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Show AMERICAN AVIATOR . ATTEMPTS FLIGHT Paris. Sept. 7. Weymann, the American aviator, started just before non today in an attempt fo win the special Michel in prize of .20,0n offered of-fered for the first aviator who, with a passenger. Hies in six hours from Paris to tho top of Puy de Dome, after circling the steeple of the cathedral at i Clermont-Ferrand. I The conditions of the prize demand I a feat considered the most difficult yet cut out for the air men. When M. j MIchellu offered the prize i which must not be confounded with the j Michelin aviation trojhy offered for i the longest annual flight in an enclosure), en-closure), it was thought by some he was joking. However, the premium stood and subsequently Louis Paulhan announced that he would undertake 1 the Journey. j To Weymann falls the honor of the first try. He ascended at Buc at 11:4. o'clock this morning and at 11:58 officially offi-cially crossed the starting line ubove St Cloud, lie used a Farnum biplane and carried a passenger as required. The rules provide that the aviator may start anywhere in the department of I he Se ine or Seine Et Ois. He must first turn a complete circle I around the Arc de Trlnmphe in Paris and. arriving at Clermont-Ferrand, he rrv'st circle the spires "f the cathedral I and make a landing on the summit of 1 the Puy de Dome. The tr.p must be made with iwo persons in the ma- i chine and within six hours. j The Puy de Dome Is a mountain 400 j feet high near Clermont Ferrand. The distance to be covered is 217 miles "as the crow flies." |