The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-08-05

and freight carrying airplanes will
darken the heavens above the new St. y
Paul Air Port, across the Mississippi
River from the Union Station where
within the span of life time moccas-
ined feet broke through the under
brush and the best vehicles of trans
portation were ox-cart and canoe.
The st. Paul Air Port will be open
to the public and preparations have
been made for the handling of a
crowd of at least $4,000 persons.
There is room for double that num-
Der and judging from the many re-
quests made for free trips in the big
planes over the Twin Cities, there
will be delegations from towns in
Montana, Iowa, North and South Da-
kota, as well as from Wisconsin and
hundreds of communities in Mime
sofa.
Mayors of 600 principal cities and
towns in Minnesota, Montana, North
and South Dakota have been invited
to bring delegations of their fellow
citizens to st. Paul to see the unique
air show and participate in special
Northwest Conference on Commercial
Aviation on the evening of August 9.
Business men of Fargo, N. D., and
Winnipeg, Man., already have taken
initial steps to establish air lines to
St. Paul to connect with main line
routes to the East and South.
The invitation from Hayor L. C.
Hodgson of st. Paul states:
"On August 9th, 10th, and 18th,
there will assemble in st. Paul the
largest meeting of commercial air.
craft ever brought together in the
history of aviation. This event oe.
ours in connection with the visit of
the second Annual Commercial Air
plane Reliability Tour for the Edsel
Ford Trophy.
CAT the same time the Army Air
Service at Selfridge Field will send
to St. Paul fleet typifying the lat
est developments in Army Aviation.
This fleet will be in command of Ma
jor Lampiere who was one of the COM
manders of the recent Detroit Arctic
Expedition. Both of these events will
give St. Paul an "Air Show" the
first of it's kind ever to be assembled.
"The Northwest is nature district
for commercial aviation and it seems
to me that we should capitalize the
coming of these events for the pur-
pose Of stimulating interest in the de-
velopment of air lines throughout the
great Northwest.
eve ask, therefore, that your city
send representatives to st. Paul on
August 9th, to remain during the 10Th
and 18th, for the purpose of seeing
the fifty odd airplanes that will be on
exhibition; to meet and confer with
the aviators who fly these ships, and
with the manufacturers who make
them; and to attend special meeting
on commercial aviation to be held
here on the evening of August 9th. /"
More than 100 persons will travel
in the aircraft flying the $500 mile
route between the fourteen cities on
the second annual Commercial Air
plane Reliability Tour for the $500
Edsel B. Ford Trophy and $40, 900 in
prize money. The ships are valued
at $1,500,000 and vary in type from
the small two-seater light airplane to
the huge three-engined craft which
has capacity for eighteen passen-
gers or 5000 pounds cargo weight.
These planes are the most modern de-
veloped. The tour has the official
sanction of the Federation Aeronau-
tique International and of the Ma
tional Aeronautic Association of
America.