River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-02-05
AEROPLANE RACE
AROUND THE WORLD
PANAMA EXPOSITION HEADS AR.
RANGE FOR AERO
CONTEST.
100000 OFFERED IN PRIZES
Any Sort of Air Craft May Be Entered
Long Jumps as High as go
Miles Are Greatest Obstacles
to Be Surmounted.

San Francisco, Feb. 3.-Three hun.
dred thousand dollars, and perhaps
more, will be offered in prizes to aero
nauts who race around the world in
any type of motor-driven air craft un-
der the auspices of the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition company.
Climax of Activities.
The race, the climax of the worlds
aeronautical activities, is to start early
in May, 1915. Contestants will be al
lowed 80 days in which to make the
fight of approximately $4,000 miles
around the globe The race starts and
finishes on the grounds of the Panama
Pacific exposition and the course lies
east from San Francisco.
The route as now outlined crosses
the Atlantic ocean, England, France,
Germany, Russia, Japan, and the Pa
cific ocean.
The Atlantic ocean is conceded to be
the most formidable stretch in the
race. 1t will be essayed from Belle
Isle, small point between Newfound-
land and Labrador.
Cape Farewell, Greenland, the next
stop, barring a drop into the water, is
610 miles away and from Cape Fare
we'll to Peyjavik, Iceland, is $40 miles
further. One more jump to Storna-
way, in the Hebrides, is $40 miles
and the Atlantic has been crossed.
No Distance Impossible.
That none of these three distances
is impossible, aero experts assert, is
shown by a recent flight of Garros, the
French aviator, who did 600 miles over
the Mediterranean from Cannes,
France, to Tunis, Africa.
From the Hebrides to Edinburg,
London Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, st.
Petersburg, Moscow and along the
Trans-Siberian railway down into Man
churia and Korea, and across into
Japan, runs the line of flight.
From northern Japan to Kamchatka,
with varying routes across the little
gap which separates Asia from North
America. no obstacle likely to be met
is insurmountable, it is declared. Van
couver, B. c., Seattle and Tacoma,
Portland, Ore, and San Francisco
again-and the world is belted.
No Craft Restrictions.
Monoplanes, biplanes, dirigibles, fly
ing boats of any sort, are welcome in
the race. The work of organization
will fall to Arnold Kruckman, whose
appointment as the manager of bureau
of aeronautic of the exposition is an
nounced.
"The flight around the world in 80
days is practicable today" said Mr..
Kruckman. "A year from now, when
advances will have been made in the
structure of air craft, it will be twice
as simple"
Race Made Certainty.
New YOrk-The aeroplane race
around the world, for prizes aggregat-
ing 100000 was made practically a
certainty when the Aero Club of Am
erica announced that it had promised
it's cooperation in plans for such an
event
The Panama-Pacific Exposition
grounds in San Francisco will be the
starting point of the race, and the
conditions require contestants to fin
ish at the same point within 80 days.
The race will be started in 1915.
"The kilograms state" says the
clubs announcement, that the expo
sition offers $15O,OOO in money prizes
and expects to obtain at least $15O,OOO
more, which will be divided among the
contestants, the first prize to be
100000"