St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-04-13
THE HOISANT AIRBIRDS
WILL FLY FOR 0PE-
IOUSAS PEOPLE,
Will Be Here on the % and
2Sth, Under the Auspices
of the Local Elks.

Mr.. George C. Johnson, repre-
senting the Meisant Internationa
Ayiators, the company of daring
bird men who have been giving
such remarkable flying exhibi.
ton and attracting such trernen.
dous crowds at New Orleans,
Dallas, Tex, Shreveport and the
other larger cities Of the South
during the past few weeks, ar
rived in Opelousas last Saturday
and Immediately got in touch
with the executives of the local
lodge of Elks, regarding that
organization holding a big avia-
ton meet in the city of 0pelou-
sas on the 9th and 18th of April.
The Elks took up the PROPOSE
tion and on Monday last the con-
tract was signed by Mr.. L. II.
Mornhinveg, A. S. J. Campbell
and Mr.. Isadore Isaac; these
gentlemen arranged to bring the
Moisants here after instructions
from the Exalted Ruler and other
members of the Lodge who had
met to take up this matter. The
Elks will furnish a guarantee to
bring the Moisants here and hold
the Aviation Meet and the pro-
fits over and above the guarantee
will go to the treasury of the
Elks Lodge. A great campaign
of spectacular advertising will be
participated in for this great
event. The country will be
posted for 35 miles in every di-
rection. The railroads will be
asked to make special rates and
run excursions as they do at the
aviation meets in all the larger
cities. Every effort will be made
by the local committee and the
Moisants to bring a big crowd
here for this occasion and stimu-
late every branch of business in
Opelousas.
In securing the Moisant avia-
tors for the Opelousas Meet, the
Elks have undoubtedly executed
a master stroke Of business. The
Moisant Company are equipped
with a large factory at Hemp
stead, L. l., where monoplanesI
are built and turned out at the
rate of five a week and shipped
10 all parts of the world, and
they are equipped to send the
atest improved and fastest mono
planes to any meet they partici-
pate in. Adjoining this factory
S the Moisant School of Aviation
With an immense flying field, !
1angars, tutors and all complete,
where licensed pilots of the air
md some of the worlds greatest
have been created. Such
iyers as ST. Croix Johnston, Sc
loir Alvarez, Miss Mathilda Moi
ant, Harriet Quimby and many
,thers equally as famous are
graduates of this institution. I
There is never a flyer of the
Ioisant aggregation but who
must prove his ability before he
soes in the air as an exhibition
Iyer.
One of the corps of aviators
Who viii appear in the Moisant
company at Opelousas is Mr.. +
Harold Kantner, known as the
'peed King of the Air. Although
lr. Kantner is but a young man
le has won many speed trophies
t the large aviation meets in
his country and in Europe. Mr..
zantner will be seen in some
wonderful flights at 0pelousas
With a Moisant Monoplane of 70I
I. 2. capacity.
This big monopIane should
rove a great attraction here as
is the first of this type of ma
hine to be flown in Ethis section
f Louisiana. When in action in
he air it resembles a. monster
The machine Kant
er will use here has a speed in
20-mile wind of seventy miles
n hour. Kantner's greatest
peed is 102 miles an hour. This
ype of monoplane is the same as
sed by the late John B. Moisant
i his famous trip across the
inglish Channel and around the
tatue of Liberty in New York
[arbor.
Aside from exhibition flights
1e Moisant aviators while in
Ipelousas will demonstrate the
alue of the monoplane in war
ire by throwing bombs to the
round where the outlines of a
will be traced on the
cid. The aviators will also
low how a monoplane can be
sed in the times of real warfare
J a scouting proposition.
A special program viii be ar
lnged for each day of the meet, ;
cross country, altitude, !