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Show I flTiWOOD MAKES 1 AiTje STAGE Hffl Reaches Elkhart, ind., on 9H Journey From St. Louis K MAKES FAST TIME IN W FLIGHT THROUGH AIR D Going Against a Strong Wind, H He Almost Equaled Train's Bl City. Miles. Hour. wiling, 'ind." " 17 3:52 p.' m. WMM Gary. Ind 26 4:06 p, m. MmM Laport. Ind -VJ 1:51 p. m. nmM South Bend. Ind 8b p:28 p. m. IM Elkhart. Ind 101 G:4o p. m. H Distance from St- Louis to Elkhart, mmm via Chicago, 3S7 miles. , , Total time actually In air. 2:14"00. Average time, 1:25 3S to tho mile. ELKHART. Ind.. Aug. 15. Skimming oVcr the southwest corner of Lake Mlchl- mmM arm and then over the sand hills of north- DH ern Indiana. Harry N. Atwood of Boston BH In his aeroplane tills" afternoon flow the HI 101 miles from Chicago In two hours and fourteen mir.utCB without stop, thus opm- lmma plctlng 38V miles of his UtiO-milo flight from St. Louis to New York and Bos- H Atwood made the 101 miles from Chl- HuH cago in lust nineteen minutes' slower Unit? MM than the fastest, train service in the BUM I'nlrcd States, which covers the dls- Uince between Chicago and Elkhart In one hour and fifty-five minutes. HHf . Th Boston aviator, arising In his Bur- B feewi-Wrlght biplane on the lake front In H Chicago, circled over tho thousands gath- H crcd there at the aviation meet and at I H Si o'clock shot out on his Journey east- HHI ward. He arrived here at 5:45, settling HH down in a hayfield. WM . His highest altitude today was 2000 MjVJj feet, reached over South Bend. Ind.. but Jj generally he kept low In order to follow H the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern HH tracks, which fixed his course. It was while he was out on Lake Michigan, J Viewed by thousands of people lined up 1 along the shore and sometimes hailed HH hy the whistles of steamboats, that At- HHE wood made his most spectacular anpear- J ancc today. Flew Over Lake. HVJ ' Once away from Chicago he hit up a j high speed against a head-on wind and HH eut across a corner of the lake to save nB a few miles. As t sDed on In the late IHJ ifternoon sun the air craft was evory- HD whero visible from shore and boats in j the distance. H For half ah hour Atwood sailed over the lake, keeping not more than .100 feet J high. At times, he said, to test the variations of the air currents, he swooped low enough as almost to be able to scoop up the water. Once overland again at a point near Pine. Ind.. twenty-seven miles J from Chicago, he headed directly east- PJPJI ward. Enthusiasm apnea red to increase as he Journeyed eastward. Telegraph and tete- tjMvi Phone wires were lept busy with reports HH of his whereabouts. HHI At Elkhart, where Atwood Dlanned to r remain over night, all faces were turned mmj . foward the. west. The aviator was tm- J able to locate the grounds arranged for IBpJ his reception, so he landed In a havfield. BJKJ nut later rose again and was received In mim the driving park, Aviator Is Confident. HJ In his performance Atwood Is confident MBl that his flight begun by his 286-mile trio mm from 6t. Louis to Chicago Monday will mm be ended in Boston easily within the ton PBH days limit He will resume his night tomorrow morning, going to Toledo, which W no hopes to reach at 2 d. m., and to San- HBJ dusky. O.. where he expects to land for J the nght. PnH "1 could make much better time were MKJ t not thnt my arrangement calls Tor mak- i fourteen slops on the entire trip," said A, ',00d- 1 ad mj' way I would gr M ,K'l on through, stopping only wherever DB -fj?1 0Vrt0K me. It is Incoming more jj sviuent to ine that aeroplanes are losing I '"Vr1. 0( i),Kir danger and are bocomine chicles for practical use. jn Thocean-to-ocean flight will soon be ""l10 a", tfP- way today I went V S5S.m1i ,hcuwlrrl- otherwise. I think I HJB woud have broken the best train record. HjH a? Itnwa' 1 ran a race with a train "ViM ?end ilere' thinking H was mm .he elgliteen-hour New York limited." HI Has Row With Chairman. H .,9"r9AGO-,A,,sr- 15. There was much mm !i .i!"finc? ?f lanage and gesticulation Mm IhH 5'laHon grounds today Just before mm Harrj N. Atwood started on the second mm c ,?f 1,la Su Louis-New York flight mm The dispute was between Atwood and mm . Chairman Mudd of the aviation commlt- mM ll.Jina h, trmlnated only with the ii?.rusJLncr f a .ccrtlficrt check -for $500 mm mlo the aviator's liands just as his big mm P'P1anc was starting. The trouble startoii Wmi when aomobody with a badge, biit un- nM dentined told Atwood that ho must leave Wmm Litc Srj?"n,B -v 330 or he would not be EH iTehi? , ar.L V aI1- Atwood responded mm nilil' lhat ,,e would start when he mm pIa,scd or some ono would get hurt mm ,ul"5 mlcr was scarcely adjusted when mm VleJiir,1al WiU5 tendered a check for $500 mm ie a gift because he landed hero, HB Was Promised S1000. IH r X,anded cJe toPlease the crowd, but nm bird-man cried, "and I want It.7' HI nC ,! lausuaiSe QVer Uils point continued mm ??ife a,7rorIanJ?. was brought to the Mm BtartlnK line. The check for tSDO was thrust nto hiBi hands and rejected, bo- mm S2i,u?,t.wna "i11 ."ncertlned. The pro mm Leilfrs .werc wllrrjng. and half a dozen mm m.ein.we,r?, r"1,ircrl ? strain the ma- mm chine while Chairman Mudd did a quick fl lob of eertincatlon. The "deck-hands" H released their hold and at 3:20 the lSn- HB iistanco aviator arose. h mm thVJ",sJ aro,u"d tho PJ'lons once for mm Vle d.eIcftation of the crowd, which num- mm i-cd,hCi?E-d IS 10O',()O P"8ons, and at mm nLt!!ioi ?utIient 'n the direction of mm l-?ntnt C ly' B2ache was the only Hi Vtt2t0nJ HSCOrt .lrn and 110 returned mm l,.Cr ? ns two miles. Within five mln- mm thtS J00d auAye ,iad disappeared In mm the smoke which hangu over the steel mm fiAlW00tl Ba,d tonight he probably would carrJ a pasrengor from here to Toledo. |