Show AMERICAN FLIGHT RECORD SECURED Arch Hoxsey Covers Miles in Biplane Without Coming to Mother Mather Earth St Louis Oct 8 SArch Arch In a Wright biplane flew from Springfield Ill to the Country club grounds rounds at Clayton Claton St LoUis Loula county today and established an American sustained flight record in an aeroplane by cov covering co covering v ering miles as estimated by him His objective landing place was the aviation field at Kinlock park but be because because because cause of ot failing to find the grounds he descended five miles away He alighted on the aviation field at p m His time in the air was three hours and 22 minutes For 67 57 minutes Hoxsey tried In vain to find the field After leaving Springfield at 1155 this morning he maintained an altitude of six hundred feet teet until wind gusts forced him to rise six hundred feet higher He flew In the level the tho remainder of ot the tIle trip The special train which was to guide him to St Louis was thirty minutes late in leaving Springfield and he never saw It It At Carlinville ho he left the Chicago Alton right of way and followed the interurban tracks to Staunton his birthplace He circled about the town twice and then headed toward the Mississippi river After Atter reaching Alton he turned south and crossed the Mil Mis Mississippi MI where the Missouri empties in into into Into to it He then began to search for the aviation field He Do was Vas seen from the I field at 14 As soon as a Walter Brook BrookIns ins could get set an aeroplane started lie is went aloft to guide his bis fellow i a ato ito to the field but Hoxsey veered to ti t south and was lost to view Bomi Boms s were exploded and aad the band played b t b t r the aviator did not hear the guiding I music He lauded landed at the Country club cl u iJ at learned the direction of ot t Us tLe a I aviation field and sailed RUed to it |