The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-04-07
CREIGHTONS ENJOY
THE EXPOSITIONS
WITNESSED THE DISASTROUS
FALL OF LINCOLN BEACHEY IN
HIS AEROPLANE
Mr.. Creighton Writes Most Entertain
ingIy of the Two Fairs and Cali
fOrnia in General

Mr.. and Mrs. George Creighton, now
touring California and visiting the San
Francisco and San Diego expositions,
witnessed the disastrous fall of the
monoplane which resulted in the death
of Lincoln Beachey, the late renowned
aviator Both Mr.. and Mrs. Creighton
are enjoying immensely their visit to
the fairs and in a most descriptive and
entertaining manner, Mr.. Creighton
has written friends of his observations
which are as follows:
Saw Beachey Fall
I'VE dropped off at Frisco for two
or three days on our way and hap
pened to be out at the fair grounds
the Sunday that Beachey took his fatal
fight. We were quite close to him and
his machine as he started out and at
the time he fell we were watching eve
ry move. He seemed to go way up,
up, up way into the clouds and then
made a straight drop and when within
what seemed 600 or 800 feet of the
ground tried to right his machine, but
the wings had collapsed and he kept
right on and endeavoring to free him
self from the machine. | can assure
YOU that those who enjoy thrills had
them to perfection that day. 1t was
all a great big mistake. Why that
machine didn't seem much larger than
a good sized crow. 1t was the smallest
flying machine I've ever seen and Pm
told it was never meant for trick fly
ing, but for speed for it could make,
I'm told, $50 miles an hour
Been to San Diego
"Of course we've been down to San
Diego. They have a nice fair there
and would be considered large were
it not so overshadowed by the one at
San Francisco The grounds with
their green lawns and wealth of flow
ers and foliage are very very beautiful.
The buildings are very artistic and the
whole conception and the laying out
of the grounds and buildings are very
good. From the grounds you can
look way over to Mexico less than
twenty miles away, look another way
and YOU see the bay and the ocean.
Looking back you may see the Sierras.
I'm afraid however, that the fair man
agement are a little disappointed in
the attendance and most of the people
who do go only stay two or three
days. The weather was delightful as
it always is so they say, and after
running over to Tia Juana in Mex
leo and Point Iona as all tourists do, |
we went north again to Los Angeles
and there's where the crowds are.
In Los Angeles Section
"Why they claim population OF
100000 and it looks as if they might |
have them. We spent week there
and motored every day taking in Long
Beach, Venice, Hollywood, and Pas
adena These last three places we Wis
ted TWO or three times. Then we mot
bred out through the orange orchards
@ Riverside. By the way, good new
ive-passenger machines with careful
lrivers can be rented there for $l.25
md $1.50 an hour. Big six-cylinder
cars for S175, and mind you these are
'eally new first class cars and it's
safe to say there's more cars on the
streets of Los Angeles than in any
.ity in this country. It's very seldom
vou see a horse at all down in the con
ested part of town. OF course it's easy :
O figure out why the prices are SO low.
Iany drivers are there because it's
lecessary for their health to be out
f doors and this offers a means to all
nd. Gasoline is sold for 10, 101a, and {
/ cents and on any of the main trav-
led roads there's a long procession j
n each side and all going like the s
yind The signs read not over 20
liles an hour but drivers seem to |
pell over as under and Letter go and
can't blame them for the roads are
imply great. t
miles and miles, hundreds Of miles
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