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Show HAMILTON " 1 They Are Forced tc Land Owing to I Air Conditions ; II Baltimore, July 10. Forced by th : JH t intense heat, with Its accompanying 'f fl high humidity, to discontinue, tern nifl porarily at least, their flight by aero full plane to Washington, Atwood and g iU Hamilton, who left Atlantic City at I -5t04 or nir today in-he latter's bi- jMfl plane, reascended shortly after 3 o'clock near Stemmer's Run station, : H eight miles east of Baltimore, on the I 'S r Pennsylvania railroad, and came to I H 1 Baltimore by train. "' i;fl They had traveled 14S miles, mak- V H ing but one stop, that at Farnhurst, Delaware, for gasoline. This diptance ,H was thirteen miles greater than At- H wood carried his mechanician in tho H flight from Boston to New London, , I . Conn The airmen were in excellent spirits when they appeared at a hotel 1 m here. Atwood announced their inten- , I tion of resuming le!r flight later in I the day if the weather conditions per- ( fl mit, with the expectation of reaching 1 fl Washington in time for dinner this I fl evening. . fl The tale of the aeronaut's journe.s, ' fl as told by Atwood, was one of a fight fl bitterly contested against heavy odds. fl "We worked over the machine un- til after 12 o'clock last night." said fl Atwood. "and It was nearly 1 o'clock V fl when we retired. We had several 51 fl hours' sleep and haj but little trouble tf fl In s'artlng, leaving the beach promp".- jrj H ly at 5:14 o'clock. H "The first part of the flight was r fl delightful. The morning air was not , fl so warm, but the humidity was high : and even at first we had a great deal fl of trouble in getting any speed or el- Ml evation At no time during the flight did we reach an elevation of more f fl than 250 feet" 'fl Tho first and only intermediate ston 'fl was made at 0:45 at FarmhurstDel- x fl aware, 35 miles from Philadelphia, jr fl for fuel. After a rest of three mm- utes, they were again in the air. . fl "Striking out along the line of the fl Pennsylvania railroad," said Atwood, t " ue followed the tracks and fought to get to elevation enough to clear 1 the wires. Sometimes we were oblig- wM ed to leave the tracks because we lfl were dangerously near the ground. , Ifl We were racing trains, too, and we H could not get on the track for -that reason. ' I "One hour on the line was passed ; with clearance of about IS. feet and j W the trees almost brushed the wheels i, of the machine at some points. We - landed at Stemmer's Run simply be- t cause the machine would not go any IM further under the weather condl ;!fl tions." i I fl The crowds along tho lino of flight , frnM increased as the hours grew and at lfl Havre de Grace tho entire population fiH turned out to greet tho airmen as Iff H thev passed. Soon after reaching tho Ffl Pennsylvania tracks an express train t M was picked up and tho aeroplane act- M ed as a sort of pilot all the way to H Stealer's Run station. |
