The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10
AVIATION MEET.
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on Nov. % last, flew from Los An
geles over the Sierra Nevada noun
tains to point In Arizona
There are fifteen prizes offered for
aeroplanes, ranging from $50 to
$4,000. The latter sum is for the
aeroplane which breaks all the
worlds records. In order to accom-
plish that purpose an aviator must
remain in the air four hours and thir-
ty minutes, ascend to a height of 1,645
feet, fly 120 miles without touching
the ground, and make a speed of so
miles an hour. A $1,000 prize will go
to the machine of any type that will
soar without engine power for 20 min
utes For dirigible airships seven
prizes will be given. The prizes range
from $3.50 to 100000 The latter sum
is to go to the pilot who makes a sue
cessful flight from Los Angeles to San
Francisco.
The conditions drawn up by the
promoters for the contests declare
that there will be no sanctions made
for exhibition flights of the dirigibles
or aeroplanes. Contests of aeroplanes
for prizes will be sanctioned, provid-
ing they are contested in accordance
no y.,1lac nf no Int
Federation and that the Aero club of
America shall finally confirm the de-
cisions of the judges, The prizes,
the conditions state, shall not be paid
over before the period required by
the rules of the federation after the
official acceptance by the Aero club of
America of the awards. 1t is also
stipulated that pilots of the Aero club
of America cannot compete in races
where pilots who are not licensed
pilots of the Aero club take part.
All arrangements have been made
to stage the flights on the old race
track near Los Angeles.
/ The idea of the great. aerial tour
nament. the greatest ever attempted
in America, originated with Dick Fer
ris, local theatrical man. Mr.. Ferris
has been in the theatrical business
for many years. They know him on
Broadway. He took his primary
course in the ten, twenty and thirty
shows and has felt the pulse of the
public in all sections of America. In
Los Angeles he struck it rich. He
also took up ballooning as sport
And he acquired the knowledge which
enabled him to coin that famous cpl
gram which asserts the eccentricities
of opera singers end where the per-
sonal peculiarities of aeronauts begin.
The theatrical and aeronautic af-
unavoidable publicity. But it was not
without it's good points. 1t helped
when he had the Curtiss idea. This
struck him about the same time the
rest of them caught the contagion.
But his idea wasn't exactly the same
The other managers made Curtiss the
solo star, while Ferris determined it
would be better to have whole COM
pany of stars.
Some aeronautic stars don't fly
high, but they all come high-when
compensation is discussed. Reference
has already been made to F'erris's
knowledge of opera stars. which will
explain how he came by his knowl-
edge of the bait that was necessary
to allure the aerial stars. In order
to accumulate enough for the star first
ton. Mr.. Huntington, son of the late
Coils p, is the street railwa mag
nate of Los Angeles and it's suburbs,
and is considered as the most active
cake of human years in the affairs of
southern California. He readily per-
ceiyed that the street car fares would
not decrease in event of an aviation
meet, and that no serious harm would
come to the unsold real estate in and
about Los Angeles.
To show that he was wideawake he
put up $4,000 in cash and called to-
gether the principal business men of