East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-08-09
A|RMAN WHO FLIES
HERE ARRAN6ES
DARING FEAT

The following program of Aviator
Walter Edwards TO carry mail from
one state to another the first time
such a scheme has been carried out
IN the Pacific northwest will be Of
Interest to Pendleton from the fact
that Edwards has been secured to fly
here on August II and IS. The ac-
count is taken from the Portland.
Journal of Thursday.
beginning Saturday afternoon at
4 O'Clock United States mail will be
carried by aeroplane from one state
to another for the first time in the
history of the Pacific northwest. Wal
ter Edwards, the daring professional
aviator who gave an unannounced
flight in Fred A. Bennett's hydro
aeroplane over the Willamette river
OF letters and other mail from a
temporary substation to be provided
at the Country club track to Van
couver A Sunday flight with mail
Will also be given.
The telegram for the authorization
Of this service was received from the
postoffice department in Washington
yesterday, and provision made for the
substation. At this station letters
will be received to be forwarded to
any part of the world. Each letter
so sent will need only the ordinary
postage, and this postage will be can
celled by the regular stamp used by
official aeroplane mail carriers. Reg
ular clerks will attend to the mail
and authorized agents will receive the
mail at the Vancouver landing place
on the Barracks parade grounds.
Two Days of Flights.
The mail carrying flights will be
the features of two days of exhibition
flights by Edwards. Each afternoon
at 2:SO o'clock he will begin a series
of exhibitions flights, which will in
clude all of the verv latest features.
Attempts will be made to drop base
balls to men on the ground as the
machine passes above through the
air. Spiral glides. long, graceful
dips races with motor cycles and au-
tomobiles and attempts to break the
record for height will be made.
The baseball game will be a very
interesting exhibition, as it will DEM
onstrate the accuracy with which an
aeroplane can be handled. Catchers
provided with ordinary catchers'
gloves. either amateur or profession
al players will be allowed to com
pete in the game and prizes of cash
will be offered for exhibitions of skill
in catching the balls as dropped.
May BE Other Participants.
Whether other aviators, profess
sional or amateur will participate in
the meet Edwards could not state at
present, but it is probable that there
may be others The machine with
which the flight from the roof of the
Multnomah hotel was made will be
used as it is the property of Fred
\. Bennett. for whom Edwards is fly
ing. It is a standard Curtiss BIZ
plane with a 60 horsepower engine
ana Sc foot spread of wings. The
machine is larger than the average
exhibition aeroplane, but is the only
one available.
Edwards is one of the leading fly
ers of the Pacific coast, He intended
To ask for permission to carry the
mail from Portland to Oregon City
in his hydro -aeroplane, but the wreck
ing of the machine by Ernest Ham
mer. an amateur, last Monday, pre-
vented its use.
Aviator Edwards expects the flight
to Vancouver, the landing and the re-
turn will occupy about half an hour
and on h $ return he will give a short
exhibition each day to wind up the
afternoon sport.