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Show f SUMMARY OF ' ATWOOD'S FLIGHT f Distance covered la airline, 1.2C5 miles. f Total distance Including de- -t- t- tours around New York, 1,305 -t- miles. -- Started from St. Louis 8:05 a. ni August 14. -f -t- Finished at Governor's Isl- -f and, 2:3S p. m.f August 25. t- Flying time for entlro dis -f f- tancc, 2S hours, 31 minutes. Number of fllghtG en route, -f twenty. -f i- Average distanco of each -f -t- flight, G3 1-i miles. f Beats previous world's rcc- -r- f- ord by 101 mlleB, not crediting him with the extra 100 miles f- which he claims for detours. Today's trip began at Nyack, -t- N. Y., 25 miles north of Forty- second street, Now York City, -f -f- at 1;53 p. m, finished at Gov- f crnor's Island at 2.38 p. in. -r- Flying time for todas trip, f- 4G minutes. " -t- -H- NEW YORK, Aug. 25. Sailing serenely se-renely oer New York's myriad water craft, its ferryboats and ocean liners, Harry N. Atwood, tho Boston aviator, arrived In New York In his aeroplane today, the first man In history to travel trav-el as far as from SL Louis to New York by way of Chicago In a heavier than air machine. Atwood's safe landing on Governor's Island, after flying down from Nyack, N. Y., abovo the Hudson river, through a fog which rnado him only dimly visible vis-ible to the million eyes that watched "him, was a notable Incident in tho annals of the air He not only broke tho world's locord, covering 1,205 miles In an airline, or porhaps 100 more miles with his detours, but he flew all the way in the same biplane and suffered no Important mishaps. Atwood's flight Is comparable only to that made by fast trains, for he covered the dlstanpe in an actual flying fly-ing time of 28 hours aud 37 minutes. Atwood's final lap in his long journey jour-ney -was a glide of 25 miles from Nyack, Ny-ack, where he had stopped overnight. Ho landed, smiling, hatlcss and hungry, hun-gry, in the arms of a handful of Uni- who hailed him as America's greatest aviator. Atwood's coming -was unexpected on Governor's Island, as it had been heralded that he would land at the Sheepshoad Bay race track, whore thousands lined vantage points, gazing skyward. Atwood expressed regret at "their disappolntmonL Atwood Refuses to Wait. "They wanted me to wait -until tomorrow," to-morrow," he said, telling of a telegram tele-gram from the man in charge of the local arrangements, "and promised to have a big crowd there. But I could not delaj my flight." Atwood left Nyack at 1:53 o'clock this afternoon after freeing hlii ma-chino ma-chino from a position where a start would have been difficult and perilous. peri-lous. He followed the Hudspn at a low altitude At Yonkers, as he leaned lean-ed forward to wave a silent reply to the cheers, the wind clipped his cap from his head and wafted It down to the waters. Thousands clustered around Grant's tomb and the viaduct and along Riverside Riv-erside Park shore, roared their enthusiasm enthu-siasm when -Uwood passed As he approachod the recreation pier at Fiftieth Fif-tieth street, where another crowd clustered, he turned his machine so that It swept In a complete circle from one side of the stream to the other and then started downstream once more. The spectacle was beautiful. beau-tiful. His descent at Governor's Island Isl-and was as easy and graceful as his exhibition during the closing stretch of his record flight. An hour after ho landed Atwood was on his way up town. "I expoct to go to Bo3ton tomorrow," he said. "We will take m machine apart hen1 and ship It to Boston. I do not Intend to do any more flying around New York until I return from my trip across the coutlncnL I shall propably ftarl from Los Angeles or San Francisco about October 1, but haven't decided tho exact date yjt:' Packed away In the grip which the aviator carried by aeroplane from St. Louis aro a score or more of letters addressed to young women of Boston. "At pretty nearly every place I stopped," ho exclaimed, "sumo follow asked me to carry a letter to his girl up In Boston. I am going to take them all to Boston with me and mall them there." Atwood May Retire. Atwood tonight said he may retire from aviation and his proposed coast to coast trip may never be made, "It Is too risky,' 'said the aviator. "Man after man has made new records rec-ords of late, only to drop suddenly to death. I have been much more careful care-ful than many birdmen, but I feel that If I stay In the clouds too Ion? I shall some day meet my fate alBO. It Is 'practically Inevitable that sooner or later an aviator, no' matter how careful care-ful ho may bo, vcll end his flights with a sudden plunge 'to destruction." Of his rewards for his flight ho said: "Many imagine that T am making a huge sum out of this trip. I am not. The only sum that Is actually coming to mo is the $10,000 prize, already paid, offered by Victor J. Evans of Washington Out of this I must pay a forfeit of $4,000 to my financial backers for failure to stop at all the twenty cities scheduled on the route." Late tonight Atwood announccl that he would fly from Govornor's Island Isl-and to Sheepshead Bay tomorrow afternoon. |