Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-09
American and Foreign Avia-
tors at Los Angeles.
VALUABLE PRIZES HUNG UP
First Competitive Flights of Airships
in America.
CONTESTS BEGIN TOMORROW
A Thousand Workmen Are Busy
Putting Finishing Touches on
Grandstand and Field.

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LOS ANGELES, Cal. January s.
| Thousands of curious persons went today
| to the aviation field at DomingueZ, where
| Glenn II. Curtiss, Charles +. Willard,
Frank Johnson, Roy Knabenshue, Charles
X. Hamilton, avators, and half hum
| dred mechanicians were assembling aero
planes and dirigible balloons and more
than a thousand workmen were putting
the finishing touches on the mammoth
grandstand and the field where the
American and foreign aviators will on
Monday begin the first competitive flights
between airships ever held in America.
The following list Of fifty-cight airships
of various kinds which will compete for
the pr yes aggregating $4,000 has been
| announced by Dick Ferris, general man
ager of the meet
List of the Entries.
Aeroplanes-Glenn II. Curtiss. Ham
mondsport, n. Y. biplane; Louis Paul
han, Paris, France, Farman biplane; NJ.
Mason. Paris. France. F'arman biplane.
NJ. MiScarrol, Paris, France. Rleriot mo-
noplane; Baroness de kroche, Paris,
France, Bleriot mOnoplane: Aero Navi-
cation Company of America, Girard,
New York, Curtiss biplane; c. X. Ham
ilton. Hammondsport, n. Y. Curtiss bi-
plane; II. 2. Warner. BelOit, Wis. Cur
tiSS biplane; Roy knabenshue, Toledo,
Ohio. acceptance: II. L. Twining. Los
Angeles. ornihop1ane; j. e. Classen, Los
Angeles, gSroplane; ]. c. Classen. Los
Angeles. monoplane; William Stephens,
Los Angeles. monoplane; \ l.. Smith,
Los Angeles, biplane; A. G. Gonzales
Los Angeles, bowplane; j. S. Zerbe
Los Angeles, multiplane; II. L. Heimer.
Los Angeles. ornithopler: e.. S.
Smith, Tropico. Cal, monoplane .
1'acihc Acc Cub, San Francisco, BIZ
plane; Pacific Aero Club. San Francisco.
monoplane: Grant Fowler. Tucson, Ariz..
triplane: Charles Morok, New York,
monoplane; Louise Bergdoll. Philadelphia,
Bleriot monoplane; Ralph Sauncer. New
York. monopiane; Donald II: Gordon,
Cincinnati. Farman biplane; Dana +.
Goodwin and George a. Cohelan. San
Francisco monoplane; San Diego Aero
plane Company. San Diego. monoplane'
\. NJ. Williams, Douglas, Ariz..- mono
plane: La Bait Brothers, Yuma, Ariz
ornithopler: James A. Liston, San Diego.
Cal, monoplane; s. Y. Beach, New YORK.
aeroplane; H. w. Gale. New York, aero
plane; E. r. Rochig, San Diego. mono
plane: G. H. Loose. San Francisco. mono
plane; w. u. Waterman, San Diego, bl-
plane; F.. j. Campbell Los Angeles, BIZ
plane; ". q. Davis. Los Angeles. double
aero foil; r. c. " Milton, Los Angeles,
bipIane; Charles +. Willard, New York.
Curtiss biplane; Charles Scoslun, Los
Angeles, monoplane.
Ralloons--Clifford Harmon. New York
baiIoun New York; G.. r. Bumbach, In
diana polls. balloon: II. Z. Honeywell st.
Louis balloon; j. Belts, st. Louis, bal
loon; S. Louis Won Phul. st. Louis, bal
loon: A. l.. Stevens, New York, bailoon'
Merchants and Manufacturers Associa-
tion Los Angeles, balloon Los Angeles;
Dick Ferris, Los Angeles. balloon Amer
lea; Capt II. w. Slotterbeck. for the
Aeronautical Squad of Company a, Sig
nal Corps, National Guard of California,
balloon.
Dirigibles-Roy knabenshue, Toledo,
Ohio, two-passenger airship: Tom s..
Baldwin. New York, racing military air.
ship: Lincoln Beachy. Toledo, Ohio.
racing dirigible; Roy knabenshue, To-
ledo, Ohio, racing dirigible: J. G. Clas-
sen, Los Angeles. racing dirigible; A.
Carter, San Jose, dirigible.
Machines Ready for Trials.
Judges stands, administration build
ings and field accommodations for the
air craft were completed today.
The Curtiss aeroplane brought here
from Hammondsport by Charles X.
Hamilton of New Britain, Conn, was
assembled early today in contemplation
of trial flights tomorrow. The new
kna benshue aerOplane, the smallest one
that will be seen here, and the Gill
Bosch machine of the Curtiss type,
brought from Baltimore, are ready for
the morning trials
Louis Paulhan and his assistants who
are bringing two Farman biplanes and
two Bleriot ''cross-channeP' mono
morning. Until their arrival the pro-
gram for the competitive trials cannot be
completed.
Judges of the Meet.
The officers of the Aero Club OF Califor
MIA announced tonight the selection OF
the following judges for the competitive
flights:
CORTLAND Field Bishop, president Of the
Aero Clug of America. chairman: II. Ia Y.
Twinning of the Aero Cub Of California.
vice chairman, NJ. G. Neuner. Lieut.. Paul
W. Beck. Dick Ferris and William
Stevens. Alternates-A l.. Smith, George
t. Harrison. Secretary TO the judgcs-W-
H. Leonard.
While no program for the meet can be
completed until the arrival OF LOUIS raul
han, the French aviator, and his asso-
GATES tomorrow, Monday has been NOM
mated as aviation day. and will he de-
voted to trials and elimination flights
The aviators who will make the first
flights i'll heavier-than-air machines will
be Glenn ii. Curtiss. Louis Paulhan.
Charles *. Hamilton, Charles #. Willard.
Clifford r. Harmon. NJ. Maisson, NJ Mis-
carol. Roy Knabcnshuc and Lincoln
Beachy.
Flights of Balloons.
Flights for the two dozen spherical
balloons that have been brought to this
city from all parts of the country will
be made from Huntington Park, sixty
miles from the aviation field. Owing to
the conformation of the intervening
stretch of country. however, spectators
| at aviation camp will be enabled to see
| the balloon flights at the same time the
heavier-than-air machines are in the
air. and if air currents are right the
balloons may at times be seen directly
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