Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-08-04
AN AVIATION MEET FOR
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.
Big Program Arranged for Frontier
Day ard Carnival in Capital
Of Golden State.

or OoIdeh state.
Sacramento, Calf, Aug. An avi-
alton meet with Charles X. Hamilton
who recently flew from New York to
Philadelphia and back, as the lead
ing feature; the big frontier days
show, with its wild horse riders
champion steer ropers and bucking
horse contests; the annual tournament
of the Pacific Association of the Ma
tional Amateur Athletic Union, with
probably 200 athletes competing for
track honors; and last but not least,
the magnificent fireworks display by
the Pain Pyrotechnic Co, the big
program for the fiesta of the Dawn of
Gold is at last complete in all its
essential details.
Thousands will journey to Sacra-
mento to see Hamilton fly and they
will be well repaid for their trouble.
The contract for his appearance was
closed after extended negotiations
following Curtiss, telegram announc-
ing that he would be unable to keep
his engagement. CurtisS is known the
world over and has a reputation sec
ond to none as an aviator, but Hamil-
ton is conceded to be a more sensa-
tional performer, and so rapidly has
| he forged to the front during the last
! few months that his services are in
{ constant demand at all the big meets
| in the east He has also been hon
| ored by being selected by the govern
ment to make a series of experiment
! tai flights for the war department.
| One of the conditions insisted on
! by Hamilton before agreeing to fly
for the fiesta spectators, was that the
fiesta committee should put up $4,000
to be awarded to any aviator breaking
worlds records. This money reward
will undoubtedly attract other aviar
tors to the fiesta and ssome interesting
contests may be expected.
The Frontier Days show will divide
the honors of the fiesta with Hamil-
ton and will probably prove an even
greater attraction as it will bring a
large class of people to Sacramento
that takes comparatively little inter-
est in aeroplanes and Man Birds
Cowboy sports in which are exhibited
marvellous horsemanship and reckless
daring, are an irresistible attraction
to the majority of people, whether
they come from town Or country. Ev-
cry known form of cowboy sports will
be depicted in the Frontier Days show
) by the greatest experts in the coun-
| try, and in addition to the exhibition
stunts there will be a large number
of contests for big money purses
which will bring contestants from all
: over the west.
The Athletic tournament will open
the fiesta and will last one, and pos
sibly two, days. 1t is expected that
, between twenty and thirty teams
averaging ten men each and represent
, ing all the big amateur athletic or
:, ganizations in California and Nevada
: will contest for the medals and tro
phies. If a sanction can be obtained
from the national officers in New
York. the tournament will be EN-
larged to take in the whole Pacific
: coast.
The fireworks display, which will be
l. given every evening of the fiesta
y will be the most magnificent ant
t spectacular ever seen in the west, i
y not in the entire country. Two hun
dred men and women, including TIVE
score Indians, will participate in th'
lopening tableau, representing an at
i. tack by Indians on mining CAM
= and massacre of the inhabitants, fol
2 lowed by the killing or capture of tn
t. Indians by soldiers. The set piece
e and aerial fireworks will be beautiful
a. and brilliant beyond description an
Y wonderfully fascinating.
); With this program there can n
t, longer be any doubt Of the success
n- of the fiesta, which means the sue
S, cess of the state fair, in conjunctio
with which the fiesta will be held.