Smyrna times., 1910-08-10
MAN BIRDS TO MAKE A
FLIGHT AT ASBURY PARK
SIX AIRSHIPS AND SIX BALLONS
TO CONTEST FOR PRIZE
Greatest Aviation Meet Ever Held in
America Takes Place There Aug
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The greatest conquest of the air
ever witnessed in this country will
take place at Asbury Park, N. j.,
from Wednesday, August 10th, to
Saturday, August Goth. Governor
Fort and staff, heads of the State
military department, all the members
of the Legislature and other notables
will attend the meet on Friday,
August 18th, to witness maneuvers
between the aeroplanes and a bat
TALON of soldiers. New Jersey is
alive to the possibility of war and
proposes to take steps to have it's
National Guard we'll versed in avia-
tion. That heavier -than-air machines
would play no small part on the
battlefield is we'll recognized fact
and Governor Fort does not propose
that the opportunity for a military
demonstration shall pass by without
it being of practical value to the
State military board. Asbury Parks
aviation program will be greater
than the meets at Los Angeles, At
lantic City or Indianapolis. Five of
the most celebrated aviators developed
through instruction by the Wright
Brothers, Messrs. Brookins, LaChap-
pie, Hoxsey, tombstone and Coffyn,
are under contract to give a daily
program of extraordinary feats. Six
balloonists, including Miss Reed, of
Newark, will take part in double
balloon ascensions every afternoon at
three O'Clock. On some of the days
there will be balloon races for
prizes, and on other occasions as
many as six aeronauts will drop from
the heavens brought safe to earth
by immense single parachutes. john
ny Mack, of Newark, one of the best
known balloonists in this country
and who was great feature at the
recent Montreal and Toronto meets,
will give daily demonstrations of
balloon stunts. Another star feature
will be the air ship, or dirigible,
manipulated by Fred Owens of New
ark, who will sail out over the
ocean and along the the coast two
or three times before the meet.
Owens is a daring naviator. His
recent trip from Belleville across
New York City and disastrous landing
in Brooklyn has not unnerved the
lad in the least and Capt. Milliman,
who built the ship proposes to send
Owens from Asbury Park to New
York and back on Saturda morning.
August 13, if the weather will per-
NIT.
Among the special features of the
program will be a day for amateurs.
H. E. Denegar, secretary of the As
bury Park Aero and Motor Club,
under whose auspices the big meet
will be held has already closed ar
rangements with several inventors
of new heavier than air machines.
Their fate will be settled Saturday
afternoon, August 2. Ashury Park
itself has a notable aspirant for
aviation honors. He is Alex. Peppin,
a former balloOnist and now a shoe
clerk. Peppin has been five years
perfecting three plan machine with
automatic controls. His machine is
completed and will be moved to the
aviation field early next week.
Handsome silver cups, valued at 81
each, will be given by the club to
every amateur aviation taking part
whose machine makes flight of any
distance. Over $40. 900 in cash
prizes is offered by the club for new
worlds records and this has tempted
Brookins to make an effort to smash
his own worlds record for altitude in
an aeroplane. At Atlantic City last
month. where Brookins and Cartiss
were the principal attractions the
Wright aviator, by a series of quick.
dizzy spiral turns, reached distance
of $500 feet from earth. This climb
into the sky will be repeated at AS
bury Park and perhaps surpassed.
for Brookins is the most daring and
skillful aviator in America todav
and his performances are more ant
to cause pompadour hair than anv of
the so-called "dare devil'' acts
billed in four color posters by "The
Greatest Show on Earth The
other Wright aviators are also daring
navigators of the air, but are better
known in the West than in the State
OF New Jersey.
Asbury Park is planning to en,er-
tain a crowd of one hundred thousand
people during the meet. A canvass
OF accommodations has been made
and the Municipal Information Bureau
has announced that all applications
Tor Accommodations will positively be
taken care Of. The Aero and Motor
Club has spent $50, 900 in laying out
magnificent aviation field at Inter