The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-11-18
TONY JANUS IS
HERE TO SELECT
PLACE TO LAND
Attraction in Connection With New
Levee Day is Assured
Success.
TELLS ABOUT HIS NEW
MODEL HYDROAER0PLANE,
Leaves St. Louis Monday or Tuesday,
Arriving Promptly Thanks
giving Morning.

Tony Janus, the most popular
aviator in the country, arrived in
Cairo yesterday morning TO look
over the ground and select the best
possible landing for his craft when
he completes his trip from st. Louis
to Cairo on Thanksgiving day. He
was met at the train by r. @. NJ.
Maloney, who Is managing the ceie-
brations here ON Thanksgiving day
Friday and Saturday, the last named
being New Levee Day.
The trip by flying boat will be
started from st. Louis next Monday
night or Tuesday morning Mr..
Janus will stop for fuel and lodg-
ing at Chester and Cape Girafdeau,
Mo-. and will stop again close
enough to Cairo to arrive here be-
tween ten and twelve o'clock
Thanksgiving morning.
Tells About Craft.
When asked about the machine
he will use for the trip. Mr.. Janus
said last night: THE flying boat
is the latest invention of the aero
plane business and is strictly water
and air craft. 1t has a % foot boat
for the body of the bird. In this
beat is the engine, tanks and pas,
.scnser seats, The wings spread IS
feet and from the top wing 10 the
bottom Of tho boatit In eight feet.
lNIs iii III u Hsats waela III algeps
tic wings normally floats lightly
upon the water and can be padded
about like canoa. When the motor
IL started, II glides more and more
rapidly upon the water until II
finally glides into the air at a speed
Of 10 miles an hour. 1T takes rs
horse power to drive this machine
True Boat.
Unlike the hydroaeroplane with
which | flew to New Orleans last
fall, this machine is a true boat
with wings attached, and is capable
of lighting storms and rough wenth-
er and is the type with which air
men will eventually cross the ocean.
This machine never has been ex-
hibited south of St Louis before
haYing been all summer In the
northern lakes and rivers
Mr.. Janus, with w. T. Walt and
Charles Gilhofer called on some OF
the business men yesterday after
noon. and raised about one-third of
the amount necessary to make the
celebration success. They ex-
pressed themselves as assured that
the balance OF the funds would be
today. ~,
New Levee Day.
This celebration ID to be the spec
iaf feature of New Levee Day, which
Is Saturday. November 20. when
throngs of people from so to 20 miles
around will come TO the city to sec
the work which has been done to
keep the water out of Cairo. The
sight of this gigantic undertaking
alone will bring a great many
strangers TO the city, but the added
attraction of Tony Janus in his
flying boat is expected to fill the
city for the three days when he will
fly, When Janus was at severSr
northern resorts last summer. his
date many times eonfiicted with
county fair or some other ce' ebra-
tion. but he invariably drew as
large a crowd as could be aecommo-
dated at the places where he ex-
hibited.
All the merchants here are en-
thusiastic over the prospect of New
Levee Day, and expect to reap the
benefits in the sale of goods to out
of town customers.
Girard Parsons, a capitalist and
well known sportsman of Riverside.
Mo-. will accompany Tony Janus
on his fight from st, Louis.