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AMERICANS TRIUMPH.

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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. 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 possible was one of $7500 by the managers of the Harvard-Boston meet for a flight by biplanes over the Globe course. The winner in that event was Lieut T. F. Milling of the United States aviation corps. His time in the air was 5h 22m 37s. Lieut Milling's chief loss of time was on the first leg, or wing, of his journey, between Boston and Nashua, for he mistook where he was, so it took him 2h 21m 41s to make Nashua, as against the 1h 24s in which it was made by Ovington.

lEAK IN THE FEED PIPE.

Arthur B. Stone, who entered the Globe contest with a Queen monoplane, was obliged to alight in Medford, because a leak developed in his gasoline feed pipe. In landing in a swamp his monoplane became mired and he was unable to finish the course, a matter of great regret to the Globe, to the millions of spectators of the great race, and to all lovers of the most scientific sport in the world.

Harry N. Awood, the Boston young man who hols the world's record for cross-country flying, and Boston young man who was an entrant for the added event, also fell out of the race a Medford. He started in the contest with his father as a passenger and with a new motor. 

The motor proved unequal to the task of carrying the weight and Chamption Atwood, after safely landing with his father, decided not to continue. He got his machine in shape late in the day and flew it back to the aviation field.

AN ALL AMERICAN DAY. 

Through the enterprise of the Globe thousands upon thousands of is raders in New Hampshire, in Rhode Island and in Massachusetts who never had seen in aeroplane was given an opportunity yesterday of witnessing these wonderful air crafts in actual flight, saw them curving gracefully at great speed as they flitted through the crowds, saw them alight as gently as a bird comes to earth, and saw them again start from the groud with their own power and saor as gracefully as swallows, 1000 or 2000 feet into the clear air, and rapidly disappear in the distance.

Watching these man-carrying monarchs of the air was to countless thousands seeing a dream come true. The Globe feels genuine pleasure in having provided so great a treat to so great a number of its friends. Each of the contestants in the great flight for the Globe's $10,000 prize and each contestant in the added event was an American. The vaunted superiority of foreign aviators over those of the United States was not in evidence.

  The two events were open to the aviators of the world, but only Americans entered. Their courage, which has never been in doubt, and their ability, which has log been beyond question, were proved anew. It was an all-American day, and the eagle is screaming with delight.
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WEATHER IDEAL FOR THE GLOBE CONTEST.
  More perfect weather for the great Globe race could not have been
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The wind, which was gentle on the ... the earth, where most of
us witnessed the event was light, a... e west and northwest. At
the start of the race it had a veloc... e more than two miles an
hour, but aloft, while it was cons... stronger, depending on the
altitude, it held steadily, a condition... aired by aviators.

  The sky was of azure, clear as a... ted here and there throughout
the day with light, fleecy cloud... tmosphere was full of the
tonic of early September, with a temp... which made summer clothing
comfortable, yet had the faintest sug... the coming fall—a day, in
fact, that was simply ideal for bei... day in the open air and sunshine, with nothing in all the wo... ret but that the hours were
not longer.
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GREAT CROWD GATH... AT ATLANTIC
  The rules of the great contests... r the aviators to remain in
each of the cities where landings we... practically an hour, so that
the thousands who crowded the groun... ose places could have a close
view of the daring airmen and their ma... and this program was carried
out, the shortest stop made anywhere... of the contestants being that
of Lieut Milling at Providence, in whic... e stayed something over half
an hour.

  Nashua, Worcester and Provi... shared with the residents
of the country and the smaller cities a... as over which the racers flew
in the excitement of anticipation and o... tion.

  Probably the greatest crowd of pe... o ever gathered on the aviation
field at Atlantic was there long be... o'clock, the hour set for the
start of the contest for the Globe's rich... and all the lands and waters
surrounding Squantum were covered w... ople, while in the city proper
the roofs of buildings were blanketed w... n, women and children, many
armed with opera or field glasses, gaz... pectantly toward the aviation
field, awaiting the beginning of the g... t event ever known in New
England, and one of the most notable r... the history of aviation.
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OVATION IS THE FIR... O GET AWAY
  Ovington was the first contestant... Globe's event to get away. He started at 11:10:28, and a cheer wh... ose from the aviation field and
rolled in an ever swelling [[? ? ?]]... hroughout the city came from
nearly 1,000,000 throats.

 The demonstration was equally gre... Stone, Atwood and Milling
set off on the course in the order name...

  Hundreds of thousands of eyes follo... every movement of the birdmen
hundreds of feet up in the air ever... families had gathered in the
roads and fields to watch them, and in th... ties and villages the residents
were out en masse, many on the housetops

  At Nashua, the first stop, there was... hered the greatest crowd that
city ever contained, and the grounds of... agricultureal society, on which
the landings were made was so filled w... people that the fences almost
bulged.

  Ovington was received with salvos... cheers that the roaring breakers
of the angry sea could not have dro... d, and the reception of Lieut
Milling, the second arrival, was equally... rty and cordial
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WORCESTER'S GREAT/./ T TURNOUT.
  From Nashua on to Worcester evt.. man, woman and child along
the route was out, and as Worcester wa... proched the aviators saw that
the hills in and about that city were sim... covered with humanity, waiting
and watching to see them.

  The landing place in Worcester was t... agricultural society's grounds,
and they contained the greatest crowd... gathered there, there being
approximately 100,000 people within the... enclosure.

  It is considered a conservative estimat.. at outside of the agricultural
grounds there were 200,000 people in W... ster.

  It was the biggest crowd Worcester... er held. People came there
from all over the western part of the st... nd after the flyers had gone
the new Union station and the trolley... leading out of town looked
as though they had been besieged by an... ading army of soldiers, who
had brought their wives and children w... them.

  At Providence it looked as though... entire population of Rhode
Island and part of the lower Blackstone... Valley had come into the city
and were waiting at Narragansett park,... re the landings were made.

  It was the first time that eiother Pr... ence or Worcester had seen
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aeroplanes in action, and the enthusiasm of the people there, as we in Nashua and Boston was unbounded'
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BOSTON'S MAYOR LEADS IN THE CHEERING.

  When the winning flyers arrived at the field in Atlantic, there were scenes of enthusiastic greeting and cheering such as have never been witnessed there since aviation meets have been held.

  Mayor John F. Fitzgerald of Boston led the cheering as Ovington alighted, and three times three cheers with almost no end of tigers were given by the great crowd as the winner of the Globe event landed gracefully in his monoplane. 

  The mayor and Ovington's wife almost had a race to be the first to grasp the hand of the daring airman, and Claude Grahame-White and Tom Sopwith dashed wildly to the front and caught Ovington up in their arms. The two English aviators raised Ovington on their shoulders and marched about the field with him.
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CARRIED MILLING ON THEIR SHOULDERS.

  Scenes of equal excitement and good will marked the return and successful landing of Lieut Milling. Again Mayor Fitzgerald was to the front proposing and leading three cheers time after time for the great aviator and for the United States army which he represents.

  Grahame-White and Sopwith treated Lieut Milling quite as cordially as they had Ovington, and carried him around on their shoulders until he finally wiggled out of their grasp, only to nearly have his right arm wrung off him by the crowds who gathered around him.

  There was no accident causing either death or injury connected with the great event which the Globe provided for the people of New England. The Globe is genuinely pleased that this was so, and that is was privileged to be the means by which the art of aviation has been measurably advanced that is was the means or giving so much pleasure to so many people, and that they had their entertainment hightened by such perfect weather.
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HERO OF BIPLANE VICTORY.

  Lieut Thomas T. De Witte Milling. USA, winner of the tristate biplane race of yesterday. is a comparatively new man to the world of aviation. 

He was born in Louisiana 24 years ago, and was appointed to the military
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academy as West Point from that state June 16, 1904. After graduation he was commissioned second lieutenant of the 15th U S cavalry. Two years ago he was transferred to the U S aviation corps and assigned to the government aviation grounds at College Point, Md.

  Lieut Milling studied aviation at the Wright school at Dayton, O, and also at the government aviation park and qualified as a pilot some months ago.
  Notwithstanding that he is a comparatively newcomer in the aviation world.he was the possessor of one world's record before he gained additional fame yesterday by completing the tristate cross-country flight.

  At the Harvard-Boston meet last September. Walter Brookins, the old Wright flyer, established a world's record for accuracy in landing. Brookins landed, with a machine fitted with skids only, within six feet of a specified spot. 

  On July 6 last, at the army aviation school at College Park, Lieut bettered Brookins' record by a foot, descending from a height of 1000 feet.

  This record stands as official, because there was present at the government grounds a representative of the Aero club of America, who was conducting the pilots' license tests for both Lieuts Milling and Arnold, both of who qualified at that time. He has since done considerable flying and has proved himself a skillful aviator.

  At the present time he is enjoying a furlough, and it was because of this reason that he decided to come the Boston and participate in some of the events at Atlantic and in the biplane cross-county flight.
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