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Show attached to his craft to Insure Its i floating, proved 'too Jieavy. and he was forced to alight after going lens than a mile. i The pontoons were removed and at j C:19 ho was away again. But as ho j disappeared In the distance It was ', apparent that bis engine wa missing, and when near Roslyn, L. I.. less than seven miles from his second starting place, the aeroplane began to descend rapidly In its perilous drop to the tree tops. ' : I '" When the crowd gathered Harmon was found viewing -the wreck of his craft. The engine alone was undamaged. undam-aged. He explained that Just before he dropped only three cylinders of his engine were working and he decided de-cided to come down as best he could ! He did not say whether he. would try . again. HARMON'S NARROW ESCAPE NEW YORK, July II. Clifford B. Harmon made an attempt this evening to fly in an aeroplane from Garden City, L. I., across the Lon Island Bound to the residence of his father-in-law. Commodore K. C. Benedict, at Greenwich, Conn. j Not only did he fall, but his machine ma-chine fell a distnncA of la.1 feet and was wrecked. Harmon was badly shaken up, hut not seriously Injured, the branches of a tree having broken the force of his fall. Harmon was off at 5:31 p. ru. today, but the weight of pontoons, which he |