Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-09-30

either year, about $4,000 being tn
i gate receipts. About 5000 person
were ON the grounds, including tn
helpers, season ticket holders, etc
Automobile day next Saturday shoult
bring the receipts much above las
year.
The weather man held back his
rain as long as possible. This morn
ing at o'clock his wagon which
had been slowly filling during the
past few days, overflowed with pre-
cipitation all over Dickinson coun-
ty.
The automobile races have been
postponed until next Saturday and
all the entries with the exception
OF the Jones Six have said they will
have their cars and motorcycles
here ready to run that day. If the
weather conditions are favorable a
big crowd will be in town that day
and the whole program as was ar
ranged for today will be carried out.
Scores Of farmers and people from
Junction City and Salina have said
they would be here for the races no
matter to what date they were pulled
off. The automobile men of the town
are agitating the races for the first
day Of the fair next year. Concor-
diaqhad a crowd of 5000 people out
the first day of the fair and they
held their auto races that day. III
this plan works other places it
might prove very feasible here.
5000 at Fair
Dickinson's tenth annual fair
closed yesterday with a record crowd
at 5000. The, afternoon
was more than filled with three
fast races, running races, the three
legged race, the football game and
he flight Of A. X. Longren which
ended so disastrously. Thirty-five ,
hundred pounds of watermelon ,
we're consumed by the visitors and
hey went faster than the meat
The first train arriving
n Abilene Friday morning was =
rowded with school children from
towns and as early as
o'clock automobiles began to pour
nto the grounds. e
Flight Proves Disastrous y
A. X. Longren, not wanting to =,
isappoint the thousands of people l..
-hO wanted to see him fly started =,
is flight under very adverse con- ~ ~
itions. He was not off the grounds
nd had risen just above the trees :,
hen a strong gust of wind tipped
Is biplane and he crashed to the
round and into an automobile
-iven by Fred Neiderheiser of Man
lester, who tumbled out and mar
'wly escaped being caught under Di
% top. Mr.. Longren was pinned be- or
veen his machine and the car and M
Iffered a broken leg, severe cuts n
/ the head and internal injuries. gr
Mr.. Longren, who was somewhat ro
ated by his successful flight an
lursday in the south wind, thought lol
would be able to fly Friday un- ty.
r the same conditions. The wind in
Is stronger than the day before on
t the aviator did not wish to dis thu
point the thousands of visitors bill
d against the wishes of his wife Itir
de the flight which ended so dis eve
When Mrs. Longren saw to
} machine lurch in the gale she eaC
:ame frantic and kept saying 81 the
yged him not to go, begged him 9th
to co." She fell to the ground
Mysteries when she heard the
chine crash to the ground, but =
} Immediately taken to her hus- wn
ID by DR.. Conklin in his automo- ma
rhe aeroplane had just risen lllO
we the tree tops south of the Ine
ck when in a turn to the south Nen
4 a strong gust caught the eael
aes. The machine lurched, then awe
J righted and as it was going per
ther gust caught the planes on cou
top causing them to dip and was
hing in the treetops sweryed the hui
Iahe to the south and to the
md. craahans into fha ,nar whseh n