The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-16
FOR
AVIATION MEET
Program to Start Friday at 10 a. M
Aviators TO Arrive Tomorrow
Tags to Be Sold Spectators.


The board of governors of the Outing
club met Tuesday morning at II O'Clock at
the Office of Fred H. Harris in the Bar
Der building and final details were ar
ranged for the airplane meet to be held
here Friday.
The following committees were ap
pointed to take charge of the various de-
tails:
bomb committee. d. p. Dewitt.
Hospitality committee, c. A. Harris,
Carl s. Hopkins and G. B. Crowell.
Ticket committee. G. f. Skerry and H.
c.. Rice.
Announcer. c. F. Mann.
Timers and Markers. g. E. Sherman
and ]. r. Helyar.
Country Club dinner committee, L. G..
Tasker.
The tickets for the meet win be in the
form of tags which viii be sold to every
one who attends the meet at the field 1t
is hoped that the people of BrattleboIn
and surrounding towns besides the out of
town visitors will support the club by
buying these tags which will be little in
price. At the same time it is pointed out
that the planes taking part in this meet
represent cost of over $4,000 and
the price charged to see this wonderful
aerial display, which incidentally viii be
the largest ever staged in Vermont, Is
exceedingly low. The Outing club is
presenting this meet with the firm pur-
pose of establishing Brattleboro as an
aerial center and naturally the staging
of this meet entails a heavy expense,
which it IS hoped viii be met by the sale
of these tags Every penny that the Out
ing club receives during this meet will
be devoted to the expenses of the meet
and to no other purpose.
The program and time of events as
fixed by the general committee is as fol-
lows
10 a. m.-Raising of flags and dedica-
1920 a. m.-Squadron fiying-planes
in battle formation.
1915 a. m-Cross country race.
l. to / p. m.-Luneh and inspection
of planes.
1 p m.-Bomb dropping contest.
go p. m.-Landing on the mark con
test.
4 p. m.-Special stunts.
40 p. m-Acrobatic contest-all
planes in the air together.
, p. m.-Inspectien of planes; passen-
ger fights.
s p. m.-Dinner at the Country club
in honor of visiting airmen and the an
nual meeting of the Aero club of Yer
mont.
The aviators are expected to arrive
here Thursday afternoon. and those who
come from Boston and New York as well
as plane that viii fly from Coventry
will drop handbills enroute advertising
the meet
\ movement is under way to establish
an aerial mail station here for the day.
and if permission can be secured from
the postoffice department at Washing
ton. mail for Brattleboro will be accepted
in Boston and New York and viii be
stamped Aerial Mail Service" 1t is
thought that letters sent in this manner
would be treasured greatly as souvenirs
by those persons receiving them
There will be sufficient opportunity for
passenger carrying and it is planned to
accommodate people who wish to make
flights at O'Clock and after in the after
noon. 1t is thought that the rates for IL
minutes will be SO a single person and
SO for the same length of time when two
people are carried
Gov. James Hartness is expected to
arrive in Brattleboro early Friday
morning, and he will make short adj
dress at the> dedication exercises. He is
planning to stay over for the meeting of
the Aero club of Vermont, which viii be
held st the Country club at o'clock in
the evening.