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NASHUA, N H, Sept 4-Fully 500,000 people saw Earle L. Ovington grace-fully glide to a safe landing at the Nashua state fair grounds in this city, crossing the line at exactly 12 o'clock, official time, today.
At 2:05:30 o'clock, more than two hours later, the same crowd witnessed Lieut Milling, USA, drop on the same field with equal success. Both aviators got away in due time. Ovington's departure was a little later, at 1:24 o'clock, and Lieut Milling's departure was at 2:33:15 o'clock.
Mr Ovington's first inquiry on landing at the end of the first leg of the Boston Globe's $[[?]] prize flight was for an opportunity to telephone his safe arrival to his wife. He was greatly pleased while asking to be handed a telephone message from her written on a sheet of paper.
Mr Ovington expressed a determination to start for Worcester as early as the rules allowed and not do anything which might cut down his time record of the flight. During the hour and a third he was in Nashua he cheerfully posed for newspaper and other photographers and talked affably about his flight, but gave much attention to tuning up the monoplane of which he is driver.
Just before his departure for Worcester his mechanician arrived by train and was driven to the grounds and assisted Mr Ovington in getting the car ready for the start from Nashua.
"I went out of my course," said the air navigator, "after leaving Lowell. I lost some time that way. The smoke bombs which you people sent up as a signal I did not see until after I saw the ring of people around the field here. When I first discerned the field surrounded by people it looked like a 10-cent piece on a carpet four or five yards off. I then made directly for it."
Milling Goes After Rations
Lieut Milling went at once to the nearby hotel after leaping from his Wright-Burgess biplane, declaring that he had good cause to be hungry, having been on the way for nearly three hours.
After a hurried meal Lieut Milling returned to the field and expressed his willingness to start for Worcester as soon as released by the directors of the race at Squantum.
He briefly told the story of losing his way. He had reached Tewksbury in quick time and there mistook the city of Lowell for Nashua. Bearing to the left to find the fair grounds he was at once off his course.
Lient Milling followed up the Concord river and Stony Brook branch instead of the Merrimac river and main line of the southern division of the Boston and Maine railroad. This course took him to Concord, Mass, where he landed in the street to the great astonishment of the natives to whom the arrival was as unexpected and in a way as exciting as that of Paul Revere in the same town many years ago.
Being put on the right road and otherwise assisted by the good people of Concord, the lieutenant was soon on his way to Nashua. Coming from a different quarter of the sky as he did caused many people to think it might be Ovington returning to Nashua for some reason until it was plain that the [[?]]man drove a biplane.
Throng From All Quarters
The throng of people who came to see the aviators from all points of New Hampshire and many from Massachusetts cities and towns was undoubtedly the largest that ever assembled at one time and place in the Granite state.
They were largely made up of people from Manchester, Lowell, Lawrence, and Haverhill, besides the people of Nashua and the number was limited only by the ability of the available steam and trolley cars to transport them here.
The people began arriving at a very early hour and by 11 o'clock the half-mile trotting track, which had been put at the disposal of spectators, was completely filled with a mass of autos and humanity. The standing spectators occupied two-thirds of the track around the level oval to the right of the grandstand, which had been reserved for them.
They also worked into the space to the left reserved for automobiles and occupied by a double row of 300 cars. By the same hour ever seat of the 2000 in the grandstand itself had been taken. All the knolls and ridges outside the park were covered.
One hill alone was occupied by at least 1000 persons, while autos stood in roadways and elevated parts of the suburbs, their occupants thus getting a view of the racers at long range. Trees
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entertained on any one day by a single great event since time began to run. A total of certainly more than 3,000,000 people witnessed portions of the monoplane contest for the $10,000 cash prize the Globe offered for an interstate cross-country flight, starting and ending at the aviation field at Atlantic and embracing stops at Nashua, N H, Worcester, Mass, and Providence, R I.
The winner of the race was Earle L. Ovington, who flew in a Bleriot monoplane. The distance, as given in the railroad guides is 175 miles. By the record kept by a Globe man, who went over the course in as nearly an air line as an automobile can travel, the distance is 148 miles. Ovington covered if in an actual flying time of 3h 6m 22 1-5s.
LIEUT MILLING IS DELAYED.
An added prize to the contest which the offer of the Globe made
ordered, for no one would have known who to ask for in order to better it. The wind, which was gentle on the [[?]] of the earth, where most of us witnessed the event was light, and on the west and northwest. At the start of the race it had a velocity little more than two miles an hour, but aloft, while it was considerably stronger, depending on the altitude, it held steadily, a condition greatly desired by aviators.
The sky was of azure, clear as a cry[[?]] dotted here and there throughout the day with light, fleecy clouds. The atmosphere was full of the tonic of early September, with a temperature which made summer clothing comfortable, yet had the faintest suggestion of the coming fall—a day, in fact, that was simply ideal for being [[text missing]] all day in the open air and sunshine, with nothing in all the world [[text missing]] regret but that the hours were not longer.
GREAT CROWD GATHERED AT ATLANTIC.
The rules of the great contests call for the aviators to remain in each of the cities wehre landings were made practically an hour, so that the thousands who crowded the grounds in those places could have a close view of the daring airmen and their machines, and this program was carried out, the shortest stop made anywhere by any of the contestants being that of Lieut Milling at Providence, in which he stayed something over half an hour.
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[[Word before is cut off]] HAVE COME
Our annual rug opening is recognized as one of the season's events.
To do justice to the occasion we have just imported over six hundred rugs from Constantinople and Tabriz. They include practically all the best[[?]]
Oriental weaves--Khivas, Antique Sarouks, Kurdistan[[?]], Persian Mahals, Kermanshahs, Persian Savalands, Ghiordes[[?]], Candahars, Oushaks and Antique Khorassans.
The collection is especially rich in carpet sizes.
A few illustrations:
BLOOD RED KHIVAS--The best possible floor coverings[[?]] for the library. Prices $75 to $175.
KERMANSHAH--Ivory ground, rose corner pieces, mosaic[[?]] centrepiece. A perfect rug for the drawing room. ft. x 16 ft. Price $500.
ANTIQUE SAROUK--"Allover' design of rare beauty[[?]]. Color deep rose, browns and greens. 11 ft. 6 in. x 8 ft. in. Price $430
ANTIQUE KURDISTAN--Plain Camel's Hair centr[[?]] four borders in dark rich colors. 11ft. 6 in. x 7 ft. 7 in. Price $375
PERSIAN MAHAL--Dark blue ground, with an antique design, in light brown, rose and green. A wonderful pic[[?]] for service. 10 ft. 8 in. x 13 ft. 5 in. Price $293
PAINE FURNITURE COMPANY
48 Canal Street Between North State
and Haymarket Square
OVINGTON RECEIVING CONGRATULATIONS OF HIS WIFE AND BROTHER
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