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Show meters), and. therefore, holds the world's record. "For the board of Judges. "CORTLANDT FIELD BISHOP, "President of tho Aero Club of Amerl- ca. Vice-President of the International Interna-tional Aeronautical Association. 1 "II. IA. H. TWINING. "President of tho Aero Club of Call-I Call-I fornla." WILL GO UP IN THE AIR Schwab Agrees to Take a Flight at Los Angeles Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. II. On the bulletin board at Dominguez aviation iield. a sign in chalk letters a foot high, "The Biggest Events Are Yet to Come," sot the thousands of aero-manlaoa aero-manlaoa to wondering when Paulhan would attempt today some flying feat as spectacular as his "trip to Paradise or Hades" Wednesday. Tbe sight of a man merely flylug has come to be so common that it requires something really thrilling tn gain attention now. This was demonstrated dem-onstrated yesterday when the race between tho Frenchmau and the American, Curtlss, failed to cvoko more than a perfunctory cheer. Curtlss Cur-tlss passed Paulhan twice while flying fly-ing around the course in an attempt to establish a record for sixteen miles. Then when Paulhan sought to lower his rival's mark of 24:54 2-5. and failed by flye seconds, there was hardly any demonstration, of enthusiasm. enthu-siasm. "They are ennni." said Paulhan. a he supervised tho morning coddling of his Farmana and Bleriots by hi3 mechanicians today. "1 shall havo to do something to removo that blase feeling." "Are you not satisfied with having flown higher than any man oer did?" he was asked- "Mais, non," he replied, hitching his shoulders up to bis ears, and throwing throw-ing up his hands, palms upward, tl ngers wiggling. "I havo forgotten that. Records, more records, better records, until, potif! breath goes out and I really find that path to Paradise Para-dise or to Hades." One of the earliest visitors on the field today was Charles M. Schwab, former president of the United States Steel corporation, who arrived this morning on a special train from Nevada, Ne-vada, where he has been Inspecting mining properties. He brought with him Mrs. Schwab, his sister, Miss Gertrude Schwab and a party of ten New York friends. They were shown through the aeroplane tents in the center of tho vast Held by Clifford 13. Harmon, the New York sportsman, who extracted from tho stoel magnate a promise to accompany him on a balloon trip tomorrow or some other day before the close of the meet. Mrs. Schwab did not seem enthusiastic enthusi-astic over her husband's posslblo aviation. avi-ation. Mr. Harmon made his first real Might as an aviator on board his own aeroplane last evening. He made two short journeys In the air and then regretfully permitted the machine to bo retired. After a three-day struggle "with ox-tensive ox-tensive tables of logarithms, the board of aviation judges havo finally final-ly arrived at tho llgures which shall stand as the official record of Paul-han's Paul-han's world-beating high flight A statement regarding the performance and the judges' findings was made public today. It read: "In the afternoon of January 12. 1910, on the aviation field of San Dominguez, Do-minguez, near Los Angeles, Cal., Louis Paulhan, in a Farmau aeroplane, aero-plane, propelled by a gnome motor, made an attempt to accomplish the world's record for altitude. A series of observations was made during his flight and they were carefully' compared, com-pared, and calculations made from them by the approved methods of trigonometry. These proved that Mr. Paulhan reached the altitude of 4.1 Go feet, which Is equivalent to 1.2G9.7 meters. A cable received from th International Aeronautic Federation Federa-tion in Franco certifies that Hubert Tallinn nn January 7. 1910, reached the altitude- of 1,050 meters (equivalent (equiva-lent to r..H1 feet), and that was then the world's record, in his flight Mr. Paulhan carried an aneroid barometer barome-ter which he examined during his flight and noted that It marked 4,60') feet. In view of the unreliability of a barometor for this purpose, the commltteo is unwilling to trust to this method. It therefore, adopts the record re-cord of 4,105 feet, and declares thafr Mr. Paulnian has exceeded the record . of Mr. Latham by 721 feet 1,219.7 J |