Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
ALL COMPLETE
FOR BIG EVENT
AVIATION FIELD PERFECT IN
EVERY DETAIL
PAULHAN AND PARTY ASSEMBLE
FOUR MACHINES
Noted French Aviator Delighted with
Climatic Conditions and Declares
Many Records Should
Be Made

When the gates at Dominguez avia-
ton field open this morning at 10
o'clock not one thing will be left un-
done to mar the success of Aviation
week. the first international gathering
of the kings of the air held in America.
The machines are all here and the
aviators with them ready TO make
flights. The grandstand is completed
and every chair is in place in the boxes.
The police are even now guarding the
grounds. The hospital is open to re-
ceive any who may need the services of
a physician. In fact, everything is
ready, and Aviation week will begin
on time with not a single hitch in
plans.
Elimination and trials will be the
program for today. Every aeroplane,
dirigible and balloon will appear on the
field today, and every one will have to
make some sort of a showing in order
to be entitled to a place in the events
which will take place during the next
eleven days.
Mayor Alexander will be present to-
day when the meeting is formally
opened. He will give the signal for the
appearance of the aviators. It will be
one of the most imposing sights ever
witnessed in the United States-a sight
worth going many miles to see.
That there will be an enormous crowd
present is indicated by the sale of seats
and by the reports made by various
hotels. Every hostelry is taxed to
capacity with visitors from the four
quarters Of the globe
The finishing touches were given to
the field and stands yesterday after
noon. The entire aviation course of
nearly a mile and three quarters has
been gone over with harrows, rolled
and made excellent for the intended
purpose. A portion of the roadway
leading from Dominguez station to the
gfandstand has been covered with
shavings and sawdust. When the
thousands of pairs of feet go over the
path once or twice it will be as hard
as macadam road.
PauIhan Party Busy
Louis Paulhan and his party arrived
yesterday at 1870 o'clock. Paulhan
went directly to the aviation field and
with his assistants began assembling
his two Bleriot monoplanes and two
Farman biplanes. In the Paulhan
party are Ditmer Mason and Charles
Edward Miscarol. and Nine. Paulhan,
all expert aviators, together with eight
mechanicians. A special tent has been
provided for the Paulhan machines.
In this tent the mechanicians worked
far into the night getting ready for to-
days trials.
Through NJ. Mason and Edward
Cleary, manager of the Paulhan inter
ests, NJ. Paulhan expressed himself as
delighted with the climate, the field
and the treatment being accorded him.
TT is ideal here" said NJ. Paulhan.
1T think We shall be able to break a
! lot of records. Everything is in our
| favor. The wind is never high and
the days are beautiful. ] hope to fly
so high that my machine will not even
! be seen by n field glass. Southern Cal
| ifornia is the place for the permanent
| aviation camp in America. I hope this
meeting will be so successful that Do
minguez field will see fights every
year or oftener."
L. H. Behymer. who has charge of
the ticket and ushering part of Avia-
tion week, spent yesterday at Domin-
/ guez. He had with him his full corps
of trained ticket men and ushers. He
said he would be able to handle the
| crowds, which he estimated at 50 900
a day.
Colonel Frank H. johnson of San
| Francisco and Clifford Harmon of New
York will be the two novice aviators
of the meeting. Each has purchased
a $4,000 Curtiss biplane and will make
flights The two aviators We're given
their first lessons yesterday by Glenn
II. Curtiss
Besides the machines which have
made successful flights there are any
number of homemade experimental af-
fairs Some may never leave the
ground, while others may revolutions
ize aviation. 1t will all be known be-
fore nightfall. for every machine OF
every sort must make some manner OF
flight today or be barred from the
contests to come.
large crew of men was at wOrI
all day on the entrance to the aviation
camp. From the street car tracks
steps have been constructed up al
embankment and this leads to an in,