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Show by adroit manipulation, restored the equilibrium of the. machine. Cmtlss was up before dawn today, hesitant despite favorable weather condition. But with eyes and brain cleared ,.f tho cobwebs of sleep, ho wont with hfs mechanician and a handful of spectators to Van Rensse-laer Rensse-laer Island, In the. Hudson, three mile,, south or Albany, whoiv he was to start. Waiting at the river hank was a frpeclal train chnrteded by the New York TlmeB for Mrs. Curl Iks and her party. From the train Ibev could not pee the actual start, but those on the island isl-and witnessed a remarkable scene. Curtlsa arose from tho ground lik a rocket. There were not preliminary prelimin-ary maneuvers, there was no trial flight. The Hfroplnne ran hurriedly over the surface of the land and darted dart-ed straight for Its goal, turning once for a moment to the west, so that Cur-tlss Cur-tlss might comply with the terms of the competition under which he was flying, and technically cross the Albany Al-bany city line. When the aeroplane reached a height estimated at 60d feet, it seemed seem-ed for a moment t hold that level and then to raise higher. Curtiss was Hying at a hclcht which he had never attempted before In his life. In seven minutes he had been lout to view. When the aeroplane was wheeled from beneath her canvac covering shortly before 7 o clock, the sky was perfectly clear and what little wind was stirring, blew from the north a direction favorable to Curtiss at four nillea an hour. With the signal that Curtiss was off. the special train five cars and a locomotive gathered impetus and ' sought to follow. But so quickly had I he flown tho first twenty one miles, the locomotive, though running nenr-ly nenr-ly u mile a minute, wa3 unable to catch up. At 7:20, however, t ho train came abreast of tho aeroplane and thence to New York City, those on board kept the aviator In sight, but as he did not have to reckon with curves or track, switches and reduced speed through towns, the man above maintained main-tained a substantial lead. Swiftly town and country side reeled reel-ed by. C'atsklll was passed at 7:41, with the aeroplane a thousand feet above the Hud3on. At 8:05 he was still fivln? high and veering well toward Ihe west bank of the river. At S;0t;, sixty-three minutes after tbe start, he soared past Rhinecliff Kerry, 51 miles from Albany. Here there Is a bend in the river and Curtiss Cur-tiss turned again to the west, passing pass-ing over land to shorten his course. Stnatsburk marked the sixtieth mll point and be had covered this distance dis-tance in minutes. IWth Staatsburg behind, the giant bridge spanning Ihe Hudson at Poughkeepsie loomed ahead. Tho bridge is 212 feet high, but Curtiss topped it by 300 feet. Then he turned westward and with tbe precision pre-cision of a bird, settled softly in the field three miles .south of Poughkeepsie Poughkeep-sie at S: 20. He had flown 71 mile ftom Albany in S3 minutes, ofpnr.thatlgw kcoltr lehofafifithk mm RECORD L0NG DISTANCE FLIGHTS NEW YORK, May 25. Glon II. Curtiss Cur-tiss flew from Albany to New York City In an aeroplauo today, winning the f lO.noo offered by the New York , World. . .... Ho covered the distance or 137 miles In two bours aud thirty-two ininutos and came to earth as calmly and as lightly an a pigeon. His avorace upocd for tho distance. 34.0b milofi an hour xiirpasi.es any othor roord ever made by an aeroplane aero-plane in a long distance flight aud in its enliroty, I1I3 feat perhaps rclipi-cs anything man has attempted in a healor than air machine. The start was made from Alhanv at 7.f3 o'clock this morning, under wpnthor conditions aa noar peifocl as th.- most fastidious aviator could demand. Onu hour and twenty threo minutes latr bo had made his Mopping Mop-ping place noar PoughkoepFlo, where there was an hour'a Intormlsslon. Resuming his flight at !:2G. he ?ped southward and landed within the boundary boun-dary of Manhattan Island at 10-35 Onlv 100 yards north of the point i,D which his craft settled troichd Spuyton Duyvll creek, peparatlne Man-bat Man-bat tan Island from the mainland. Had he failed to cross this his flight would have boon In vain, but as ho swept ovtr it the ptlze was his. Thence to (JovernorV Island, his task wa6 hut the concluding lap of a race already won. Paulhan's fight from London to Manchester, J S6 miles, exceeded the Curtiss feat of today In distance, but not In speed and dangor. The Frenchman's French-man's aveiago was 4-1.3 mlies an hour anil below him lay English meadow lands. Curtiss followed the winding course of the historic Hudson, with Its Jut t lug headlands, wooded slopes and troacherous palisades. Ho swung high over the great bridge at Poughkeepsie, dlppod at tiroes wl'hln fifty foot of the river's broad surface and Jockeyed like a falcon at the turns.' Only once did bis craft show signs of reliflllen. This was off Stortn King, near West Point, when, at a height of nearly 10i0 feet, a treacherous gust struck his planes, The machine dropped forty feet and tilted perilously, peril-ously, but Curtiss kept his head and Thought the landing place, known ' ns the r,)H Meadows, had previously ben selected, Curtiss was not expected ex-pected this morning because of last week's postponement and there was no ga.HoHno and oil awaiting him. But fortunately two automobile tourists happened by and were eager lo supply him. Ills tanks IihiI been filled with ton gallons of trasollne before lie left Albany. Al-bany. Examination showed three gallons gal-lons remained, enough lo have carried car-ried him to West P.int. Curtiss was taking no chances, however, and re-illleil re-illleil his tanks Fire, alarm bells weer mng as the aviator neared Poughkeepsie, Viut bis progress was so rapid that few people had a chnnce to see his pass. On the ('111 Meadows a little group sighted him coming and sent up a cheer. Coming Com-ing down gracefully, his machine struck a 'grassy knoll, trundled along for thirty or forty feci, then came to a slop. Tbe hpi-cial train meanwhile brought his wife, who rushed from the rar and hurried to her husband's side. She greeted liim jubilantly wbllo the crowd rhc-rcd him. With tanks rettllcrl and with every wire and screw tested. Curtiss took his seal fur tho linal dash lo New York In a moment more the craft was again over the Hudson and Curtiss turned his course south and was lost to v lew. Exactly one hour had been consumed consum-ed at Poughkeepsie, for ho arrived at 8:26 and departed at 0:2fi. Curtiss passed the military academ al Went Boinl at 10:02. Officers and cadets alike senl up a cheer after the aviator. At Storm King, Ihe ftiost sensational incident of the trip occurred. Curtis was flying high at this point, a thousand thous-and foot, when a shifty wind caused the machine to drop and tilt. Never once losing control, he continued southward, passing Peeksklll, Osslning and DohbB Ferry. Yonkers was passed pass-ed at 10-30 at a height of.uOo to K0 feet. Here Curtiss got his first glimpse of the metropolitan ti.wer. It loomed ahead like a giant needle and Curtiss knew he was nearlng tbe upper up-per limits of New York City. Out of tho haze that lay In the bend of the river al Yonkers, ho shot Into view of the thousands who were waiting wait-ing him coming along the upper reaches at Riverside drive and on the roofs of the big apartment houses in Washington heights. A mere speck at first, a little areoplane looked like a gull floating with rigid wings on the gaic. The motor was chugging sturdily sturdi-ly and sending the craft along towards Its goal at r0 miles an hour. Rounding the big jutting nose of Alpine, Al-pine, on the Jersey shore opposito Yonkers, Curtiss drove his machine across the river toward the onst sldo of tho stream and hugged the New-York New-York shore. The crowds along tho shore cheered and waved hats and handkerchiefs and tho sharp, Hhrlll whistles of the small pleasure boats Joined with the more serious ones cf the largo craft In a lieartv welcome On past Riverside. Hying straight as an arrow, came the areoplane. It waw abreast New York City anil a few miles from the upper end of Manhattan Manhat-tan Island. Barring some accident, it seemed now lhat Curtiss must win tho $10,-000 $10,-000 prize, but suddenly, when be had reached a poiut midway between Spuyten Duyvlll Creek (which separates separ-ates Manhattan Island from the borough of the Bronx) and Washington Washing-ton Point, tho speed of the biplane slackened percptlbly and the machine ma-chine dropped until it seemed that It would touch tho water. Then It cam.? about prettily, pointing upward and beaded up the river. The spectators were non-pnlssed. Many of them believed I ho machinery bad gone wrong raid that Curtiss had lost hl3 race. Hut Curtiss waved his hand assur-ingly. assur-ingly. While passing Spuyten Duyv'l he had eeen, half a tnlle Inland, a broad expanse of green sward, tho up-lr up-lr end of Manhattan Island. To win I craft, which, with the aviator In Its eat, weighs approximately l.OU'.t pounds . I Curl Ins Is not a talkative man And his secretary explained the Wetail of the trip. Curtiss merely smiled and nodded approval, now and then adding a few descriptive phrases first band. In winning the World's prize today, Curtiss incidentally captured th Scientific American cup for the longest long-est flight In America for a heavier than air machine. Ho had previously won two less on the trophy and today's to-day's performance makes It his. ! Ciirliss Is 32 years old and was born I at Hnrumondsporl. X. Y. the prize, It was necessary fur him to land In Manhattan proper, and here was tho chance without risk of further fur-ther flight to Governor a Island or the battery, 13 miles away. Therefore, when ho again cauic abreast of tho mouth of the creek after his puzzling turn backward, Curtiss throw his steering wheel about abruptly, glided above a railroad drawbrjdgo anl floated lazily Inland with the propeller barely turning. He jnanuvcred carefully, care-fully, then alighted without mlBhap on the btrotch of green sward which had caught bis eyo. Ho hud flown from Albany to Manhattan in two hours, and 32 minutes and the 10,000 was bis. Jumping lightly from his machine, the aviator Inspected his motor and finding everything Intact, sought a telephone and informed tho World that he bad arrived and claimed tho award. Although he had won, weather, conditions con-ditions were so proplllons and be was feeling so gratified at success Curtiss decided to give the city another view of his machine and at 11:37, ho shot away again for Governor's Islaud. It waa' during this part of his trip that he received the nosiest greeting. Ho came down the river at an elevation of nioro than 300 feet, while harbor craft shrieked their greetings. News of his progress spread quickly throughout through-out tho city. I" .lV police conns, magistrates', hoard and quickly disposed dis-posed of rases, hundreds rushed to the waterfrout and roofs became black with humanity. Tho greatest Jam wan at the battery. Down thn river ami Into the upper bav he nailed ljKbtly and steadily aa a swallow. Nearlng Governor's Island, he began to descend, while cheers tloated up from those who watched his approach He landed easily on a stretch cf new made laud within forty yards of the shed In which the aeroplanes were housed during tho Hudson-Fulton celebration. Dismounting, he resigned re-signed his craft to soldiers who volunteered vol-unteered to push It Into the shed while he received congratulations of Major General Hows, lT. S. A., commander com-mander of the department of the east ond othor officers. Refreshments were served in Corbln hall and Curtiss briefly related his experiences. Mrs. Curtiss, who hal arrived In New York on the special train, joined her husband as Curtls was preparing to take tho ferry for New york. He kissed her whllo thfl crowd cheered. Half an' hour latr Curtis was In 'he World office whre a check for $10,00 was banded to blui. I The terms of the competition pre-j pre-j scribed the- flight must bo tho full distance from New York to Albany, It It optional to start from either end and Curtiss would have preferred to start lrom New York, but if there ! Is a worse aorodomo than Manhattan 1 Island, spiked with skyscrapers and the waters of New York harbor, clustered with shipping and cross cut by deflected winds, he would like to . have It shown. Aernants and avla-1 avla-1 tors were unanimous that Curtiss had performed the most woudorful feat of the air the. world has over seen. 1 Curtiss was dressed for tho trip in 1 wadding boots and sweater. His aero- plane carried pontoons or floats to I prevent its sinking in case of a fall . Into tho river. Tho pontoons xs bis own invention. A 50 horso power motor of bis own make, propolis tho |