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...Aero Club of Pennsylvania trophy, the first home being Basil Rowe of Keyport, N. J., in a Thomas Morse SE-4. Pilot C. S. "Casey" Jones, a celebrated, daring and slightly comic figure from Garden City, L. I., placed third in this event, then stepped into a wing-clipped Curtiss Oriole and won the 84-mile Independence Hall free-for-all, tipping around the pylons at an average speed of 136.11 m.p.m., ahead of the "mystery" racer of Harry F. Pitcairn, Philadelphia millionaire enthusiast...
Lieutenants Luther S. Smith, John J. Williams and Cyrus Bettis of the Army sat comfortably in their Curtiss pursuit planes and watched the state of Pennsylvania slide by underneath. They were bound from Philadelphia to Selfridge Field (Mount Clemens...
Hunger was a huge irony, to a man with broken jaws. Rain set in and he cupped his hands, slaking off some of his delirium. Planes droned overhead, at intervals, but from their sound it was plain that the wrecked Curtiss racer was invisible from above. Flyer Bettis eyed the downslope of the mountain and started creeping on his three good members, with a limp thing dragging over the windfalls. At clearings he would pull himself erect and hop along from tree to bush, every jolt costing him a groan. At seven o'clock by his watch he heard...
...generally referred to as "Empire Builders," an earth-shouldering epithet originally applied to James J. Hill. Since the death of Mr. Hill, and of less admirable Jay Gould and their stern peers, the epithet had lapsed into disuse, but last week it was revived for a contemporary capitalist, Arthur Curtiss James. It became known that during the last two years Mr. James has accumulated a large stock interest in the Western Pacific Railroad Corp., becoming thereby probably the largest private railroad shareholder in the U. S.- a mighty factor in nearly 40,000 miles of railroad. The money he bought...
There is another empire over which Arthur Curtiss James presides. He even has a flag to symbolize his rule there-a triangular piece of bunting bearing a crescent and a star. It flew at the masthead of the Coronette, the yacht in which he went around the world; it snapped at the halyards of the Aloha I and the Aloha II, famous sailing yachts. Mr. James handles his yachts himself. He holds master's papers which permit him to operate his craft in any waters. He is a former commodore of the New York and Seawanhaka-Corinthian yacht clubs...