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CLEAN PAPER FOR THE HOME i CITY EDITI' -— YOI.. 1.—No. in. WEATHER—Showers. ' RICH M O X D, V A., M O X D A V. .1 U X K J ^ - 11*10. 10 PAGES ONE m HIKE: OTHER PATRIOT Glavis Eulogized and Vilified in Ballingsr-Pinchot Briefs Just Filed EVERYONE CONCERNED SHARES IN CRITICISM Attorney Declares That Secretary is Unworthy of Office and Should Heed Demand for Resignation. WASHINGTON, P. C., Juno 13 — Farting hot shots wore exchanged through the medium of* three stocky volumes filed to-day with the Ballln ger-PInchot congrossional Investigat ing committee representing the briefs of counsel on both sides. The thousand odd pages of the documents hrlstle with the same sort of vituperation that marked the ■'trial'' from start to finish. The com mittee la asked to regard L. H. Glavls. the former field agent, as "a patriot'1 Iby Attorney 1,. D. Brandels) or a "traitor and a snake'' (by Attorney Vertreesi: to regard Gifford Pin-hot as the "aealous advocate of good gov ernment" - by Attorney Pepper) and "arch conspirator” seeking to destroy the good name of a .-ablnet officer (by Attorney Vertreesi Mr Brandels Says: "In our opin ion. the reeord amply discloses Mr. Ballinger's knowledge of the situ ation and shows his hostility to the people’s interests and his co-operation with the private special interests which were and are striving to take the people's property in violation of law.” Brings hlwts-e. Mr. Pepper says: ' Whatever may he the form of their (the commit tee's) report, we trust that they will re-ortt their definite conviction that . the Immediate care of the public do main is now in unsafe hands " Mr. Vertrees says. "It is no Idle thing to nasal! the cliara. ter of a number of the cabinet He ts one of the advisers of the President, and dishonorable conduct on his part not only hrings disgrace to him as an In dividual. hut reproach upon the gov ernment of the republic Itself. ( con sequently. such an accusation ought not to be lightly brought. There ought surely to !*e substantial grounds. Here, it may be assvfted, there are absolutely none. This ‘ prosecution ts cruel, and it is base- j less" Attorney Vertrees dwelt consider ably on the "conspiracy" which he declared- was being prosecuted against Ballinger by Pinchot. Glavls and Gar field. Attorney Pepper de< iar-d such an accusation baseless, saving that "tt is the convicted man who usually raises the cry that the police and the prosecutor have conspired against him." Attorney Pepper in his brief - "n -tands th»! the ase is real! a -hi.rg against the executive We find it not a little difficult, In these dajs -if the reign of law," It reads, "to Jus tify the course of the legislature In proceeding to investlgat- the execu tive. As. however, the inquiry was requested by the secretary of the in terior. he cannot complain ir full Jurisdiction is taken b> the commit 1 'in conclusion. Attorney Brandeis sums up: "These facts which have been stated are proved by the record, and by this record the department of the interior la to be judged, it ts not the same record which was before the Fr-si dent. No Longer Judge. *‘ln thiii priKtediMK Mr, tv Ickcrsham Bpp< nr« no loiytrr an an assistant Judg» riling hie concurrence after decision, but a* an over-sealous advocate In this proceeding. Mr. I-awler iassistant attorney general) is not the Judge but a bitter and vituperous witness.” Jiv these controversies, tialvis, l’in chot. Jones and Kerby has been dis missed. Hoyt has rest Kited. Newell and Davis hold so slight a tenure el office that before this committee re ports they may t>« no longer in the service. From the conduct of these men this committee will determine whether they are honest men or snakes to be Allied and traitors to be shamed. If any one of them has told the truth, the secretary of the inter ior Is dishonored and unfit for his office.” Frederick M. Kerby. former stenog rapher to Balinger, who exposed the manner in which the "I-awler draft” uua prepared, attorney Vertrees says is a ••traitor.” "a creature,” and lic enses him of making a “treasonable publication.” Attorney Pepper dismisses Ventres* “conspiracy" charge as trtvlal. “No one” he says, “will have the temerity to contend that it is unlawful to re gard Mr. Ballinger as unfit for office. Nor is it illegal for a number of peo pie to hold this view. Not only Is It permiasable to hold this view, but those who honestly entertain it have a right to say so publicly. Those whose policies Mr. Ballinger has attacked are inevitably driven together Into a de fensive alliance. As the facts become known, a constantly increasing num ber of people Join the ranks of those who are protesting. Finally, the pro test becomes « demand for the relire men of the officer deemed to be un worthy. As in the present case, the demand may ultimately bo echoed by a grat majority of the American peo ple." Attorney Vertreea In his brief, pleads for a non-partisan verdltft and says the “republic is on trial before the world.” The attorney devotes a great amount of space to a discussion of the conspiracy charge against Pln chot, Garfield, Glavis, Kerby. and a number of newspaper men. Garfield and Pinchot, he declares were deter mined - to destroy Ballinger because of "thwarted hopes and revenge" at not being able to dictate the con servation policies of the new adminis tration. In conclusion he says t “It is a tribute to manhood and es pecially to those who serve the depart ment under Investigation that noth ing haa been revealed which reflects upon the loyalty, the Integrity, the good faith, the sense of duty of any ! KILLS HIS WIFE 110 THEN HIMSELF: Horrible Double Tragedy in Meadow Street Home of Allen B. Paul SHOOTING FOLLOWS ALL NIGHT QUARREL _ I Unhappy Marriott Lite Leads Man, Who Ilad Twice Tried Suicide, to Attempt Life of Entire Family. With simple funeral services over the bullet-ridden bodies of- Mrs. Alien Ik Paul and her husband, victim and | murderer-suicide, Tuesday afternoon, tile last tad chapter of a mairltal alliance whose Keynote was tragedy, will be written. A brief nine months ago Paul mar- : rled Mrs. Lucy Eubank, whose hus band had been killed in a railroad accident, pledging the same undying love for her seven-year-old, cherubtc lated boy, as he pllgnted to her. Sun day morning his leeling toward the child ran down the scale ot sentimen tality and up tne lnrlamed heights of jealous rage until his hate drove him to the murder of ills wife and his own self-destruction. To-aay two undertakers hale the bodies 01 the mother victim and mad dened step-father, while the home less unit orphan lad. tne innocent ■ ausc of a K ng-expeeted tragedy, b. tenderly eared lor by frlenus A wit ness to the slaying of his mother, and compelled to (lee lor his own lilt, the boy will have visions the remain der h: his iife. of a shocking tragedy the meaning of which he Is jet too young to understand. Tragedy lex justed. Among those who knew Paul and his wife, it was an open secret that they were mlsmtited, that the mother mstinset was stronger than that of the wife in Mr*. Paul, that she had money and often daunted her finan cial Independence in her spouse’s face, and that the husband was in sanely Jealous of the child. That their domestic Infelicities were like ly t» terminate 1n thr death of one or all the members of th>* little family at 202 North Meadow street at any hour of any day, seems to have been i known among the- neighbors, for whan the tcmporarly distracted man ! rushed «t the child wttn a revolver 1n his hand, the lad ran to the home of a family nearby, as he had been instructed to do many weeks lief ore. The infelicities of the husband and wife began shortly after they were married, when It became apparent to Paul. tv.,. ears younger than his consort, that he would not only have to share the warmth of Eros’ flames with the child by a former husband, ioit must be content with secondary consideration at the hand and heart ef the woman he professed to adore Their quarrels- over the woman's at tention to the i hild. and whin the husband considered inattention to him. seemed to have begun at the breakfast table, continued through the day and lasted far into the night. Sunday morning’s double tragedy cam" as the denouement of a night of horror to the three members of the family. The mother and husband la' awake exch-nging the mort soul withering and pride-piquing remarks they could command, and the lad shuddering In terror. Neighbors heard their tragedy-portending collo- | quay and felt that a climax was at i hanyl. hut none had the courage to enter the little house of unhappiness to Intervene. Paul and his wife went to the bus, - ball game Saturday and appeared t” l.e friends, but though they seemed interested in the manoeuvres of the l Player*, the wife was thinking of the i tConttnued on Sixth Page.) LITTLE ROOSTER Smoked Havana and Nearly Set House cm Fire—Cupid end Stork Busy. I (Special to The Richmond Virginian.) j , QUINTON. June 13.—The quiet home of a well known newspaper inan came near being destroyed a few ! day* ago by lire under unusual clr- j j cumstances. The "scribe." who wu* I enjoying a fine cigar, threw the light led stump out In the yard, when s! jfrlsky rooster picked up the burning; weed. The chicken tan under the build-j ing among a lot of straw, dropped , the cigar and when the Are Ignited I the straw the chicken stood by en joying the sight When the owner j with a bucket of water put out the flames. j This 1* the first time a chicken was i lever known to enjoy the sport of ! smoking a line Havana. Cttpld and Stork. While cupfd Is doing some fancy stunts In old New Kent and getting > In some line work, the old stork Is keft busy. lie stopped at the home ; of young Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Saxby near this place a few day* ago and . left a beautiful boy. Then In hi* flight he stopped at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Ruckles and left a| girl, not satisfied, he finished up at the home of Mr. Smith, where he! left three little girls In one family. j All this la attributed to HalluVs] comet, which caused *o much excite ment a few weeks ago. LORD KITCHENER RETIRES AS INSPECTOR UENERAU LONDON, June 13.—The government I to-day accepted the resignation of; Lord Kltchenor as inspector general of i the Mediterranean force*. War Secre tary Halene announced In the house of| commons that Kitchener did not desire the post and that the government had reluctantly accepted the resignation. I' Two American Women Recently Murdered in Italy MIrh liHfllf Held. Mr*. Mary Heott < **t!e-f'karlton. \ lev* of f’ll? of Como. Tn? ‘wortd-tride Interest feIt In the mysterious murder of Mrs. Mar> Bcou Sa>Ue-Charltori at »’omo. ha* been inten- j by the >U (fifes t ion that this crime may have had some connection with the recent murder of Miss Re telle held, j of New York, nt Naple*. ___,____.___I DRAGGING LAKE COMO IN HOPE OF FINDING BODY OF CHARLTON RECEIVE DIPLOMAS i l.ist of Pupils Who W ill Ik.' Giv en Graduation Papers \\*d nesdav Nisrlit. C L A S S CF.l.KBKATIOX Intorcsiiug E.v rci'ts I uestlav Evening t«> Precede C’onnuenee merit on Tuesday. Members of the Senior i hiss <■! 11*10 of the John Marshall High School will hold class night exercises Tues day night, in the high school audi torium. at S: 15 o'clock. An attractive program has be. n ar ranged which Includes the rending of the class history by Clifford A I'ulkes and the reading of the last will ami testament of the class bj Catherine Wallenstein. Musical numbers include the rendition of the "High School minuet" and the “Assyrian March" by the high school orchestra; selections from < armen by the Girls' Glee Club, and two choral selections. "Sung of April, and "O’er the Meadows,” by the high school chorus The program will clone with the singing of the class song, to the lane ot 'Auld l.ang Syne.” The words of the class song wi re com- ■ posed by Constance Heltidl. ot who graduates his year. The officers of the senior class are, : President, Crawford. Crouch, Secrc- j tary, -Mary Trueman, and Treasurer, i Annie Pearsall. The commenc* mer.t takca place at the auditorium city Wednesday Wed- 1 nesday night. Graduates. January, IH10: Crawford Curry i Crouch, Cora Virginia Doyle, Clifford Algernon Koikes, Garland Melt in Harwood, Norman Ernest Dawson, ! Minnie Mills, Ailene Carter Moore, Annie Yates Kichardaon, Ktnlly M. Schroeder, Catherine Mara Waller stein, Mary Buckner Watts, June, IMO; Otie Branch, Marlon ; Page Gentry. Constance Kemdl, Kath I crlne Venable Maunders, Mary l’erle ' Trueman. Post Graduate*. January, t»10; S, Campbell Berke I ley, Prances laiulse Crane. Hilda Day, Hannah Alley Kngalberg, Mary Gary ' Hargrove. Miriam Bee Harrla, Elsie i Blvlngston Jacob, Minnie C. Both, June, DflOr Minerva Murdoch Adams. Martha Wilson Blair, Murah Eleanor Harbaugh. Jane McGowan Haynes, inex B. Heller, Katherine Elisabeth Kennedy. Bella Hranaford j laiftwieh, Grace Hillaman Mann. Ag ; nes Bouiae McMahon, Florence Kllse j Minor, Marlon Brewster Monsell, KIo ; rer.ee Alma Norment, Huby Inc* : Parsley. Battle Phillips,' Hernia . Kothschild, Bouise Southall, Martha j W. Sutherland, Annie V. Vaughan, j Thelma Baldwin Watts. kindergartm to dost'. Closing exercises of the kindergar ten of Stonewall Jackson School will he held in the hall of that building Tuesday morning at #:S0 o’clock. The program will consist of children's, games and songs. In both of which the tiny students have been thorough ly drilled by Miss Florence Stewart. In charge of kindergarten work. The public Is Invited to attend these ex erclsea | Ground Around 'Home of the CharUonXAS^r%iPg Jug Up REPORT SAYS HUSBAND TRACED TO LUCENUE Police Advised That Men Anstvt r i»c Do#«rij>ti*«M Have Be» u Seen i 11 Many Cities—Crime Sim ilar to Murder of Miss Io id. COMt». June- 33.—Convinced that, there tan be little progress made in unraveling the mystery of the mur der of Mrs. Mor;, Scott Castle-Charl ton until the part alleged to hate been plated In the crime by Porter Charlton, the missing husband. is b elng brought to light, the police to-day began a second dragging of Lake Como and started ale-' to dig up the ground arounl the villa leg-' naasi. near Moitrasio. which th-> Charlton* occupied. The lake is being dragged In the, belief that if Charlton. to.>, was murdered his bod' was probably the wn into the lake, as was that of his wife Coat May He Clue. The police are to-day trying t" learn whether a < oat that was tound in Cake Como belonged to Charlton. ■ Some of the fishermen living near the Villa Legnacti say that it is Charl ton's coat. If it is found to be such, it will gr ntl\ strengthen the theory that Charlton, too, was slain Not in 'cars has there been a mur der In Italy in which the police were si divided in their vlewg as In the i Charlton crime. This difference ei opinion Is likely to work against un I early solution of the mystery Half ' the police believe that Charlton Is jrtsponslble for his wife'* death mo 'that he has (led from Italy The joiher half belief, s that Charlton mb; the same fate ns Ills wife and :h it ■Constantine 1st olatoff. the Russian (suspect, alone holds the key to tic murder. Hellrto Cliurltou Murdered The Como chief of police end lulled States Consul t'aughy ".3 Milan are tlrni In their belief Mint ‘Charlton was murdered. The chief II.f police sajs tha tali stories of iCnarlton having been men «('i r 11 “ 'murder of hi* wife are either oases of mistaken Identity or a de bersle | plot to mislead the authority , The latist of these atorle* is that the Hwlas polloe traced Charlton to , l.ueernn. where he Is said to hive nt ; lived Saturday and there lost ail . track of him. If Charlton reach,-,'. Lucerne on Saturday, it <» oo:.w m l tout he probably has made good b,e escape. The police are confuted n, tii>* that poun d into headquarters to-dnfr ito U&l.iai. and other European citt*' -hut ; men art waring Charlton’ des ripfon nave teen seen in theao Ispnlatoff Very Craft v Upoiatoff is proving ono of the jc; idifst prisoners ever tjurt1' 'ri ; 13 the Italian police. The best de tective talent in Milan und Romo have (talent in Milan and Home have tried to break down his story that the last he saw of the Charltona was on Sat urday, June 4, at least a day before the murder was committed, but hate failed utterly. The statement of M. Basal, a drug | gist of Cernohblo, that he lent a I pair of brasa “knuokt” to IrpolatofT is expected to bring startling develop - i ments but the prisoner refused to show any embarrassment when con fronted with this bit of evidence and calnsty instated that Haast was mis taken. Tha police say It is possible that IContlnaed on Second £a*a^ WITH BUT SCRITCN' Jcrrv Byrd, Uninjured and Un-; arnif'd, Found in House A\ ith Blood Trail to Door. • - .*■ --■' SAYS HE DOES NOT KNOWj Dfdaros Ho Has No Recollection as •o How He Cut His Thumb or it Got Cut. Mystery which may develop Into murder, with the body of the victim hidden, enshrouds the arrest of Jerry Byrd. it negro, who, though himself uninjured arid unharmed, was luund lying in a pool ol blood which had saturated his clothing, in a room at 60s North Seventeenth street late Sat urday night A trail of iblood led from the en trance of the house, up the stairway and into the room wnere Byrd lay sleeping Byrd's eoat, shirt and trou ■ st rR were soaked In blood. A roomer in the house who found hint though 'ifyrd himself had been killed and so telephoned the police. An ambulance rushed to the house, and the physician believing the man to have been stabbed and ole-eding to iltatb, stripped him of ills clothing. He bore not a single mark save a slight cut on his tnumli with some sharp instrument, possibly a razor, police stay this wound could not have been accountable lor all the blood. Byrd was thtn examined to find out whether or not he had had a hem orrhage. He had not. Asked who had been hurt. Bird replied that be had been drinking and preierred not t ■ say anything until he was sober. "I'll explain everything then,” he promised Patrolman Jennings. Monday morning, however, Byrd declared he did not know how he hud i ut his thumb—did not even know whether he or someone else had cut it. did not know of any rffcht. and could not account for the blood. It is the belief of the police that someone has been cither stabbed or had hts throat cut. It is regarded as not Improbable that murder has been done, and the body hidden, for the hospitals have no record of any case having come to them for treat ment for wounds as seveie as those which must have been indicted in this case. The police are bending every effort to discover whether or hot Byrd hoc a companion with him when he en tered the house on North Seventeenth street. N'o one saw him enter. Justice Crutchfield has ordered Byrd held in custody unttl June 2a. the* the police may investigate. Killed Homer Pigeon. William Duke, colored, was before , Magistrate T. J. Puryear in the coun ty Monday morning on the charge of shooting a homer pigeon belonging to Constable Burch, of the county. Duke ' W employed on the farm of Mr. A. Blackburn, in Brookland district, atwl testified that he phot the bird be cause it was destroying the crops. The case was dismissed, upon the request ' o* Constable Burch. Fined for Trespass. M. Brewer appeared In the court 01 Magistrate Kid well In the county Monday morning to answer the charge o' trespassing on the property of J. p Hawley. He was fined 12.50 and costs and placed under a bond of flOU for twelves months. FLIES TO PHILADEL FROM N. Y. IN All BUT FAILS RETUR.,-, * TOLD IN BULLETINS PHfl.ADKI.PHIA, June 1.1,— (baric* Hamilton laadrd here fhla morning ait 0:2* o>lwk, bM* Inn (lonn to thin city from Xew 1 urk, making the *<1 mite* In one hour and fifty minute*. flying nr nn average speed of 50 mllen K% If WAV, X. J.f -Jnne 1.1.— Hamilton panned over Rahway at SiOntiO. He In flying at average *perd of about .12 mllen nn hottr. THKVTOV, \, J., .lone 13.— Hamilton panned over Trenton at KiTMft \. M. He na> tiring 300 feet la the air. HHI0TO1., r\„ Junr IS.— Ham ilton panned over thin city at OHM. PH II- IDKLPHfA, June 13.— Hamilton panned over Holmen barg, a nuhurh ttnelve mllen from the landing place here at 0:10. | PHII.ADKI.PHM, P*., Jan. U ! I hnrlr. K. Hnmlllon, at Front and Urie avenue, thin city at 9:2* A. M. IIAMILTOX’X HETIRV FI-IOHT. 11:3ft A .>1.. started from Phil adelphia. IIUW A. if., panned Bristol. Va. 12:03 r. H., pa need Trenton. X. J. 12:1* P. M., panned Princeton Junction. V. J. 12:34 P. B., panned Xew lfrunn wlek, M. J. 12:42 P. M., panned Betochen, \ -I. I :00 I*. M., descended near «ooth Amboy. Hamilton', «l«ht lo I’hlladol phla I. tkr lo.fg.l (•rom-r.u.trj flight without .top, wr rail, la \mrrlra. Hlonm l»rtl»» from Albaay «» »w York, FIT mllr. la 1U mlaate. «a h»t -Hh hat roatlo top »tup»- HI* l«a*rat ....talnrd lll*ht wa. T5 mil... from Albaat ta Clll'a farat, arar PoaikkrtHf. MUD Bill IS HEW REHDY Cont'ercnfps ITopo t'i lie port Measure By tlie Middle of f the Week. REGFLATE PRACTICES I Comraissiou to lx- Given This j honor as Well as That of ( on. I trolling Votes. I . ■ , . . ■ •• -i ■ wV's'TONOTQN. L) C. June U’.— i I'When the conferees on the railroad I ! bill went into session to-day it was with the cheerful belief that an agreement was near at hand. 1 he j committee members expect to get i their report to the senate and house j ion Wednesday or Thursday and the} jare hopeful that not much time will j be required for debate. Sinti the preieHlng meeting Sena tor Elkins. Representative Mann and j Attorney-General Wickersham had (been working together and they re ported progress. The hardest tight lit was found, had been over the long and short haul clause of the house I bill. Mann was most persistent in a demand that'll be retained. A* Elkins was equally strong against it. a dead lock waa the result. The fact that some big attorneys declare that the provision Is unci nstitutionel, on the j ground that It attempts to confer j legislative power on the Interstate (commerce commission, may lead the senate to accept it and depend upon the courts to give It a knockout. I Messrs. Elkins and Mann have ‘reached a tentative agreement that | the provision of the house bill, giving the interstate commerce commission authority to regulate "practices" as I well os rates, shall be retained Wlek ersha.ni is credited with having ad Ivised them that it 1* unconstitutional. | Physical valuation, provided for in the house bill, will be dropped. In view of the concessions he has se cured tm Otiler important points Mann ! may have to give in on that matter. The sections relating to telegraph and telephone companies will be slm i plified but. as common carriers, they 'will be under the control of the In terstate commerce commission. 8ec jttons In the senate bill plating upon the railroad the burdm or proof that a proposed rate Is reasonable and the Overman amendment providing that It ahall require three Federal Judges, instead of one to Issue an injunction suspending a State law, will l>e re tained. The report will recommend a com inlnloii to consider the regulation of stock and bond Irsuea by railroads. CLEAR AND WARMER ! IS PROMISE 6IIIEN j Clear Wralhw •lit;'! M <->t of Is Due Here Monday N iglit. I It* going to clear’ At any rate that’s "hat the weather man says. and he ought to know. ’’Their is clear waatner just , to S the Wen of us.” he declared Mob I day, “and It will reach Richmond 'Monday night” j But many Richmonders are skep 'tlral. they are from Missouri, al ! though Director Evans makes every j assurance that the forecast this time I is not a false alarm. ”lt will clear oft and get hot.” ho said. Charles Hamilton Makes? Eightv-six Miles in Less m Than Two Hours c|l -- ■ jmm RACED WITH SPECIAL TRAIN WHOLE OF WAt Broke I* rape Ur r at Start But if' Soon rp and Away "I ravel- ]'j$ ing Across County at XJ| Terrific .Speed. SO ITTII AMBOY. X. J.. . June IS.—Hamllum'i* aeroplane da wendad on tl«e north shore <X iIk- nortli shore of the Rarttu river Mnern here and 1'alrvttle. The (M-<-ii|ttUit Inminllatrif began tinkering wltli hU nipno. Hamilton alighted about t o'clock ow ing to the fact that hi* engine was mi-ad ng badly. At Metuehen Hamilton noticed that the engine was balking. He Uiought he could make a abort cut over South Amboy and read! (.overnoro Inland without alight lug. Dirty spark pings caused the engine to miss lire. Hamilton came down in the marshes and It will Is- necessary for him to han lii« aeroplane hanled out befoie he can rrascend. He expected to continue Ills flight at abont * o’clock. PHILADELPHIA, June It. eltng at a speed greater than that the fastest express trains between ' two cities, Charles K. Hamilton, a Curtiss biplane, completed the half of his fight from New Yorlt Philadelphia and return at 9:28 to day. Ho covered the distance, proxlmatclv 86 miles. In one and fifty minute*, about 50 mile* hour. Hamilton appeared above the art ation field, a quarter of a mil* north- T west of Pront street and Erie are nue at 9:20 o'clock. He cl re led the big lot three times, tearing to the ’ earth on the fourth circle at a point several squares distant irora where i a crowd of 30.000 had expected to descend. * A poltcejnan was the first to ; the daring pwlator. When' • ■ .newspaper i him Hamlltq a ciga*ett*« about him. ell sun ing to hands and all cheering him Shouts were made for a spa but Hamilton turned to his craft, plainly embarrassed by the re ception given him. "It was a beautiful flight.*' said. Hamilton, “the most beautiful I hare ever had. The weather was great—*;;' couldn’t have been better." _ - tbte petot^Oonaerbor- Kmart, wile'* was an intercstetl spectators of “ flight, was pres-nted to the avla*b«v "T want to congratulate yon, Hamilton," the governor said, your remarkably beautiful flight.” "Thank you, 'governor,” rater Hamilton. "1 gues* lt'a time 1 delivering the goods.” Ready tor Start. NEW YORK. June 13w on whet is declared by expert ator* to be one of the moat tious aeroplane trips ovary at* Charles M. Hamilton, moat American air men. left Island, In upper New York, for adelphla and return at 7:38 this morning. As he flew acroa upper bay ant! headed straight the New Jersey meadows which arate New York and Elizabeth, was flying about 800 feet in the and running very nearly a mile I minute Hamilton made his float ea*a|£j his Curtiss aeroplane at 7:11, before he could get into 1 propeller struck a big log the sand on Governor's la! vw shattered. The mishap < bother Hamilton much, as fe hi* damaged apparatus oft once attached the propellor ; Curtiss used in hla flight from i to New York.. At 7:23 he C engine f«<r a test, and at 7: took the sir for a circling trial finally heading south westward minutts later. Hamilton c : **ea wail at the Island at at between 4D0 and 500 feat, he took the wind at the bay he ed It up in the air. Fine Weather. The start >>f the flight wag . under the moat propitious : condition* possible Not a air was stirring and the hidden nnder the overhangl which, however, did not seem sage rain. Hamilton spent the night crpor's island aa the guest tenant V. M. Elmore, aide to Walter Howe, commander part men t of the east. H* daybreak and went to hie which his little Curtiss 1 housed- Hamilton had i machinists to Philadelphia | to rush repairs there ' and Glenn H. Curtlat I his stair at Hamilton's gc-ther they went over ' testing every wire and . gine w as thoroughly lowed to run for several test its working capacity expressed himself as th Isfled. He was Jubilant over conditions. The first boat from Ng i tug General Hancock, Island at 6:55. brim 400 persons to Of the flight. When j great sand dune from . was to start, Hamilton at hfs machine. He j Joined by Glenn Fanclulll. Curtins’ hi 1 Curtiss took off hla . spent several minute* Only ~ i Hamilton plaofgl i life preserver from n»cnt tugs. Thta - caution he