AERONAUTICS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 944, 11 October 1910, Page 5

AERONAUTICS.

« V I A NEW AMERICAN PRIZE By Tolcgraph—Press Association—Copyright New York, October 9 Mr'} W. E. Hearst, On behall of his newspaper the "New Tork American," offers a prize of ten thousand pounds for tlio fiist aeroplane flight across the United States, open, to all-comers \ ' * Thnty dajs are allotted to the Downey. ' - v ' The competition mil be for heavier than air machine.* only. The distance from New Yoik to -San Trancisco is about 3250 miles The competitors would have to'average approximately 100 miles a day throughout ,tho thirty dajs. En route the Rocky Mountains and other ranges would have to be crossed. passes used m tlio Rocky Mountains by the various railroads range from 5000 ft to -10,000 ft in height. ANOTHER FATALITY. .' St. Petersburg, October 9. Captain Maziewitch, an aviator, i\ho earned M. Stolypin, President, of Hhe Council of Ministers, m his machine on Wednesday, fell with his machine from a height oi a hundred metres (about 400 feet) bn-Fridaj, and was instantly killed. v , > '

CAPTAIN DICKSON'STILL DELIRIOUS ,fiome, Ootober 9 Captain Dickson, who nas seveiely injured in an airship collision at Milan a week ago, has been successfully operated bn, but is still ■• _ ' i *- PANIC IN A THEATR6. ; —*t TWELVE PERSONS INJURLD. i By T«l«ffra,ph—Press Association— Copyright Sydney, October 10 A flie at u Balmain kinematogi'aph entertainment caused a panic Twelve persons were injured in the lush to escape, five of whom vrelo taken to tho hospital '> Tho building was undamaged.'