El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-21
Is POSSIBLE
BUT RISKY,
AIRMEN SAY
Prizes Amounting to $780,
600 to Be Given; Winner
to Get $4,000.
BATTLESHIPS MAY
POLICE SEA COURSE
Would Require Great En-
durance; Winner Must
Have Much Luck.

/ = AN FRANCISCO, Calf, Feb. PA
~ majority Of experienced ayiators
- believe the proposed aerOplans
flight around the world this summer.
while it will be a marvellous demons
tration Of human progress and effie-
fency. is nevertheless feasible
Features Of the race viii be: Prize
money. 100000. First prize, $50, 900;
distance, $4,000 miles; course, san
Francisco Kansas City, No, St Louis.
No; New York; Belle Island, between
Newfoundland and LabradOr); Cape
Farewell Greenland ReIkjaVik, Ice
, land; StOrnaway, the Hebrides; Edin-
burgh, London, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw,
St Petersburg, MOSCOW, Trans-Sibe
ian railway to Manchuria; VladiTOstOE,
COrea; Kobe and Toxic. Japan, KAN
chatka; East Cape or the Aleutian
islands, Vancouver Seattle and home
Feat after feat Of endurance must be
performed by the aviator who ira
verses the broad American continent
makes the great jumps from island to
island OF the North Atlantic, pursueS
the well Travelled air lanes of Europe.
safely passes over the bleak and for
bidding wastes Of Siberia, and fringes
the almost uninhabited coast line Of
northern Asia and Alaska
Means Only Enormous Luck.
But each of these feats has been
exceeded already in the air records
now on the books. Now all that is
needed is the combination of them.
The performance OF one great air
journey after another means luck.
enormous luck, to a greater degree
than in almost any sporting contest
ever organized
Several aviators have signified their
intentions of entering. They are will
ing to take the risks. They are not
actuated by the desire for gold, for
even the successful contender, who viii
win the $4,000 first prize and also
the $4,000 offered by lord NOrthcIiffe
for the first crossing the Atlantic, win
find his 100000 and perhaps more.
eaten up by the expenses Of his under
taking.
1t is quite certain, however, that
plenty Of men Of large fortunes and
sporting prOclivities viii be found to
finance the air event
The eyes of the world viii be upon
the cOntenders, even more than they
were upon the pioneer aviation racers
in that first meet at Rheims in 1908.
Problem OF the Atlantic.
The attention Of the close students
Of the race is centered upon the prob
lem of the Atlantic. After passing due
east from Frisco across the Sierras,
through Reno, New, Cheyenne, WyO-s
Kansas City, st Louis and New York,
the aviatOrS viii coast along the sea-
board TO Belle island, between New
fOundland and Labrador. Here tbs
flight across the Atlantic will begin.
The flyers will probably head for
6
away. From Cape Farewell to Ice
land to StOrnaway in the Hebrides IS
$40 miles.
Three Enormous Leaps.
Three enormous leaps-610 miles.
$40 and $40 miles None Of them insur-,
mountabIe in itself. But to hit the
bulls eye three times in succession
there's the rub.
Then these seas are not always as
hOspitable as the Mediterranean. which
Roland GarrOs mas now crossed twice,
There are fOgs and wind and rocky
landing places.
But if a row OF warships patrol the
course, lent by their governments in
the interests OF science and human
progress, the risk will not be greater
(fOr instancel than that taken by the
late John B. AIoissant when ne set off
in an untried machine with a fog in
his face to fly from Paris to London
at a time when the Channel crossing
alone was considered almost a miracle
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