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Show t at the meet her will have to share theli i prise money with a woman for the res of the meet. Matilda Mofsant, sister of John Mot-. Mot-. sent, who was killed at New Orleans. an of Alfred Molsant, already a participant Joined the ranks of regularly licensed pi-lots pi-lots here today and prepared to take ax ' active part In the events. President Timothy Woodruff of th New York Aero club received from It. 8 ' Sinclair, secretary of the Aero Club ol America, official sanction for a meet in , New York from September 21 to Octo-I Octo-I ber I. In addition to the chock for $600 pre 1 sented by the local officials to Ham A t wood Tuesday, a special purse of 1MK , made up by popular subscription, hai been added to that sum to reward th 1 aviator for alighting here. Walter Brook Ins, carrying former Alderman Ald-erman Francis Taylor, went Into the pit near the spot where Badger was killed, but the machine remained upright. It crashed Into the side of the dirt pile, but neither of the passengers was Injured. EXFEKT TELLS HOW THE ACCIDENTS OCCTJBEETJ CHICAGO, Aug M. Various reasons have heen advanced to account for the accidents In which St. Croix Johneton and William R- Badger, aviators, met their deaths yesterday. Horace Wild, avtatlon expert and field captain of the aviation committee, gave out the following follow-ing statement last night, regarding the manner In whlcb the two men came to their deaths: "Badger was Rilled as the result of trying to volplane without shutting down his motor," he said. "Volplaning la to turn the planes sr that the machine descends. de-scends. In performing It the engine should be shot down to one-hah power er even less. "Badger tried to volplane while his en- Jrine waa running at full speed. The ore of gravity draws the machine down with greater force when In position for descending, and the propellers tend to .throw the rear part of the aeroplane upward. up-ward. "When within about thirty-five fast of the a-reund. Bsdgor. attempted . to right the machine. The enormous air pressure on the planes was so strong, however, that the planes broke and twisted under It. He could not save himself and was dashed to dsath. The added force of the churning pro pel I ere hurled the machine ma-chine to the ground with the grantor spaed than If It had merely dropped. "The fate of Johnstone nod his machine ma-chine was due to axceaslve air pressure In . the gas tank. Pressure Is needed within the tank to Ineure a flow of gasoline gaso-line to the motors, but there waa too much In Johnstone s tank, and caused It to sx plods." DMIIOVERS OVR CHICAGO HM FIELD Amateur Aviators Badger and Johnstone Meet Fa- tal Accidents. FORMER IS CRUSHED, I LATTER DROWNED Johnstone Falls Into Lake 1 Michigan Three Miles From Shore. CHICAGO. Aug. It. Twa aviators. William B. Badger of Pittsburg and St. Cress: Johnstone of Chicago, both young 1 . men, lest their lives at tha International aviation meet here yesterday, in dying. both revealed the frailty of era ft In which two-score mors aviators were curving and gliding about In the air, with scarcely a . i n i pause. Xoc tha. 4eaUia eOheir. con tempo r-axiea. r-axiea. LieeMv tn wee eases waa due te unexplained unex-plained accidents, probably the results of unsuspected defects In the mechanism ef tye machines. Badger, a wealthy youth, came to hie geatb in a pit la tha aviation field. There gad been a flaw In one of the srtneje of the propeller of the Baldwin machine he drove. Centrifugal foroe broke the pre poller, upset the delicate equilibrium ef the machine, and Badger dashed 100 feet te the bottom gf the 1L His aecJt waa broken. rmeioreH ' JeSrnetede fJ tt feet, tinder ai engine en-gine and waa drowned. Caught unde the; heavy engra In tha sfoieaat seeno-, seeno-, plane, he was carried deep Into Lake 4lrfetmd aad but body Wms set brought 9 the urfn entl an hour later. Badger IKef three -Quarters of an boot dfter ne had been extricated from the wreck of his engine. He did not reeever eenedouenees. His death waa the firet serif aceidettt ef the meet, although fhlrty-nVe flyers have dipped and glided 1 here for three nays, and as pert s say sev -e)rel similar aocidents have been narrowly narrow-ly averted. Badger flew, as he formerly drove ree-trig ree-trig automobiles, purely as an amateur. h wee the stapes a of John Cfcoettmaa ef Pittsburg and was fl years old. He aossseeed an Independent fortune and era lined a. veil -developed apeed mania. In. the early aevs of euiomebilee he ires among the entt te meUae amatetar cs-onrde at Dayeena and Palm Beach. The meet here was Badger7 first en-Ho en-Ho appearance. The big nsecaeaieal alga board after his death recorded that fee bed been up Tweeday Just I hour. It minutes and t second a The) flight that ended aia Mi earned aim poeelbty an ' hi fell in front of the grand stand and thousands oi spectator were within a fw hundred yards of the accident. Hundred Hun-dred tepd ths fence, fought past the line of poll. a and rushed to tit alt where the wrecked biplane lay. The accident waa announced In rough the nitrtMnt and five nMnutee later, while l--tr waa on Wis way te a hoe-piial. hoe-piial. att.nuon and Internet bad reverted to the men still flying. Through hta frlendaMp with Strong, ftadger mst Ceptam Thomas L Baldwin, rl bought an aeroplane outright and re-eeived re-eeived his drat, dying leaeon at afieeela, N. V. On June 1 he male a uereearuL slight aad was greeted a pilot 'a Uoenee. Captain Baldwin after the acclden withdrew ail hla machines from th meet. Badger mother died recently and, m far aa la knowif. hla stepfather, Mr Qoettman, la hla only survivor. otmetoM't Wife Saw Fall. Johnstone' accident was due. neoord-Ing neoord-Ing to expert aviators,- to a similar unsuspected un-suspected flaw In the mechanism of hit monoplane. Just what It waa probabl) will never be known, aa the engine la li the lake. Johnstons' actual fall waa witnessed by his young wife, although It waa not until half an hour later that she was Informed of his death. As ths monoplane faltered In midair then crashed downward to the surface el the lake, the young aviator's wife who had been following his flight closely, frrasped a mechanic's arm and easlalmed n fear: "Oh oh. nltyl He's falling! My boy win be killed!" For some minutes Mrs. Johnstone pleaded to be allowed to croes the field and out to the lake where her husband's hus-band's machine had plunged. Then a mechanic rushed up to the group and assured Mrs. Johnstons that her husband had ben drawn out of the lake unharmed: un-harmed: that a boat was bringing him ashore, and that he would join her in a hotel Immediately. Reassured bv this Information, which had been deliberately Invented she went back to her hotel, and hurriedly laid out dry apparel for her husband. For half an hour and mors she waited, then a member of the Johnstone family took her word of the aviator's death- The young wlfs waa prostrated. Father Waa Confidant ' Twenty minute before the break in ths aeroplane's warping strand, the accident ac-cident that sent young Johnstone careening careen-ing Into the lake, his f ether. Dr. Bluer! Johnstone, and Mrs. Johnstons stood In front of the Molssnt hangar with St, 'roll's wlfs, watching the young aviator. avia-tor. He had started from the field at 1:11 clock and had sufficient petrol to keep blm in the air until SO. Finally, an s ngsgem enf"" Tn 1 minnVTr. Johnstone turned to hts wlfs and daughter-in-law and remarked: "Wall, I must be going. "Oh. don't go yet," ettorused Mrs. Johnstons and the aviator's wlfs. "81. Croix will e down In a few minutes. "No. I must go," rejoined the doctor. Tt does not look as though Bt. Crols would toe hi life today; he seems te ne flying too smoothly for any mishap. He's been up two hours now." Lea than twenty minutes later tha warping strand in the Molsant broke, tha wing of the machine crumpled and the machine hurtled Into the lake. Father sWfoswd to Bar Machine. Like Badger, Johnstone flew aa an amateur. HI father. Dr. Stuart John-etone, John-etone, a practising physician here, however, how-ever, bad refused te buy blm aa aeroplane. aero-plane. Johnetone. wbo waa H year old and ambitious, started to build one and went te France, where fc entered the Brexel school of aviation. He then went to the Bier lot school and learned te fly. Then his father again refused him an aeroplane aero-plane and this denial, found today In a letter written by the father to his son almoat a veer ago, seemed ta foretell the fatal accident. "My conscience will not permit me te contribute to your certain death by providing you with a flying machine, wrote Dr. Johnstone. "I won't buy you one, St. Crols." I After learning to fly la France. John- Sone went te Havana, where he waa i firet te fly aver the city. He gained , a record when be wa the first to fly I round the wreck ef the be tt lee hip Maine. Returning te the United Btatea late la the spring, be was Immediately engaged by Alfred Molsant and had since been with the group of French aviators. After Ms return from Havana Johnetone ee-tabMshed ee-tabMshed one American record. During a flying exhibition at Mlneola August I be remained In ths air four houra, on minute and flUy-nlne seconds. UeOn&f Wts Kaoe. J. A. D. McCurdy won tha twelve-mile biplane apeed ewnteet In 14 m In tee, 41 second e. Lincoln Beach y made faster time, but waa penalised one lap for fouling foul-ing a pylon. Time er ten lap U miaul mia-ul ee, i6.se seconds. Pexmeie dropped eut after the grot lap. Beachy wa the only one te flntah the twelve-mil passenger carrying AnaL Hi time waa I mlnutee, 11.17 seconds. The thirty-nine International aviators |