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Show two or three days, A. V. Lawson, hea of the owning company, said, and thenc start across the cont.nent for San Frar Cisco to establish a transcontinental pa senger air line. Pilot Charles Cox and three median! cians accompanied Mr. Lawson on tt flight. No passengers were carried. TORONTO, Aug. 27. Seven of thirtce airmen who started at this end of th 1000-mile international aerial derby b tween Toronto and Mineola had complel ed their round trips tonight when dart ness fell. Seven aviators landed today, Coloni W. G. Barker, the famous Canadian P lot, at 9:35 a. m.; Roland Kohlfs at 11:41 Bert Acosta at 11:53; Sergeant C. I Coombs at 12:10 p. m.; Lieutenant S. S Moore at 1:34, and Lieutenant C. J Shiller at 5:43. Major It. W. Schroed( landed yesterday. Interest in the race here, howeve was overshadowed by the news of th probable fate of Lieutenant H. G. Slate who is believed to have perished in La It Ontario on the last lap of his journe from Buffalo. Lieutenant Slater had nt appeared at midnight ,and no trace t him or his plane had been found, a though several of his fellow fliers co ered thoroughly the course he intend to take. ELEVEN AVIATORS MINEOLA, Aug. 27. Fleven American entrants in the international aerial derby had completed the 1000-miie flight to Toronto To-ronto and return when darkness and storms on the route from.Albany ended further arrivals ar-rivals at Roosevelt' field tonight. Six arrived ar-rived between 5:30 o'clock and S o'clock. A large crowd of spectators were on hand and cheered lustily as each new arrival ar-rival dropped down out of the clouds and made a perfect landing. The following fliers arrived late today: Lieutenant P. H. Logan, in a Lapere machine; Captain H. B. Chandler, J. N.-4-H.; Colonel G. C Brandt, Dh.-4; Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Colonel H. E. Hartley, Lieutenant Ben Adams, Dh.-4, and Major A. B. Gilkeson, Curtiss Jn.-4-H. Earlier In the day three other American fliers had completed the round trip, and, with two arrivals of yesterday, the total now stands at eleven. No reports had been received by officials here of the number of fliers completing the trip at the Toronto end. The fliers arriving earlier in the day were: Lieutenant Robert H. Midkiff, Dh.-4; Captain A. B. Simonln, Dh.-4, and Lieutenant W. C. Brown. Lieutenant H. H. George also completed a round trip to Toronto, landing at 7:37, but as he was dissatisfied with the time he made on the flight to Toronto, he reentered re-entered there and must return to Toronto To-ronto to complete his flight. He will start on his return flight in the morning. CHICAGO. Aug. 27. Covering 100 miles in 5S minutes, a twenty-six-passenger-carrying airplane built in Milwaukee arrived ar-rived tonight on the first leg of a projected pro-jected transcontinental trip to blaze the way for a crosscountry air line. The airplane fs fifty feet long with a wing-spread of ninety-five feet and carried car-ried twin Liberty encrnes of 400 horsepower horse-power each. The inclosed cabin, fitted up like a chair car, is twenty-six feet in length by seven feet wide with an Interior In-terior height of seven feet. It is planned to start for New York in |