The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-22
Garros, Simon, Barrier
and Frisbie Ready for
Flights To-Morrow.
HAMILTON TO
ARRIVE TODAY
Moisant Expected in Time for
Opening Of Meet, at Which
Five Types Of Flying Ma
chimes Will Be in Air at
Once-School Chill
dren Invited.

Ready for their hazardous feats and
to dare the laws of gravitation. four
members of the International Avi-
ators-Rolard Garros. Rene Barrier.
Rene simon and John Frisbte-arriveo
here early yesterday afternoon ana
went at once to the Jefferson aose+
where they will be quarterd durihs
their stav here. Alfred j. Moisant.
president and treasurer of the ayi-
alton company; Misses Mathilde ano
Louise Molsant, sisters of the ayi-
ator: Charles x. Hamilton and z. l.
Young. general manager OF the conf
pany. will arrive at 7:2O O'Clock this
morning.
John 3. Moisant, world-famed as the
winner of the Statue of Liberty prize
and the first and only man to fly with
a passenger from Paris to London, IS
expected to reach here "Wednesday
morning from Cuba.
| With the exception of the F'rencn-
men, all the aviators are we'll known
| in this country, where they have per-
formed at dizzy heights and fulfilled
ancient prophecy. The Frenchmen are
Efamous--like the prophets of old--in
their own country. They can do as
much here as In France, and they are
ready to ny as far and as high as
their American competitors
Six In Air at Once.
All of them Will be seen in the air
every day. sometimes the SIX men oe-
ling up together. At other ffmes they
/ will fly separately, each working his
own individual feats, trying for speed
distance. duration and altitude.
4 With the six in the air field at once
Richmond will see galaxy OF stars.
human meteors, as 1t were trippihs
and driving about the airlanes IN de-
lance of the ancient prediction that
/ nothing heavier tha nair could ever ne
Il sustained above ground.
But all this has already been proved
4 slbeyond doubt or question. Man mas
CONQUERED the air as he has conqnereo
a other things. and now he is reaching
cut for the Joy to all mysteries. the
4 end, perhaps of all things. when man
!. shall be in truth a demigod, driving
. nature at his will. Tho aeroplane Is
: already in service, being put to prac-
!; ';E,ticallutility, and some day In the near
future declares John b. Moisanti aero
. planes will be topping the bllloWs OIL
the Atlantic and carrying mails ana
passengers between the two continents.
But the aviation meet In Rlchmoha
will be purely in the nature of an
|
what has now been made possible by
development Of the heavier-tha air
4 machine. The meet viii begin at
o'clock Tomorrow. and will continue
four days the first flight on SATURDAY
i bein., made at | o'clock, so that all
iwho cannot come on other days VIII
have ample opportunity to witness
what tho machines can do, what pro-
/ gress has been made In two snort
years in the art of aviation. and TO
foresee for themselves the wonder
FIJI future that the art of flying is sure
to have.
Five Types Here.
Five types of air machines VIII be
lin daily use. j B. Moisant, Rene simon
land Rene Barrier will be seated in
the famous .Bariot monoplane. In the
Demoiselle, sometimes called Tie
!. Angry WASP" tho Cumming Bird" the
Mud Hen, and the Hornet. the
smallest, and the most graceful OF all.
will he Roland Garros. one OF the two
men to succeed. where over hundred
have failed, In dying a machine whose
moods and tenses have usually result
ed in fatal accident.
Charles X Hamilton, who startled
the word by successful!H dying from
New York to philadelphia and back
again landing AT Governors Island, at
the rate of SD miles an hour. FOR 20
miles. will use his Hamiltonian type
Of biplanc. John J. Frisbie, who.
though not SO we'll known as some
others, will aviate in the Rochester
biplane. owned by himself
John Is. Moisant. besides possess ne
a Bleriot, has a Moisant type of mono
plane, developed by himself. and In
this he and Garros will be seen, Hamil-
ton also owns and operates a special
ing Bleriot, which in speed contests
deals death TO time. With the Bleriots,
seconds count where minute counted
before. They speed like nesting swal-
lows, or like homing pigeons; they fly
and flying With them is hut synonym
for speed
Thrilled bs- Johnstone.
Riclimond has seen only TWO avia-
tors-really only one-before. Two
wears a go Charles Foster Willard did
a sort of hop, skip and jump stunt
in a Curtis biplane at the Fair Grounds,
This year there came the famous Ralph,
Johnstone, who really flew in a Wright
biplane and caused breathless thou
sands to marvel as he smiled and soar
cd Last week he died, died an avia-
tors death, as he would have wished
TO die, lighting grinly against the death
Ihe had so often faced. Something brokeS
no one knows what though many
theories have heen advanced, and he
came down 500 feet to his last land
Ing,
And this is the main thing all avia-
tors have to face--the weakness OF
their own machines, They possess full
confidence in themselves, but the mere
Iloosening OF a bolt may mean certain
], ldeath, So while they sport with the
winds, death rides close behind
Science has always exaoted its toll
of human lives, And science Is being
conquered only by death,
Hamilton Comes To-day.
+ With Charles Is Hamilton arriving
!this morning and John b, Aioisant
! early to- morrowr7-in plenty OF time, II,
Ia, believed, to appear In the cir whlla