The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-22

MAY AIR MEET
BIGGEST EVER
Great Number of Aviation
Contests to Be Held In
Atlantic City
FLIGHTS FOR PULITZER
TROPHY BIG EVENT
Going to the Man Making
the Longest Fight-This VIII Dem
onstrate the Commercial Possibilities
of the Airship-S 5o, 900 in Prizes.

ATLANTIC CITY, April 2l.-The sec
ond Pan-American Aeronautical conven-
ton, slated to run here throughout the
month Of May, gives every promise of de-
veloping into the ace of aviation meets
in the worlds history. Featured by many
notable contests that will try the war
won skill of scores of young men who
winged the Hun under all sorts of battle
conditions, the big objective of the meet
will be to demonstrate the peace posi-
.bilities of the aircraft evolved under wars
pressure
Sensational interest will be attached to
the FIVE Saturdays included in the months
program, when the spectacular stunts OF
competition, in which many aces of the
allied nations are entered, will be staged
while every day activities of the conven-
ton will be interesting because of the
tests OF all types of winged ships and the
lectures by aviators and other aviation
experts at the convention headquarters
on the Steel Pier
Preparations for the meet are now
nearing completion The big Municipal
aviation field on the west side of the re-
sort has been graded down and. full ia
eiities installed for aircraft about the
| field, which measures almost mile
square.
| Included among the Saturday features
| viii be seaplane contests over measured
Icourses for both straightaway and alti-
tude work, and the special intercollegi-
| ate race, in which Harvard, Yale. Column
! hio
| the leading universities will be represent.
ed. Land airplane contests, dirigible rae
Is, kite balloon speed events in ascend
ing, descending and manoeuvyrIng, para
/ chute competition and a novelty event
! Tor the "avlettes bicycles and motor
cycles equipped with wings-are on the
program for the week ends, while on the
daily list are exhibits of airplanes, mo
tors, accessories, demonstrations and tests
Of sea land planes motors, dirigibles, bal
looms, passenger and lifting tests, showing
/ the commercial possibilities of the lighter
and Observation-Disclosures machines
1t is expected that not less than mil
lion people will witness the contest fol
the Pulitzer Trophy, offered by The
World and the st. Louis Post Dispatch
| The keen interest which has been dis
IidAtu III lills iollg ulStdnCc event. anG
the number of expressions of intentions
"a enter, give assurance OF spirited rivalry
making it. almost certain that the montl
will see all American. records broken
sixteen prize contests have already beer
arranged by the promoters of the con
vention. The promise is given that there
| will be q large number OF others, man,
Of FIRST class importance
i The Pulitzer Trophy, valued at 5000
& viii 90 to the aviator making the longes
flight to or from Atlantic City Follow
ing the offer by The World and the Pos
Dispatch, the Boston Globe, Cleveland
Plain Dealer and Detroit News also Of
fcred trophies. with FIRST, second an,
third cash prizes of $1,000, $500 and $25
respectively for the best flights betwcel
i the city in which those newspapers an
1 published and Atlantic City The Allan
Ia Journal also has offered cash prize
Of $1,000, $500 and $3.50 for the best flight