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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1910
Page
2
After a long flight day Hamilton rests at Van Cortlandt Park hotel and endures curiosity seekers. He declines an exhibition flight, while fans and cranks flood his mail with praise and odd inventions. notable messages arrive from Alford, Zahm, Wilcox, and many others across the country.
The Times records Hamilton's departure from Governors Island at 7 36 A M and his Philadelphia landing at 9 26 A M using a dedicated telegraph wire and train observer. The one hour fifty minute flight matches the schedule published two days earlier, a notable feature of the event.
London June 14. Grahame-White, who attempted the London to Manchester flight for a Daily Mail prize, wired from the Crystal Palace praising Hamilton's flight as educational for public understanding of aviation and extended congratulations.
A note urging businesspeople to seek legitimate capital by placing advertisements in the Business Opportunity column of The New York Times. It emphasizes careful scrutiny and offers a channel to attract investors.
Paris reports Charles Hamilton completed the Philadelphia New York round trip. French aviators praise the feat while debating entry in the Chicago New York contest, citing Wrights and Curtiss as pioneers and predicting rapid long distance flights across America.
Frederick F. Owens, a Belleville born aeronaut, piloted a small dirigible from Jersey meadows over Newark to Manhattan and into Brooklyn. After brushing City Hall Park and the Hall of Records, it tangled with a chimney and a tree near 391 Gates Avenue before firemen and police rescued him.
The World notes Charles K. Hamilton’s Philadelphia flight from Albany to Philadelphia set a long distance record with no stop. He landed at Governors Island after repairs, completing over 165 miles at about 50 mph, faster than rail travel. The piece praises aviation progress and Hamilton as a daring figure in a new era of rapid transport.
The Hamilton flight yesterday is treated as the more practical achievement, surpassing Roosevelt’s arrival and Saturday’s Philadelphia return. The narrative highlights the aerial feat and its impact on faster railway travel on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The piece contrasts early aviation feats with past automotive speedsters, noting Glenn Curtiss and M. Paulhan’s feats, Charles K. Hamilton’s brisk hops, and the public shift in fame from car racers to pilots. It highlights the glamorous peril and public adulation once enjoyed by speed demons now shared by air travelers.
From The Press the focus shifts to expanding the aircrafts range and power, reducing wind effects, and boosting speed. Curtiss or Hamilton may fly this summer with fewer steps and quicker than the Sunset Limited, while Curtiss’s pupil reaches New York to Philadelphia, edging toward passenger air travel faster than trains.
The Philadelphia Ledger and The New York Times report Hamilton’s flight from New York to Philadelphia and back as a historic milestone. He completed the longest unbroken cross continental style hop in the hemisphere, proving aerial navigation as a feasible fact with a scheduled, timed crossing between distant points.
Charles K Hamilton continues to push aero plane limits in daily attempts at new records with a sensational flight from New York to Philadelphia and a back return. The Evening World praises his coolness under pressure and relentless drive, noting technical disappointments but widespread public excitement and belief he will achieve tomorrow what he cannot today.
The passage argues that pilots will soon carry spare propellers and mechanical parts, similar to cars carrying extra tires and tools. It envisions airmen traveling with a mechanician for navigation and emergencies, noting this does not alter the core idea that aircraft may wander from and return to their base.
The Evening Mail notes a city full of eyewitnesses to aerial feats. Hamilton’s recent two hour Philadelphia run and sub twenty four hour round trip win the Times prize, joining Curtiss Wright and Owens as early aviation landmarks.
The Brooklyn Eagle lauds Hamilton for his Philadelphia flight and return, calling him a fixed star alongside Curtiss Paulhan Bleriot and Rolls. The reception in both cities underscores his intrepidity and contributes to rising aviation enthusiasm and future improvements in engines and aeroplanes.
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals vacated pending injunctions against the Herring Curtiss Company and Louis Paulhan. The decision lets Curtiss and Paulhan fly in races from New York to Chicago and New York to St Louis without bonds until trial.
A mishap delaying Charles K Hamilton’s return to Governors Island is noted as the most impressive moment of yesterday’s demonstration. His ascension from the Jersey marsh marks a pivotal third step in aviation progress, following rising and sustained flight.
An advertisement claims neurasthenia affects thousands of Americans and promotes Sana togen as a tonic. It touts a booklet from The Bauer Chemical Company with testimonials, urging overworked people to read it for relief and prevention of Morbus Americanus.
Indianapolis June 14 Wilbur and Orville Wright respond to the New York Court of Appeals ruling dissolving the temporary injunction against Paulhan and the Herring Curtiss Co They say litigation will raise costs but they expect to win and defend their patent against alleged infringement They claim their method of control produced successful flight and that rivals copied it and must pay or gain rights to use it alike.
A reader praises aviator Hamilton for a Times feature on aviation. The letter urges a Saturday demonstration coinciding with Theodore Roosevelt's arrival, hoping the aeroplane display would boost public interest and lift spirits amid current troubles.
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