Arizona republican., 1910-02-11

Air tenn perature, 10000 feet 15o 43.8 Wind, direction .........SW SW Wind, velocity .-- <.--.-
 The first day of the aviation meet ing was q fine success. There was beautiful weather, fine flying and very enthusiastic crowd. The attend ance was good. but it is a certainty that it will be twice as large today. The visitors from afar only began ar irving in large numbers yesterday and many of the home people figured that Friday and Saturday would be the best days. and waited. More of them who did not attend were detained be- cause they could not get away. To- day it is understood that responsive to the request of the merchants deco rating committee. the stores will be closed in the afternoon and hundreds who could not attend no matter how much they wanted to. will be there to- day. And all who were there yester- day will go again todaysif it is possi- ble for them to do so. for what they saw yesterday good as it was, was only an appetizer.
 The best part of the show yesterday was the last event, which came about : o'clock and many who left before will regret that they missed it It re- quires some experience to know how to attend an aviation meet and get the most for ones money. just as it does to know how to operate a flying ma chine. The people will know better today and wait for the finish. even if they lose their suppers. There was some unexpected delay yesterday ow- ing to a trivial accident to Willard's machine which made him come to earth during his first flight. Hamil ton made two reconnoitering flights in search Of him and all this time the grandstand was nervous and wonder ing if the game was off. It was long after that that the biggest and best business started. The secret of at tending. an aviation meeting is pa tience and those who had it yesterday were beautifully rewarded. The re- ward win come with less patience to- day for there will be three machines in action and more stunts within the grounds. The public now has seen the ? machines and has a general idea of what can be done with them, across country as well as near the home plate. Today they will be seen much in the foreground and will do their kicking. bucking. and sidestepping stunts. Moreover today will be the big ten mile race between Hamilton and Mel Johnson's Buick. the White Streak. Both are touted to win
 Yesterday there were six regular events and they were all worth while with the big one a five-mile run around the track by Hamilton. to fir ish off the day with good speed rec ord of a mile in I:191..
 4 Preliminary.
 The first event of the day was a testing of the S-cylnder Curtiss bi- plane by Hamilton and was a short flight, merely made to determine that everything was in order It occurred about o'clock before the crowd had fully assembled. The flight vas en- tirely satisfactory. It will be under stood by the reader that the men have been working ever since they got in town, getting their machines together. The motors are delicate though pow erful and after setting up each time they have to be adjusted and tried out and -acclimated" as it were, to the air. There has been a little delay in get ting the machines together. as through some incident of shipping by express parts Of three machines arrived to- gether and the remaining parts later, so none of them could be fully equip ped until all the shipments arrived. Two of them were lin good running shape but the third one was not in - use yesterday. awaiting the arrival of some small parts from the factory which did not come until yesterday afternoon. It was announced that all three of the machines would be in readiness today and there will be races between Hamilton and Willard. each in four cylinder planes.
 The Program.
 After the preliminary event mem toned above. the first event witnessed by the whole assemblage was a test trip of Curtiss 4-cylinder bi-plane by Charles r. Willard. At least it was so described on the card, though it developed into cross country run. It was gossip of the grounds that it