Semi-weekly herald., 1914-10-08
FAIR BEST EVER
VERDICT OF ALL.
Birdman, Motorcycle Races, Baseball Game, Harness
and Running Races, Fancy Shooting, Agricultural and
Horticultural Displays, Arts and Sciences Amuse and
Interest Huge Throne of Peasure-Seekers

While an excellent program was
presented at the fair grounds yester-
day afternoon, the aviation exhibition
was easily the drawing card. The
aeroplane is nearly twice the size of
the one used here last year. 1t is
Of the Wright passenger carrying
type and is said to be the only double
propeller machine built These parts
are Of wood and each measures eight
feot and appear to represent mans
efforts to interpret the birds method
Of flying While conditions Of the
atmosphere here make an exhibition
Of this sort exceedingly difficult
aviator Heth made as successful a
flight rs could be accomplished un-
der the most favorable conditions in
a low altitude, and demonstrated that
PIE ig . lnagtar Of the art in its most
advanced stage.
The exhibition started promptly at
3 o'clock The big white machine
giided the length of the ground oyer
the buildings and off toward the
mouTtain side in the vicinity of the
City coal mine, where it attained an
altitude of about 200 feet. Here an
abrupt turn was made and it COM
menced to sail upward, circling over
the river ground and grandstand un-
iii it was about 500 feet when the
second circle was commenced. Fol-
lowing the same pathway it rapidly
mounted upward until in the third
circle it was nearly 1000 feet above
the earth and the man had become to
the sea of spectators a mere spec
while the white machine seemed al
most a part of the clouds. Suddenly
the aviator started the aeroplane to-
ward the earth, making the rapid de-
scent with billowy lightness. Not un-
til he had almost reached the ground
did the crowd realize that all was noI
well with the machine. But he made
his landing on the east side of the
river north of the grandstand, with
perfect safety
The fair directors and Manager
Berger rushed to the scene by auto
and found that when he had reached
his highest point in the air that a
connecting rod to the engine had
broken, and he was obliged to alight
as quickly as possible to prevent ac-
cident. The break in the machine
made it impossible to carry out the
race between the auto and the aero
plane, but the latter was quickly re-
paired and viii be in perfect condition
today, to feature this part of the
program. The flight was so wonder
full and only words of appreciation
were heard from those who witnessed
it.
Captain Hardy's exhibition Of fancy
shooting held the close attention of
the every member Of the large audi
enee, at a time in the day when the
majority Of people are becoming rest
less. In fact the interest was so
great that it was with difficulty that
the crowd was kept back so the cap
tain could proceed with his part of
the program. Two of his most re-
markablo feats were the outlining of
an Indians head on target and
breaking clay pigeons thrown in the
air by himself at once.
The motorcycle race which occur
red before the aeroplane exhibition,
had four entrants, Cassil, Jemison,
Stevenson and skeels. During the
first round it became evident the con-
test for first honors was between Cas-
| sill and Jemison. For seven miles
i Cassil was easily in the lead Sud
denly Jemison swept past him, and
! continued to gain until the race end
ed with him leading by good mar
gin. Jemison's time for the ten miles
was 13 minutes and 40 seconds, prob
ably the record for this track. Skeels
was third and Stevenson fourth. The
winner received no end of congratu-
lations, especially from the younger
generation who were so delighted be-
cause a Durango boy captured the
honors.
=. In the three-eighths mile running
race Wiley H. received first money;
1 J. A. Naples, second, and Silver
Heels, third.
In the harness rave between Re-
ward G. and Polar Wilkes, the former
was the first to go under the wire.
The ball game between Pennington