The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-02-06
.AEROP[ANE 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 60
Miles Are Greatest Obstacles
to Be S~urmounted.

San Francisco, Feb. 3.--Three hun
dred thousand dollars, II perhaps
more, will be offered in prizes to aero
nauts who race around the world in
anv type of m~otor-driven air craft un-
der the auspices of the Panama-Pacific
international Exposition company.
Climax Of Activities.
The ace, 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, a small point between Newfound-
land and Labrador.
AapC MI, NAAS AA>-NS
stop, barring a drop into the water, is
61O miles away and from Cape Fare
we'll to Peyjavik, Iceland, is GO miles
further. One more jump to Storna-
way. in the Hehrides. 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 kamchatEa.
with varying routes across the little
gap which separates Asia from North
America, no obstacle likely to be met
is insurmountahle. it is declared. Van
couyer B. c., Seattle and Tacoma.
Portland, Ore, and San Francisco
again-and the world is helted.
No Craft Restrictions.
Monoplanes, biplanes, dirigibles, fly.
ing boats Of any sort, are welcome ID
the race. The work of organizatic-
will fall to Arnold Kruckman, whose
appointment as the manager Of bureau
OF ae%ronautic 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 a 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
lsh at the same point within 90 days.
The race will be started il 1915.
The kilograms state" says the
clubs announcement, that the expo.
sition offers $780, 900 in money prizes
and expects to obtain at least $4,000
more, which will be divided among the
contestants, the first prize to he
100000"