Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-08
,lu Fieht of Bird Men Around World Will be Managed
Details of the 2l.OOO-Mile
 Loop-the-Loop Around the World to Start and Finish at the Panama
 Pacific Exposition in 1915

SAN FRANCISCO, March 7.-(Spe. ! ciaD The most tremendous aerial I drama ever played on the globe will | be staged at san Francisco in 1915. !, when the signal is given for the start | Of the great Panama-Paciic In.erna. ! tional Aviation race around the world. l Not only will this event with it's prize ] of s300,000 or more the largest purse ever offered in the history of the world for single sporting event, be the climax of all the world aero. nautical activities. but 1t will stand Tor all time as an immortal epic of himan daring. human ingenuity and marvellous epitome of the progress for mankind.
 News or the great race has been enthusiastically received throughout the world. Auronautis from all the civilized nations. with every descrip. tion of air craft driven by motors Will participate in this stupendous loop-the-loop around the globe. The largest and most brilliant cities of the world, the great plains of the western continent, the Rocky Mount. aims, the steppes Of Russia, the deso- late wastes of Siberia and Manchu. ria, the subtropics of the spiceladen Orient, the ice-bound regions of ,he Artic will be traversed by these in. trepid navigators cf the air.
 The achievement of the feat will mark historic cycle that will com. pare with the crossing of the Atlanic of Columbus and the circumnaviga. ton of the world by the fleet of Ma. gellan in 1922
 kRuckMAN STARTS SOON.
 Arnold Kruckman. the well-known aviation expert who has been ap. poin-ed by the Panama-Pacifc Inter. national Exposition Chief of the Bu. reau of Aeronautacs. will start soon upon trip around the world. travers. ing the entire route of the flyers for the purpose of establishing control poin.s anl conferring with the Gem. missioners that will be appointed by the different nations, to represent them on the great International Com. mission. The function of this com mission will be clearly separate from the aeronautical supervision of the race which will be under the iurisdlc- | tion of the Federation Aeronautical international the body having control Of all international aviation events. Personnned of the commission will be decided by its reduirement in rela. tion to hydrography, meteoro'ogy an1 military and naval science Its exist ence will signify a new step in inter- national progress and will ft.ingly mark the occasion of the most mo misntous international exposition of all time.
 According to the preseH. plan the Commission will be composed Of five men of international prominence from each of the great nations in volved. Their selection will be placed in the hands of the President of the United States the King of England l!hh President of France. the Elm peror of Germany. the Czar, the Mikado. and the Premier of British . Columbia. The men whose names have already been tentatively proposed to represent America on tho nternat- tional Commission are Cautain Wash ineton Irving Chambers, head of the unn.ed States Government Naval . Aviation Department. Captain Samuel Reber, of the Army. Charles D, Wal colt, Secretary of the Smithsonan . institute, and Hudson, Matlm, the aeronautic expert
 of In May
 The s.art of the race wdll be made in May 1915 from the aviation field Of the Panama Pacific International Exposition and the route runs across the continent east to New York. thence to Belle Island, Cape Fare well, Greenland, Reykjavik, Iceland, Hebrides, London, Paris Berlin, St Petersburg. It crosses Siberia to Vladvostok and thence to Tokiol