Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-05

now the home of the ST. Louis Museum
of Fine Arts.
Art hill is surrounded by other hills,
which during the worlds fair were
crowned with buildings of different
states and which during the aeroplane
races of the week celebrating the Tooth
anniversary Of the incorporation of st.
Louis as a town will serve as natural
grandstand with a capacity for half a
million persons This monster grand
stand of nature obviates the danger
from fire, collapse, ETC., that would re-
suit from an artificial grandstand sur
fciently large to accommodate COM
fortably, as this grandstand will, every
body in the United States sufficiently
interested in aeronautics to attend.
Everything to Be Free
Everything free is the slogan Of the
st. Louis Centennial association, a
municipal institution, whose president
is Frederick H. Kreismann, mayor OF
the city. In accordance with this SEN
timent against admission charges, the
two spherical balloon races this after
noon (the first for balloons of 10000
cubic feet capacity and less, and the
second for balloons of $4,000 and less),
and the airship (dirigible balloon) race
the afternoon of Saturday, october 3,
also will be free to the public.
The starting place for all OF the the
balloon races will be the Aero club
grounds, at Newstead and Chouteau
avenues, adjoining and supplied from
the monster gas tank whence the gas
for the Gordon Bennett race of 1907 was
obtained. The only persons specially
favored at the balloon races will be the
guests of honor, including the mayors
of 1000 American cities and the United
States naval officers commanding the
visiting torpedo boat f1otilla. For their
comfort a grandstand has been erected.
The other free events of Centennial
week will include a water pageant on
the Mississippi river Tuesday morning,
the United States torpedo destroyer
MacDonough and three torpedo boats
narticipating; the Yelled Prophet pa
gaent Tuesday night, the most gorge
Gus annual electric display in America;
the municipal pageant wednesday
morning reviewed by the 1000 mayors;
the industrial pageant, whose 200 floats,
starting Thursday at noon, will require
three hours to pass a given point; the
educational -historical-m military pageant,
Friday morning, with floats, students,
soldiers etc, and the automobile
parade Saturday morning, which, con-
sisting as it will of 1000 motor cars, will
be the largest automobile parade ever
held in any city of the world.
In addition to the free attractions
enumerated above, there will be an all
week centennial festival in the down.
town streets, with brilliant illumina-
tions, music and fireworks
The remaining program of the week
is as follows:
Tuesday, Oct.
Water pageant commemorating the
founding of st. Louis, four United
States warships participating. Yelled
Prophets pageant Brilliant street IL
luminations Band concert at centen-
NAL court of honor.
Wednesday. Oct.
Aeroplane flights. Municipal pageant,
reviewed by the mayors of 1000 cities,
the guests of honor, and eliminating
In the corner stone laying of new mu-
nicipal buildings, costing $1,5OO,OOO.
Brilliant street Nominations Band
concert at centennial court of honor.
Thursday, Oct
Aeroplane flights. Industrial pageant,
with more than 200 floats, starting at
noon and requiring three hours to pass
a given point. Brilliant street illumina-
tions. Band concert at centennial court
of honor.
Friday, Oct. 8
Aeroplane flights. Educational, his
torical and military pageant, in three
divisions, with students, historical
floats soldiers, etc. Brilliant street IL