Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-29
IMMENSE CROWDS
PLANNING VISIT
AVIATION WEEK ALREADY IS
TALK OF THE EAST
TWO NEW cuRTIss AERoPLANEs
HAVE ARRIVED
plans for Immense Grand Stand at
Dominquez Completed - Roads
for Autos vii Be Put In
Fine Shape
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from the office of the Aviation week
committee 22S Wilcox building, by j.
p. Stoekdale, who will be at the office
from to 4 o'clock every afternoon
Bids for the grandstand are being
received at the office of Dick Ferris
514 Security building, and the con
tract will be awarded at the earliest
possible date. The grandstand Will be
built according to plans drawn by j.
I Racl5us, and will be $50 feet long
1t will have a seating capacity Of
10000 In addition there will be 1000
boxes. arranged in three rows, each
having six chairs.
Plan for Easy View
The grandstand and boxes will not
be enclosed above, and have been de-
signed to afford every opportunity Tor
watching the flights. starts and land
ings.
Aviation booths for the sale of tick
cts for Aviation day at Mt Lowe
will be opened Thursday at Hamburg
er's. Bullock's and the Broadway de-
partment stores. The booths will be
decorated appropriately to edYertse
the aviation benefit up Mt. Lowe, jan
uary 5. Club women are working ac-
lively to aid the Aviation day at MI
Lowe, and members of the women
Aviation club already are pledged TO
see that the department. store booths
are well patronized.
Glenn II. Curtiss' aeroplane is al
ready in Los Angeles, awaiting orders
at the Wells-Fargo express office from
Jerome S. Fanciulli, the general man
ager of the Curtiss interests. Mr.. Fan
ciulli is expected in Los Angeles today
or tomorrow, and Curtiss will leave
uammondsport for California on sat
urday. The Curtiss machine is an en-
tirely new one, and equipped with the
latest Improvements.
Big Balloon on Way
Clifford b. Harmon, the wealthy New
York aviator and aeronaut, wired DICK
Ferris yesterday asking for reservation
of suite of rooms at the Hotel Alex
andria. He will arrive Saturday ana
will bring a Curtiss aeroplane and the
finest balloon in America, his New
York" The latter was built for Mr..
Harmon by Capt. Thomas S. Baldwin
of his patent rubber-silk material, and
ia of the standard racing size, equal In
capacity to the two Ferris balloons, the
America" and the UNITED states"
The Gill aeroplane, which was shipped
direct from Baltimore TO Los Angeles,
was unpacked at the aeronef repair
shop at Seventh and Los Angeles
streets yesterday by Hillery Beachy,
who is associated with Howard w. Gill,
the owner. The aeroplane is of the
Curtiss type, but is built with unusu-
ally fine construction throughout All
the metal parts are nickled, as are the
oil and fuel tanks. The latest design
of aeroplane cloth, made of silk and
rubber, is used to cover the planes. The
running wheels are equipped with "avi-
ator" tires, which were put on the mar
l1et recently by an eastern rubber firm
especially for aeroplanes.
'Mr Gill will not be here until a day
or so before the meet" said Hillery
Beachy yesterday but he expects to
drive the aeroplane himself part of the
time. l hardly think he will bring his
balloon, as he wishes to dispose of it. 81
Baltimore BaIIoonist Due
Howard w. Gill, who has entered the
aeroplane, is president of the MotorcaI
company of Baltimore and is a prom
inent balloonist of that city. His aero
plane does not use the Curtiss aeronau-
tical engine, but is equipped with 9
special automobile engine which is ar
innovation predicted by automobile
builders when aeroplanes first came
into fashion.
An aviation evening has been ar
ranged at the Y NJ. c. A. tonight, al
which Charles F. Willard, Roy Knab-
enshue Lincoln Beachy and Hillery
Beachy, all practical aviators or aero
nauts, will tell of their experiences ir
the air and describe the approved
methods in constructing airships anC
aeroplanes. The meeting will be held
in the Y. NJ. c. A. auditorium under
the auspices of the Why club.
Hillery Beachey is a brother of Lin
coin Beachey and has made a success
with airships.
Four solid trainloads on the Califor.
mia Limited already have been SOLD
out by the Santa Fe at Chicago tC
visitors who are coming to Los An
geles for the aviation meet. This is al
indication of the eastern travel which
will be attracted to the Pacific cOas
earlier than usual because of the grea'
aerial events,
Interest Causes Astonishment
The attention directed toward 10,
Angeles by the aviation meet has as
tonished the railroad men as much a;
anyone else. They had expected some
extra travel but nothing like the i'm
mediate response to the announcement
that famous aviators would be in 10.
Angeles in January. Other railroad!
have received similar intimatons o.
the heavy travel which will be occa
stoned by the aviation meet. Tn,
Southern Pacific has had special demon
stration of the number of people com
ing from San Francisco, and it will bt
necessary to run solid trains through
from the bay cities TO Los Angeles.
More than fifty thousand persons
will attend the Aviation meet from
the cities around San Francisco bay
according TO the reports made to the
Aviation week committee. InasmucE
as it takes an unusual attraction tc
bring a San Francisco crowd to Los
Angeles and the San Francisco papers
have consistently ignored the Los An
geles meet since the San Diego ex-
position matter, members of the Avi-
ation week committee are greatly
pfeased with the reports from the
north.
All the leading hotels have had tele-
grams asking for reservations for the
Aviation events. 1T is very plain tC
see the unusual interest taken in the
east in the Los Angeles event and the
appreciation of its magnitude" said
General Manager WhitmOre of the
Hotel Alexandria yesterday. "Instead
of asking for reservations outright our
wires are beginning to come in asking
il any reservations are left, showing
that eastern people are realizing that
the Aviation meet will bring immense
crowds to Los Angeles"
Captain John Berry Coming
Final word was received from capt.
John Berry, winner of the national
balloon race last summer, that he
would bring his big balloon and be in