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Show AVIATOR MARS LEAVES DENVER DENVER, Nov 20. r C. (Hud) Mars made three at- tempts to lly In his Curiiss hi 4-t 4-t plane at Overland park today. In tho third attempt no rose -f ten loot and then clashed to 4-4- tho ground within fifty yards 4- of the spot where Roll h John 4 4 stone met death Thursday. 4-4- Pillagers of tho type which 4-4- fought over Johnstone's body 4-4- for souvenir bits of wieekage 4-- swarmed out upon the (racks, 4-4- crashing down the boundary 4-4- fences, but were driven back 4-4- by mounted jiolloe, revealing 4-4 4-4 Mars unhuit ami xr right 4-4- winn of his plan.' totally 4-4- wrecked The cotas; roi he ef- 4-4- fectuallv eiiiied tho prospects 4 of fllights In a Ciirti-,3 biplane 4-4- at the present meet. 4-4-4-4-4-4-44-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4- Arc-h Iloxsey. bein under a Wright contract, could not lly on Sunday, and ten thousand people grumbled their way througliKhe gates It was reported re-ported that those who left first received re-ceived back their money, but swarms of persons on the outsido, hearing of this, squirmed under the fence and trailed out acaln, asking 1'or gate mon-ev mon-ev At any rale, the management topped refunding. Machine Would Not Rise. Mars' first attempt convinced him that his machine would not. rise successfully suc-cessfully In the thin air of this altitude. alti-tude. To remedy this, he took two Mu.ldlnu sails, designed tor use on the end of the wms. and fastened tlu-m, one In front and oae behind the Lody of tho niarbiiif, with the Idea that the breeze stirred 'jy the propel pro-pel lors, striking against tho rear plane, would help to lift it. Makes Three Trials. l!is second trial a mounter only to a bare start. In which bis machine was the least bit damage.!. On tho third trial the machine rose steadily too steadily for Mair was unable to overcome the upward tilt, an! rather than ascend indefiiiiltely ho cauio down as best he cn:!d "Tho extra plane behind made the muchine tail lv-avy," lie said later In bis tent. "This scheme had never b-en Irid bcfoie. I trie.! it to save fine, ond you saw how it worked out. If 1 had attached the plane a. foot nearer near-er the machine, it would have been all right " Mars was bitter over criticisms directed di-rected against him since nis arrival. Going to San Franciuco. ' "I was under no contract to fly yesterday," yes-terday," he said "Toda. I did the bst I could. I ni going to San Francisco Fran-cisco as soon as I can Ket this machine packed up." |