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Show BBBBJ1 " JJ BBBI "-"- I 1 HAMILTON NEW "AIR KING" t i ' I In Uioho days of startling fonts In tho nlr tho pooplo aru propnrod for Almost Anything. A fow days Ago Glenn Curtlss boarded IiIh biplane In Albany and In a romnrkubly 8lort tlmo landed IiIb craft In Now York city. Ho broko some records rec-ords and ntnazod thoufinniln with tho ease with which hu Hullod through tho air and kept up with n fast train. Then came Charles Hamilton. This daring Aviator got up oarly ono morning stepped Into hln aerial buggy and onjoyed a llttlo drlvo over to rhlladolphla. Thousands were out to boo him start from (Jovornor'n Island, but moro thousands In Quakordom oaw him top nimbly from (ho aircraft air-craft after circling around tho aviation fluid and cutting up novoral didoes. H After ho had doltvorcd a lottor from Mayor BHj Qaynor to tho mayor of 1'hlladolphla and a lottor from Oorernor Hughca to BK tho governor of Pennsylvania Hamilton onjoyed luncheon In Philadelphia, BB lightened up n fow boltH on hln buggy shafts, gavo tho air homo a drink of BBi gnsolliio, bowed to tho Phllndolphluns and started on his rqturn to Now BB York city. BB Tho return trip wasn't an easily accomplltihod an tho ono going, ut BB dftor fiurmountlng hoiiio unexpected dlfllcultlon Mr, Hamilton reached tho BB litnrtlng point and nccompllbhod one of tho thlngH that ban been prodlotod BB , for airships In tho last fow yoara-an Intercity flight. BB Hamilton made one of tho fnnt engines on tho Pennsylvania railroad that BB wax pulling a pilot train hump to keep up with him and smashed a fow BB moro records. This aviator ban Jiiflt recently cotno Into promlnonco among BB those who nro now ongagod In Hying tho skies, but Uioho who know him say BB ho promises to bo n loader In tho sport |