Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-06
BIG GAFROPLANES
ARE SHIPPED TO
AVIATION PARK
Three Giant Machines Are
Sent to Dominguez
at Midnight
PILOTS NOW READY
Trial Flights Scheduled;
Huge Grandstand is
Nearly Finished

wv ITH three giant aeroplanes at
w DomingueZ field, Aviation week
rapidly is beginning to assume
certainty which will place it beyond
restraint by injunctions, disgruntled
eastern interests or railroad accidents.
At l2 o'clock last night the Curtiss,
Knabenshue and Gill .Dosh machines
were loaded on fiatcars at Seventh
and Los Angeles streets and taken to
the aviation camp. 1t was necessary
to remove the machines at night, on
account of the impossibility of trans
porting them in the day time without
interfering with the traffic of the road
The run on the Pacific Electric rail-
road was made without accident, and
preliminary fights probably will be
made tomorrow with a view to testing
the machines. Both Curtiss and
Knabenshue promise record flights
when the big show is on next week.
The grandstand, which will seat TO-
900 persons, practically is completed.
parking space for automobiles will
be reserved at the end, for the use
of which a charge of 81 for each occu-
pant of the machines will be made.
Police Protection Assured
The police lines will be drawn two
miles from the field, with a view to
aheckmating the omnipresent "mooch-
err" and it will be necessary to pur-
chase admission tickets in Los An
geles. All trains will be special.
None but those holding admission
tickets to the ground will be allowed
on the trains. Trains will run every
minute from the Pacific Electric depot
Capt. H. D. Ryus received a tele-
gram from Fresno last night in which
L., Er.g-r hoe
would be run to Los Angeles as q
special aviation train. San Diego will
send 5000 people. 1t is beginning to
look as though Aviation week will be
a greater success than the most SAIL
guine had expected.
Dick Ferris has purchased from A.
Leo Stephens a balloon with a gas
capacity of $4,000 cubic feet, and will
place it at the disposal of the news =
paper men who write the accounts of
the aviation meeting. He also will
make some flights himself, but prob
ably viii not enter any contestsSs
George B. Harrison probably wiz
pilot the balloon. -
PauIhan Sure to Fly
Louis Paulham and his party will
arrive in Los Angeles Saturday after
noon. NJ. Paulham stated yesterday.
while en- route here, that he positively
would make flights in Los Angeles. He
does not regard the injunction suits of
the Wright brothers very seriously,
and says their action in attempting to
prevent him and Glenn Curtiss from
using their saeroplanes is a "dog in the
manager proposition. He says the
Wrights are doing more to hurt avia-
tion than all the other people in the
world combined.
The aviation committee of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association
has engaged Attorney Garty of New
York to look after the interests of the
Los Angeles meeting and to investi-
gate the status of the Wright injunc-
tion.
Dick Ferris last night sent a tele-
gram to the Wright brothers asking
them to withdraw their action for the
present at least. so as not to interfere
with the aviation meeting in Los An
geles. He probably will not receive a
reply until today. He feels certain
that, when the matter is properly eX-
planned to the Wright brothers. they
will not impede the course of the
meeting.
Aviation Meeting Today
An aviation meeting will be held this
afternoon in the chapel of the Uni
versity of Southern California, when
Ihe college students VIII De given prac-
tical and scientific talks by experts in
aeronautics. The meeting will be open
to the public and will be held at $3.50
o'clock.
The aviation committee still needs
funds. A whirlwind campaign will be
started today to round up the neces-
sary dollars to insure the success of
the meeting. D. A. Hamburger said
last night that the honor of the city
n nj hn Of ES aoff s,y.a Oh
stake, and he urged all to come for
ward with subscriptions of any size in
order to carry the project to a success .
full conclusion.