourg,
France, July ). they flew across
they travelled by steamer 20 Van
Saturday they flew from Spokane to
Minneapolis and yesterday COM
pleted their journey.
Tired but happy was the way
Mears expressed his feelings rs he
stepped from the plane. He aid
Collyer were tanned from the sun
and a bit spattered with oil from
their engine but otherwise appear
ed little the worse for their endur-
ance-testing moor race.
Made Early ALTO
Mears was born IN Boston in 1880.
the son Of Timothy Mears. an art
dealer. His boyhood heroes were
the famous explorers. especially the
globe circlers from Drake and Ma.
gellan % modern times. his favor
ite book Jules Verne's Around the
World in Eighty DAYS.
He came 10 New York az the age
Of Is 70 enter the theatrical bus
mess. first rs a clerk In a theatre
cal office, later in Chicago as ticket
taker and then manager OF the Pow
crs theatcr. IN 1907 ne became
personal manager for John Drew
and was associated with the famous
actor until 1914. In 1900 he drove
one Of the first automobile sever
seen in Chicago. a gas buggy Of his
own construction. but was chased
from the Chicago boulevards Az 4
menace 70 public safety.
Pioneer Pilot
Collyer was born at Nashville.
"A.s 20 AovHs ne started MS globe
trotting career az the age az "
months when he travelled with his
parents from Tennessee 10 COrpa.
His father. the Rev. DR.. c. ~. Coll
yer Of Baltimore at that time was
engaged in geographic research ~
the far east.
Collyer entered the air service Of
the United States army in 1917 but
MS quick proficiency doomed him "a
stay on this side during the war AZ
an instructor. He left the service
IN 1913 to buy an interest in "
lying circuses and tour the coun-
try. From 1920 10 1928 he was in
the air mail service. flying TIE New
York TO Cleveland route. He was
one Of the first sky writers in this
country and one of the five founders
OF the Quiet Birdmen. the secret
organization Of noted fliers ~ which
Llndoergh. Chamberlain. Byrd and
others are members. He II presi-
dent of the Aviation Service Cor
poration of New York. aeronautical
engineering. brokerage and export
ing organization.
a stunt II his which attracted
much attention al the time was a
flight from New York TO Washing
ton in 1926 in a giant Sikorskv lane
with two baby grand pianos and six
passengers for ballast.