The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-01
SHOW WILL Be FREE
ST. LOUIS CENTENNIAL WEEK TO
INCLUDE MANY FEATURES.
Glenn Curtiss Is to Make An Aero
plane Flight and Water Pageants
Are Sure to Be Worth While;
the National Grand Stand; the
Yelled Prophet Is to Be in Evil
dence.

St. Louis, Sept. 27.-The public will
not be required to pay an admission
fee to see the centennial week aero
plane flights of Glenn II. Curtiss, cham
pion aviator of the world. After "a
conference of officers of the Aero club
of st. Louis, host of the only Gordon
Bennett international aeronautic meet
ever held in America, and officers of
the st. Louis Centennial association,
it has been decided to throw the
aeronautic field open to everybody.
The three afternoons of centennial
week set aside for the aeroplane
flights are those of Tuesday, Oct. s.
Wednesday, Oct. 6, and Friday, Oct
Is. Curtiss is scheduled to fly each OF
these three afternoons from Art hill
in Forest Park, where still stands the
permanent section of the st. LOUIS
worlds fair palace of fine arts, now
the home of the st. Louis museum OF
fine arts.
Natural Grandstand.
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 town, will serve as a
natural grandstand with a capacity for
half million people. This monster
grandstand of nature obviates the
danger from fire, collapse, etc., that
would result from an artificial grand
stand sufficiently large to accommodate
comfortably, as this grandstand will
everybody in the United States suffi-
GENTLY interested in aeronautics to at
tend.
Everything Free" is the slogan of
the st. Louis Centennial association
"a municipal institution, whose presi-
dent is the Hon. Frederick II. Kreis-
mann, mayor of the city. In accord
ance with this sentiment against adj
mission charges, the two spherical bal
loon races the afternoon of Monday,
Oct. 4, 1.-THE first for balloons of 10000
cubic feet capacity and less, and the
second for balloons of $4,000 and lessl
and the airship (dirgible balloon) race
the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 8,
also will be free to the public. The
starting place for all of the balloon
races will be the Aero club grounds,
at Newstead and Chouteau avenues,
adjoining and supplied from the mon
Ill no no
Gordon Bennett race of 1907 was OBJ
tanned 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 COM
manding the visiting torpedo boat flo
tilla For their comfort grand stand
has been erected.
Other Free Events.
The other free events of centennial
week will include water pageant
on the Mississippi river, Tuesday morn
ing, the United States torpedo boat
destroyer Marlborough and three tor
pedo boats participating; the yelled
prophet pageant, Tuesday night, the
most gorgeous annual electric display
in America; the municipal pageant
Wednesday morning reviewed by the
900 mayors; the industrial pageant,
whose two hundred floats, starting
Thursday at noon will require three
hours to pass a given point; the edu-
cational- Historical military pageant, Fri
day morning, with floats, students, sol
diers, ETC., and the automobile parade,
Saturday morning, which, consisting as
it will, of 1000 motor cars, will be
the largest automobile parade ever
held in any city in the world
In addition to the free doings emu
merated above there will be an all
week centennial festival in the down
town streets, with brilliant illumina-
lions, music and fireworks.