Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-08-31
Aviatrice Agrees to Make
Flight From Bar North
west Of the City.
SHE INSPECTS FIELD
Says She Would Make Pine Bluff to
Little Rock Flight Tuesday
For $500.

AS foreeasted in the Graphic Satur-
day morning, Miss Katherine Stinson,
the young Pine Bluff aviatrice who is
to make three flights in Pine Bluff
Labor Day, under the auspices of the
Central Trades Council. arrived in
Pine Bluff yesterday morning. She
was met at Union Station by a COM
mittee from the Central Trades Coun-
Gil and business men, who feared that
she might take the advice of her me-
| chanician and select an aviation field
east Of the Cotton Belt shops, and who
| urged her to, if possible, select field
nearer the business section in order
hto' keep ehe Labor Day crowd down
| town.
/ Miss StiinsonlspeM practically all OF
the day visiting sites to select an avia-
ton field for her flights on Monday.
She declared that The field east of the
Cotton Belt shops was an ideal start
ling and landing point, but that it was
entirely too far from the city's bust
ness section, where 'all of the people
would be congregated on on Labor
Day. She visited the sandbar on the
opposite side of the river and the one
adjoining the Walker plantation,
northwest of the Court House and Ho-
tel gJeffersons she finally decided to
lsesthe northwest bar for all three
flights IA l.. -
"The site is not at all satisfactory"
said Miss SIinson. but the commit
tee has br0mised to gut the high grass
and roll the bar and if that is done
we'll l can make my flights with ease
from that field. 1t will require a
smooth opening of at least 400 by 500
feet fol.mc to get away and lift the
maehifsipta the air. J.
Miss Stinson, who is an intimate
friend of Miss Stella Matz, of this city.
was the EATERS guest during the aft
ernoon for an auto ride, but she found
:, | II uCCCoSdl W u duodCI uIuCu JUDI
+, ness during her trip about 1.-The city.
She settled her freight bill at the Cot
, ton Belt freight office late in the aft
ernoon and will unload her big Wright
aeroplane probably early Monday
, morning and have it moved to the
sandbar and put in good working Or
der for the aeroplane flights. Her
, mechanician, r. E. Wagner, also visit
+ ed the sites again yesterday with Miss
Stinson, with a view to aiding her in
selecting the aviation field. Mr.. Wag-
, ner was opposed to Miss Stinson US
ing the bar northeast of thsgcity, fear
:, iag accident to her big machine, ON ac-
cohnt of the ruts and hiips that have
formed there. She also safd that the
{ n6gtheast sandbar WAS not satisfac-
tory, but favored the one northwest Of
+ the city, if it was put in shape.
$ Miss Stinson, who formerly master
fda big automobile in. this city before
She was licensed as an aviatrice
@ weighs but 104 pounds, but she bash
4 fully and womanlike declined to say
how old she was, when a bold report
er asked her yesterday. She appears
s to be mere slip of girl and is not
q over twenty-years old at the most.
o Miss Stinson has several contracts
which she will fill next month at va
y rious state fairs over the country. She
y is to make seven flights in one week
7 at Springfield. Illinois, state fair; sew
en- at the Montana state fair to be
held in Helena, and seven from the
= mountain tops in Colorado, during the
v state fair
S Miss Stinson said that if she Car
II arrange the proper inducements she
# will make Il Pine Bluff to Little Rocl
Is cross country flight on Tuesday OF The
y coming week, 1t would be necessar.
l. however for the business interests O
d the two cities and the towns between
e to raise $500 if the flight is made.
s In making her third flight Monda.
afternoon Miss StlnSOn may decide Il
make her last landing east Of the Cot
ton Belt shops, in order to avoid NOV
ing the machine back to tae south sid
i, OF the Arkansas river for shipment
Of BY landing east of the city the mach
II inc, she says, could be placed in DO.
re car there and shipped from the cit,
10 without any great trouble.
- While making a flight at Cone.
\. Island in Cincinnati several days ago
n Miss Stinson fell about $50 feet il
- her Wright machine. She avoided in
Ut jury by floating down to earth, bu
= the machine was badly damaged. Al
:. :. Che repairs have been made. however.
!, We have just received a car Q
4 the famnuS Garland Natural Gas Coo