BIG AVIATION MEET ON Cor.tinti<-«1 from first pasr. gytrc behind them In this downpour, yoc sec, I can't -wear srojrßles. In fact, j threw them away almost as soon as I started. It is almost impossible to see without them It's quite so with th<-m jfs a horrible mess to be in. I UMR vcu. I think those propellers made dw lain travel toward my face at the rate rf four hundred miles an hour — at least that, I should say. And naturally, as my was there, a preat many particles of jhe rain landed on my face. They were Ye cold. I should say, and burned like grr. Arid then. too. a part of my rear construction brolie." Stick in His Machine Broke. This was characteristic of tr. Dresel. ri? was forced to come down because of th<- brCaktaS °f a small but important stick ir; hi.- 5 machine, but modestly em {- 27.e;l aS his personal inconveniences in ?'e\t through the wind and rain as ... J^ r >' bad conquered him. That rt ma nnt- ennquered was proved when •ho stick replaced, for Drexe! took third prize in the second hourly altitude CCTit'.-t- ■ -. 1 - Jwd 742 1 ■ ■ '■y i n - I gUyj .:" i he Curtiss group, flew for a _i, rto but did not seem to find it and <^ne down. Eayingr he had first lost his ttg&t Q a ~ d then his way. He took teccT.i place for the first hour in alti tafie. reaching 4«>4 feet, 1 landed with 1 boms f ---"■ - %kt at Same Time. - ■ ■ ■ I - - I X pia was fired, but Hoxsey didn't jeeibe man nre It. If the W'risrht avia xcrha^ taken field glasses it wouM h^ve tbeen mat : 1 "- Sc^mething- had to V , ; . a I'rire "money for other events •couli not be x^rimned to go over an -nthrr day, and other f.ycrs ci.uld not be tj^fEtei :■'.■♦ rin to dance while a stub ttltor waltzed all through the Jbur V.'ripht ran into the inner fieH «a^seps was in the air only fc* Canutes, bnt he.r.id behind the inw- r enrK doc I« many times m tnat short •;eri«i and achieved an alurude of 61S feet, •hereby winning second in the second hour- Rush to Wright Camp. • "E"t:> Uoissst wa.« looking for a ball for 'cross-country fly- W xaxio v rumors drew the newspaper fae :: r ' tbe WrigJit camp. { It was raid that TVright was jhtlplES to assemble the wonderful new f «r^tt racer. • ■ -thesr - • MMi - ■ • =aid Mr. r - ■ ■ 1 • ■• Wrights Win in German Court. I Pjt. O-tJcht changed the subject fay «» (Sofflidaj lhat '.!.'■ <>rraan courts had just !^*rid«: Buj ■■, Wright patents were basic M s^ tie casH hnd I,^-n tried on it? merits. LSe Ti-rfix.d Uj^ rj „^-s r y cable as he was pfpa-rjr b> li ... •.:;,- Manhattan Hote! to the aviation jrrourid.* yesterday. » toother Bnknown quantity at the field ptWCcrUsa - vc < puri*ce racer, as yet Bs*4i but with estbsodaxtic Bflj>port«ra. • "Hfg coming •-ik:" Bbeiuted the soldier J6os^J 605^ at the eastern end of the fleld a lit * before : o'clock. motor could >^ beard a perceptibly ■^Jittoe before Moisanfa Bl^riot grew ■^ cl the tpongy heavens. w<±s- •?.,- only one who cared to •*** cfetacea on a twenty-mile 'cross-coun- irto the teeth" of the .wind, and ■5a the *o? fq thick that he ild not see !* Cpaad ifter be rose 12) feel above the . •-•* Ojtt wa« a second demonstration— *t ••■ oyrn—>j* the fact that an airman, *** * fc^s.r^r.. car. Eteer by eompas- with f3f 3 Tt s^i to the tone or day or r.ig-nt. foul 5?* cr ;a:r - A£ cr - his tri ? from parls d Uaflaa, he steered wholly by compass. Mcisatrt Missed His Barometer. "^ ** bOtberctt about my course to 2l^** £-fterv.a.rd. "I knew ac w-yw -y Q» Fpe»-,i I u-a» making and j^* I RQtbt to be. The only thing that •■*■ tt< , as TT ,.. o # a barometer. j J^y carry cne. ',;nable to see the iC* ■° r th " f " ? ' X was afraJd I roigbt ***>»•■ , church eteeple or get causht '■^ *'*■■"' of w:r.- S ; so every few miles ,3*° ! taufl to scoop down to within eye |J «•*•*! Then I would rise again B^WW by the comjass. s^;^ I thocsht I had gone a*o--;' ten j. • o'.titi ;.nd btgan to s^out for '^^••t baj..« Jr . that marks the tTirn. 'sJt* 1 1 wngwi rwire. once ... th<* •4J4? 11 ■• ■ to tht Ir-ft. the a;r was ■* [^i^Ma't pick it up. and satisfied •3te»n^?* ■■ •-• - ■-■ ribed '- me for h SJJ* ltat T fcad . the prescribed la j"*; 1 r«J«d for home." . • 'fJ-- ■ jmj^ ™a cf r art M O isant wvered many *fsot«^ !har) lhfJ <-ourse. althouffh b« S&rjtfSr*** u ' Sth exres*. SXAPSHOTS AT THE BIG AVIATION MEET. MR?. AT-PTIX GRET AND MRS- ARTHUR ISELIN J ARMSTRONG DR wind and even heavier jrusts of rain, when Moisant came home from his cross-country Jlifjiit and the meet ended for the day. New Wright Pupi! Qualifies. In a preliminary trial. P. O. ParmaJee, a nfw Wrigrht pupil, qualified for a license ".vith three flights of two laps each around the inner course •>f 2.3 kilometer?. John J. Frisbie. of Rochester, N. V., who uses a CurtiM biplane, was reported disqualified ■ UM rmngr, but receive' his licenie from the Aero Club yesterday afternoon. The altitude, distance and duration figures made to-day entitle the first, sec ond and third place men to daily ca.«h prizes and will count in the percentage dis tribution of the profits at the did of the nine days' mrH»t. Captain Thomas S. Baldwin iiew from flarden City, six miles, to the grounds at Eelir.ont Park at 7:13 a. m. yesterday. "^lirn" Shriver, who has been nursmg a camag-ed ankle, fell at tho Belmont Park f.eld yeptorday morning" in a practice fiUrht. His machine was considerably damaged, but he will soon be ready to fly. Rain or shine, the second day's tourna ment will begin this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, and the same rule will hold pood throughout th^ m«?t. SOCIETY AT AVIATION MEET Belmont Park Flights Attract the Fashionable World. DespiV the inclement weather, society was well represented at the opening yes terday afternoon of the international avia tion meet at Belmont Park, and, judpring from the attendance, under existing eondi T tions. it is safe to wKf that had the day *b«*pn fine thp members of N>w York's fash ionable wnrld would have been out in larp er numbers than in days prone by when the horse held sway at the beautiful track. Every country i>lace on Long 1 Island •within motoring distance of the park fur nis'ned its Quota of cruests. while railroad trains and automobiles brought crowds of well known persons from town. Many of th?m lunched at the Turf and Field Club before the actual flying l^o.can. With the persistent drizzle and heavy wt mist suggestive of Scotland, raincoats, ulsters and umbrellas were the order of the day, and the inauguration of the tour nament was thereby robbed of icb of the ...... have character ize tho scene had the weather permits*] the display *i pretty frVER THE BT-LLKTTN 'Results of Flights at 'Beimont TcrKj, { omrK"t!Sion. Winner. Second. Third. li-rord. First hour!.- distance . Graluuno-TVblto. Moisant Dr^eT. . .81 »ll«i hourly distance: iiraliame-WuiU-. .Mois:int - -.11 mile* First hourly aJtitu*>. . Qexaej Ewcene Kir . - 742 reel Serond h.mr'r aJjit;:dr . Hoi.^y Be I.— i»n • I»re.xel . 573 f«-t .fWu^rnnfrr Mc:i;«ir.t S« other barters.. -.. 20 miles. ™.U*f, ter. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel, Jr., and Miss Vivien Gould : Mr. and Mrs. ! James A. Burden, jr.. Alfred G. Vander- ; bilt. Philip ML Lydig. CUirrnce Mackay. Mr. and Mrs. Charles X). Dickey ami Miss j Frances Dickey; Mrs. James B. Euslis, , Mr. and Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer, Harry S. Lehr, Mrs. Hermann Oclrichs and Mrs. | William Jay; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Car- [ roll, who have just returned to town from ' their wedding trip; Mrs. O. IT. P. Belmont, who was with Miss Inez Milholland; Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Woodruff, W. Bourke Co<-kran, Mrs. Howard Cushins, Mrs. Stan- j ford White, Mr. and Mrs. W. Goadby j Loew, Mrs. Craig Biddle, Mr. and Mrs. COrtlandt Field Bishop, Mrs. Charles M. Oelricns, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pac<\ F. Grand d'HautevlUe, 'Fumner Gerard, Mrs. Edward Van Ingren. Mrs. W McCarty Lit tle, Miss Laura Webb, Mr. and Mrs. J. 3. Bishop. Mr. and Mr 3. Lawrence L. Gilles ■ 0 I - Boy Scouts Armed with Glasses. The Boy Booata. who are carrp<= steeplechase water jumps ana hazards have been done away with. Candy Now in Betting Ring. The preat space under the stand, a part of which was formerly the batting ring, has been utilized for display purposes and automobile clothing, a few aviation cos tume?, candy booths, lunch counters, tele phones, automobiles an'l other chances to invest loese coins now Sill the Inclosure. The Aviation "Rubber" Now. Umbrellas were absolutely out of vosue. All sorts of costumes were on dispiay, from furs to oilskins, bat bid hats supplied the head covering*, and th« umbrellas, if there wore any. wore <"irried in the spectators hands. They were of no use, for they in terfered with the cultivation of the avia tion neck, which seems fair to cutuid the '•skyscraper ruober." Scoring System Pleases Crowd. The system of scoring used is clear, and the crowd kept in perfect touch all the time All machines are numbered, and tho ofheial programme gives the corresponding nam*>. A FlmriP code, explained in the pro prarr.me. is us*d on the board giving the number of laps, the altitude, the *pee