San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
People Can Have Picnic
Dinners on the Grounds
at Kelly Field.
kids" GET In FREE
All Under Fourteen Will
Be Admitted to See Race
Without Charge.

Saturday by the San Antonio Aero
nautical Association, after permission
had been obtained from officials at
Kelly Field to allow people who go
to the national race, to spread picnic
lunches on the grounds, and after the
association had decided to allow all
children under IA years of age to en-
ter the gates free of charge.
Because the national balloon race is
being hailed as an educational event,
the San Antonio Aeronautical Asso-
citation decided to allow all children
under fourteen to enter the gates with
out tickets. 1t is estimated that ap-
proximately 10000 additional children
will be obtained in this way, so that
every visiting tot and San Antonio
child will be given an opportunity to
witness one of the most spectacular
events ever billed for San Antonio.
This is the substance of resolution
passed by the San Antonio .Aeronauti-
cal Association Saturday, when as
surance was given the kiddies of San
Antonio and her more than 2,000,O0O
neighbors who have children, that no
little boy or girl will be denied the
right to see the national event.
-Four Main Gates.
Four main gates and four chutes
at each gate will handle the crowds
expected at the national race. The
San Antonio Aeronautical Associa-
ton has decided that people who have
purchased tickets downtown, prior to
the race, will be instructed to follow
one main direct route in going to the
field, and that those who have not
tickets will be diverted through indi-
rect channels to the 'chutes that will
detain them until they have purchased
their tickets. The association is urg-
ing people to buy their tickets down.
town from the merchants who will
have them for sale, as the tremendous
job of handling thousands of people
and automobiles will be a problem
that may assume grave proportions
il the public does not assist in sim
plifying the going and coming of the
crowds.
On Monday, April IA, a huge bill
board will be erected in Travis Park,
ON which a map showing routes to
Kelly Field, and directions to be taken
after arrival for parking, will be
placed. Maps are being printed for.
general distribution, and city, county
and civic officials are working daily
on plans to reduce the problem of pre-
venting congestion and accidents.
Toy Balloons Here.
Kelly Field will have new buildings
completed during the next few days,
erected for the purpose of rest rooms
and shelters for women and children
during the day of the race. These
buildings will be large enough and
numerous enough to accommodate the
weaker half" of the balloon race au-
dience, according to reports from KEEL
ly Field Saturday.
hydrogen for the race will arrive
IN the first carload lot on Monday,
April ii, according to Z. II. Kifer,
chairman of the fuel supply. Gas lines
and mains have been constructed by
the San Antonio Public Service COM
pany on the field, and everything will
be in readiness by Saturday, April 10,
for the reception of the balloons.
Toy balloons received from the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber company
of Akron, Ohio, for use in downtown
business houses, will be inflated with
hydrogen at the st. Mary's street
headquarters of the San Antonio Pub
tic Service company, beginning Mon
day. The stores will be requested to
take their toy balloons to the Public
Service Company, where a hydrogen
drum from Houston will supply gas
for the little balloons, thus making
them longer lived and better equipped
to float.
Free Flight Sunday.
Should the crowd become too large
to be handled on Kelly Field No. /,
No. 2 will also be used. according to
reports received, Saturday. Any
visitor to the race who wants to take
a picnic lunch, will be allowed to use
the grounds for picnic purposes at any
time during the day, provided the pic
MICS are held in places that will not
obstruct or prevent traffic or the car
rying out of the program.
Aeronautical experts expressed their
satisfaction at the two trial flights
that have been made from San Anto-
MO in free balloons, and third flight
IS scheduled for Sunday by Il. II.
Fournier, who will pilot his own ship
IN the national race. Mrs. Fournier
VIII accompany her husband on his
trip, Sunday. Air currents will be
tested, and sOundings will be made.
l. Results of the "fox and goose,
chase on Saturday morning. April ~.
were very much in favor of the entire
programs success, according to aerial
experts who witnessed the event. Prac-
tlcally the entire program was enacted
on small scale, and the direction of
ar currents again proved favorable.
directing. the balloon toward north
and northeast.
a caution against waitirg too late
TO begin the work of initiating the bal
looms to participate in the national
balloon race. has been received by
Lieut.: Col. G. c. Culver. race execu-
tive, from Lieut.. Col. F. p. Lahm. of
me Air Service, winner of the Gordon
Hennett Gun race in 1905. who is
chairman Of the contest committee
OF the National Aeronautic Associa-
ton.
Work All Night.
In previous races preparations for
me start of the national races have
been carried on all night. Colonel
Lahms warning came after the pro-
gram announcing that initiation will
begin nj s o'clock on the morning of
April % had been sent to the national
headquarters.
The San Antonio race. however. is
the first one that has been held under
such favorable conditions ms those tint
confront the San Antonio Aeronautic
Association. race officials point out.
\ sufficient number of men will he
detailed from the army to make II
possible 70 initiate the balloons in q