Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-20
AERIAL CARNIVAL
TO BE BOOSTED
DICK FERRIS EXPLAINS PLAN
TO BUSINESS MEN
EVENT TO BE USED TO ADVER-
TisE LOS ANGELES
and Manufacturers Asso-
citation to Take Up Actively the
Work of Making Aviation
Week Success

The directors Of the Merchants and
Manufacturers association took up
actively yesterday afternoon the prose-
cution of the success of Aviation week.
| Dick Ferris met with the board and
went over details of the bringing of
worldfamous aviators for midwinter
flights.
An executive committee to undertake
the raising of $4,000 to supplement Mr.
Huntington's gift was appointed, con-
| sisting of Robert Marsh, Perry w.
| Weidner, Martin c. Neuner, D. A.
Hamburger, Dick Ferris and Fred L.
Baker. The committee has elected as
officers d. A. Hamburger, chairman
and Perry W. Weidner, secretary and
treasurer.
The directors unanimously adopted
| the following resolutions in indorse-
ment of the Aviation week plan:
Resolutions in Full
Whereas, In our opinion the project
conteml lated will be of vast benefit to
Los Angeles and Southern California,
and will attract not only large num-
bers of people to this city but will
serve to advertise our climatic and
other advantages to the world; there
fore, be it
Resolved, By the board of direct
turers' association that we hereby as
sumo the management and control of
the affairs connected with the proposed
Aviation week without attaching any
financial liability, and that we call
upon the public spirited citizens Of this
city to give the executive committee
their full moral and financial support |
and be it further
Resolved, That the president of
This 1SGnpi1finT ha Il
to appoint a committee of seven mem |
bers with full power to arrange all the |
details of said Aviation week and to |
manage the finances connected there
with"
Plan Advertising Campaign
The Aviation week committee will CO.
operate with Mr.. Ferris in making the
first appearance of noted aeroplanes a
tremendous success. While the work
or raising the necessary funds is be-
ing prosecuted subcommittee will un-
dertake preparations for a great ad-
vertising campaign extending all over
the United States. The opportunity
to demonstrate the advantages of win
ter climate in Southern California is
considered the greatest ever presented.
and it will be utilized thoroughly by
the Merchants and Manufacturers as
sociation.
The idea of great midwinter aerial
originated with Mr.. Ferris
more than year ago, and he has
been planning its details ever since. In
consequence the committee finds al
ready available many valuable ideas
which Will save time and make it feasi-
BILE to utilize the short period before
the second week in January to the best
Mr.. Ferris is already able
to present all information necessary re-
garding the foreign aviators obtain
able and the terms on which they will
come, contracts with the American
flyers who can be induced to come, per-
fected arrangements for the local avia-
tion field and many other details which
save a great amount of work and make
the task of obtaining the necessary
funds much easier than would other
wise be the case. :
Sees Wonderful Chance
II am ambitious to see Los Angeles !
AXE the lead in the aeronautics of ;
910," said Mr.. Ferris yesterday. mot
'nly that, but there is so wonderful a /
nance to show the world what we have {
lere in winter that it would be shame r
lot to seize it. 1t is possible for us to
lave the first foreign-made machines T
md the first foreign aviators in prac- o
ical competition with our own aerial S
SITS in the United States, and to con-
entrate attention on what they are do L
ng in Los Angeles when here is prac- o
ically nothing being done elsewhere. .,
n one French contract we are getting !
he aid of eight aviators who estimate
hat it will cost them 100000 to come /"
o the United States. They will come c,
irect to Los Angeles from Paris, and ~
will depend on opportunities in this q
ountry later in the year to make up
heir deficit. But Los Angeles gets 6(
hem first and will have the credit for b
ringing them to this country. That in 81
self is big advertisement.
II have dreamed about an event like 8.
his aviation week for a year, and if ol
does not go through as a tremen-
Gus benefit to Southern California in a.
ddition to the opportunity of seeing d.
ractical flights 1 shall feel that have
o judgment at all. The time is short K
DR. us to get busy as if we are to reap OF
ne greatest benefits we must hold the
leet lin January, but it is not any too Sc
ig an undertaking for Los Angeles, re
with the splendid initia-
We of Mr.. Huntington's gift"
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