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Show WICKED WINDS SPOIL FLYING ' . Wiljnrls Sent Back to Earth As Soon as he Gets Into The Air. "MEET IS NOW GALLED OFF, BROKEN PARTS OF THE MA-CHINE MA-CHINE CANNOT BE REPLACED IN SALT LAKE, MAKING IT NECESSARY NE-CESSARY TO ABAND.ON MEET. .. ! J A tclephono messngo from J Salt Lako last night Informed 4 Walker that tho ports of his ma- $ J. chine could not be replaced in ! J. that city. Tho meet Is theroforo .j. J. called off. ! ' Struck by a contrary current, Clar- mce II, Walker and his Curtlss machine ma-chine crashed Into tho snowcovored aviation field ye6torday and ended ttie first day of tho meet that thrco thousand thou-sand peoplo went to see. Walker had mado two trials, only to fail to get into the air, when on tho third trial he roeo shnrply, wont about fifty feet, and ran squarely Into an air current that upset tho machime ns stated above. The front wheel was badly bent while tho side wheel was completely com-pletely demolished together with some of the braces in the planet.. Walker was not touched. That constituted tho first day of the aviation carnival. As early as ono o'clock, crowds began to flock onto the ffeld at tho Agricultural College, seeking to get a view of tho machine. They waited until 3:40 boforo.any at-""""'tempt at-""""'tempt could be mado to sail Into tho air, and then tho trencherous air forced' tho aeroplane to tho ground. At 3:10 Iho first effort was mado to get tho engines working. A bitter cold wind that threatened to twist any. machine ma-chine to pieces blow quite Btcadlly all morning, but tbwnrd tho afternoon it died 'down until about ono o'clock only infrequent gusts marred tho chances of a. good moot The wind rose again , shortly after and made flying dangerous. danger-ous. Thn crowds were patient enough, knocking their heels together in an effort to koep warm or even from freezing to death,. There was always a big crowd around the aeroplane watching the working niecfiMclans who wero valiantly val-iantly trying to get the thing in shape. Finally, the engine was started and was coaxed up to running fine. Tho field wus then cleared and tho ma-chino ma-chino run out. That it had the power was demonstrated in the fact that It pulled at tho scales over 240 pounds which should havo 'sent the machine along ot a forty mile clip. First Trial a Failure. The first trial ended in n failure to get any lift at all. For a hundred yards tho aeroplane skidded across tho snowy field only to bo brought to n stop without rising a foot Into tho air. The snow blocked tho progress of Ihe machine so that it did not get any speed. Again a trial was.mndo only to meet with the sarao results. Walkor and his promoters complain- d of the snow hindering them, so ar-mngements ar-mngements "woro immediately maae to scrape the buow away, but boforo n start to do so was niado. It was decided de-cided to try onco morofor a flight. Tho machlno got away well, skidded a little over tho snow, ran for one hundred and fifty yards, then shot into tho air for twonty foot. No sooner soon-er did the craft not off tho ground than n choppy wind caught tho right side of tho planes and tilted tho ma-t ma-t -,A uhlno. Walker immediately decided that to contlnuo in the nlr would moan disnstor with such winds blowing, blow-ing, so ho shut off tho onglno Just ib the wind crashed him into the ground. Winds Too Trecherous. . Walker and his friends claim that I tho winds wero too flcrco to attempt ' any flights at all. At this altitudo It is j not known just how to fly as yet, and I cpi'nclally with winds that nro twist- "1 Ing and un:'ady. For that reason, Win, lloff, Ely's mechanician, says that I "Walker ought not to have attempted any flight whatever. "Had Ely been confronted with a wind like tho ono thnt blew across the field yestorday, ho would havoi told mo to run tho machlno into the' hangar," says Mr. Hoff. "Tho conditions condi-tions under which Wnlkor flow wcrp simply too stiff for many aviators to consider. Snowy fields nro unknown things to rtso from,, and Walker's machlno ma-chlno demonstrated 'it. I thought at first that tho field would bo all right, I but experience showed that it Is not." "I wanted to make a reputation, thnt is why I trlod to go up," says Wnlker. "No other aviator would hhvo attempted at-tempted It but I wanted to mako n nnmo for myself." ' Supplies wero immediately called for from Salt Lako to repair tho "breaks on tho machlno so aa to havo it ready for future, flights. Under Ideal weather conditions tho moot ought to bo thoroughly successful. Tho power of tho' how ongino UBCd by Walker is BUfficicntto tako tho machlno ma-chlno off tho ground and sail It through tho nlr. Four men had to tug on tho machlno whon tho engines en-gines wero startodi-to koep It from sailing into tho nlf.Tho power is terrific, ter-rific, fairly wronchlng tho big aeroplane aero-plane from tho ground. |