Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-09-02

where the free barbecue was served.
For four hours Gershon Moore. +. E.
sParnell. l.. e. Cheek. ON. Lyons and
Names Duff carved the meats, WHICH
Ia horde of agile walters carried to the
long tables arranged in the grove
where the people thronged in anxious
Meat barbecued to turn, with pick
lies, bread, sauces and other edibles,
Twas spread upon the long tables and
leach hungry crowd was succeeded by
|another for several hours. The bar
becue committee, composed of r. F.
Price, l.. e. Cheek, Evan Parnell, Ed
Harvey, Thurman Louthan and Mayor
Bloom had successfully arranged this
Feature of the celebration and were in
attendance, seeing that all were amply
provided for. 1t is estimated that 5,
the four hours from 1890 to 2:30.
.Aereplane Flights. -.
Miss katherine Stiason, the former
Pine Bluff girl aviatrice, floated over
Pine Bluff most gracefully yesterday
AFTERNOON in her big Wright machine
at an altitude of $500 feet Nearly
thirty thousand people with upturn~
ed faces, watched her exhibition of
bravery and wondered at the spunk
of this mere slip of a girl in facins
| death in heavier than air machine.
The flights made by Miss Stiason-
three of them in all-were more
graceful and thrilling than those
made in this city on White Way Day
several years ago by Brindley, Reth
and MITCHELL
Owing to the high wind and the un-
manageable crowd Of more than two
thousand people who gathered on the
sandbar, northeast of Pine Bluff, tn.
flights were not pulled of on
schedule time. The wind was ex-
ceptionally troublesome to the avia-
trice and even after she decided to
attempt her first exhibition. she
found the air currents dangerous at
heighth of 500 feet. After she
climbed above this mark she found
air conditions better and gave the
people a most attractive and graceful
exhibition in mid air.
With thousands of people lined
along the south bank OF the Arkansas
river, waiting anXiOus1y for a glimpse
of the human bird in air, Miss Stin-
son got into her seat and started the
motor. Her mechanican, r. E. Wag-
ner, fearing the treacherous air cur
rents that We're evident. induced her
70 wait little while longer.
promptly at SOP p. m. Miss Stin-
'oa gllded from the sandbar and
0owly climber into the air. She
was headed due east After reaching
point east of the Cotton Belt shops
pug clrcled and headed for the center
y Inc city, climbing higher and
u'eier as she floated westward.
a.'ef going over what appeared to be
onVe street, she made graceful
4'h and went down the river, circl-
As at the eastern limits and moved
y 'he bend of the Arkansas, north
'o'ward. She kept going until she
~ figured her distance Well and
~ curved and sped directly to her
sung point, making a most grace
'ahdlng to within ten feet of
she started She was in the
exactly eleven minutes.
'''er her first exhibition Miss Stin-
u, said that she had gone to an al
VI LOO feet In the first five
ss9red she says the air was rough
mat 1t kept her machine rock
r., 'ncessantly. making it extremely
'su'l Tor her to keep in the bal
%. alter reaching the 1900 foot
ID MISS Stinson says it was easy
80 The view of the city from
sle says, was beautiful. She