Show RAC NG Of AEROPLANES New Now York Oct 22 Tho opening day of oi the tho international aviation meet at lit Dolmont Park dawned clear bright and cold although tho the weather mans outlook Oti oI was wail pessimistic promising before sundown Thirty alors aters and nud about forty orL were w rc out omit for tho timo beginning of what prom I i ies os to bo he the lie most important nero aero aeronautic event ever tHel held anywhere In iii the tho world The fhe setting at al Park L I Ifor Ifor for or what today and time the t eight succeed succeeding lug ing III days will wilt ho bo an International bat but battle lie tle for Cor the time of oC the air was waR disappointing A green field hild of cropped grass rasa sot set setIn In a n saucer r atthe althe at horizon with Itil faint bino fields bounded by h the tho familiar oval of or the Lh Belmont Delmont race trace and marked marlell at time tho turns with tall nIh red rell and white pylons p a n huge steel Ht ol grandstand painted to tJ tone with the be landscape gay with the flags Jags of oC all nations anti and banked to lO the roof with tier tiet on tier Ller of or close benches beside beldo U It the time white whiLe colonial facade of o the lacing associations club chili house It il tIme the broken br kon outline of tIme the twenty hangars In which tho lao of or three nations are arc housed to the tho east a n low how clump of o tees and near them lie Uio trim brown tents of oC the United States Slates corps such was time llio picture that greeted time the eye ee of time the observer at daybreak America Prance France find anti Great Greal Brit Britain ain alum arc tIme tho competitors Neither Cur Lisa nor time the Wright right Brothers the tho host best known American aviators ore are entered In iii person They are aro represented by II and for tho timo Wrights and amid McCurdy Ely Mars Mara larl larland and amid Willard for won time tho Gordon Don Bert Bennett nett nott International cup last year ear but Jut Juth bo h declined to defend It In person this timid year nr Instead lu tead both he and the time Wrights rights have havo bull special racing machines not yet l l seen in lu public with which they thoy tho hope to lo retain it Il for Cor America but they th y will meet meol opposition in tIme the latest brought here hero by b the tho French team learn Hamilton hns ha n a new power biplane but It has haa been tried out to tho ho limit and oven oon Its owner does doc not know Just what It will do under pressure Ho lie believes it IL very or fast ash John B D smashed his racer last lut Monday but Id is busy bus rebuilding I It J Armstrong Drexel will also fly American Franco France sends Leon who now nw holds nil all speed records for ono one kilo kilometer meter moter up tip to t 78 miles flubs Hubert Latham with his beautiful erratic Antoinette monoplane Alfred Lo ho Blanc DIane the tho champion cros country flyer Emil Auburn his hll pupil Count Jacques do de Lessens the time second aviator to 10 cross croll the tho English E h channel and such uch lesser lelaer celebrities as aB Barrier Garros and anti Simon some of whom fly the Uie tiny tin domol sellos the tho hum humming ming birds among aeroplanes England sends Claude Claudo Graham White who took first honors at Al Boa Bos ton lon In the lie recent Harvard meet James and McArdle 1 all representing the Royal Aero Acro Club Clumb of the tho United Kingdom Tho The arrival of time mono mario monoplane plane piano is one ona of or the Uie noticeable features of Jr the Uie moot Tho The failure albino of oC time tho Condor to Lo make a It longer flight Is II ascribed by b M 1 Faure Fauro to the condition of or his hi balloon which was WAa weakened he says by br exposure to wind and weather on deck of the Iho steamship which brought it Il from Europe The Time most mOlt thrilling feature of the Condors Condor flight was wu a sensational drop dron from a height of at nearly two who to toa toR toa a R point loss lOll than fifty feet fooL above time th surface of oC Lake Michigan M Sch Sen told of or this experience ns as tel fol ol lows low It Il was 1 late Ialo on Monday night We were at al a height of oC something near feet feel when hen suddenly wo va struck n a none zone one of or air whore whom the temperature ws wR 11 close to zero uro The Tho gas gaa In the balloon began to condense e rapidly and we 0 started falling We shot hol down and down Wo We strove frantically to Lo check our descent After a sheer drop of or feet reet there camo came a 1 brief halt hall anti and w we thought we wore safe hut hul the time relief roller only for tOr or a It moment Again Alain the balloon began to drop Bags Bag of oC ballast wore were hurled buried overboard oV anti and splashed in the black waters beneath Jeneath Then wo we sacrificed need the tho oxygen n tank and amid everything overy thing that wo we could lay lity our hands handl on Oil on but bult still lUll we wo Wo We o wore within a hundred fe feet feel feelo t of o the tho surface of o the great groat lake hake l ko when We wo discarded dl our abool and coats anti and clasped our life lICe preservers to our bodies bod lei that III In au an wo would bo be plunged Into time the water Then Than Just when wo We thought ht ourselves lost host the balloon was halted on It I Its downward Wo We were only on I forty fort five feet boo above the Iho surface of ot the wat water er en We e breathed a sigh of relief as time tho wind carried us UI over the tho water anti and wo we sighted lighted land landOur landOur landOur Our attempt to descend was fraught with now flow perils penis Tho rho balloon sidled sailed miles unties over O r tho tIme rough nought country countr at itt u n speed drag dragging 11 dragging rn ging the tho tb basket In iii Its Ita wake Tho basket was dashed t fences fence farmhouses and three chimneys dur during dUrIng ing lug Uio Ume UI onslaught Fences were bowl bowled ed od over or and aud small trees treo knocked down Iown Finally 11 null a tom stout fence renco caught us lIa tm amid held long to Lo throw M 1 Fauro and myself m tl headlong hl Into Inlo a n marsh filled with muddy water We anti tn to torn terra Cirillo anti and found fount wo were ro In Two HI rM WIs WI Aviators A wore oro astir on tho time ground horo lucre for the time open opening opening ing InK of or tho LImo International lonal aviation moot Work was wn proceeding In Iho timo ma mn tim touts grooming the time machines for or time tho days flights There Thol vis a n abroe broe e blowing out omit of time tho northwest hut but ono one aviator dared the Ule of or the Uie early carl morning anti and a flight This was wn Captain Thomas S Baldwin who arrived in lu hl hi fifty horsepower aeroplane tho the Red Devil at Belmont park track from rom the time Garden City Aviation A field his aeroplane has haR boon heun quart quartered mn ored ered Tho TIme manner manlier of hla III coming was sen sea national He lie flow low In iii the time head of if a wind In six Mix from time the Garden City field at tt limo Iho rule rate of moro mono than a mIle a minute Ilia hum eyes OyeR w swollen be lie having forgotten for otten Ma goggles Tho flight light was tIme second cross country flight rII hl of o the meet Friable Frisbie making a similar one last night nl ht In the time morning the tIme wind hauled Into time the northwest t Ted Jod Shrivel In a L r DIetz started lo to make a 1 short flight An mt Limo Iho face of n a wind He rose roSo to Lo n a height of feel feeland rind and flow Clow to Lo the tIme grandstand then thell he lie swerved flow flew Clo Into Inlo the teeth leeth of or the wind When directly over tho time spot where Hadle null and Moissant were wrecked which In Iii known as ts Deal Dead Mans Turn fum Uio wind suddenly struck the light biplane made malic it dip and aqui list madly to tho Iho right pulled the time guiding lines Hues but hut the machine would not right When about 10 feet from rom tho the ground she sho righted but hut tho time strain canned something to gIve way and tho time machine plunged to lime Uie ground was Wag wa the wreckage and nud from time the stand it look looked looked I ed cd as If he hl was killed hilled He Ito arose however cut cul on en Iho tho nose cheek check and anti I eyelid He suffered Ll no serious Injury limit hut time the and engine were wre de do demolished defter After fter having haing his hula wounds dressed wont went home i |