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Show ;:;i;:3QT PROGRESS , - Hies His Mornini From Elkhart, Ind., to Fettls-V Fettls-V vicCMo. - . to ccntinte jcuxey ti::s aftes:;cc:i Is Ahead of Schei-Ie; Hopes to Teach Sani-s'Jy Tcnliht'. . . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1, ' 4- rirv. mriiec: Htv. . nhart a int ., K.ndeJIvlUa i. . . . Ulne. O ,.71 )t . . Fetnavllle, O. T ' I0:n3 .. .. l.i.canoe from St. Leute to Pein.vlile via Chleaco. 4l mllee. ' ' j,?,'1 time '. actually In air, - . Averaae time. 1.4 Jl to tka mil., i I I I I I I I II I I I 1 1 I I 1 1 1 I b I . 't fXITiaVlZXE, O, Aag. 16. Oom. tinning bia record breaking flight from t LeuU to New Tork and Boetoo, ftarry . X. Atwood tkia morning traveled trav-eled from r.xhart. ImL, ta Pettlavtlla, O, wbare ba deeoonded te take guo-. line. ' He traveled ninety tcven milea la X koara aad minutea and flew at a peed of a mile a minute during most of the. way oa the first leg of toiler 'a flight.! Ilia average , speed for 'this morniag'a journey wa forty -aix milea aa hour. He left Elkhart at S:0, and following tho Lake Shore A Michigan Soothe ra railway, sped eastward at aa altitude of KM feet. He went forty-two forty-two mile th first hour. When he reached KenriallvUle, lad., he rose to aa altitude of MX) f.-t and increased hia speed to sixty nines bi. hour.tWkicb, was wteintained for a long strelrk. At Corruna. Ind.. he droi ped to too feat, but continued his tr-eed, as the air current were fsvomtile. A large crowd of Upturned' faces greeted him at every city along-the mute. At several . point he was cheered by throng. - 4lv ' .Attain Blga Bpood. - - -' He attained th highest speed lu crossing tho Indiana state line between Butler, Ind.. and Mine, O.. when ba traveled hie milea ia six minute.. At-, wood dif not anpear fatincd wtien he reached Pettisville. He fillrd his gasoline gas-oline tank aad rested. Ha aaid: "Mr machine i fa perfect conditio condi-tio aad the air currents were favorable favor-able throughout the morning. I had a delightful flight from tlkhart and en-Joyed en-Joyed every minute of the journey. 1 feel fine. Th morning air sharpened my appetite, ao. I - thought I would eat before going up agate, f am awnv ahead of my schedule, and t am confident confi-dent I will finish mv tifbt before 4b t4m days' limit Biribt. I fir-vt to t.v bT at 5:.10 p. m. am, arrir ia fUadaflkya. O., before 7 aVIork thia Tuainf." . A dliratiaa from Wnseii, O.. cam km ia aa automobile aad took Atwood At-wood ta thai teaa for hiarh. Hat will ' ftora bar to rtaume bit flight. OOdVniXED TO A BAITDOX TAUlia A PAMZNOEB VLKHAJtT. Ind.. An. H-JtMuinlnf . hta AkM Mitwiurl. Harry N. AlwtKxl. tha BcMbton ftvtaior. I ft hra at a. m. today, bound toward Toltxlo. 1 Atwood Uft without a pMnrr. ba-ing ba-ing rowipottad to abanln film tnt-ntion , of carry iruj one oa account of poor coo dlttona for at art In. One minute atar he had left the trround the airman had rian to a helicM of so feet and after ctrrllnc twlre around the ' drivlnc partr. he olcfc3 out a point above 1 the Lake Bttore A Mlehtcan Central railroad rail-road tracke and atarted due eaet. MThe air la fine and If It kpa ep thia all day I may area a apaed record. ni4 Atwood. a he wared to the crowd below. be-low. He eatd ho hoped to reach Totooo before I o'clock. With tbe white wtnra fttmmeHnc a Kan hartsvht in. At.roof I BVahohlntn for twenty minutea waa visible from hie ? start in f point. Oreat crowds of peooU, -Including many farmera who had come In '. automobllee. turned out and watchad the aviator until be dleappeared la -the eeat. |