Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-10-05 | Page 1 | Wilbur Wright Sails Ten Miles and Back with Ease

WILBUR WRIGHT SAILS TEN MILES AND BACK WITH EASE Spectacular Flight Around Grants Tomb While Thousands Cheered the Aviator New York Oct 4 An aeroplane flashed past the white dome of Grants tomb today then turning gracefully in midair over the th waters of the Hudson shot like lik a falcon back to Governors Island ten miles away Wilbur Wright of Dayton Ohio thus made one of the most spectacular flights in the history of Over the masses of warships Wright flew for twenty miles esten ten miles up and the ten miles back remaining in the air for minutes and seconds and alighting at the aerodrome without mishap During the flight business was practically practically practically at a standstill in all parts of ot Manhattan from which a view of ot his re remarkable performance was available Harbor craft shrieked their applause cheer after cheer swept up from the banks of ot the Hudson and the lower bay for tor the aviator had made good crowning the aviation program of the celebration with a rec record record record ord Wright started on his flight up the Hudson at a m and finished exact exactly exaCtly ly 11 at 1029 33 He had intended to Im Improve Improve Improve prove upon his achievement of the morning by bf making a longer and more hazardous flight at sunset but the crip crippling crippling crippling pling of his motor just as he was about to start on the evening attempt dashed his hopes as well as those of ot the thou thousands thousands thousands sands who had assembled on Govern Governors ors island and along the waterfront to cheer him on Chagrined at the turn of affairs Wright was forced to abandon this pro program program program gram and return to New York tonight ready to go to Washington tomorrow The Curtiss machine which It had been hoped also would fly today was waa taken apart and shipped to St Louis Loula Curtiss will wUl leave for St Louis tomor tomorrow tomorrow row to give exhibition flights 1 t