CURTISS ESTABLISHES A NEWRECORD
PROTEST PROBABLE FOR CUT
ACROSS FIELD
Frenchman Takes Journey Cross-Lots
While American Competitor Is
Making Flight Against
Time
the machine as it came to a standstillin front of the grandstand she fell intothe iinns of her husband, who brought
forth cheers from the spectators as hekissed her out of thankfulness for hersafe return to terra firma.
Two accidents were scored againstthe meet yesterday. Hillary Heaehy,more or less of an amateur in ptlutingbiplanes, but an old hand at the avia-tion game, broke one of the lowerplants of his beautiful nickel-plutedGill-Dosh machine in coming to earthin rough ground. The accident oc-curred in the morning; while the Gill-Dosh was making its first real flight ofthis meet. Beachy was uninjured. Hismachine will be in the biplane hospi-tal for .several days.
The Gill-Dush biplane has been un-fortunate in its life on Dominguez
field. It was put out of commissionby the explosion of its engine Monday
afternoon. Yesterday's accident muykeep it out of the meet entirely.
Gyroplane Burned UpProbably the most dangerous event
so far w%s the tin; which destroyed theKlassen "Butterfly" gyroplane. Thelire endangered the Paulhan camp andhad it not been for prompt work onthe part of bystanders the big Far-man and Bleriot machines might nowbe' a heap of aßhai and scrap metal,
One of the real frights of the yearwas given late last night when II wasreported that the big balloon '•Amer-ica," carrying J. C. Marrs of Oaklandas pilot, Mrs. Ida M. Gregory of Chi-cago, Miss Bertha Freund of Cincin-nati, Miss Edna Myers of San Her-nardtno and K. L. Bernard of NewYork as passengers was reported lost.It had ascended from Huntington Parkearly in the morning. Pilot Marrs lostpartial control of the big gas bag
and it drifted about four hours, iinally
coming to earth near Burbank. Dozensof messages were sent all over South-ern California in an endeavor to lo-cate the missing aeronauts. It wasnot until well into the night that PilotMarrs walked into Dick Ferris' officeand announced he had had a fine ridebut one he would not care to takuagain.
Charles F. Wlllard has gamed the
title of the most expert aviator instarting and stopping his Curtiss bi-plane.
He has such control over the machinethat he started from a 20-foot squareand after (lying around through spaceas long as he desired comes t.i B halton the same square. He did that yes-terday and lie is now $250 richer for
having accomplished the remarkablefeat. Willard's mother, a fine type ofwomanhood, stood anxiously watchingher son while he was making hisflight. When he had been announcedwinner of the prize, Mrs. Willard ledhim off to his camp and there planteda real mother caress upon her idol.
Pasadena RepresentedAristocratic Pasadena cheered itself
hoarse while the' many events of yep-terday's program were going on. Itwas "Pasadena Day' and Pasadenamust have been deserted from theshowing of its townsmen in the grand-stand. Fully 8000 made the long tripto see the sights of aviation. Theywere not disappointed one little bit,either.
If there is a comparison possible be-tween anything and an aviation meet,that comparison is a horse race meet.It reminds one for all the world of arace course off the ground to seeheavier-than-air machines being racedaround through space just to "warmthem up," as the aviators say. Reallythe warming up is a test of the engine.They warm up horses in a preliminarycanter just before a race. That's whatthe aviators do with their machines.And for the same purpose.
Curtiss, with his eight-cylinder rac-ing machine, was the first on thecourse. He warmed up his eight-cyl-inder racing machine to such a degreethat he made it impossible for Paul-han to duplicate his record for tenlaps of the course.
Just to show that the Wright broth-ers are wrong, C. K. Hamilton tied therudder of his Curtiss biplane andsailed through the air in a test flightduring the morning. This is the greatpoint of argument betweenjpurttu andthe Wrights, who claim a' patent onthe rudder use.l in Curtiss machines.
When Curtiss brought his racer outonto the Held it was announced hewould try to establish a course recordfor ten laps. Hamilton had failed inhis llight through the breaking of asmall pipe leading from the gasolinetank of his machine to the carbureter,and it was up to Curtiss to make goodwith the same type machine. l?p roseCurtiss just as he crossed the tape Infront of the judges' stand. Hound andround he circled the truck. Each timeas he passed the stand the peoplecheered the greatest speed king ofthem all. Curtiss is net afraid to gofast, for not so long ago that it hasbeen forgotten Curtiss made the fast-est mile the world h;is aver known.He negotiated it on a motorcycle atOrmond beach, Florida, in 26 2-5 sec-onds. That record has never beentouched even by a railroad train.
So it was that those who have fol-lowed Curtiss in his speed career ex-pected him to cut things loose. Hewas traveling- at the rate of forty milesan hour, yet he seemed hardly to bemoving except when he was passingthe grand stand. Once when he wasopposite the stand on the north side ofthe track Paulhan suddenly shot upinto the air from his camp.
Wright Brothers Wrong
Looked Like a RacePaulhan speeded up his engine like
mad and was some 300 yards in advanceof the on-coming Curtiss. It looked likea race for just a short distance. Cur-tiss advanced hi» engine as far as itwould go, and in a burst of speedpassed under Paulham The race wasquickly on and quickly off, but it dem-onstrated that Curtiss' machines are theswiftest winged messengers of the air
Commercial Use of Aeroplanes Demonstrated by Flights with Passengers
Upper left Close view of the Farman biplane, showing details of the mechanism.Upper right—The Bleriot monoplane.
'Lower -Glenn Curtiss, ready to make an ascent in hit biplane.
Lower right—The Zerbe multiplane, which was wrecked.
PASADENA DAYIS HONORED BY
8000 CITIZENSRESIDENTS OF CROWN CITY
ENLIVEN SCENE
PACK GRANDSTAND AND CHEER
AMERICAN AVIATOR
Feats of Aircraft Rivaled In Interest
by Kissing Scenes BetweenMadame Paulhan and
Husband
Paying proper*tribute to the aviationday named in their honor, more than8000 persons, representing the flower
of Pasadena citizenship, added them-selves to the crowds that throngedthe boxes at Dominguez Held yester-day.
Conspicuous wherever they wentwere those whose beauty outshone theflowers to which they recently havepaid tribute. With them were mem-bers of the council, representatives ofthe chamber of commerce, the CrownCity Klks lodge, social and fraternalorganizations and prominent men oftli" commercial world.
Led by four special trains charteredby the Hotel Maryland, a long pro-cession of Pasadena cars reached thegrounds shortly before noon. Wavingbanners and pennant streamers bear-ing appropriate legends In honor ofPasadena effected a rare color display
when added to the gay colored hatsiind gowns of the women. The gaycrowd marched toward the grandstandmid were given right of way over therudely constructed board walks, whichwere built to prevent pedestrians andautomobile! from sinking in the mud.After becoming seated in a section al-lotted them they greeted the early try-out flights with enthusiasm. How-ever, they showed their patriotism bymarked partiality for the AmericanHVlators, There was some disappoint-ment when Hamilton, after complet-ing three laps of a scheduled ten-lapflight, was forced to descend, but theirpatriotic enthusiasm was given an-other outlet when Curtiss whirredarottnd the course without a hitch inremarkable time.
The holders of boxes were fortunate\u25a0 in iK-iiiK able to observe an exhibition
Which they seemed to enjoy fully asmuch as the flights of the aeroplane*!and craned their necks or arose totheir feet whenever Mrs. Paulhankissed her distinguished husband.
Enjoy Osculation Exercises
Tiny were not less entertained whenFlorence Stone, wife of Dick Ferris,rewarded the latter with a resounding
HMck after he had successfully com-pleted tiie course, riding on a Farmanbiplane as a passenger in tho machinewhich was operated by Paulhan.
The prosperous appearance of thePasadena visitors evidently attractedthe attention of the snatch and grabmen, unpopularly known to the police;is "dips." Captain of DetectivesFlammer and several detectives cir-culated among the crowd when theyembarked for tho return trip, and as\u25a0 result of their vigilance no theftswere reported to police headquarters.The detective captain mingled withthe throng disguised as a college pro-femor, wearing glasses and a scholar-ly attire.
He assisted several young womenthrough the crowd, who would havebeen perturbed had they known thesupposed professor Tyas chief of de-tectives.
Many of the guests from the HotelMaryland were attired in gala outfit,which would have done credit toBrighton Beach or Sheepshead Bay.Nearly all of them carried field glassesand some of them carried wicker lunchboxes.
Wagers of boxes of golf balls orcigars were made by the men whoheld differences of opinion in regardto the time made on each lap of thecourse.
Members of the Valley Hunt club,one of the most exclusive of organi-zations, appeared on the field In auto-mobiles and with their cameras tookfrequent snap-shots when the aero-planes came within range.
CLAIMS TO HAVE MADEAIRSHIP ACCIDENT-PROOF
Former Member of Aeronaut Com.pany of German Army Patents
Supposedly Safe Appliance
[Special to The Herald.]SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Jan. 13.—
Claiming to have made the aeroplanepractically accident-proof, HenryJungblut, formerly a member of theaeronaut company of the Germanarmy, will build in this city a machinethat is to participate in the aeroplaneexperiments to be made by the UnitedStates government at Fort Sam Hous-ton early this spring. Mr. Jungblut'smachine is said to be able to come to Itotal inertia In the air and then settledown slowly. An additional spreadof canvas controlled mechanically andadding largely to the surface of resist-)ance offered by the planes is expectedto effect this.
To overcome the interference of highcurrents of air striking tho machinein its flank Mr. Jungblut has providedautomatic wings on each side of hismachine which are said to preserveits equilibrium under these conditions.
The inventor has filed patents on hisinnovations and has placed a smallbut complete working model on exhi-bition In this city.
TEN MORE TICKET SELLERSCARE FOR AVIATION CROWDS
In order to care for the vast Increasein traffic during aviation week, D. A.Munger, general passenger agent, hasadded ten ticket sellers to the regular
force at the Pacific Klectric depot.
Three ore able to attend to the reg-ular business of the company at the\u25a0tatlon, and how great is the rush thisweek is indicated by the fact that theforce- is now four times as large as us-ual. Several of the additional ticketHellers are stationed in the lobby of thebuilding, and this greatly expedites
matters and prevents a crush at anyparticular place.
The rush start* these days shortly
after noon, and from then on until after11 o'clock the large waiting room is athrong of humanity.
EARLY fRIGHTIS DISPELLED
FERRIS ENJOYS A RIDE WITHAVIATOR PAULHAN
"Aviation Fever" Is Disease Few Vis.
itors to Big Events at Domin.guez Field Manage to
Escape From
To close observers the expression onthe face of Dick Ferris as he wentaviating past the press box with Paul-han in a Farman biplane was a comicalsight. Of course Ferris will insist thathe was not a bit afraid, but he held tothe studding for dear life, with hispretty auburn locks streaming out be-hind and his face wearing the expres-sion of a big Jolly boy tobogganingdown a long, steep hillside.
That was when the biplane firststarted. After a lap of the course hadbeen made and Paulhan guided themachine almost over the heads of thecrowd In the grand stand, he had ap-parently become accustomed to rapidtransit through the air with theFrenchman, for he waved his handgayly. Cheers from thousands of throatswere given in answer. Mrs. Ferrisrushed to greet her husband when helanded safely before the grand stand.
Mingled with the loud voice of theannouncer through the megaphone, tell-ing of the various events on the pro-gram and their results, were the rau-cous cries of refreshment men, who de-
clared it was the last chance to buy
"cold beer," "peanuts" and "chewinggum." Newsboys called out "Poiper,
latest edition, all about the airships. Ifyou don't want to read them, buy oneto sit on, as the boards are rough."
More than half the crowd left before4 o'clock, when the big events werescheduled to take place. Many re-mained, however, until the very lastflight was made, and on all sides re-marks expressing satisfaction at thesuccess of the aviation meet wereheard. "It's worth the money," "Won-derful!" "Great!" and "Biggest thing
of the century," were a few of the ex-pressions that fell on the ear.
Crowd Cheers Aviators
The big crowd was thoroughly im-bued with the aviation spirit, and each
feat of the daring aviators was cheeredlustily. Every one appeared good na-tured. The thrill that goes witli wit-nessing the heavler-than-air machinescontaining ono, two or three passen-
gers sailing about the course anywhere
from twenty feet overhead to 200 feetis of such an absorbing nature that
no one has time to think of anything
else. The general expression on thefaces of the thousands as they lookedupward toward the whirring, soaring
aeroplanes and dirigibles showed amingling of respect, wonderment, aweand pleasure.
Along toward dusk the crowd, whichwas greatly thinned out, began to
show a slight lack of interest in theproceeding of the aviators, but asPaulhan, encircling the course lor thetenth time, came gracefully to earthwith the lightness and agility of aneagle the crowd broke into lusty eheet-ing which endured for several minutns.
Both telephone and both telegraphcompanies, which have lines directlyto aviation field, did a land office busi-ness. The telegraph companies espe-cially handled a large number of mai-siises from enthusiastic aviationistswho sent greetings and word of thoperformances of the aviators to theirfriends in all parts of the world. Alltelegrams are dated "Aviation Field,Los Angeles, Cal."
The entire freedom of the day's pro-gram from serious accidents withoutdoubt helped to keep the crowd in goodspirits. The emergency Hospital is sit-uaXed on the crowd's line of marchbetween the Pacific Electric railroadstation and the grandstand. A certainfeeling of fear for the daring aviatorscomes over one as he passes the hos-pital, where the ambulance stands inreadiness for an immediate run, butth« (jay and festive spirit of the crowd,observed when the grandstand isreached, soon dispels the feeling. Likethe midway at an old-fashioned coun-
ty fair in the east, is the row of 10-centshows and refreshment stands thatstretches along the path to the grand-stand.
Tf a person goes to Ayiation fieldwith the deliberate intention of not be-coming affected by the sight of theaeroplanes soaring through the air he
is quickly undeceived. Like theChagre3 fever, the dread of Panama,once the aviation fever "gets hold of
a person it is extremely difficult to
shake it off, and it doesn't take theaviation fever long to seize a tightgrip. The sight of one of the biplanescutting through the atmosphere far
above ground only serves to vaccinate,but this does not prevent the fevertaking firm hold a few moments laterwhen two dirigibles, two aeroplanes
and a balloon are seen dodging hitherand thither many feet overhead. Thesight ia one that isn't soon forgotten.
Although the main road to Aviationfield is considered good, the groundinside the inclosuro is still somewhatsoft from the recent rains, and an in-teresting sight near the front sate isa team of big Missouri mules, alwaysready to pull the unfortunate amongthe autoists out of the mire.
The stirring days of horse racing inthis state caused no more of a thrillon the part of the people In the grand-
stand than the impromptu race be-tween Paulhan and Curtiss yesterdayafternoon several times around the
course. Paulhan at the time had two
pansngera in his Farman biplane andwhen Curtiss, who ascended severalminutes later, rushed past the grand-stand around the course and passedPaulhan like an express train, the en-thusiasm of the crowd could not berestrained and the applause was deaf-ening.
Disease Is Contagious
Official RecordsTen laps for speed, official:
Curtiss 2:31 4:523-5 7:223:5 9:501-5 12:193-5 15:002-5 17:233-5 19:53 22:23i-S 24:542-5
By Laps 2:31 2:213-5 2:30 2:273-5 2:292-5 2:404-5 2:231-5 2:292-5 2:301-5 2:311-5Course 16.11 miles. Average lap—2:29 2-5. Average speed—3B.B miles.
pau lhan 2:322-5 5:023-5 7:332-5 10:04 12:333-5 15:021-5 17:32 20:022-5 22:304-5 24:592-5
By Laps 2:322-5 2:311-5 2:314-5 2:293-5 2:293-5 2:283-5 2:294-5 2:293-5 2:282-5 2:283-5Course 16.11 miles. Average—2:3o. Average speed—3B.6s miles.
Hamilton (Carburettor disabled) 3:073-5 6:153-5By laps 3:073-5 3:08
Qualifying Round— Carrying one passenger in addition to aviator —Curtiss 2:242-5 4:53 7:251-5 Paulhan (Mme. Paulhan) 2:502-5 5:37 8:161-5
By | aps' 2:242-5 2:283-5 2:321-5 By laps 2:502-5 2:463-5 2:391-5
Willard to qualify lap in 3:03 2-5.. Willard awarded 100 points for leaving ground in twenty-foot square.
Willard awarded 100 points for stopping his aeroplane in twenty-foot square. (Note: One wheel was off the
square one inch.) Prize $250.
JUDGE WORKS REGRETSNO HOLIDAY WAS SET
President of Council Expresses Him.
self in Regard to AviationMeet
President Works yesterday censuredthe city council for its ' refusal toadopt the mayor's .suggestion submit-ted to the council Wednesday that a
half holiday be declared this afternoonand the city employes given a chance
to attend the aviation meet.
The president was out of the cityWednesday and did not attend themeeting of the council. He said thathad ho been there he would havestrongly urged that the recommenda-tion of the mayor be adopted, as heconsidered the aviation meet was amatter of considerable Importance forLos Angeles and that the municipalityshould observe it in some way.
Councilman Gregory explained thecouncil had taken the action it did bo-cause Saturday afternoon was a halfholiday, and the council believed thatwould serve as well as closing- the city
hall Friday afternoon.
CLERKS TO SEE FLYERS
None of the downtown retiiil RtOrM
will be closed for Aviation week, butmany have made special arrangements
for allowing their employes to ffo to
the meet. The Broadway Departmentstore will allow a half-day to eachemploye,
BALLOON MAKESENJOYABLE TRIP
FIVE PERSONS OCCUPY BAS-KET DURING ASCENT
Big Gas Bag America Sails Thirty-One Miles Into San Fernando
Valley, Attaining Height
of 4000 Feet
When the big: balloon America land-ed at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoonnine miles from Burbank on the Zel-zah ranch, one of the most successfulascensions of the meet was completed."Our trip was an enjoyable one fromevery point of view," said J. C. Marrslast evening, "as we covered muchterritory. 1'
Leaving Huntington Park at 11:45o'clock in the morning the balloonstarted toward the San Fernando val-|py, but turned southerly. An air cur-rent was found, however, at an ele-vation of 4000 teet which guided theballoon across the Santa Monica hillsinto the San Fernando valley. Aftermaneuvering about for considerabletime Marrs made a successful landing,having used but ten of the thirty-sixbags of ballast which he. took withhim.
Three women, Mrs. Ida Gregory ofChicago, Miss Bess Schaefer of LosAngeles and Miss Bertha Freund ofCincinnati, made the trip, and eachdeclared that to see the beauties of
Southern California at their best, witlian incidental experience in high life,one should view them from a balloon.Although the balloon did not ascendmore than 4000 feet, thirty-one mileswere covered during the trip. K. L.Bernard was the fifth member of theparty.
FARMAN BIBLANE IS
THREATENED BY FLAMES
Mechanicians Extinguish Blaze WhichDamages Klassen's Mono-
plane
Fire threatened to destroy one of
the big Farman biplanes yesterdaymorning. For a few moments theblaze looked serious, but some of the
mechanicians in the Paulhan camp
quickly put it out with the aid ofhand fire extinguishers.
The fire was caused by a stray sparkigniting one of the oily surfaces ofJ. Klassen's monoplane, which stoodjust a few feet beyond the Paulhantent. The flames spread rapidly, burn-ing up the flimsy rubber silk covering
of the plane. A big tank of gasolineused by Paulhan stood not many feetaway. One of the big Farman bi-planes also rested In the path of theflames.
As soon as the cry of "Fire" wasraised the French mechanicians rushedout and with the use of hand extin-guishers put out the blaze. The Klas-sen monoplane, a locally-made ma-chine, will be repaired ready for atrial flight tomorrow.
INVENTS MONOPLANE WITHNEW BALANCING PRINCIPLE
Airship Also Has Novel Steering Gear
and Its Trial Flight IndicatesSuccessful Results
HA.MMONDSPORT, N. V.. Jan. 13.—
A coal black monoplane, built along
somewhat .lifferent lines from any ofthe American or European aeroplanes,
is tiecelving daily tryouts over thesnow nnd ice which cover Lake Keukher.'.
The monoplane is the invention ofA. 1;. Pfitzner. The new monoplane,
which has made several short flights
successfully, has a new balance de-vlce, while its steering gear is alsonovel in aeroplane architecture. In-stead of steering with a rudder Pfitz-ner has his right and left • steering\u25a0urfacea placed in front over the ale-v;itint? plane. In the rear he carriesa rigid plane as a tail. \u25a0
The inventor will continue his exper-iments here until he has mastered thecontrol of the machine.
COTTON MARKET ACTIVENEW YORK, Jan. 13.—While busi-
ness was less active, today's cotton
market showed continued excitementand there were violent fluctuations inprices. An early decline of from 17 to23 points, which carried May to a newlow level for the movement, was fol-lowed by iin advance of from 30 to 39points. The close was weak, withoutany recovery in prices oil the activemonths, and at a decline of from 10 to30 points in the general list.
WILLARD WINS PRIZEFOR PERFECT FLIGHT
Course and Stops Craft at
Starting Point
In Curtiss Biplane Aviator Circles
C. F. Willard won $250 by makinga perfect start and stop with a Cur-tiss biplane. Willard left the groundfrom the twenty-foot square in frontof the judges' stand. After makingtwo circles of the course he stopped hiamachine in almost the exact spot fromwhich he had started. This was thefirst perfect start and stop score madeso far in the meet.
Curtiss made a beautiful trial flight
of nearly two miles. Passing thegrandstand on the second turn heswooped down from a height of sev-enty-five feet to within fifteen feet ofthe ground, and then rose majesticallyfor thirty feet. His trial was mad>iin a new eight-cylinder racing biplane.
One of the mooted points in the in-junction suit brought by the Wright
brothers against Olenn H. Curtiss Mlt^demonstrated unfavorably to theWrights yesterday morning by C. K.Hamilton. He made a 1500-foot flightin a Curtiss biplane with the ruddertied so it was useless.It has been maintained by tho
Wrights that no flight could bs madewithout the use of the rear control orrudder. They held that stability to themachine would be eliminated by notusing the rudder.
Hamilton made a perfect flight.
The Wright machine always uses therudder. In fact, the rudder is theprincipal means of maintaining sta-bility in the Wright creations.
DISTANT AERIAL OBJECTHOLDS ATTENTION OF THRONG
A general alarm was sounded amongthe newspaper men at aviation field at3:15 yesterday afternoon when far offin the direction of Mount Lone andapparently nearly a mile above theearth an object resembling an aero-plane came into sight.
It was suggested that some unknowninventor had secretly constructed a ma-chine that to all appearances was com-ing to the aviation meet under its ownpower and at such a high altitude thatit would eclipse the wonderful recordmade by Paulhan.
Powerful glasses were quicklybrought into play, and it was discov-ered that the mysterious object waacomposed of two toy balloons tied to-gether and bearing a flag, the letteringupon which could not be discerned. Itwas not announced at the field wherethe contrivance originated. A strong:air current carried the little balloons outto sea among 1 the clouds in a very fewminutes. Frequently toy balloons heldby persons in the bisr grand stand werocut loose and floated heavenwardamong the dirigibles and aeroplanes.
DECLARES ARTIST DRUNKARDZANESVILLE, Ohio, Jan. 13.—Tlio
hearing of the suit of Mrs. MabelloThompson Christy, wife of HowardChandler Christy, the artist, for thepossession of their child, Natelle, wasbeguun in the common pleas court herotoday. "I feel I shall win in this con-test," declared Mrs. Christy just beforegoinr; to the courthouse. Dr. EdwardM. Retull testified that Christy was ad-mitted to be a habitual drunkard fouryears ago.
DIRIGIBLE PASSES OVER CITYCHATTANOOGA. Term., Jan. 13.—A
white dirigible balloon passed overChattanooga at 11 o'clock today. Aman was seen in the machine. Itpassed across the sky in about tenminutes.
LOS ANGELES MKHAI.i): IKIDAV MOHNING, J.VM'AHY 14, I!H".
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