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Show GENERAL ALLEN , RIDES WITH WHITE . PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24. Followers Follow-ers f au'ation in Philadelphia were kept busy today watching the fortunes of J. Armstrong Drexel, who yesterday yester-day established a new world's altitude record, and of Claude Craharue-White, I an English aeroplaiiu-d, who brought j to a close a series of successful ex- i hibltions at the Point IJretzc race- ; track. Drexel tho Star. Drexel again proved to be the star attraction. He attempted to fly back ; from Orcland to Philadelphia, tn the same Pleriot monoplane in which he reached a h i li t of 9.D7'i fect yesterday. yester-day. He became lost and was forced to land at Trenton Junction, four miles from Trenton, N. J. Orcland is about thirteen miles from Philadelphia, but Drexel in his flight of one hour and ten minutes traveled twenty miles. Mr. D'cvtl landed because of a shortage of ayollr.e. He mistook the Deleware river for tnc Schuyk;!!. and traveled north instead of south White Looking Tor Drexel. Claude Orahpme-White. and several thousand persons we.o awaiting Mr. Drexel in point Breeze and when word which proved to be untrue, was received that the former was coming down the river, Mr. White arose 5n ! one of his machines and sailed up the river to meet him. This gave hundreds hun-dreds of persons whose homes are south and west of Philadelphia, a thrill. After his descent, word of Mr. Drcxel's landing was received. General Allen Tn Flights. Mr. White gave several exhibition flights to.iav and on one of his trips took aloft General -James Allen, chief signal officer of the United States Army. Ocneral Allen was taken around the field several times at a height of several sev-eral hundred feet He was s" much at enso that he wns taken for a trip over the Philadelphia navy yard, w bleb Is about a mile from Polut Freeze. General Allen was In the air about ten minutes. Will Protect Drexel's Record. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 2 Thomas P. Jackson, one of the representatives of tho Wright brothers on the Pacific coast, nnd who Is in San Francisco l-egotiuting with a local committee for flights by the Wright team in the aviation avia-tion meet to bo held in this city in January, declared tonight that the Wrights would protest to the Aero Club of America against the accept-nnco accept-nnco of tho flight by J. Armstrong Drexel in Philadelphia yostenlav as the world's record altitude fllghL' "While not cjucsticning Mr. Drexel's veracity in the matter." sad Jackson, "the fact remalus that he did not comply com-ply with tho conditions required for record flights, and I do not think that his figures of 9,9Tu leet will he accepted ac-cepted by the Aero Club oi America as an official record. It Is the Intention Inten-tion of tho Wright fliers to enter u protest against the record being allowed al-lowed to stand officially. "The conditions for official records require that the flight mu.-t bo made within sight of the judge; and that the aviator must land where he started start-ed from, or at least, near the starting point Mr. Drexel lan.L-d miles away. Ralph Johnstone, who was killed ot Denver a week ago, held the oificial altitude record and, us a matter mat-ter of loyalty to him, if for no other reason, we are roing to protest i.gainst the record being rjiven to Mr. Drexel unless he makes a 1 light complying com-plying with the official requirements ns did Mr. Johnstone." |