New Britain herald., 1928-04-27
(Spec!a! to tho Herald) Climb All Over Plane

Hartford, April 27.-Police of the Hartford city and state departments were powerless before the crowds which rushed the field as soon as the
 Fairchild single motored cabin monoplane with Dixon and Cham berlin and carrying Frank Dolan, . New York news photographer, stop- ped on the field for fuel. Thousands of people. standing orderly back of ropes, brushed the police aside as though they had never teen there { and rushed to the field. Before the passengers in the plane could move, thousands of spectators had sur rounded and even climbd on top of the ship.
 1 The men in the plane were spirit ed away and protected from the crowd for 15 minutes while me chanics on the field filled up the gas tank. Chamberlin explained 10 Gov tcrnor Trumbull that the Germans had flown to Montreal and had gone down the Hudson river valley. They expected to stop at Curtiss field for l fuel and then continue on to Wash- i ington. Chamberlin and Dixon left
 the field in about 15 minutes, in tending to fly directly to Washington
 where they expected to attend the funeral of Floyd Bennett.
 i The failure of the Germans with their Irish pilot to land in Hartford was a keen disappointment. The thousands of spectators included people from practically every Con- necticut city and town, while hun dreds of newspapermen from Proyi- dence to New York and battery of dozens of press photographers in- ! cluding at least three motion pie ture outfits, were on the field. It was said that every New York newspaper had it's representative on the field. The Fox news service had its own plane and a crew of three men there while Pathe and other services were represented also.
 Telephone service from the field was almost impossible, while traffic was so congested that it took almost an hour to traverse a half mile. illC " ell Ol tiit EOA which is a cabin monoplane shortly after the arrival of Governor Trum- bull in an army service plane, pilot ed by Captain Earl Fleet. created a ripple of excitement, many taking the Fox plane for one of the trans atlantic tiiers.
 The plane carrying Dixon and Chamberlin was sighted first by newspapermen at about 1925. when q fleet of three escort planes piloted i hy Major Ladd, Captain Fleet and Lieutenant Wheatley met them and brought them in. So great was the
 rush of the crowd over the field and so completely was all police protection swept aside that one es- cort plane circled the field q number of times before it seemed safe to l land.
 Among those who were present besides Governor Trumbull, was {, Mayor Norman Stevens of Hartford,
 President R. H. Andree of the Hart ford Saengerbund, who was to make 1 the official welcome on behalf of the German people of Connecticut, and Houghton Buckley. president of the 1 board of aldermen of Hartford and
 acting mayor. who received Colonel
 Lindbergh when the latter flew to | Brainard field.
 ! Others who were present included
 Russell Rhodes, former American
 vice-consul in London, now a Hart
 ford newspaperman: Mrs. Alice F.
 Merritt, the only woman representa- tive in Connecticut. Senator Fred
 erick C. Walcott, William H. Pa Corbin, executive secretary of the Hartford Chamber of Commerce; 1 Edwin Dewing, friend of Gene Tun-
 ney and host to the champion when he visits Hartford: Major Talbot
 o. Freeman, former aviation com-
 missioner, now on the board of di-
 rectors of the Colonial Air Trans
 portation Co.,, and Commissioner
 Clarence Knox.
 Lieutenant Osmond Mather, gen.
 eral manager of the l.. & H. Air
 craft corporation, stated this after
 room that he did not know when
 Lieut.. Dixon would return.