The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-25
SEA BREEzE-TO
 OPEN THURSDAY
BECKWITH RAVENS, HYDRO AEROPLANE PILOT, TO FUR NISH FOUR DAYS OF
 THRILLS.
GENERAL MANAGER GALLAGHER AND HIS STAFF BUSY BOOK
 ING ATTRACTIONS.

Sea Breeze Island, under a comnlete cnange of management, and with . nuynber of the best of amusement at- fractions, will be open for the season on Inursday next. Memorial Day when 1t will open a four days carni- val, the chief feature of which will be flying exposition introducing the Glenn H. Curtiss Hydro-aeroplane.
 captain Thomas S. Baldwin, the seasoned aeronaut, will have direction or the flying and the chief aviator will be Beckwith Ravens, whose dar- ing feats with various types of aero. planes have been eclipsed with his stunts with the land-water-air ma chine General Manager William L. Gall lagher and his business manager Jack .Spurrter and other assistants are ousy booking the cream of European ana American park, fair and carnival novelties for the season and are com- pleting arrangements for capital ar ray or amusement attractions for the four days carnival, beginning Thurs day, with which the new owners will launch the Island into the season.
 Decoration Day will find the Is1 and resplendent in new paint rany of the old buildings dismantled and gone. and steps will be under way for the rehabilitation of the Island as the leading amusement resort of all New England. While the transportation facilities will not be what they will have already been made with the Connecticut Co. for the best of ser vice on the Seaview-Sea Breeze line
 The flying exhibition with the hy- dro-aeroplane will be presented with. out any advance in the nominal price lagher believes this is the first time m the amusement history of New England that professional flyers have been booked to appear publicly for such a small admission.
 Today MT. Gallagher and his assis- ,ants spent most of their time in New York city making final arrange nents for attractions and the sale of concessions for the season. Con ceSslons already sold include the thea Ire where vaudeville will be present. Cd with semi-weekly change of oills; the ball room; the former skat- ing rink which will be converted in- Q palm garden fairyland and many other features
 1 Beckwith Ravens. the flyer, is conn paratively young in the game as com pared to a veteran such as Captain Baldwin: But during his year or nore of professional flights, he has thrilled hundreds of thousands by his daring and skill. The hydro-aero- plane is combination of three forms of navigation, land. water and air The. flights at Sea Breeze will be made principally from Long Island sound. There will be not less than three flights of 20 minutes each, ana for the four days from Thursday to Sunday Inclusive.
 MT. Ravens started in the flying game as a gentleman aviator But the Vaccinations of the thing SO grip ped him that it required little effort for Glenn H. Curtiss, the inventor of him as his chief exponent of the cana. oil1tles of the new devise Mr. Ha- vens. probably the youngest profess s'onal aviator in the business. is ab- solutely without fear, and his manipu- lation of the hydrO-aeroplane is her aided as most sensational