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[[bold]] AVIATOR PAUL STUDENSKY CIRCLES OVER GALVESTON
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DARING FLIGHT MADE BY FRENCH PILOT OVER ROOFS OF CITY.
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Aviator Worden Falls Into Gulf in Bleriot Monoplane, Badly Damaging Machine--Overturned by Wind. [[/bold]]
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Flying at an altitude of about 500 feet in his Curtiss biplane Aviator Paul Studensky of the National Aeroplane Company late Tuesday afternoon swept in from the grounds of the aviation school on the Denver resurvey and circled over the roofs of the city, traveling as far north and east as Market and Tremont streets in the business district. The flight was one of the most daring that has yet been made on Galveston Island, and was witnessed by thousands of spectators in all parts of the city. Studensky was in the air for slightly more than thirty minutes, most of the time being spent over the roofs of the city's buildings, which is considered one of the hazardous feats in aviation circles on account of the impossibility of making a landing should anything go wrong with the motor.

Studensky rose from the aviation grounds about 5:30 and headed straight for the business district of the city. After circling over the roofs of the tallest office buildings and performing a few spectacular dips and glides he returned to the aviation field and made a safe landing from the point where he started.

[[bold]] Studensky Learned Quickly. [[/bold]]

The feat was an especially daring one in consideration of the fact that Aviator Studensky is practically a novice at biplane flying. He is a licensed pilot of the Aero Club of France and has had many years experience as a flyer, but he has always driven a monoplane. It has only been since his arrival in Galveston that he has attempted to pilot a biplane, and his flight in a remarkable example of the quickness with which an apt pupil can be taught the game. Aviator Studensky has been spending several hours each day for the last two or three weeks in skipping along the beach in the Curtiss, contenting himself with short hops at a short distance above the earth but meantime becoming accustomed to the biplane controls

[[bold]] Worden Falls in Gulf. [[/bold]]

Tuesday was an eventful day for the aviators at the National School, not only the afternoon but the morning being devoted to experiments in the air. Aviator J. Hector Worden came to grief in the surf about noon Tuesday, when he was caught unexpectedly in a heavy gust of wind while volplaning to a landing on the Denver beach in his Bieriot monoplane, the machine turning turtle and dropping with its driver into the gulf about 100 feet off shore. Both wings and the landing gear of the monoplane were broken and Worden slightly bruised and scratched in the fall.

The accident came at the end of a flight of about twenty minutes' duration, in which Aviator Worden made several wide circles of the Fort Crockett reservation and adjacent territory, attaining a height at one time, of more than 1,000 feet, and giving in all a spectacular demonstration of clever and speedy monoplane flying.

[[bold]] Monoplane Turns Turtle. [[/bold]]

In preparing to land on the beach west of the boulevard Aviator Worden stopped his motor while several hundred feet in the air and volplaned downward. When within about fifty feet of the earth the monoplane was caught in a sudden gust of wind from the north and lifted almost on end and Worden, attempting to right himself, cut in his motor again and whipped the big machine out over the gulf, but the distance to earth, or rather water, was too short and the monoplane struck the waves before he could regain control. The aviator and his wrecked machine were quickly rescued from the breakers, and work started Tuesday afternoon in repairing the damages sustained.

[[bold]] Farman Biplane Ready. [[/bold]]

The big Farman passenger-carrying biplane, designed and built by A. C. Beach, has been thoroughly repaired of the damages received in the accident which happened in its initial flight about two weeks ago and is now ready for the second trial. This machine is one of the largest, if not the largest biplanes in America, measuring fifty feet from tip to tip of the spreading wings. It is equipped with a seventy-five-horsepower Roberts motor, and is expected to be a wonder for stability and passenger-carrying possibilities when it is perfected. Mr. Beach will be ready to take the big machine up for his second flight within a few days.
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[[bold]] SLOGAN IDEAS STILL ARRIVE
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Here Is a Bunch for the Committee to Think About. [[/bold]]

Persons interested in Galveston are still sending in suggestions for a slogan. Among the number received yesterday were these:

Felix Selfert, "The Gem City of Texas." Luther C. Williams, "Galveston, the Ideal City." "Welcome to Galveston, the Ideal City." W. F. Turnley, "Galveston, Panama Canal, 'Nough Said;" "Galveston, Keep Your Eye on Galveston;" "Galveston, 'Nough Said." Dr. W. F. Hander, "Galveston, the Sphinx of the Sea," or "Scepter of the South." or "Crown of Texas." Anna Lee Beard, Sour Lake, "Galveston, Terminal, Panama Route, World's Cotton Depot." [[/column 1]]

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for the business district of the city. After circling over the roofs of the tallest office buildings and performing a few spectacular dips and glides he returned to the aviation field and made a safe landing from the point where he started.

[[bold]] Studensky Learned Quickly. [[/bold]]

The feat was an especially daring one in consideration of the fact that Aviator Studensky is practically a novice at biplane flying. He is a licensed pilot of the Aero Club of France and has had many years of experience as a flyer, but he has always driven a monoplane. It has only been since his arrival in Galveston that he has attempted to pilot a biplane, and his flight is a remarkable example of the quickness with which an apt pupil can be taught the game. Aviator Studensky has been spending several hours each day for the last two or three weeks in skipping along the beach in the Curtiss, contenting himself with short hops at a short distance above the earth, but meantime becoming accustomed to the biplane controls.

[[bold]] Worden Falls in Gulf. [[/bold]]

[[bold]] Monoplane Turns Turtle. [[/bold]]

[[bold]] Farman Biplane Ready. [[/bold]]

Persons interested in Galveston are still sending in suggestions for a slogan. Among the number received yesterday were these:

Felix Selfert, "The Gem City of Texas." Luther C. Williams, "Galveston, the Ideal City." "welcome to Galveston, the Ideal City." W. F. Turnley, "Galveston, Panama Canal, 'Nough Said;" "Galveston, Keep Your Eye on Galveston;" "Galveston, 'Nough Said." Dr. W. F. Hander, "Galveston, the Sphinx of the Sea," or "Scepter of the South." or "Crown of Texas." Anna Lee Beard, Sour Lake, "Galveston, Terminal, Panama Route, World's Cotton Depot."

A letter signed by R. T. Currie, R. C. Villeneuve, J. E. Campbell, J.I. Toothaker, R. Kane, J. H. Booth, H. H. Byer and L. E. Dignan announced that "the slogan 'Galveston, the Treasure Island,' is away in the lead."

Mrs. A. C. Fonda suggests these as probable slogans: "Get There, Galveston;" "Watch Galveston Get There;" "Keep an Eye on Me;" "Gritty, Great and Growing;" "Come Here, Stay Here;" "Watch Our Methods;" "The Door of Opportunity." Robert E. Robinson Jr. suggests "The Mecca of the Southwest." Lynn Martin submits "Galveston, Queen of the Commercial World;" "Galveston, Queen of Pleasure, King of Trade."
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[[bold]] TEN DOLLARS REWARD. [[/bold]]

The above reward will be paid for the arrest and conviction of any person caught stealing a copy of The Galveston Daily News delivered to any subscriber. [[/column 2]]

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