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HHPMHMHHHHRHHIHMHIHIHHHHBHMHiHHHHIHHBHHMMHHiHRIIKHMHIIHMHHHHHaHHHHHHHH I "LET 'ER GO" LsfG M Ely, Curtiss and Willard, with five Curtiss type Bi-planes and Sammy Perkins with his man-carrying Kites are due to introduce Salt Lakers to a new M set of thrills next Saturday. Curtiss says he wants to fly a mile in 37 seconds here with his racer If he does it will be alright with us. WITH Ave Curtiss bi-planes in their hangars and one of the finest aviation fields to he B found from New York to the Golden Gate m under their 'feet, Eugene Ely, Charles Willard and 1 Glen Curtiss will open the first exhibition of aero- m plane flying in the inter-mountain country at Salt H Lake a week from this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. H On a largo plateau formation on the right-of- H way of the Saltair line, about nine miles west of H town, where the earth is thoroughly drained and B Ely Is depended upon for some of the best flights of H the aviation meet next week. H unexcelled facilities exist for straightaway runs H' by the aeroplanes before they take the air, Cur- Hi tiss, Ely and Willard are scheduled for a series H of flights that will give Salt Lakers their first H glimpse of actual, practical and fancy air naviga- H If one could type the rhapsodies of a Curtiss H engine, it would be possible, perhaps, to awaken Hl in those who read these lines a sense of the ab- H sorbing exhilaration that comes the first time you H'r see a bi-plane shoot along the sod a hundred H yards and then mounting swiftly to the air-lanes, H dip and swerve and rush until the glint of the sun H on whirring propeller blades and shining stays m makes of the moving object against the sky line M a thing of marvelous wonderment something H almost unreal until with a beautiful glide it slips H back to earth and a man crawls out from beside H the sputtering engine to establish, its potential H reality. There can be no description that will H bring to the average person a vivid realization of H what he will witness, and the emotions he will m experience at his first aviation meet. And to JC this fact may be attributed that atmosphere of Hfl passiveness and complacency which invariably M pervades a community, following the announce- H ment of completed arrangements for the holding H of an aviation exhibition. Imagination does not H register on one's nerves the mind-picture of a H flight, and so Salt Lake and Utah generally has H heard with a most ordinary amount of inter' H the unfolding of the plans for the state's first avia- tion demonstration next Saturday at Barrington Park. One great soaring flight a single birdman flashing over the heads of the opening throng, rushing upward until machine and man seem to merge and then back in sweeping spirals and complacent expectation will undergo exactly the same transition here that it has every other place the fliers have gone up it will do a metaphorical somersault into a series of electrified thrills that will put every man, woman and youngster of and around Salt Lake and the rest of Utah into a seventh heaven of ecstatic delight and enthusi asm. The promoters of the coming meet, Benjamin Tibby and James Wade, having witnessed a flight or two, evidently understand exactly what is go ing to happen here a week from today, and their preparations for handling the meet and its crowds are about as thorough and complete as foresight and ingenuity can make them. To begin with, Curtiss, Ely and Willard are three of the greatest aviators now before 'the public. Ely and Willard are recognized particu-0 Tibby and Wade, Ely and Willard are each to 1 make three flights every afternoon of the three K days; each man must remain in the air daily for at least one-half hour; they must remain in sight of the grandstand; Ely must start from within a circle of one hundred feet in diameter and after a flight to a high altitude must alight within a circle of twenty feet in diameter, located in the center of the original hundred foot circle. Ely must make a speed during certain of his flights of not less than fifty miles an hour, and he agrees to try to make sixty -five miles; both E Ely and Willard must fly in any wind, the ve- - J locity of which is less than thirty miles an hour, and in winds of greater velocity it is optional with them in attempting flights. ' Curtiss is under neither bond nor promise to do any of these things. He is the master en gine builder of the world's corps of aviation ex perts and absolutely refuses to bind himself to make flights under any other conditions than those he deems suitable during the met. How- ' ever, he is one of the nerviest and most con scientious men connected with areoplane driving ; Ctpjriiht gio, Undtrwttd & Undtrwotd, N. T. GLENN CURTISS IN A CURTISS AEROPLANE, DRIVING OVER THE BE CH AT ATLANTIC CITY The photograph was taken last summer, and Is one of the best ever secured of a Curtiss machine in action and driven by its inventor larly as daring drivers. Curtiss is the crack en gine builder of the aviation world and takes fewer chances on spectacular air-driving. Ely's performances at San Francisco two weeks ago and Curtiss' remarkable demonstration of his ability to start from and alight on water with his bi-plane, are still the two most noteworthy per formances in the air since the beginning of the new year. So much for the achievements of these men in the immediate past. Here is what they are to do in Zion next Sat urday, Sunday and Monday: Under the iron clad contracts they have signed with Messrs. and building and he comes to Salt Lake next Saturday with a personal assurance to Mr. Wade and Mr. Tibby that if weather conditions are favorable and the aviation field Is as suitable as if is believed at present to be, he will fly in a manner that will far excell the efforts of either of his companions. Curtiss is very anxious to break the world's record for a mile dash in an areoplane. This feat is performed under these conditions two pythons or poles fifty feet high are set up exactly a mile apart and the aviator must fly from one to the other In a straight line and not more than fifty feet from the ear ' To (Continued on .Page 16.) 1