Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1910 — CURTISS MAKES RETURN TRIP SAFE [ARTICLE]

CURTISS MAKES RETURN TRIP SAFE

Wins $5,000 In Flight Betwejfa Cedar Point-Euclid Beach. ENTIRE FLIGHT OVER WAI& Birdman, In Hit Aeroplane, Distanqpd Train In Flight of 15 Minutew— Gate Caused Daring Aviator Considerable Trouble. > ■- ■ Cleveland, Sept. 2.—-Glenn H. Ciytlss flew from Cedar Point, off Soidusky, to Euclid Bearch. circled about the crowd there for three minutes and landed safely, all in one hour and 4B minutes. The aviator insists De travelled 70 miles in his flight to Cedar Point Wednesday and a like distance on his return, though ffe mileage Is called sixty and nlne-tentßs miles and the geodetic survey offipu here figures the flight at tfixty-ftasfr miles and a slight l fraction; Curtiss established a record for a distance flight entirely over watK**. His biplane battled with a stiff gaje for thirty miles east from Cedar Ptrinfe, the speed being retarded till only m average of forty miles an hour wpe possible. At that the machine outdistanced a Lake Shore train, aboai* which were Mrs. Curtiss and Avlatofis Ely and Mars. The train was scheduled to leave Sandusky, across ttip bay from Cedar Point, five minutes before Curtiss rose. It was late anO never caught the biplane. From the train which followed tbe lake shore, Mrs. Curtise hoped te watch her husband, but all she saw were farmers turning back frujn watching Curtiss, high In the air and off shore some hundred yards. She had hoped Curtiss would not make tlte attempt to start back to Euclid "Beach. But the contract for the flight, |5,000, and possibly >IO,OOO mom, called for a return before Friday The train did not arrive In Cleveland until fifteen minutes after the biplane had landed. Curtiss, by completing the fllgty. wins >5,000. He failed to shatter the speed record, for which another >5,000 was hung up, and did not rise 5,000 feet above the Breakers hotel, at Cedar Point, for which feat another >5,000 was promised. When he landed Curtiss said the trip had been comfortable, though he admitted the gale at the western end of the flight had caused him trouble.