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Show FORMER SALT LAKEfl WW EL1G II! Archie Hoxsey, in a Wright Aeroplane, Has Moonlight Skylark at Asbury Park, Archie Hoxsey of Pasadena, Cnl., u former Salt Lalco chuuftcur, uppcars to bo winning luurels in the east with flying fly-ing machine stunts. Concerning a llight mado hy Hoxsey in a Wright aeroplane at Asbury Park. N. .J., Friday nlcht, the Associated Press nays: "Hoxyey started out for a moonlight skylark. He cut figure eighta. roller coasted, darted upward In a spurt of 500 feet toward the moon and waved to tho people down below from u height of 1000 feet. When he tired of that, ho cut grapevines and what looked to be his In-ltiule. In-ltiule. Hl3 craft was aluminum-paintod and it became ao bright undor the silver of the modn as If it had been phosphorescent." phosphor-escent." Just about everybody who lived in Goldfleld, Nov., during the years 1906-7 will remember Hoxsey. Ho owned a forty horsepower Thomas flyer machine, and like "Shorty" Vlddy. always guaranteed guar-anteed to tuko anybody nnywhoro on earth on schedule tlrso. "If an axlo doesn't break." It muttorod not how fast an automobilo might run, Hoxnuy nlwaya wanted to go Just a llttlo bit fnster. Ho admitted on ono occasion that If he had a machlno that would mako 100 miles un hour', ho would want it to go 110 mileH. lioxsey, however, was ahvays daffy on flying machines. Bomo years ugo, whon Knabcnshut) was oporatlnK machines ma-chines of this order, Hoxsey was his u-HistaiU u-HistaiU and hio dure-deve! Hpirit won him many admlrcru. While In Los Anolcs, Hoxsey constructed a machlno and nM-cendod nM-cendod 5000 feet, "which at that timo. and porhapM still hi, clooo to tho world's record. Hoxsey wuh ono of tho chauffourn who piloted "Death Vnlloy" Bcotty and a party of nowapapor men through Doath valloy, whon Scotty proposed to tako his visitors visi-tors to IiIb secrot mine in the Panamints but didn't. Hoxecy stripped tho soaring soar-ing from his machlno in a sandbank, twcnty-flvo miles north of Daggett, Cal.. and had to leave his auto thero until ho could eecure now gearing from Los Angeles. No chauffeur who ever sat at a steer-Ins steer-Ins wheel In Nevada was more popular than Archlo Hoxsey and his thousands of friends nil .over the west will be pleased to know that he is "making good." |