| Show LOUIS SOARS NEARLY i 1 iA I A MILE AND BREAKS S RECORD ECORD CURTISS THE SPEED FlYER Thousands of People Roused to Frenzy of Excitement as a aS S the Aviators W Went Aloft and Flew Through the Light Air WEATHER NEATHER PERFECT FOR DARING CONTESTANTS Hubert Record for Altitude Made Last Decem December ber in France Beaten by About by Frenchman RICH PRIZES AT STAKE Aviation Camp Los Angeles Cal Ca CaJan Jan Fan Paulhan the French aviator broke all Official and unofficial records for altitude in a Farman biplane this Ulis afternoon Cortlandt Field Bishop announced late lat tonight that the judges of the aviation events had calculated the height of flight today at feet These figures now stand officially as the record aneroid barometer showed his highest altitude as feet and I the judges at first figured close to feet but tonight after sive calculations from the results of triangulations and the observations taken with the this was reduced to feet The tI e In the all air was was 50 minutes 4 15 se The time ot of descent was 7 3 seconds s sPi Pj Pi ulhan Is I the Idol of the mob tonight He made his great record shortly after sing ising the speed record of the course to Uh nn H Curtiss The Frenchman using an engine which as just arrived from PariS had been II 1 I most 1 th the afternoOn n lie He h had d rc d the course ourse again ant a agan ln skidded and dIpped and swung c In daring f fashion that made his hie wife s shiver The sun was ward the sea and the shadows had begun to gather as he decision togo higher Into the theall all than any tny man In a machine ever had attempted Weather Perfect The wind barely stirred the feathers In the ti of th the wom women ri that blocked tie In 1 solid masses of color Cort Cortlandt landt P ft president of the Aero dub club of stood in front of the grandstand enthusiastic over the beau beautiful scene that stretched out before him himI T I never saw such perfect weather for forR fora R a tation he be remarked We Ve ought to haVe the altitude record broken toda today A minute later Paulhan rose in th thair the theair air He bent low his head and tid smiled Ii smile of promise as he made madea a short circle over the mass of craning Curtiss had felt the higher Currents and come down Hamilton had I tame tamely Paulhan pointed north went vent up a thousand feet passed over I the HIP center of the field again as 81 though to take another last look at the faces of I human then turned north and up upa a agIn ln By this thie time there thero was just one thing u all the universe for the man and machine rap rapidly idly becoming a speck In the gathering At the estimated height of feet teet feete described a great groot circle as If e feling the currents B By this time he was mile and a half from th tho camp When wo word d had Iad spread that he had beaten the worlds record the vast throng was to frenzy and he still was climbing H had taken Jacobs ladder of dreams to the threshold ot of the stars Two thoUSand feet and sUit still climb climbing ng I of distance was almost lost from thE earth No o ORe oe would have been Stir If the man and his little wings Jid been swallowed up in the void voM At 5 the machine became plain r Paulhan to descend He came I asil in front of the grandstand I bing in the air nearly t mInutes As he be leaped from his machine cheeks I glowing nd eyes flashing he was waR gra bed by his friends and to the of the grandstand where he bared his hs head to th thunder of cheers that lame ame in his honor List of Prizes It was announced today that Cortlandt Field president of Aero club c f America had sanctioned as the 01 dal I tat representative of that organIzation ta HI followIng lI list t or prizes to be corn com for juring the aviation meet be with the events oC at this afternoon Continued on Page Three I lt t t tj LOUIS S PAULHAN AND WIFE broke the worlds record for highflying in his biplane at Los Angeles yesterday LOUIS PAULHAN SOARS NEARLY ONE MilE AND BREAKS RECORD Continued from Page One Speed best during the meet ten laps 30 2000 20 Endurance best demonstration during 2000 WO 2000 Best flight with 00 Slowest lap at an any Quickest Shortest distance In In addition to this Curtiss will receive for his flights during the meet and Paulhan and the members of his avia aviation aviation tion syndicate and Malson Maison will receive Mr BIshop cut down the prize list ag aggregating aggregating proffered b by the commit committee tee Ho He based hIs action on the ground that large prizes magnify the sporting aspect of the meet and subordinate scientific interest |
