The billboard (July 1911)

JULY 8, 1911. Xlie Bill board 17 News of the Week's Aviation Events AIRMAN BEAT S A STORM. Buffalo. N. T.. Jane 26 (Special to The Bill- houd).—Uncolo Beacbey, the California avl- iLtor made a icmarkable flight In a Ourtiss moDlane bete vbeo be was scbedoled to tools tbe'Niagara river at Fort Brie to the lortliem part of tbe city and tbence to Niagara ^"a' tbe hoar acbedaled for the flight a storm ot (teat violence blew from tbe Bontb, Beacbey made a - quick trip over the booaetopa ana ■tatted for the Falls on tbe very rim of the Btofm. Five mbrateB after be left tbe ground •t the driving park rain fell In torrents and folly 40,000 people got a drenching. Beacbev was barelr two minutes ahead of the downponr and going like the wind. He cov- ered the eighteen miles, air line on the last leg of tlie trip In a' fnetloa over sixteen minntes. He eacaped tbe atotm at the talla lqr-<thTee Blnites. BALLOO N ASC ENSION.^; Hamilton, O., Tnne 28 (Special to'The BIU' boail).—Arrangements hav^ - been completed Jiy the committee In cbarge ot'tbe safe and. sane Fourth of Jnly celebration for. an.ascenslon^of the Ug gas balloon "Drifter,'' now at Hamilton, C, and owned by Albert :H01c of this city. . . The balloon will be dispatched Into the air {torn a enltable place to be selected In AvondaIe>> It wUI be Inflated with natonl' gas and will' carry two pilots and over 300 'ponnds of ballastl The ballast used by the aeronauts.will be.several hundred thousand printed copies of the declara- tioii of Independence, which will be thrown.- over- bond as the balloon passes; over ' Cincinnati. M toon as a nltaUe site bas'been: selected ar- nggements will be made for the ess ..company to otibliab a system ot gis pipes to. the' gtooiids UNSUCCES SFUL ATTEMPT. y Fhiiadelphla^ Pa.,V June: 2T."(Speclal -. to : The .BlUbcwrd);—A. party ot .five amateur baUoonlsla, eo nsl HtIn g ; of - two women and: three; physicians; 'left Point- Breeze, this morning; In,'ani^onsnccess^ fnl'- attemptvto ' capture ..tbb. allyer iGtip-.,:for .a long. distance: trip, now beld'by- Miss iVIoIet Mdgwuy. . ~ . ■ i - •. -1 to be used In InflaUng balloon.. DELIVERED BY FLYER. New Xetk, jDDe 28 (Special to Tbe Bmbbard), —The argt piece of merchandise ever delivered at sea by an aeroplane fell- on^ the upper deck of the giant White Star liner Olympic today as she 'was steaming through the Narrows, out- bomod, on ber maiden eastward passage: W. AUee Burpee of PhUadelpUa had con- tiacted for delivery of the package before sail- ing with a department store. Which in turn- en- gaged Thomas Sopwith, the Bnglish aviator who recently took np Henry W. Taft. the'president's brother, for a slcy ride. With Blcbard' E; S?n-! dalr, secretary of the Aero Cinb. holding' tne package, Sopwith rose from the aviation gronnds at Garden City and timed his Sight to meet the Ifaer in the Narrows. While Sc^wlth. controlled the aeroplane, Sinclair dropped- the package at the given signal. . ' . WOMEN FLYE RS RACE. . D.SiS!*';,*"!' ^- ^- '""e 2T (Special to The BiUboard).—For the first time since the sport of aviation was started' to tills, conntry.. two A*."* 'J "y*"* machines at the same a.cid and time here today. . ThMt were flying .in ""^e It. idmbst Impossible to dlsHngnlsb them at tbe far end of. the fleld when they were circling. Vr^"!""'''**. Qolmby made two ronn^'In a ii.!.?"'* monoplane, making her first good trip alone, and Miss Elisabeth Scott, of coast to nSfi.r »o«omobHe fame, was ' In Captain S?""!! i.^?*"*" « biplane. The biplane was Am ' "Ojoplane was faster,. and Qnlm- B ,;:.i2f '"tend by any manner of means to ^f*" "nschlnes were within a i^i® " other and made several ronnds of the course. S2? J2K PPi?? »»* to »<»• Two pet- sons were In the bssket. A rescue boat was sent out as soon as pos- sible to the aid of the distressed balloon, but later returned, bavins recovered only an empty ballast bag marked "B. G. B.—70." The other three balloons made landings on the Bast Frisian coast. DROPS IN TO QU ICKSAND. Boston, June 28 (Special to The Billboard). —A atop of 100 feet In a disabled biplane on tbe edge of a bank of treaebetoos qnlcksand bor- detlng a big, muddy pool on the Dorchester marges, was the exciting experience today of Aviator Eugene Heth, of Memphis. Tenn.. on bis flight as a graduated aviator and Edward Fleet, a mechanldail. Tbe two men went aloft at'the'Harvard avi- ation field at Squantnm In a. biplane owned by; Louis Mitchell, of Memphis. Biey were soar- ing wben the crankshaft- on the biplane sud- denly «snapped.-. Then, tbe machine shot. down- at a. rate .of, twenty-five, miles an-- hour. It sunk into, the qulcksandi .bnf^ Heth'and-Fleet were, not'-lnjurcd -and'.were' able^ to. escape.'.' FLIES OVER DETROIT. Detroit, Mich.. lune 29 (Special to The Bill- board).—About 6:20 last evening thousands of Detrolters were at the State Fair Grounds to witness the sensational monoplane flight of St. Croix Johnstone. After kissing his wife, tbe nervy aviator stepped In his machine; with the coolness of a snowball he opened the levers ana away sped tbe flyer with, the ease and grace of an eagle. Getting a good start he began to cir- cle skyward, until he leached an altitude of two thousand feet. Finding Ills MoUant and Its Onome engines working perfectly. Johnstone shot hawk-like down Woodward Avenue, thence across tbe river and Inland over the border to tbe Hotel Dieu, where be circled back to tbe. grounds at the rate of sixty-five miles an. hour. His progress was watched by thousands from .. the hqasetops. streets and parks. "While saUlng, over .the'city, .the .aviatai: dropped carnations' on. the' heads of the sky gasers.' • . .'. Upon-his .return''to the. park-a ..^eat crowd gathered, and bad lt.naf been for. tbe'fnllce and friends, the. .enthusiastic. ' people.- -would- ■ have home' the' prominent..birdmun away on- their .shoplders. ^Aa it. was-he .was cheered time and again;' - '- , - _ . . ...Bene Barrier and'Behe Simon, the two French avlafors.'are both, sore, at Jabnstone for pulling oir,hls.ovefrcUy flight-bjCfore-they were readyrto fly. .and considerable high'flo.wh French has been hurled at rtlie-head of A., 3. HolsiMit becanse of itl' 'The Frenchmen claim 'th^-.are 'the -Keal slmon-p.nre-filers with the troupe^ and that-Jobn- stdUe'Is only a beginner. ■ Immedlateiyatler the' flrgnt'Walter. Flanders announced, a ^ilse-offer of - tl,t!00 for. a-'flight J.' A. D: McCURDY. .it . , -p.'IS- -i.,^-"-- - / -•,!>»■.-- ,.' INCREASE CAPIT AL STOCK. iiinh]!Lj;.T"H„.^'"*''' 38 (Special to The StSSl^'TTf "P"«l of Moisaut inter- im SSi ..Tji'SSS '>««° Increased from ^,000 to Jl.000.000. and the directorate has MiSJ?."!?!!;? ♦"'ee to seven members, as Mlows: Alfred J. Molsant, president and treas- Ii^U : rv ^oPPennann, secretary; H. W. ...""i,'**'" superintendent of motive pow- Santa .Fe BaUroad; Bdwin E. Bnsh, SSs. ?l ""■"•Ber. of the American Bx- nVTlnn nr""'*^'''. '«mes S. Herrmau, of the vi~SJ^'.?* Savings Bank; Christopher J. Lake, 1' tlie Lake Tbrpcdo Boat Com- aS^ta^* i- T^yJo'- ^ factory capable of a r^.^iu,"'.:.'" '""•<'™* Molsant aeroplanes ■ will. It la gald . be acquired. CAPT. BA LDW IN HURT. ho^lT-S?.''^; 28 (Soecial to The Blll- h BSflwS*"*.- ThomsB S. Baldwin, the aviator. s«t«5.k"F. '"•n tbe after effects of a acclrtln? i?!,'' "P" rtoc to an unusual aeroplano arteS^ J*"^ captain started late yesterday BontelTi """..» "'ebt at the Nassaii raSZ'\,^!i"ft?J°® without noticing that some S h S ""■nch on the uoper plane When t?"'^'''"*- He bad bardly left tbe gronnd nlaw ;T, I .^"^ "'»™ Its resting ninf thS''.Sl '"tS,. ">S .nropeller. breaking It aTiJt™" """^ Th» flyliR board rnlsswl • wi, . """owly and tore two boles In the canwimi '°"f ?' aeroplane. The machine cercciiod and dropped to the ground. MRS.,WOODWARD FLIES. 'rhe"BnlL"2S!'""'i''- ^- June 20 (Special to iter «„ ^JJS* Tom Sopwith. the English avl- from hi l"'* inoni'ng "Itli J. Bedlcy Sturrock whJSn .1 ■"■"Raf to the Onrden City Hotel, clothfni bad luncheon. After changing bis m8ciSnAi^''i?"',*'i,*»°'= "P f"- N. Doubliday. A. ruff" \i,'' Cebani, a cousin of Mrs. Wood- l£*in.«^"' Horton and Miss Edith • Jw iS2i.. ¥"i Wopdniir was again taken up before dark ana went to Belmont Park. BALLOON FALL S IN SEA. hau2.''"' ''"'n'lny- Juno 26—One of the , four lnl« fi If'"^!'. ""cendfrt at Paris Saturday fell if th„ B i?"!.**! »<■«'■ 'he Island of Julat iiie fcn«t Frisian Ki-aiu», :re<iten1ay. A violent This remarkable photograph sho-K's the daring aviator soaring over the Hocky Mountains in Utah. The trip was made In the Ug balloon, Phila- delphia II., owned by tbe Philadelphia Aero- nautical B'ecreatlon Society, with Or. Thomas E. Eldridge as pilot. The balloon was provisioned for three days, but adverse winds caused a landing to be made in Springfield, N.! J., a few bours after the start, fnie party, who retomed by rail, consisted of Miss Maud Johnson and Miss Anna Ultenger. who' made their first aerial trip; Dr. J. F. Herbert and Dr. George H. Slmmerman, the vice-president ot the organiza- tion. AVIATOR ESCAPES DEATH. Memphis, Tenn., June 29 (Special to The Bill- board).—^Eugene Heth, the avlatw who accom- panied by Edward Fleet, fell more than 100 feet at Dorchester, Mass., today. Is a well- known Mempblan. He and John Myer. also of this city, are under contract as aviators with the American Aviators, Inc., Louis Mitchell, manager, of this city, and were flying one of Mitchell's machines when they met with the accident. Heth wired here that he was not ser- lonSly Injured and that he expected to resume his Bights at once. Heth nntU recently was pro- prietor of an auto garage here. FLIES O VER N IAGARA. Niagara Falls, N. T.. Juno 28 (Special to The Billboard).—^Lincoln Beacbey, the Califor- nia aviator, before a crowd of 150.000 people, after circling above the falls late yesterday, swooped beneath the arches of tbe upper steel bridge and down the gorge almost to. the whirlpool. During the final dtp ills biplane was not more than SO feet above the spume. He will repeat t he flight today. AVIATORS ARRESTED. Marlon, Ind., June 28 (Special to The nill- hoanl).—^Three members of ' the Molsant Inter- national Aviators company. Bene Simon, Rene Barrier and Captain Frlsble. and their manager. Mr. Young were arrested here last evening, fol- lowing their failure to make ascensions as ad- vertised. Tho wind at the: aviation field was treacherous, bnt the crowd became Impatient and started for a tent to wreck the machines. Tbe presence of tbe officers prevented any dam- age. At Chicago's big aviation meet, which takes place at Grant Park In August; there will be aviators . from England.- Ireland,' Canada, Ger- many, France and -the United'States to compete. to tbe Flanders plsnt In Pontlac and return. AB of the aviators announced their intention of at- tempting to win this prize. The flight of John- stone yesterday was In competition for the Pont- cbaxtrain prize for the best flight over the city, and both Bene Simon and .Bene Barrier- an- nounced that they 'would. attiempt to duplicate, at least,' tbe fllgbt ot Jolmstone. Gene Anstec Is on his way home at Houston. Tex., where be wUl spend' the summer montbs. . AIR-CURRENTS; A' flying' machine whidi 'will bring about a complete revolution In aeronautics, according to ite inventor, has been built In St^ lonis. MO.. and will be given a test on tbe St. Louis Onlverslty campus In about sixty days. This machine - Is called the gyroplane, and Its designers say It will be able to transport flfty persons with ease and fly-at a rate of 100 miles an hoar. J. S. Berger, representing -the American Avia- tion Company of CoUege Park. Md., Is in Hagers- town, Md., arranging with the directors of the Bagerstown FUr to give an aeroplane exhibition during the four days of the fair next October. It la-jgcqnosed to .give flights over the city and across; conntry each day of the fair. Alfred Leblane; Klenport and Chevalier of Buoy. France, iwiU Compose the French team In the Gordon Bennett avtatton contest -won last year by'Claude-Grabame-Wiilte at Betanont Park. N. ■T.,- wliich 'wiU' be contested tor in England. Emile- Anbnm- Is^reserve man. The etlmlnatlott ^iala, wer^ held liere . today. '. Hiigh.'BoUn^n's spectacular flights at Kin- lock'Fark; St. Louts, Uo., last week, were watch- ed: by. thbnsands',:of eager spectators. Handling his' Cdrtlss.'biplane .with rare skill, the young aviator, cllmbedt 'to an'altltnde ef 4.000 feet. Bis''was '^e 'best flying..seen' in St. Xonls. ' lienienant delMalherbe, a French military av- iator,. mhde.a*< remarkable flight at Sedan re- cently, .In.reachlng'.thls-town from Paris, a dis- tance of: 286 kilometres. (17T.6 miles) In 1 hour. 44-mlhntes. 35 seconds. This Is In the neigh- borhood of 102'miles an hour. Cardinal Gijibbna declared the other day that something sbonld be done to stop the daring of tjie. aviators; wbicb Is resnltlog In the deaths ot-'eo' many oC them. He said, tbat lie .'wan .In favor'of any movement..that would deter' them from. dangerous flights. . . King iELelly and'Mae 'Wilson are doing great stunts In their balloon ascension act at Shady Grove -Park,- .Unlontown, Pa- Both are well known and have made a great hit with the park patrons.:. ■■ Gilbert was-the "first of the aviators to arrive at-'Utrecbt, Hotland,''June 22, completingIhe Liege' to Utrecht -stage of the European <3realt Bac^. He 'was, followed by VIdart. Garros,- BeaumOnt,' Weyman.' Kinimerllng and Train, In the -order named.' The. flight covered ,130 miles. Aviator MueUer,' who has been flying In the vicinity 'of Chicago;'vras severely inlued the other day,-when..his machine dsmped^frem.'-.tiie height'of 80. feet:' It'.ls expeetef that the tall will' prove^fatU 'ti>:.the l^ avIaHv. Miss Josephine Alger.V ymingest daughter of former Secretary of War Bnssell H. Alger, was one of the manyj wpmen to try an aviation fllght-»t: Detndt recentlyi.- Bflsa Alger' Is four- teen yeard'oif age. >. -< ■ Marioi. -Ind., .Is making great preparations for its aviation meet, wiiich takes place In the near, future. Besides many well-known Amerfcan' aviators,' fwo"famous French birdmen will be present. AVIATHm TRAIIIIN6 SGHOOl INSTRUCTORS and BUILDERS We bnlld to order,' Aeroplanes of all kinds, -for.-theatrical purposes and park concessions. | Our dummy aeroplane for|| park photographers Is ~ the^ biggest money-maker of thej year. Prices and circulars onl request. Machines and avl-| ators furnished for county-1 and street fairs. Write or wire for open dates.. Largest and most complete aviation school In the country. We teach you to fly, care for, as- semble and repair aeroplanes. Write today tor. complete inCormatlon.. AVIATION TRAININQ SCHOOL. 1120LeaiistStrM«. 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