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Show riers. The aviator was lifted up and borne over the field a a football hern would be treated after n Harvard-Yalo game. His own countrymen kissed blm nnd wept for joy. This event was the only thing of great Importance in the day's meet. Curtlss did not go Info the air until t'aulhan had been away, for half an hour. Then he gave a pretty exhibition of fancy startln? and retired. Tb wind came up suddenly and for a time It looked a.s though the pro-grnra pro-grnra would he spoiled As 3 o-lock came nnd nothing happened but a few skidded over the field the crowd br-gan br-gan to howl. Taiilnon rose to th occasion. oc-casion. Without any announcement his machine appeared on the far west course, beating against the wind. If caoio around and over the heads of the crowd with the wind, at a speed of 6,) miles an hour. Panlhan came down an though he bad decided against further flying, but before tlu. crowd had time to foraet their first wonder, he came over their head again and pointed the flat nose of his big white plane toward the mountains. It was 3:09 o'clock. "He's off for the cross country' rec i ord of the world," announced the megaphone meg-aphone man. For ten minutes the machine flew onward and upward, straight toward the snowline of the Sierra Madre range. Old Baldy Peak was the compass com-pass point. It lay in shining whito relief agalnRt the greenish sky behind be-hind tf. Through tbe classes he could bo seen rising ver the hazn and taking a canon trail, as It looked ' to the summit, 9oon he disappeared from all suhf of those on the Held. Hulletlns were sent out and posted on a black board as the machine passed pass-ed over tbe various small towns on the way to the Baldwin race track. At 4 o'lock there was a great shout. Some one had seen the airship asain. Soon it came into sight, blown from Its outward course and on a line with Mount Wilson. MOST REMARKABLE FLIGHT IN HISTORY Aviation Field, Is Angeles, Cal., Jan. 18. Louis Paulhan In his Farman bl-plane, made today what aviation experts here consider the most remarkable re-markable cross country flight in history. his-tory. On the wings ot a wind that the other oth-er aviators hesitated long to face, the little Frenchman rode from Aviation field to "Lucky Baldwin's ranch, 2i miles away, circled the old Santa Anita An-ita race track and bucked hlu way back tu his tent. In all he covered an estimated distance dis-tance of 47',-i tulles on one hour, 1! minutes, 42 4 5 seconds. He went down with the wind in 30 minutes and came back against it In 31 minutes, leaving off the odd seconds. sec-onds. When he climbed out of his car he said that his motor waa as cool aa when he started and that h could do the trip over again at onco. In sheer beauty and contempt of danger, the flight rivals any seen on any of the aviation fields of the old world The only test approaching It In this country was that made by one of the Wrights last fall, flying with an army officer from Washington Washing-ton to Alexandria. Bleriot, Latham, Farman and Cody have made flights nearly aa long perhaps, per-haps, but they have not come back. Cody flew 40 miles at Aldershot In G3 minutes last fall. Farman took a 20 miles run to spend a day shooting with n friend but he landed at one end of his journey. President Cortland Cort-land F. Bishop of the Aero club of America, said tonight that he did not know of any flight equal to Paulban's. It Is probable that the prize of $10,-000 $10,-000 v.lll go to him. There will be a good deal of official pondering and cabling, however, bo fore a new world's record Is added to the glory of France. Paulhan maintained an altitude of from 1,000 to 2,000 teet on his way over thp valley. His highest point was 2,130 foot as indicated by the Instrument. Under him, speeding over the country coun-try roads, scattering chickens an dogs, bolter skelter, were automobiles automo-biles and men on horseback and motor mo-tor cycles trying to keep near the machine In the event that Paulhan should fall or have t-i desceud Mrs. Paulhun was In an automobile praying pray-ing and crying. Whiin Paulhan reached tho grand stand on his return he was mobbed. The crowd broke through the bar- |