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OFFICIAL RECORD OF AVIATION MEET 



Points Made Yesterday. 



Speed. Alt. Dor. 



Brookins 0 



Summary of Points to Date. 



Speed. 



Grahame-White 15 



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s 



Brookins 0 



Johnstone..... 0 



.Grahame-WMte 15 



Johnstone 0 



Brookins.., 0 



Curtlss 8 



WlUard... 



Standing of Aviators, 

 tit. Dur. 



Best Records to Date. 



Speed-Grahame-White, 3 laps (5% miles) 6m. Is ' 

 Altitude— Brookins (the barograph on his machine registered 5800 



Duration— Johnstone, 323m. 5 2-5. 

 Distance— Johnstone, 62 miles 3750 feet. 

 Three slow laps (514 miles)— Brooklr 

 Getaway— Grahaine-White, 26ft. Ill] 



13m. 48s. 



. wheels. 



Accuracy— Brookins, 12ft. lln. (world's record), 

 Accuracy— Grahame-White, 83ft. 4in, — 

 Bomb dropping— Brookins, 1 trial, scoie u. , 

 Globe course (83 miles)— Grahame-Wbltc, 40m. 1 3-5s. 

 Grahame-White. 



Speed^-S minutes, 37 seconds. 

 Distance — 7 miles. 

 Duration — 10 minutes, -24 seconds. 

 Distance— 15 laps and 3 pylans, 2" miles, 

 58? feet. 



Duration— 72 minutes, 1 3-5 seconds. 

 Curtlss. 



Speed (three laps of the course). 2m. 42 2-5s. 

 Duration, 6m. 42 2-os. 

 Distance. 5 miles, 1320 feet. 

 Getaway, 145 ft. 7in. 

 Accuracy 110ft. llin. 



Brookins. 



Bomb throwing— 1 trial, score p. 

 Duration — 5 minutes, 19 2-5 seconds. 

 Accuracy— 12 feet, 1 inch (world's record). 

 Duration — 55 minutes, 41 secords. 



Johnstone. 

 Distance, 35 laps 300 feet, 62 miles 3758 

 feat. 



Duration, 13m. 5 2-5s. 



Willard. 



Speed (three laps of the co 



, 6m. 42 2-5 



Duratio 



8m. 



Accuracy, 146f1. 



3-5s 



MAYOR GIVES AERO TROPHY. 



Fitzgerald and Hammond Donate 

 Cups for Bomb Throwing. 



Two special trophies for excellence 

 in bomb throwing were offered yester- 

 day. One by Mayor Fitzgerald 'and an- 

 other by John Hays Hammond. 



The cup offered by Mayor Fitzgerald 

 will be the first prize in this special 

 'event and will be known as the "City 

 of Boston Trophy." Mr. Hammond s 

 cup will be the second prize. 



Instead of the imitation plaster of 

 paris bombs, which have been used 

 since the meet 1 n the terms of the 

 Fitzgerald-Hammond contest call for 

 eggs. The eggs are to be dropped from 

 a height of 1800 feet. 



Mayor Fitzgerald said: "If the city 

 doesn't pay for the cup, I will. 1 am 

 only too happy to encourage this latest 

 science both in my official capacity and 

 as a citizen." , . . 



In a statement sent out yesterday, 

 Chairman Glidden said: 



"The importance to the world or the 

 bomb throwing tests from an elevation 

 of 1800 feet or "more, which is considered 

 bevond the range of the most powerful 

 guns is sufficiently great to have in- 

 duced the management to consider set- 

 ting Wednesday as a special date lor 

 the experiments. 



"Manager Claflin is now m consulta- 

 tion with the aviators to ascertain if 

 their engagements will permit extending 

 the meet through Wednesday. If this is 

 clone, large detachments from the navy 

 and the army will be present to watch 

 the manoeuvres. Harmon, Curtlss, 

 I Grahame-White, Willard, Brookins and 

 Johnston* will participate. Each test 

 will be made separately and 15 minutes 

 will be allowed for making the ascent ] 

 and rlescent." 



It is probable that the .committee 

 will make a number of changes next 

 year if the tournament is held. As the 

 Harvard Society has taken- a five-year 

 lease of the 500-acre lot in Atlantic 

 and ae the public has shown such in- 

 terest it is generally expected that the 

 event will b'e made an annual fixture. 

 Already there are reports that certain 

 real estate promoters are negotiating 

 for hotels near the park. 



Augustus V. Post, the New York 

 millionaire, had his biplane disman- 

 tled yesterday morning, and he shipped 

 it to Indianapolis. Mr. Post has been 

 delegated to select the three balloons 

 which will represent the United States 



"Mr! S post's biplane figured little in the 

 present meet. It only appeared on the 

 field one day, Thursday morning, when 

 he made a series of starts, and m the 

 last attempt made a short and graceful 

 flight. It was evident that he merely 

 wished to fulfil his contract with the 

 Harvard society. He announced Thurs- 

 day morning that he could have flown 

 much longer, but did not wish to take 

 chances in the air until he had first 

 developed "ground work," such as start- 

 ins, alighting and operating his motor. 



Chairman Glidden says the committee 

 continues to get letters from inventors 

 who ask for the indorsement of the so- 

 ciety. One received today from J. H. 

 Howard, an engineer with headquarters 

 at 79 Sudbury street, Boston, said he had 

 invented a device to protect the funnels 

 of warships and commercial steamers 

 from projectiles thrown by airmen. He 

 said he had charts and drawings and 

 had applied for a patent. 



Claude Grahame-White gets many 

 epistles from women who want his au- 

 tograph. and in many cases want to 

 meet him. He has received about 350 of 

 such letters. 



Mayor Fitzgerald will call upon the 

 oif.v council tomorrow to authorise *"> 

 appropriation of $100 from the public 

 n for a pi up m the 



dropping bombs contest at the aviation 

 meet early next week. 



