Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-08-05
FIVE FAMOUS
FLIERS BE AT
ASBURY PARK
Special to tns EVENING NEWS.

Asbury Park, Aug. 5:-The great
est contest of the air ever witnessed
in this country will take place at AS
bury Park, from Wednesday, Aug
ust 10 to Saturday, August 20. Gov
ernor Fort and staff, heads of the
New Jersey military department. all
the members of the legislature and
other notables will attend the meet
on Friday, August 49, to witness
maneuvers between the aeroplanes
and a battalion of soldiers. New
Jersey is alive to the possibility of
war and proposes to take steps to
have its National Guard companies
well versed In aviation. That heav-
Ter than air machines would play no
small part on the battlefield, even
today, Is a well recognized fact and
Governor Fort does not propose that
this opportunity for a military DEM
onstration shall pass by without be-
ing of great practical value to the
state military board.
Asbury Parks aviation program
VIII be greater than the meets at
Los Angeles. Atlantic City or Indian
aPolis. Five of the most celebrated
aytators developed through instruc-
tons by the Wright Brothers, Messrs.
Brookins, LaChapple, Hoxsey, John
stone and Coffyn, are under contract
to give a daily program OF extraor-
binary feats. Six balloonists, in
Guiding Miss Reed, of Newark, will
take part in double balloon ascen-
sions every afternoon at three
o'clock. On some of the days there
will be balloon races for prizes, and
on other occasions as many as six
aeronauts will drop from the hea-
vens, brought safe to earth by i'm
mense single p~arachutes. Johnny
Mack, of Newark, n of the best
known b~alloonists in this country
and who was a great feature at the
recent Montreal and Toronto meets,
will give a daily demonstration of
balloon stunts. Another star feat
ure will be the air ship, or dirigible,
manipulated by Fred Owens, of
Newark, who will sail out over the
ocean and along the coast two or
three times before the meet. Owens
is a daring navigator. His recent
trip from B~elleville across New York
City and disastrous landing in Brook
Ign has not unnerved the lad in the
least and Capt. Milliman, who built
the ship, proposes to send Owens
from Asbury Park to New York and
back on Saturday morning, August
10, if the weather will permit.
Among the special features of the
program will be a day for amateurs.
H. e. Denegar, secretary of the AS
bury Park Aero and Motor Club, I'M
del whose auspices the big meet will
be held, has already closed arrange
ments with several inventors of new
| heavier than air machines. Their
fate will be settled Saturday after
noon, August 20. Asbury Park it
self has a notable aspirant for avia-
ton honors. He is Alex. Peppin, a
former balloonist and now a shoe
clerk. Peppin has been five years
perfeeting a three plane machine
with automatic control. His ma
chine is completed and will be moved
to the aviation field early next week.
Handsome silver cups, valued at
800 each, will be given by the club
to every amateur aviation taking
part whose machines makes a flight
of any distance. Over $4,000 in
CdoH prizes Is OuSISu ny IuS CluD LOT
new worlds records and this has
tempted Brookins to make an effort
to smash his own worlds record for
altitude in an aeroplane. At Allan
tic City last month, where Brookins
and Curtiss were the principal at
fractions, the Wright aviator, by a
series of quick, dizzy, spiral turns,
reached a distance of $500 feet
from the earth. This climb into the
sky will be repeated at Asbury
Park, and perhaps surpassed, for
Brookins is the most daring and
skillful aviator in America today
| and his performances are more apt
to cause pompadour hair than any
of the ~so-called dare devil" acts
billed in four color posters by 'The
| Greatest show on Earth" The
other Wright aviators are also dar-
ing navigators of the air, but are
better known in the West than in
the state of New Jersey.
Asbury Park is planning to enter
tain a crowd of one hundred thou
sand people during the meet. A
canvas of Accommodations has been
made and the Municipal Information
Bureau has announced that all appli-
| cations for Accommodations will posi-
lively be taken care of. The Aero
and Motor Club has spent $20S00
In laying out a magnificent aviation
field at Interlaken to accommodate
$4,000 people. Every facility has
been made as perfect al mind can
conceive.