Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-26
TO CONSTRUCT
AVIATION CAMP
AT DOMINIQUE
WILL RUSH WORK ON STANDS
TO COMPLETION
BUSY WEEK FOR MEMBERS OF
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Railway to Stage Aviation Day at
Mt. Lowe and Advertise Big
Meet Which Comes
Later

/ A I1I'9 WEEK Will 10 q DuSY one IOI
! everybody connected with the
great aviation meet. The aviation
executive committee will hold daily
| sessions, and the allied committees will
! likewise keep on the jump handling
details for arrangements. Aviators in
all parts of the country are preparing
| to come to Los Angeles, and several are
| now on the way with their aeroplanes.
At the aviation camp on Dominguez
! hill employees of the committee and OF
/ the Pacific Electric will vie with each
/ other in their preparations. The official
name Of aviation camp which is
adapted from the French term for an
aeronef field, will be well eXemplifed,
for it will be occupied by two armies.
| one will be composed of workmen, who
will be kept busy for two weeks. They
| will be followed by the invading hosts
| who will come to see the flights.
| While the local preparations are go
ing on. advertising and financial mat
| ters are not being forgotten. The last
| of huge stacks of Autographs, bulletins
and other announcements of the Won
ders of fight and California climate will
| be sent from Dick Ferris office this
week. AL of the United States west Of
the Mississippi has been thorough
| ly plastered, as only Mr.. Ferris knows
| how to do it, and in addition thousands
of columns about the Los Angeles aVia-
ton meet have been printed in every
part of the world. The advertising and
publicity campaign has been lift en-
| tirely to Ferris, and he has "made
good" In a way that has walked up the
world.
"They know that we are going to
have great flying here" he said last
night, while working at his office, land
they also have new ideas about the
midwinter climate of California In
every way that was anticipated this
aviation meet is turning out for good
and more After 1t is all over nobody
will be able to say he ever saw any
thing like il. Los Angeles cannot say
that, for IT will stand absolutely
unique in the history OF the city. The
rest of America has never seen great
aviation meet, and the expression
first in America is entirely conserva-
tive. Nowhere abroad has there been
anything to approach the Los Angeles
meet. Leaving out the unique phase
of the flights in the worst month of
winter, which in Los Angeles is balmy,
and with all the advantages of sum-
mer and attending strictly to the avi-
alton part of the matter, France, Ger
many and all the leaders of the aVia
ton world combined will not produce
such flying as we may see here from
January 10 to 20.
"In the first place, there has never
DGen Il great COlllDlildl VI D1llOOiGf
airships and aeronefs In the air at
once. Then 1 expect to see new rec
ords made, not merely outstripping
previous achievements, but records
which will stand as remarkable. Paul
han, for instance, says he will fly
mile high. He can do that in the
denser air and calmer atmosphere of
Los Angeles better than near any
other city in the world. Weather con-
ditions also will make it easier to
break speed and endurance records
here than elsewhere.
NAT Goodwin and David Warfield,
who were at Rheims, say no writer
can begin to describe the thrilling
sight of aeroplanes in the air and of
actually realizing that man is adapt
ing the fight of birds to his own uses.
am extremely glad that Los Angeles
is to go on record as the first ci.y to
see this in the way of international
competitions. After it is all over the
people of this city win appreciate
what it means, but before then no
writer can begin to tell them"
Work Starts Today
S. b. Reeve, civil engineer for the
Aviation week committee, win have
three men working under his direction
at the Aviation camp shortly after
daylight this morning, surveying the
course and the grounds. He expects
to complete the work and deliver blue
prints to Dick Ferris, chairman of the
ground committee, tomorrow forenoon.
A meeting of the committee will be
held as soon as the blueprints are re-
ceived and a large number of details
of.
A large amount of lumber must be
sent out for grandstands, boxes. pylons
for marking tht turns and similar pur-
poses as quickly as the delivery points
can be indicated. Immediately after
the unloading of the lumber a small
army of men will be set to work. IL
necessary to have. everything com
pleted in time electric lights will be
on the grounds and night
shifts organized.
AS with other arrangements for the
meet the grounds committee must
work out a large number of entirely
original plans. 1t will be absolutely
necessary for the safety of spectators
and aviators to keep the ground in
side the lines of the aerial course en-
tirely free from either persons or OBJ
struotions. In consequence the crowds
cannot be lined around the track as at
an ordinary race.
In addition, provision must be made
10 allow the fullest opportunity for
gazing skyward by $4,000 to 10000 per-
sons and again the ingenuity of the
40 precedents to go by, except possibly
minor instances in connection with the
Rheims meet. and Dick Ferris, William
W. Humphreys, ]. L. Vignes and 9TH
II members of the grounds committee
ire working at night on phases of the
arrangements which they never
lreamed OF attacking few weeks
Lgo.
The Pacific Electric officials have al
'eady decided on their plans for extra
rackage, landing platforms and other
ABILITIES and General Superintendent
dcCaffrey has already arranged to
lave his share of the work of caring
or the crowds completed at once. He
nd other Pacific Electric officials are
low urging the Aviation week COM
nittee to settlethe question ofthe aero
eld, from which the Dallons will make
scensions, is they expect to handle
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