Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-12-27
EIGHTY THOUSAND
IN PRIZES FOR
AVATORS
LOS ANGELES MEET
FAR AHEAD OF RHEIMS
Three Grand Prizes of Ten
Thousand Each Biggest In
ducements Ever offered to
Sailors of the Upper Air.

Especial Dispatch to the Morning Journal
Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 26.-Going
far beyond the aviation meeting at
Rheims. France, in tho matter of
prizes. both as to amounts of money
offered n number of prizes TO be
given. and being already assured of
many more contestants for aerial
honors than appeared at Rheims. the
projectors of the aviation meeting to
be held in this city from January 10
to 20 of next year, are confident that
the flights by Observation-Disclosures ma
chimes spherical balloons and dirigi-
bles at Los Angeles field will make
aviation history of a startling nature.
That all of the present worlds rec
ords in ~aeronautics and aviation will
be broken is already an assured fact
n some hint of the attempts TO
do more wonderful things in the air
than ever hav been attempted be-
fore NAV be gained from the list Of
prizes that has been given out b.
Dick Ferris, general manager of the
Los Angeles aviation meet.
In the first place the aggregate
amount of all the prizes is something
more than $4,000, n when it is
known that at Rheims the prizes to-
tailed less than $4,000, the signifi-
canoe of this is at onc apparent. The
sky sailors wiz be under greater slim
illus. and there will be many more of
them to enter the contests. In the
three grand prizes, of $40. 600 each.
the Los Angeles committee has offer
ed the richest rewards for pilots Of
aeroplanes, spherical balloons and
dirigible airships ever known. These
three grand prizes are offered for
longest flights in each division. To
the pilot of the first spherical balloon
to make a continuous flight from the
Pacific to the Atlantic coast one of
the grand prizes will go. To the pilot
of a dirigible airship who will make
a flight from Los Angeles to San
Francisco, another $4,000 will be
given, and to the aviator who will
break the present worlds record long
distance, altitude II speed records
in a Observation-Disclosures machine, there
is another SO, 600 waiting.
At Rheims there was but one prize
OF $4,000, called the grand priX. The
great deciding prize. and the Gordon
Bennett trophy were won by Glenn H..
Curtiss, the American, who will at
tempt at Los Angeles to beat the pre-
vious flight record. and who is COM
ing here in anticipation of winning
more than the $4,000 offered as a
grand prize in the division i'm which
he will compete. But he Will have
to figure with Paulhan, and numerous
other of the noted European aviators
and with Charles +. willard. Charles
Hamilton and other American record
breakers.
Besides the grand prizes for longest
flights in the three divisions of mir
navigation, there will be prizes ag-
gregating $4,000 for aeroplanes. in
speed and altitude flights, as well AS
in distance flights, n in the di-
vision for dirigible airships the prizes
aggregate $4,000 for distance flights.
Prizes a~geregating $22,500 are hung
up for the pilots OF spherical balloons
in distance flights and for altitude
attained.
II was the belief of the aviation
week committee, which was named by
the Merchants and Manufacturers as
ISOLATION of Los Angeles that by of
fering these magnificent prizes in the
three divisions, practically all of the
great. a%eronauts and aViators of the
world would be attracted to Los AMI
seles. n as the meeting is in no
wise a money-making proposition, hut
is aimed to take the place of the an
nual fiesta in Los Angeles, the object
of the committee WIS TO. present as
varied and startling a series of spec
tacles during the meeting as the prof.
gress of the science of flying can at-
ford to date. SO it is certain that
the people who are attracted to Los
Angeles during the meet will be as
sured not only of a cordial and
friendly greeting from the business
men of Los Angeles, but will have an
opportunity to See more Of the won
derful new science than has ever be-
fore been afforded.
Southern California. in itself, is a
great magnet for the people of all
countries and Of all climes in Janu-
airy, when the skies are always blue,
and the hills and fields are green;
when the flowers are in full blossom.
and the balmy air is laden with the
perfume of orange blossoms. and
filled with the gladstone songs of the
birds. No better time nor place
could have been chosen for this great
event. and so 1T is safe to say that
the railway men who ALREADY are pre-
dieting zoe, 600 visitors, will be at
tracted to the Italy of America IN
January to witness the airships IN
flight. will not be far amiss, n II
anything too small. Il
Already many of the aviators II
who are to make flights
during the meeting are on the ground
with their airships. n those who are
coming from Europe have lett there
and will arrive in Los Angeles during
the next days. No accurate estimate
of the number of the various kinds OF
aircraft that will be seen in Los An
geles. can DO made at this time. out
already the list OF those under con-
tract is upwards OF fifty.
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