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Show DID "DARIUS GREEN" HELP HAMILTON FLY? By Leased Wlro to Tho Tribune. NEW YORK. Juno 4. Charles K. Hamilton, Ham-ilton, the daring aviator, who will compete com-pete In the New York to St. Louis contest con-test for a $30,000 purse, got his aeronautic aeronau-tic Ideas from reading "Darhi3 Croon and Ills Plying Machine" way back in New England years ago, according to his mother, moth-er, who Is daily watching tho daring llyer soar through the air over Hempstead Hemp-stead plains. Hamilton Is becoming known by his fellow flyers" on tho Hempstead Hemp-stead plains as the bronko buster of the clouds, a title bestowed on him becauso of his recklessness. Hamilton Is now working on an Invention Inven-tion to equip aeroplanes with the wireless wire-less so that the aviator may be In constant con-stant communication with terra tlrma. "Charles was always crazy to fly sinco ho read about 'Darius Green.' " said his mother today. "From then on we could hardly restrain him from building small models, which in those days when nobody thought of flying, wore considered to bo a sign of a disordered mind. Many of those same people have since cheered him In his flight. "It Is curious how such a piece of dog gerel as 'Darius Green' affected Charlie, but the fact remains that from the first time he committed It to memory he was always experimenting with cloth and bits of sticks, with rubber bands as motive power most of the rubber bands, by the way. were filched from' my fruit Jars. "Charlie has promised to take mo up somo time when It Is very calm and smooth In tho air currents." |