Hamiltons cross country flight plan from Mineola to Philadelphia
The Times reports Hamilton will launch from Mineola at 5 am in a revamped biplane, travel nine miles to Sea Cliff, then be loaded on a flatboat to Governors Island. He will test and adjust the craft, switch to a larger fuel tank, and proceed toward Elizabethport and Philadelphia, with daily weather and signal procedures described.
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Times
Hamilton
Mineola
Sea Cliff
Governors Island
Quartermaster's Department
Wilbur Wright
Curtiss
Albany
Aeronautical Society
Hempstead Plains
Albert ¢. Dety
Charles Nyquist
Hamiton
Philadelphia
Elizabethport
Hudson
Grant
Phiadelphia
Guardsmen prepare flags for Hamilton air flight start
Captain William S. Hallahan of the First Company Signal Corps, National Guard of New York, sends Lieut. James P. Holmes to signal the start of Charles K. Hamilton from New York to Philadelphia and back. Five signaling stations will cover Governors Island Fort Wood Bedlow’s Island the Singer Building Metropolitan Tower and The Times Tower. If the white flag with red center appears from The Times Metropolitan and Singer towers the countdown begins.
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Hamilton
Philadelphia
New York
Samuel Reber
Department of the Ast
Signal Corps
National Guard
Governors Island
Bedlow’s Island
Hallahan
Holmes
Times Sower
Williams. Hallahan
National Guard of
James P. Holmes
Charles K. Hamilton
Fort Wood
Singer
Metropolitan
Signal Detachment
Times
Lieut. Holmes
Philadelphia Beacons for Hamilton Flight Arrival
A thousand balloons will rise across Philadelphia from City Hall and major sites to welcome Charles K Hamilton on the first leg of his New York to Philadelphia round trip. Flags and signals will mark his progress as crowds watch from key city locations and along Pennsylvania Railroad routes.
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Governors Island
Hamilton
Elizabethport
Farfe
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York Times
Philadelphia
Hudson
Grant
Yonkers
Paulhan
London
Manchester
Philadephia
Philadelphia Public Ledger
New York
North Penn Junction
City Hall
Penn
Charles K. Flamiiton
Aviation Field
the Public Ledger
Majestic Hotel
Frankford
Europe
Potter Oilcloth
Balloon flight plans and crowd estimates for Hamilton event
The article details signal and flag procedures for Hamilton's anticipated flight from New York to Torresdale with multiple signal stages and flag combinations. Police estimate about 30,000 people to attend Aviation Field with restricted access and credential checks.
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Aviation Field
Baldwin in Mineola Flies Red Devil Again
Harmon's machine in repair and Hamilton avoiding risk left Mineola aviation quiet. Capt Baldwin flies his biplane with a new propeller, completing three circuits at height, then lands in fine form. Spectators hail his sunset flight as the best yet, noting he logged about twenty miles.
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New York Times
Mineola
Harmon
Hamilton
Mineola Grounds
Baldwin
Earth
Woman seeks entry in $25,000 airship race
Miss Alice Potter asks if she is eligible to compete in the Chicago to New York airship race organized by the New York Times and Chicago Evening Post. James Plew of the Aero Club of Illinois notes Potter's driving record and urges the joint managers to keep the race open to all entrants, excluding women aviators only if regulations require.
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New York Times
Elgin
Alice Potter
Chicago
New York
Chicago Evening Post
Aero Club
James E. Plew
Aero Club of Illinois
Potter
Piew
Miss Potter
National
Aerial Crash at Worcester Show Kills Woman
An aviator lost control during an exhibition at the Worcester Agricultural Show. His plane dipped into a crowd, killing one woman and injuring several spectators. The pilot was largely unharmed.
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Worcester
England
Philadelphia New York cross country flight praised by press
Comment from the Philadelphia Star commends the Ledger and The New York Times for coordinating a cross country flight from New York to Philadelphia and back. The piece notes Philadelphia has given little attention to aeronautics and praises the journals for elevating the city in world air records.
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The
Philadelphia Star
Philadelphia Ledger
NEW York Times
New York
Europe
Philadelphia
United States
Prize Promises Drive New York to West Wins in Air Runs
Newspapers join in promoting long distance air flights with cash incentives. Pulitzer offers 30,000 for a New York to St Louis run. The New York Times and Chicago Post offer 25,000 for a New York to Chicago race. Washington papers and sponsors propose 20,000 for a New York to Washington run on July 4.
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United States
Pulitzer
New York
St. Louis
New York Times
Chicago Post
Chicago
Washington
Pennsylvania Railroad Promotes Student Comfort on Limited Trains
The Pennsylvania Railroad urges parents to consider safe homebound travel for students during commencement. It highlights the Pennsylvania Special, Pennsylvania Limited, Chicago Limited, 24 Hour St Louis, and St Louis Limited, noting exclusive accommodations for girls, a ladies maid, and courteous staff. Trains keep to overnight or less trips, with convenient departures from New York and multiple ticket offices listed in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
New York
Chicago
Pennsylvania Limited
St. Louis
Aviator Mars Survives Train-Induced Biplane Wreck
J C Mars flying a Curtiss Skylark at Topeka aviation meet tried to skim over railroad tracks when a passing train caused a suction wind. The biplane toppled, Mars buried under wreckage, but crawled free with minor injuries and intent to fly again if the machine can be repaired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Topeka
Kan
J. C. Mars
Mars
Mr. Mars
Binghamton Plans Tri-City Aeroplane Race
Binghamton Chamber of Commerce will seek joint purses with Utica and Syracuse for a 217 mile triangular air race over broad valleys. Binghamton favors the project and will push the proposal tonight.
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Syracuse
Utica
New York Times
Binghamton
N. Y
Three Die In St Louis Train Wreck Near City Limits
A fast mail train on the St. Louis Iron Mountain line derailed early today near the city limits, crashing through a Miller Manufacturing Co building. Three men died Walter A. Douglas engineer Robert D. Shephard fireman Jasper L. Laster mail clerk. eight others injured, including two perhaps fatally. The engine jumped the track on a curve.
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ST. Louis
Iron Mountain & Southern
Texas
Miller Manufacturing Company
Walter A. Douglas
Robert D. Shephard
Jasper L. Laster
Taft Bars Harrison From His Presence
Taft prevents Harrison from entering the President's presence amid a tense exchange over the Glavis and Wickersham matter. The narrative describes a tense White House scene with a Harrison delegation, a sudden secretary call, and the President's engagement with Jewish protests from Russia.
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Taft
Harrison
Wickersham
Senate
White House
Norton
Des Tion
Goldfogle
New York
Russia
Two in Long Aero Flight Pioneers French Recon Flight
In a Paris area test two French Army officers conducted a heavy payload aerial reconnaissance over 105.6 miles from Chalons to Vincennes in 150 minutes. Lieut Fréquant piloted the biplane accompanied by Capt Marconnet, who took fifteen photographs. They weighed 270 pounds together and began with seventeen gallons of petrol and seven of oil.
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New York ‘Times
Paris
Lieut
Humphreys
United States Army
Chalons
Vincennes
Marconnnet
Féquant
Chfteaux
New Monoplane Record Set by Labouchere Flight
Labouchere established a new monoplane record at Chalon s sur Marne France carrying two passengers for a ten minute flight. The milestone underscores advancing aircraft capacity and endurance in early aviation.
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Labouchere
Chalons-Sur-Marne
France
Four Aviators Fall at Budefest in Grand Stand Crash
German aviator Frey lost control of his biplane during a flight in Budefest injuring six women in the grand stand with two likely dead. fellow aviators Latham Andree and Bialjovuci fell in open ground without injuries.
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Budefest
Frey
Latham
Andree
Bialjovuci
Commencement speech urges civic honesty at Augustana jubilee
Judge Peter S. Grosscup of the U S Circuit Court of Appeals Chicago delivers the main address at Augustana College and Theological Seminary fiftieth jubilee graduation in Rock Island Illinois. He warns that rising costs and urban growth threaten self government and calls for intellectual honesty and accountability in public discourse and leadership.
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Rock Island
Peter S. Grosscup
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
Augustana College and Theological Seminary
College and Synod
America
Grosscup
Shock Kills Electrician At Coney Island Plant
Louis G. Neilson an electrician at Edson Electrical Illuminating Company died instantly when a metal whistle in his pocket touched a live generator at West Twelfth Street and Railroad Avenue Coney Island. Foreman A M Russland and fellow worker William A Kearns attempted revival for over half an hour before officers called a surgeon. The morgue noted a single burn on the left hip from the whistle.
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Edson Electrical Illuminating Company
West Twelfth Street
Railroad Avenue
Coney Island
Louis G. Neilson
A. M. Russland
William A. Kearns
Haynes and White
Coneysland Hospital
Daring rescue after three days adrift at sea
Miss Elizabeth Eriksson and nine crew members plus two dogs and a cat survived three days adrift in two small boats after Good News of Philadelphia sank in a storm. The British steamer Metis rescued them off the Atlantic, while passing vessels reportedly did not assist.
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Norfolk
Elizabeth Eriksson
P. A. Eriksson
Philadelphia
Mate McKinnon
Erikssor
Sylvan Hill Tunnel Nearly Complete in Terryville
The boring of Sylvan Hill in Terryville for the New York New Haven and Hartford tunnel to shorten the Willimantic Poughkeepsie line by a mile and a half neared completion as east and west headings met after three years of work. The tunnel will be 3850 feet long and is expected to be ready by November.
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Terryville
ConnJune
Sylvan Hill
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Willimantic-Poughkeepsie
Taft Interrupted Nazareth Hall Commencement Address
Nazareth Penn June 9 President Taft rearranged the Nazareth Hall Military Academy exercises so Attorney General Wickersham could speak first before leaving for Washington. Wickersham, a 1873 graduate, urged against superficiality and recalled Lord Kitchener’s praise for West Point thoroughness.
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Nazareth
Penn
Taft
Wickersham
Washington
Nazareth Hall Military Academy
New York
Lord Kitchener
United States Military Academy
West Point
Central Africa
Roosevelt's Tramp in the New Forest
A committee will escort Mayor Gaynor from City Hall to the Battery for Col. Roosevelt’s arrival. Governors Fort of New Jersey and Quinby of New Hampshire will join the procession aboard the Androscoggin revenue cutter. Kaiserin Auguste Victoria sails carry 400 in cabin, 300 in second class with steerage and notable passengers including Mrs. Vanderbilt and Countess Beroldingen.
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George Vanderbilt
Alexandrine Beroldingen
Joseph C. Crew
Berlin
Joseph Co. Thaw and Family
Harry Speck von Sternburg
Herman Speyer
C. H. Searing
Roosevelt Neighbors Plan Welcome for Col Roosevelt
Nassau County Supervisors appoint Charles H. Lewis as Chairman of the Committee of Fifty to greet Col. Roosevelt on June 18. About 600 tickets go to Roosevelt's Neighbors for a Nassau steamer ride from Long Island City to Battery to Quarantine, with a land review at West Fourteenth Street. The Nassau train will take Roosevelt to Oyster Bay for a public welcome by thousands including District Attorney Kiam J. Youngs.
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New York Times
Mineola
L. I
Nassau County
Charles H. Lewis
Col. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Nassau
Long Island City
West Fourteenth Street
Committee of Fifty
Oyster Bay
Kiam J. Youngs
Ey Tee
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Battery
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Brooklyn Shore
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Manhattan
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St. George
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New Jersey
Jersey City
Hotel Belmont
Broadway Central
the Breslin
Buckingham Hotel
Cadillac Hotel
Hotel Cumberland
Catholic Club
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Friars' Club
Gilsey House
Koffman House
Holland House
Herald Square Hotel
Hotel Imperial
Knickerbocker Club
Knickerbocker Hotel
Hotel Netherlands
Plaza Hotel
Hotel Savoy
Hotel St. Regis
Waldorf-Astoria
Twenty-third Street
West Side
East Side
Harlem
Young Men's Christian Association
Broadway
Seventh Avenue
P. L. Young
Fifth Ave
Tiffany's
West 34Th St
McCreery’'s Side
J & J W. Williams
West 54Th St
Bryant + CO
Rtwaconschex
Ersey City
Singer Towers
Broad Street
Trenton
Y Torresdale
Potter Oilcloth Works
Torresdale
O'Leary
Leary
Syracuse Post-Standard
Bulletin
Pennsylvania Railroad Ticket
Fifth Avenues
Madison
Fifth Avenue
Columbus Avenue
West 125Th Street
Mulberry Street
West Twenty-third Street
Deshrosses Street
Cortlandt Street
Fulton Street
Court Street
Nostrand Avenue
Flatbush Avenue
Annex Station
Brooklyn
Fast Mail
Budapest
New York City
Miss Eriksson
Sylvan Hill Tunnel
New Haven
Conn
New Forest
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