The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-07
CHICAGO TO HOLD
AVIATION MEETING
Greatest Airmen of the World
to Compete at Lake City
for 10 Days.
BY STANFORD MCFARLAND.

CHICAGO, Sept. THE aviators of
the world have gathered in Chicago.
For thirteen days they will spread
their mechanical wings in an enter
tainment like a gigantic three-ring cir
Gus. Through every sort of competitive
aerial vancouver they will contest
Through a program so vast that it
has required three separate aviation
the biggest air show the world has yet
eeen
On September 9 the meeting will be
fnaugurated with the blue ribbon ev.
ent of aviation--the aeroplane race for
the Gordon Bennett trophy. The Cor
don Bennett race is a speed affair pure
and simple. This will be the fourth
race for this trophy and as each race
has seen the competition become more
firmly established, the qualifications
land conditions have been made exceed
Hagly difficult in this one. This year
the aviators who set sail in the race
will face a greater strain on their
NERVES than in any similar contest
held previously. They will be obliged
Ito fly so kilometres further than
HORNED contestants flew. The course
this year being 900 kilometres, or
,18498 miles. 1t will be sailed around
"a circular course 81 miles in length,
requiring 40 circuits to complete the
distance.
For this race one field has been pre-
pared. 1t IS in the suburb of Clearing,
west of Englewood, near the banks of
1.-THE drainage canal. No admission will
ibe charged for the initial day.
That there may be no interference
with the race, it has been arranged
that the two succeeding days be free
LOT prize contests and should atmos-
tpheric conditions make the first day
selected unfit for the race it will be
run the next or second succeeding
day:
After the Gordon Bennett race the
taviators will move to Cicero Field, the
Irregular flying field of the Aero Club
of Illinois. Here for four days, Sep
TENDER II, 10, IA and Is, the program
will continue. If the Gordon Bennett
Hevent is run on Sept. 9, the two open
days will be given to the aviators for
turning up their machines and exhib-
fiting them to the public.
The program at Cicero will consist
Iof various contests and minor races
ALTITUDE and duration. flights will be
features.
After the closing bomb is fired on
the night Of the fifteenth, there will be
a hasty exit from Cicero. The aviators
will appear next day at Grand Park,
fronting Lake Michigan and lying just
east of the Loop district" Hydroaero-
planes will be the star feature of the
events to be staged there. Dips to the
surface Of Lake Michigan, flying from
the water and all sorts of aeronautic
combinations have been planned. In
addition cross country and cross wa
tier flights will start from and return
to Grant Park and altitude and dura-
ftion flights will be staged.
The Grant Park event will begin
Sept. Is and will close Sept. al.
The most ambitious feature of the
meet was finally abandoned This was
an 1900 mile race to start from and
end in Chicago and circle the cities of
the middle west. As first planned, the
race was to go as far west as Omaha,
to touch Kansas City and st. Louis,
circle through Indianapolis, Columbus,
o., Toledo, Detroit and finally come
back to Chicago. The Official reason
given for abandoning the race was
lack Of suitable control stations. The
committee found that so many Difficult
ties would be encountered in attempt
ing this flight that it would practically
be impossible to run it as it was sched-
uled.
Although to the aviators interest
centers In the Gordon Bennett cup
race, there are number Of other fea-