The San Francisco call., 1910-05-27
many GLIDERS TO
FLY AT TANFORAN
Captain Baldwin Has Flanders
Automobile in Readiness to
Travel in Air
By R. R. L'HoMMEDIEU

The aviation feature of the program
at the good roads meet of the San
Francisco motor club TO be given next
Sunday and Monday at Tanforan bids
fair TO rival the motor car contest.
Yesterday morning Harold Hall, in his
Green biplane, made a test of getting
off the ground. Tony Nichols. return
ing from the test, said that Hall got
away in a wonderfully short space of
time going up some 10 feet and land
ing with ease The test was made to
try out the ignition on the new engine,
which now works to perfection. AS
the contesting aviators will fly for
purses instead of a guarantee some
keen sport may be expected, and
enough of them have signified their in
tention OF participating so that the
public may see several airships in oper-
alton.
New interest has been lent to the
glider contests to be held in connee-
1 tion with the aviation events the first
two days of next week by the an
nouncement that three young women of
/ Oakland. the Misses May, Clara and
Anna Johnson, will be in the competi-
ton. These young women are experts
in handling the gliders and may be
expected to rise 70 a height of 100 feet
from the ground.
All arrangements preparatory to the
meet are rounding into completion un-
der charge of the committee composed
of ]. c. Irvine, II. A. Chandler, Cleve
Shaffer and A s. Pare. These same
men will also act as the judges for the
flying tests at Tanforan
When Captain Ivy Baldwin, the bal
laonist ascends in his monster gas
bag, Queen of the Pacific, while seated
at the wheel of Flanders go" auto
mobile. which will be substituted for
the regulation basket he will launch
| upon a Journey through the clouds the
| like of which he has never before at
tempted. When the machine is again
finally rolling along over terra firma
II is estimated by Captain Baldwin that
it will be somewhere in the hills OF
Alameda county or perhaps farther
south in Santa Clara county.
Speaking of his intended climb yes
terday he said:
II will have to seek the level country
| in order to effect landing which will
/ not result in wrecking the machine.
nv drop to earth will naturally be as
/ gradual as possible, and when / have
| selected a level space and get within
! 100 feet above this place l will throw
out about 800 feet OF rope which will
drag behind the automobile, acting as
a kind of rudder in guiding it straight
ahead, as 1t will be useless to attempt
+o steer the machine with the wheel
There will be two or three bounds Of
the car on the ground before 1t finally
settles When it does I shall pull the
rip cord which will split the balloon in
half and my flight viii be ended.
A. C. Chapman reports the sale. Of
Hupmobiles to R. l. Douglas. Fallon,
New Owners fle' san pgIiet Ma{eo; oaI. Ir.
of HupmObiles land; Miss % c. N.
! To Not I've NJ
Teal. Oakland; Western electrical ve-
| hicle company. Oakland; Auto livery
company, Lakeyiew. Ore; n. C Kilt
ssn seqse Francisco' an issau Oakland SSos" have
been sold to Sanbourn of San Jose and
TO the Auto livery company of Lake
view, Ore.
one of the greatest assets of any
] firm is that of progression. Strong
J in this point must
scoodxearx Wake be mentioned the
/ 'sG1%s sp1sS,n eae Covering Goodyear tire and
're"-p e ---- . rubber company of
perfection and adoption of the aero
plane and balloon has come the de-
mand for fabrics to make and repair
! planes and balloon bags. The Good
year company has just forwarded to
/ the local branch of the W. d. Newerf
/ rubber company. of which A c. Leon
ard is manager, a catalogue of rub
! bered fabrics suitable for this pur-
1 pose Leonard said yesterday:
Our standard balloon fabrics are
/ composed of two plies of cotton fab
rics with rubber coating between and
on the outside. The cotton fabric is
! made from the best obtainable long
fbered cotton and with special
weave The outside coating is COM
/ pounded to best withstand the actinic
1 action of light and extreme changes
of temperature and moisture percent
ages. The heavy coating between the
plies insures the material being thor
oughly gas. and moisture proof. The
inside coating is composed of com
pound OF a special quality to with
stand the deteriorating action OF gases.
THE aim of the company is to make
I fabrics that will Withstand all condI-
tions, making rents almost impos-
/ sible."
The catalogue containing samples of
the different grades of fabrics is an
attractive little book bound in green
! leather and lettered in silver
The ever changing panorama Of
/ scenery is one of the chief attractions
/ along the line of the Ocean Shire rail-