Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-02-02
Race IS to Begin and End at
San francisco Exposition
Ninety Days Being Allowed
for Unique Feat
ATLANTIC OCEAN IS
GREATEST OBSTACLE
Path CircIing Globe Touches
Principal Cities and Extends
North to Arctic and South
10 Tropics.

s9n Francisco Feb Three hun
drcd thousand dollars, and perhaps
more wlll be offered In prizes to aero
nauts who race around the world in
any yne OF motGr-driyen air craft un-
der The nusplcios Of the Panama-Pa-
clfie International exposition agency
on this sum. $l5O,0O0 will be given
direct by the exposition company and
subscrlpton arrangemonts on foot for
securing the remainder arc said to IN
dicatc AN even larger sum than $500
600. It is said to be the largest prize
nna eycr offered for single sport
Ing event
The race. the climax OF the worlds
acr,nautical activities, Is 10 start ear
y in MAY. 1915 Contestants Will be
allowed ninety days in which TO make
the flight Of approximately 22'OOO
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
elfle ocean, touching the worlds brill
liant capitals The Arctics. the sub
tropics of the Orient, and the Siberian
wastes Specifically the lines in
America run from san Francisco
through Reno, New Cheyenne, Wyo.:
frs thera either 60 Kansas City, st.
Louis or Chicago and ON to New York
Tho Atlantic oeean is conceded TO
De The most formidable stretch in the
race u viii be- cssayed from Belle
ISLE small point between New
Foandland and Labrador Cape Fare
well, Greenland, the next stop, is 6lV
miles away and from cape Farewell to
Reyiavlk. Iceland. IS G70 miles fur
ther. one more jump 10 Stornaway IN
the Hohfldes is $40 miles-and the
Atlantic has been crossed.
That none of these three distances
s impossible. aero experts assert, rs
shown to them by thc recent flight ot
Garros. the French aviator who did
600 miles over the Mediterranean
from Cannes France 10 Tunis, Afri-
ca,
From the Iobrides TO Edinburgh,
London Paris. Berlin, warsaw 81
Petersburg, Moscow and along the
trans Siberian railway down into
Nanchuria and Korea. ana across To
Japan runs the line of flight From
northern Japan TO kuinchatla with
varying routes across the little gap
which separates Asia from North
America, no obstacle Likely 70 be met
Is nsurmountablc il is declared VAN
couver H. G.. Seattle and Tacoma-
Portland 8rr and san francisco
again--and the world is bcltcd.
The ezposiuon's $l5O,0oo viii Doe
cai into three prizcs-one of SlOO,00e,
second of S30.000 and a third Of
10000 Distribution of the prizes of
2la0,1O0 viii be announced later Tins
fund win come from individuals ana
from cities along the line of flight.
Monoplanes, biplancs, dirigibles lly-
iag boats of amy sort, are welcome IN
Ihe ruce. The work Of organization
will fam 10 Arnold Kuckman whose
appointment as the manager of the
bureau of acronautics of the eNposi-
ton Was announced today Mr. kruck-
man formerly was secretary of the
aeronautical society IN New York ana
has To his credit the arrangement oi
lae flight Of Glenn H. Curtiss from
Albany 10 New York in the early days
and the later trans-continental flight
iR which Robert Fowler and Galbfaith
Rogers participated tic will start cast
u few wocks In a path-makins trlp
around the world.
Preceding the start of the race IT.
seit there will be a weeks flying pro
Gram, with prizes totalllng S20,O0o
uttered by the exposition.
The flight around the world IN
ninety days is practicable today, SAID
af' hruckman tonight "A year from
now with advances which viii nave
oeen made in the structure Of all
efatt. it viii be twice as simple.