Arizona republican., 1904-06-27
Flying Machines After the
 Worlds Fair Prize
ASCORE OF CONTESTANTS
Phoenix Represented by Mysterious Character Who Is Trying out His Racer in hid-heaven in the Dark ness of the Night.

St. Louis, June 26.-A new era in rapid transit, with the beginning Of an evolution in travel. is likely to have its inception in the great airship contests at the Worlds Fair, which begin this week. The liberal purses offered as awards aggregating $20O. 900. bring en- tries from all parts Of the world. and there is sure to be something doing. Every ambitious inventor of a flying machine has entered the competition and many kinds of airships will be in evidence.
 Many cash prizes are to b. awarded. The largest is a prize of $i0il. .000 tn Hue aeronaut whose average speed shall c.. the greatest in three trips. Under inc rules of the contest every craft may pass over the course in a continuous flight as many times as desired, and the time as recorded by the Judges will be the average time in which it covers the full course. No trial will be con sidcred unless the full course Is cov- cred. and the aeronaut must make three complete trips around the course at an average speed of at least twen- ty miles an hour. The trials will con tinue during the months of July. Au- gust and September.
 Twelve acres included in a fence thirty feet high near the administra- tion building of the fair constitute a windbreak and starting point for the races. The competitors include all the great airship inventors of the world. Santos-Dumont, Sir Hiram MaxiIr Prof. Langley. Leo Stevens, Octave Chanute and others already well known being among the number. B=- sides these distinguished aerial naVi- gators there are scores of unknown in- Vantors. who have been awaiting this | opportunity to bring their machines i'm to prominence and compete for the big cash prizes offered by the Louisiana. | Purchase Exposition company.
 L Airships of various kinds are prepar- l ing for the races over the aerOnaHtic course. One inventor from Memphis. | Mo, NJ. McGary. has an egg-shapea | bag forty-eight feet long by twenty | one feet wide. attached to which is a car twenty-one feet long. five feet wide and four feet deeD. This machine is propelled by four immense wings pail | termed after the wings of the common | house fly and is steered by a rudder shaped like the tail of a fisb. The i;i- ventor claims that the wings of a fv | have pulling power with both the up ward and downward stroke and that | his machine therefore has twice the power of those with propellers fash ! toned after the wings of a bird.
 w. NJ. Morris. a Monte Vista. Colo rado mining ma nhas constructed a machine which he thinks win solve tlie problem of aerial navisation. It is i50 feet long and thirty feet fl, diameter. made of aluminium without any gas bag attachment. Its inventor claims for it a speed of 100 miles an hour in a steady flight without lung;ng. tIltinE or tipping. and he feels confident O(
 carrying off some of the honors in the
 great aerial races.
 Another Colorado man. F. A. Ilind-
 Ter of Denver, will enter the contest
 with an airship which he claims will
 cover eighty miles ap hour. His ma
 chine consists of a balloon with ca1-
 vas flaps three feet wide extending en- tirely around 1t for protection against
 q sudden descent. These flaps are limp
 except in case of too sudden Fl descent
 when they open out like q parachute
 This is only one of several safety ao-
 pliances which belong to ths Hindlei
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