The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-06
AVIATION MEET
| BOON FOR CITY
Races in Air Will Spur AviatOrs
to Greater Efforts Than
Mere Exhibitions.
iiTAHNS WHO MISS GREAT
EVENT WILL REGRET 1T
Practical Inspiration for the
Youths and Instructive Pleas
ure for Everybody.

Tremendous Importance Is attached to
a the aviation meet which VIII be held
In Salt Lake April 8 10 10. Mere for
NAL statements that contracts have been
signed and other concrete facts about
the meet, do not give TO the average read
er a notion OF what the meet means TO
this city and state.
Not since the G. a. r. encampment has
there been such a crowd will be here
to see the brdmen. The fact that the
Mormon conference is on a that time
insures of Itself 10000 or more visitors
and it is a most conservative estimate
TO expect 10000 more 10 attend simply
10 see the airships.
Will Advertise City.
In addition to all this the meet will
make Salt Lake the cynosure OF all eyes
In every part OF the civilized world Such
OF the wild Tartars the Russian
steppes will probably not know about the
meet. but in every nation where modern
progress is the weekday religion Salt
Lake VIII be advertised.
II Is entirely probable that visitors will
come from New York and even from
abroad. Certainly no better opportunity
was ever afforded to note the latest type
of airship and how II is maneuvered in
the air. strong feature of the meet
are the races that Will be conducted under
OF their kind ever held anywhere. The
famous meet at Rheims and the other one
al Belmont park did not have this fea-
iture
Every close observer Of human nature
knows that contestant In a race will
exert himself more and take greater
chances than II he were merely giving an
exhibition, Heretofore aviation meets
have been exhibitions.
,f This meet will be a racing meet as
well as an exhibition and this in Itself
ch hN,,li T.
Ing lovers OF sport, as we'll as persons
who pride themselves on keeping up with
the worlds progress. from thousands of
miles TO see the races In the air.
Star Aviators Coming.
Ely, the man who flew to and from the
deck OF a warship: Glenn Curtlss, who.
with his new hydroplane. alighted on the
wafer and rose like a duck Brookins
who invented the spiral glide, Knaben-
shue. who was navigating dirigible bal
McCurdy. who almost few across the
gull from Key West to Havana; Parmalee
and Radley are tho men who will be
\ here. II these men. having ACCOMPLISHED
what they have. were TO come without
their airships and without any means of
flying. they would be worth seeing merely
up date notions embodied the progress
of the race, but with their alrships one
cannot blame the farmers boys who will
run away to see the flights.
1t is an opportunity of lifetime and
there is no doubt about there being Il
record breaking crowd here TO see them.
Naturally the visitors will spend some
thing but the practical prosperity the
meet will engender is lost sight of in
the aesthetic pleasure and edihcatlon il
will afford thousands.
IL Is 2 big thing for Salt Lake and the
Utahn who misses seeing the flights Will
regret il all his life. For The youth the
meet will furnish more practIca! inspira-
ton to accomplish something than any
thing else could give him.
Promoters of the meet yesterday picked
out the site for the big grand stand about
Il quarter of a mile east OF the shore
line just 10 the north Of the railroad
track. The grand stand will be 1000 feet
long and viii have eleven tiers OF seals.
Near the center Will be 200 special
boxes.