Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-13
AIR KINGS SIGN
FOR LOCAL MEET
Wrights and CurtisS Agree to
Participate in Los An
ueIeS Aviation Events
INTER-CITY FLIGHT PLANNED
Southland Towns Asked to Offer
Prizes for Trips from Do
minguez Field
INTER-cITY FLIGHT PLANNED
Aviation meet developments yesterday

Aviation meet developments yesterday
were:
Contracts signed with Roy Knabenshue.
representing the Wright Brothers company,
and with r. r. Young, representing the
Glenn Curtiss company.
Earle Remington, representative of the
Aero club Of California and one of the hest
authorities on aerial navigation the Pa
cific coast, added to the board of directors
of the meet.
Aero club of California authorized to ar
range with the Aero club of America for
official recognition of the meet.
Work started on constructing a perma-
nent aviation field at DOminguez half mile
from the scene of the meet last winter.
Chambers of commerce and boards of
trade throughout Southern California asked
to put up prizes for flights from Dominguez
to their respective towns.
Percy Weidner, Earle Remington, H. Law
Twining and Martin Neuner appointed as a
committee to arrange list and order OF
events and prizes to be given for each
The charity aviation committee de-
voted all of yesterday to the mass of
details necessary to the successful
launching of the big meet. Represen-
tatiVes of the Wright brothers, Glenn
Curtiss and Hubert Latham appeared
before the board early in the morning
and contracts were signed with the
first two mentioned, which will bring
Aviators Hoxsey, Brookins, Parmalee,
willard Mars Baldwin and possibly
Glenn Curtiss himself to the meet for
ten days of flying. The contract with
Latham was laid on the table until
today, when it will be considered again,
Latham himself returning from Cata-
lima in the meantime to be present at
the signing. There seems to be little
doubt that his services will be secured.
Almost Immediately after the con-
tracts were signed, assuring beyond
question that the meet will be held,
telegrams were sent to J. Armstrong
Drexel and Harry Harlness, the mil
lionaire amateur aViators, requesting
them to come to Los Angeles and take
part in the meet. No answer had been
received up until a late hour last night,
but it is confidently expected that
favorable reply will arrive today, as
soon as they understand the magnitude
of the meet. Drexel has made some
remarkable flights in the east and in
England, where he maintains school
for titled aviators and his presence
would be a great drawing card, 1t Is
believed.
NEARBY TOWNS INTERESTED
The telegraph wires were also util-
lied by the committee in notifying the
commercial bodies in the different
towns and cities throughout Southern
California of the charitable nature of
the meet and requesting their cooper
alton. The chamber of commerce of
Santa Barbara wired in return that a
meeting would be held at once to con-
slider the matter, while the chamber of
commerce of Long Beach sent a rep
resentative to this city AT once to con-
suit with the committee.
The committee will endeaVor to per-
suade these organizations to put up a
cash prize of considerable amount to
go to the aviator who first flies from
the aviation field to the city offering
the prize. The attitude of the organi-
cations heard from seems favorable to
such a plan, according to members of
the committee, and such flights may
become the big feature of the meet.
The Wright company has announced
that the baby racer which attracted