Four Have Entered Ocean Aerial Race.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 2, 1913:
Cody, Rumpler, Bleriot, and England Announce Themselves as Competitors.
GERMANS ARE SKEPTICAL
But English Authority Says Transatlantic Flight May Be Made Within Eighteen Months.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, April 1.— Gordon England, a British airman, and Herr Rumpler, a German inventor, have already announced their intention of competing for The Daily Mail's $50,000 prize for a transatlantic flight, and the Bleriots and Col. Cody say that they will be competitors in both the Atlantic and around Britain flights.
    The Mail says the best experts believe that the Atlantic prize will be won before the end of 1914.
    Horace Short, the builder of the Navy waterplanes, considers a flight from America to Great Britain, with the help of the wind, almost feasible now, and says that a flight in the reverse direction may be accomplished within eighteen months.
    The only skeptics, adds The Mail, are the builders of German airships, who know nothing about waterplanes. Major von Parseval considers an Atlantic flight far beyond the realm of present possibilities.