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Show LONGFLIGHT From New York to Chicago in an Aeroplane New Tork. May 30. Charles K. Hamilton, the aviator, who came here from Florida last Saturday to try' for the prize which Glenn H. Curll.'s captured cap-tured yesterday, lias offered to subscribe sub-scribe $2,000 toward a prize of primps pr-imps $23,ofi( or more for a flight between be-tween New York and Chicago. Mr. Hamilton believes that Curtis' achievement Is the beginning of a great development of aviation In America. Am-erica. "W ithin sixty days " he say?, "feats will be performed that will make the . Curtlss flight" seem simple. I am glad Curtlss got ihe prize. Hut really, It wns easy money. "Next we should have a prlre of generous size for a really difficult flight smh ns between New York and Chicago. That Is a dintance of about fi.'.n mlls. I would limit the time to 30 hours and the number of stops to seen. It can lie done, but it will be a test for both aviator and machine. "Of course, jt is more spectacular to tly from town to town than to glide around in a circle for an enual distance, dis-tance, but it Is really no morn difficult." |