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6 FIRST AVIATION MEET IN AMERICA CLOSES BRILLIANTLY SEES BIG FUTURE IN AERONAUTICS MILLIONAIRE NEW YORKER WRITES TO CLASSMATE COMPANION OF HARMON ACROSS ATLANTIC IS SANGUINE Declares That Man-Bird Chicks Will Multiply and Fill the Sky Befor: Very Long One of the college classmates of Aug ustus T. Post, the New York million aire, An herst graduate and booster of the a\ I itlon game, not long ago re cleved a letter from the enthusiast that Js at least optimistic as to the possibili ties of the navigation of the air. Mr. Post will be remembered by avi ators, aeronauts and the general read- Ing public as the man who narrowly escaped death a year or two ago In the balloon in which he and another aeronaut were taking part in an inter national race. His later follows: "A tlavor of aeronautics Is around my pen, the. paper has the scent, and a hot one, too, right from Hheims, where we were this morning and will be this afternoon, for that is the name of the, place where the flying here is done as well as France. They have the best wine cellars and wine in the world here too, but that has nothing to do with flying, I am sure. "I came up here with Clifford B. Har mon from New York, with whom in the balloon New York, as aide, I made the second longest official trip in a balloon and the third longest ever made—4B hours and 26 minutes, when ■we reached an altitude of J4.200 feet. Old Los Angeles Mentioned "From that performance, practically living in the air—for we took food and clothing and instruments ami enough to keep us all for a week—we now come to the areoplane, where a thirty-minute flight by an amateur is considered good and the world's record Is but little over four hours. Here is the nest of the bird-men, hero is where they roost. There are three good eggs ready to be hatched out and plenty of old shells lying aroujid on the junk pile. "Capt. Thomas S. Baldwin, the father of aeronautics, also is here building his new dirigible balloon, and Mr. Cur tiss planning how he can win the Michelin cup which Mr. Wright says cannot bo won unless a flight is made from dawn to dark. I have visited also the instruction grounds at College park, Maryland, where Mr. Wright has in structed the army officers, and as the idea is passed beside machines aero nauts are made, which Is the very lat est step in the progress of the art, the human one, and the very point where it becomes interesting to us all because it comes nearer and nearer until it will drag us into its net and we ourselves will have a chance to fly. Success Not Far Awa^ "The time is not far off, because It is like population, it comes slow when there are only two parents like the Wright brothers, and the curious thing about this is that the parents of the man-birds are both men, but when there are many, each with a brood, the chicks will multiply and fill the sky. "This is rather a humorous view, but I am on the spot, I have the point of view, and this is the landscape or sky scape as it looks from here. I would like to send you all some of the flavor of the wine. As Lincoln said when they told him Gen. Grant drank whisky, 'Find out what brand. I want to give it to some of my other general?.' This is the Curtiss brand, and it is good. I heartily recommend and indorse this kind of mental food. It has made a great many think. I. hope It will mak> you. I am lecturing this winter and Writing on this subject too." PHOENIX BIDS FOR FLYERS PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 20.—Arrange ments are about completed for raising $15,000 for an aviation meet to be held heie three days early in February. Curtiss, Hamilton and Willard agreed to come here for a guarantee of $12,000, and local people held a meeting today and planned to raise that sum by sub- 1 An Orange county farmer lost a cow in a queer manner. The ani mal in rummaging through a sum mer kitchen found and swallowed an old umbrella and a cake of yeast. The yeast fermenting in the poor beast's stomach, raised the umbrella and she died in great agony. We cannot, of course, vouch for the truth of this story, but we can emphatically warrant the age and purity of all our goods. They con form to all the requirements of the pure food laws. Week End Specials SONOMA CLARET—An excellent table wine; try It. The French have no dyspepsia; they drink claret C(\ r wine. 7uc grade, gallon O\J\> SHERRY Invaluable for culinary purposes. $1.00 grade, 7c _ gallon - I OC TOKAY WINE— aristocrat of Winedom. . $1.50 grade, (g 1 a a ga110n.... *I.UU "MALT MARROW"—The nursing mother's friend; worth <C 1 7C $2.60, dozen ....*>*•■ 0 RICH GRADE WHISKEY—Age and purity guaranteed by Uncle Sam's stamp over the neck of each bottle. Worth $1.60. or. bottle OOC Grumbach Wine Co. '649 CENTRAL AYE. , Pnone»—Main ;.'!>.'.; Home F8286. Mechanicians Begin Work of Dismantling Aeroplanes as Great Aviation Meet Ends r ** 1 jh fe'r; j» By | The above photograph, shows Paulhan's corps of mechanical experts taking the Farman machine to pieces after closing of contests. —rhoto by rah: FINANCIAL SIDE OF MEET SUCCESS CONTRIBUTORS TO RECEIVE THE PROFIT William M. Garland in Statement Re views Results of First Avia. tion Meet Held in America "Those persons who came forward in our hours of need with subscriptions amounting to more than $43,0u0 in sup port of the Aviation week program wo can pay back dollor for dollar together with an interest of 2T> per cent on their money," said William M. Garland, one of the members of the Aviation com mittee in a discussion yesterday on the success of the great meet. "I feel ontident," continued Mi. Garland, "that Aviation week has done more for Los Angeles in spreading her name over the globe than anything we could possibly have done. Too much credit for its success cannot be' given to H. E. jrtuiuington, who, with the public spirit, that has always characterized the man, threw $10,000 into the breach at a critical moment inspiring confi dence in our project, nor can too much credit be given to others who helped, although in smaller amounts.' "I believe," continued Air. Garland, "that out ot this great event that has just closed will spring an international and annual aviation program that every year will send the njime of Los Angeles resounding over the gloli> the aviation center of the world. Our climate and our public splritedness to gether with the way the'city has re sponded to it makes this more than possible." "I admit," said Mr. Garland, "that as a committee we have made some mistakes, but we are the wiser for them and will profit In a future event by our mistakes in the past. In the first place, we were too small in num ber and were overburdened with work. The committee instead of comprising merely seven men should have had a membership of fully twice that number, divided into separate committees de tailed to separate work. This would have equalized things for us to a de gree, whereas we could have done fuller justice to the things we did do. An other thing we were not entirely fa miliar with was the amusement game, and In this respect we were at a decid ed disadvantage." According to a report turned in last night to Treasurer Perry W. Weldner by the auditing committee, composed of John S. Mitchell and John Lucken bach, the total amount of money re ceived from ticket sales amounted to $137,520.30; general admissions amount ed to 176,466; grand stand seat sales totaled 78,1*^; auto park receipts, ?; {jOB. FRESNO DECIDES TO HOLD AVIATION MEET FRESNO, Cal., J;.n. 20.—At the meeting of the chamber of commerce this morning it was decided that the offer made by the representatives of UM Frank H. Johnson Mercantile ' company would be accepted and that LOS ANGELES HERALD: FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21, 1910. an aviation meet would be held in Fresno next week, commencing Thurs day, January 27, and lasting through Sunday, January 30. The report of the Frank H. John son Mercantile company promised that he would have Willard with his Cur tiss aeroplane .".nil Knabenshue and Beachey in the two dirigibles here for the meet and that Fresno could rely on seeing remarkable flights. He stated that Till rd was anxious to establish records and, with this in view, the chamber of commerce has offered a reward of $5000 to the aviator that breaks the height record and of JSOOO to the aviator that breaks the speed record. This is expected to bring other aviators to this meet to compete for this prize. The Frank H. Johnson representa tive states that, if the climatic condi tions during the meet were the same as today, he felt confident Willard would succeed in breaking the record. PROF. LOWE EXPLAINS HIS BALLOON PLANS Pioneer Aeronaut Expects to Carry Passengers Across Valley in a Dirigible—Will Cost $50,000 . [Special to The Herald.] PASADENA, Jan. 20.—One last de parting look was taken at aviation, first hand, this evening when Prof. T., C 8 Lowe, after whom Mount Lowe is named and who built the Mount Lowe railway, made formal announcement in his own opera house of his dirigible balloon plans. Prof. Lowe made what many believe to be the longest flight ever made in a balloon. That was dur ing the Civil War, when he was with the Union army. For this reason his talk was both interesting and had im portant scientific bearing. A special car brought out many from Los Angeles and a large number of local people also attended. Courtlandt Bishop was among the guests and speakers of the evening, while Prof. George Wharton James also spoke and also showed lantern slides. Interest really centered about the new balloon for which Prof.' Lowe has al ready drawn plans and for which he is cv( 11 now having a specially treated silk made. Prof. Lowe claims to have invented a weather proofing pro. ess for balloon silk which will enable the bal loonist to keep his balloon Inflated for weeks or even months at :t time. He claims that this material will hold in gas for an indefinite period and that With it he can go up ami down in a great dirigible balloon with a small launch for passengers attached in place of the big carrier compartments of the German machine. Prof, Lowe plans to build this bal loon in Pasadena and make a trial flight first across this valley. The com apparatus he estimates will cost $50,000, and he proposes to have it shaped like the ordinary balloon and propelled by propellers both fore and aft of the Bhiplike passenger section. He estimates thto lifting power of his balloon at twenty tons. Good Guess Hill—l see the mines of a Montana town have a combined payroll of $3,00, --000 a year. Jill—They must be Butte's, then.— Tonkcrs Statesman. CURTISS PLANS BIG BIPLANE AVIATOR SAYS IT WILL BREAK ALL RECORDS Machine Is Conceived to Carry Three Passengers and Outclass Others for Speed and Endur. ance That Glenn H. Curtiss will hurry to New York for the purpose of putting in operation plans for the immediate building of a new biplane, along his own lines of invention, that will carry three passengers and break all records for speed and endurance, and that it is not the pending suit of the Wright brothers that is causing him to hurry away, was the substance of B statement made by his manager, Jerome Faniculli, at the Van Nuys hotel last night. "Curtiss is going to New York to per sonally superintend the building of a three-passenger biplane that is going to outclass anything in the world for en durance and for speed," said Faniculli, "and this machine, of his own concep tion, will be turned out of his factory at Hammondsport within less than a month after work upon it is started. Curtiss intends to waste no time in making this biplane a reality. He is confident-that in endurance and speed it will break all records." "Had Curtiss cared," continued Fin icullt, "he could have made and beaten Paulhan'i record In height, but he is much opposed to anything tending to ward the sensational, and dealrei to develop along practical linos. Curtlse will possibly never try for great height, not even in this new machine that he claims has not a superior in the world. I think that Hamilton will possibly lake the record from Paulhan." Mr. Faniculli stated that the factory at Hammondsport is swamped with or- Ylers for Hying machines, and that they are turning them out as fast as possi ble. "It takes a month to build a ma chine," said Faniculli, "and the average cost Is $s*oo. It is the very rich, of course, that are our patrons. Many of these persons can operate a Hying ma chine without lessons, although others, who are entirely ignorant of aerial nav igation, need Instruction. It is very simple, practically the balancing of the machine with the body, the swaying to and fro, whichever way you desire to go, and a simple application of the ■tei ring gears." AEROPLANING SOON TO BE PUT ON A FOOTBALL BASIS BY COLLEGE MEN M;\V YORK, Jan. 20.—1n response to a challenge from the Aero rhih of Co 'iimbla university, an Intercollegiate avia tion meet la Inline arranged for June. The college* thus far represented are Columbia, Hncvard, Vale, Aniherat and ilir I'nivt'rHlty of IVnnsj fvania. It has been «ugKe«ted by the I'nlver •lty of Pennsylvania that aeroplanlnc will Boon be put on the came basis an football and other college ni«or«. ■ HAMILTON NEAR DEATH IN SKY SHAFT BREAKS, BUT DRIVER PROVES SKILL LAST DAY OF MEETING IS SPEC. TACULAR Parade of All Types of Conveyances Shows Progress That Has Been Made in In vention {Continued from iMi-t* One) gibles, one owned by Roy Knabenshue and the other by Lincoln Beachy. Aeroplanes Closed Parade Then came aeroplanes, the newest and most scientific mode of travel, Gates M. Fowler, with his "Desert Eagle No. 2" of Phoenix, Ariz., headed the Hying machine squadron. Prof, H. LaV. Twining 1* monoplane ".is next, and Edgar Smith's boat-like biplane follow i-d. Prof. J. S. Zerbe'a multiplane, which resembles a harvester, was the last of tin' flying machines which have never flown. The next three biplanes were of the Curtis* type. One was the Curtiss Rhelms racer, another the ma chine in which C. F. Willard lias made so many expert nights, and the last the one which later in the day almost proved a death-dealer to C. K. Hamil ton . Following- the biplanes walked the aviators who have made history and fame for Loa Angeles. Paulhan, Cur tis?, Willard, Hamilton, Beachy and Knabenshue walked with others famous in the world of aeronautics. Medals Are Presented As the parade halted for a few mo ments D. A. Hamburger, chairman of the aviation committee, made a short Bpeech of appreciation and thanks to tin aviators ami then presented them with medals as souvenirs of the meet. The favored few were Cortlandt Field Bishop, Wlllard, Curtlss, Hamilton, Lincoln lioachy, Hillary Hon. hy, Kna lienshue, ('. K. MiScarol, Ditmer -Mis sun. Frank Kanne, H. W. GUI, Clifford E. Harmon. George H. Harrison, Paul han. Prof. Twining, Col. Frank John- Bon, Edgar Smith, J. C. Mars, A. C. Pillsbury, Timer Colby, Clerk Leonard, Edward Cleaxy, Lieut. Beck of the reg ular army and Jerome B. Fanoiulli. As soon as the. presentations of med als were over Paulhan and Curtiss got down to business. Paulhan first rose Into the air and began a long and weary grind p.ro\ind the short course in an endeavor to break the endurance record He had been In the air some minutes when Curtlsa in his Kheims racer rose on what was supposed to be a ten-lap speed test. It proved a mid-air race between Curtiss and Paul han, with Curtiss an easy winner. When Curtiss rose into the air Paul han had a Had of three-quarters of a mile In three laps Curtiss had cut down the lead to a few hundred feet. \s the two machines came by the grand stand with lightning-like speed. Curtiss swept by his rival foot by foot. Then he passed high over his rival. The crowd cheered the plucky Ameri can like a tribe of Indians. The race was not over, however, for Curtiss kept his engine working to fullest capacity. He caught and passed his rival twice after that, each time receiving a tre mendous ovation. Curtiss .Quits First Round and round and round the Frenchman and the American went. Mile after mile was tolled off until 1 at last Curtiss, tired of success and ap plause and exhausted from the grind, came to earth. He had driven F. 4.14 miles and was in the air 1 hour and 24 minutes and 30 seconds. Paulhan, whether through a desire to break a record or through chagrin at being defeated by Curtiss, kept up his grind. He made forty laps of the course, a distance of 64.4 miles, in 1 hour, 49 minutes, 40 4-5 seconds. When Paulhan came to the ground and was helped out of his machine, he was stiff with the cold and his arms ached like a sore tooth. He said he would not want to attempt such a per formance again for some time to come. It was while Paulhan and Curtiss were flying their one-sided race that Hamilton rose into the air to try for a height record. He circled several times far off the course, and with a spiral movement of his machine ascended to 626 feet above the earth, the greatest height made by any aviator except Paulhan since the meet began. While he was a mere speck in the graying; sky no suddenly started to come, down, and then with a turn of his wheel shot out towards the oceun. Traveled to Moneta Tio traveled cross-country until be was over Moneta, five mllea from the aviation Held, turned his biplane to the east and came sailing rapidly home, n.- bad been gone so long that the judges feared he had met with an ac cident, so WHlard volunteered to go in his biplane and look up the missing aviator. Willard had not been In the air three ntinutos when Hamilton ap peared out of the western twilight, When within light of the spectators he met with his accident and made his long glide to earth. He had been In the air 86 minutes, Paulhan won tho most money in prizes during the meet. He captured the cross-country prize of $10,000, the endurance and time prize of $3000, and the three-lap-with-passenger prize of $1000. Curtiss won in all SfiOOO in prize money. i Hamilton has lined his pocket* with $3500 and Willanl is richer by $!>f>o which lie won by making a perfect start and ■top. According to official estimates fur nished last night, the total attendance was 17U.46C. The receipts amounted to 5137.r,:!0.30, all of -which was deposited in the Park bank of I.os Angeles. The $43,000 subscribed will be paid back Records for the Course The following are records for the course made during the meet: Height, 4165 feet—Louis Paulhan, January 12. Distance, 75.77 miles—Louis. Paulhan, January 17. Endurance, I:sB:32—Louis Paulhan, January 17. Speed, 10 laps, 23:42 3-s—Glenn H. Curtiss, January 17. Speed, one lap, 2:l2—Glenn H. Curtiss, January 14. Speed, three laps* with passenger, 8:16 1-s—Paulhan, Jan. 13. Slow speed, one lap, 3:36 2-5—C. K. Hamilton, January 14. Shortest distance in rising, 98 feet—Glenn H. Curtiss, Jan. 11. Shortest time in Vising, 6 2-5 sec—Glenn H. Curtiss, Jan. 11. Dirigibles, one lap, 4:57 4-s—Lincoln Beachey, January 19. with about 25 per cent interest. The total expenses will run somewhere In the neighborhood of $115,000 when all bills are paid. The Held was donated. the Dominguoz heirs not receiving a penny of profit for their kindness. HALF MILLION IN PRIZE MONEY OPEN TO AVIATORS More than $400,000 Already Subscribed to Be Won at Meets in United States Already Scheduled NEW YORK, .Tan. 20.—More than $500,000 in prize money will be offered this year for aviation meets held under the auspices of the International Aero nautical Federation. • According to a statement issued at the headquarters of the Aero club of America, fourteen meets are scheduled between April 1 and November -'. for which $418,000 already has been prom ise,!.- The longest dates awarded are those secured tor the American meet, which will be held from October IS to Novem ber 2. No selection of a city for the competition will be made until all bids are in. New York, Washington, De troit, St. Louis, Kansas City and other cities are seeking the attraction. -♦»♦ | AVIATION NOTES | With a record which reads like a chapter from Jules Verne, aviation week yesterday was brought to a suc cessful close. Not .1 perlormer killed, no serious accidents and records smashed galore is the summary In brief. If 1010 was a success what may one expect <>f the mil aviation meet? Let the Wright brothers go easy on their injunctions and the following year will see not one, but a dozen of the best foreign aviators in the world in South ern California. Poor old Southern California's cli mate. The pride of the South, it'has been ridden over roughshod during the past ten days and conquered at will by half a dozen aviators. For originality yesterday's parade at Aviation park easily outclasses any thing ever before witnessed. Leave it to Los Angeles enterprise and the result never will be in doubt. To the Dominguez family It due not only the thanks of Los Angeles, but the gratitude of the entire world. Out of the hundreds of thousands of dol lars take.ii m at the park, not a single ci nt did the donors of the grounds receive. How would you like to have had a rakcoff of yesterday's gate receipts? Smith showed the nerve of which aviators are made in endeavoring to get bla boat-o-plane off the ground with 45,0u0 spectators looking on. Many who witnessed the attempt de clared that, had the engine possessed sufficient force, the weird looking con trivance would have ilywn. High altitude appears to have a de pressing effect on the en; me of Ham ilton's machine. His third attempt to wrest Paulhan'a altitude record from the Frenchman resulted in Hamilton attaining a height of a little over 3GO feet. "New York had her six-day bicycle race, San Francisco may have her Jef fries-Johnson prize tights and Los An geles has"— at this point cries of "aviation week" drowned the voice of the speaker. Professor Turning's machine, np peared to follow the principles of bird Right, but it lacked one thing—the motive power. That's where Paulhan wins out. It's the engine. He knows that a machine is turning his propeller upon which he can rely. Paulhan got away well, but when Curtiss let out a wrap and begnn to nnve up there ■ 'as nothing to it. A romp in the stretch. From touring Southern California's climate, Curtiss now ill turn to fight ing the Wright brothers in court. We wish him as much success in one as in the other. As D. A. Hamburger expressed It, Knabenshue and Beachy helped aviation weeh by getting into the air on the slightest provocatl. n. This, perhaps, is preferable to not being able to get oft the ground. It's an even money bet that, had Isaac Xewton been at Avl-ttion field yesterday, the law of gravitation never would 1-avo been discovered. Medals were dispensed ad inflnltum yesterday to all who aided in the con quering of Southern California's climate. Hamilton proved that the Curtiss biplane also is capable nf leaving its own back yard by Hying- to Santa Monica anil back. Monsieur Paulhan takes with him to La Belle Franco not only records galore, several rich prizes and a, keen remembrance of Southern California, but the heartfelt appreciation of -ad miring thousands. Curtiss for speed, Paulhan for dar ing and Dick Ferris for keeping ever lastingly at it. J. C. Mill 1?, the Oakland balloonist, took his first good look at the air ships yesterday. Previously he had seen nothing mere than a streak in the distance. To every aviator and every person who helped to make aviation week the wonderful success that it was, who aided in any shape or manner in mak ing history not only for Los Angeles, but for the ertire world, Southern California says not goodby or adios, but auf wledersehn or au revoir. HERALD FIRST TO BOOST AVIATION IN DEC, 1908, MOVEMENT FOR CONTESTS WAS BEGUN DICK FERRIS' IDEA PUBLISHED MANY MONTHS AGO Franklin K. Lane's boast of Southern California as Good Location Also Is Recalled to Mind Los Angeles Herald possesses the distinction of being the first newspa per in L.os Angeles to urge an Inter natlonal aeroplane meet. When Dick Ferria lirst advanced the suggestion in December, 190S, he made It to the aeronautical editor of The Herald and Roy Knabenshue, and since that time The Herald has "boosted" the Ferris idea. After the Rheims meet and Its suc cess Franklin K. Lane, interstate commerce commissioner, wrote to tho editor of The (Herald suggesting that Southern California is the ideal place tor great aeroplane contests. This tribute to Los Angeles, which has been so materially reinforced in the last two weeks, was the lirst from an outside Bource favoring an aviation week in Los Angeles. In this connection the following prophecy, made to The Herald by Dick Ferrii on the night of his return from Minneapolis, published in The Herald, September 2, is of Interest. "Mr. Ferris had been dreaming about aeroplaning in Los Angeles this winter for some time, and already had put a winter trip to Los Angeles'before Cur tiss through Roy Knabenshue before Curtiss left New York for the contests in France. " 'It would be the finest advertising in the world to have that contest here and to bring it in midwinter,' said Mr. Ferris, after lie had brushed off the dust of travel last night. 'It would bring more people and more money here than evon Elks' week did. Peo ple are wild all over the country about aeronautics, and they would come from everywhere to see Hying and spend the winter here/ "Mr, Ferris was so enthusiastic over winter aeronautics in Los Angeles that he had a conference with Roy Knab enshue in July, and the latter talked with a number of eastern aeronauts and aviators about spending the win ter in Los Angeles. Several, among them being Glenn H. Curtiss, who won the Gordon Bennett cup at Rheims, expressed groat interest in the propo sition, and Air. Ferris has agreed to send them further details now that he is homo again." ♦<-• Or Dead Bacon—A dog that runs under a car riage is called a carriage dog, I be lieve? Egbert—Certainly. "Well, what would you rail one that runs under an automobile?" "A fool dog." — Yonkers Statesman. t ** Delightful Excur sions to Riverside and other cities in the Orange Grove district are a daily event via the Salt Lake Route. Leave Los Angeles at 8:35 a. m. and return at 6:50 p. m. See Riverside and Redlands, too, all in one day, if you wish. Round trip, $2.75 to River side and San Bernardino, with 8-day limit. Sunday rate, $1.75. i Full particulars at city jr office. . ■ •* Office COl South jS\ Spring street, and r*/^Sll First Street £$ffl[h You Take No Chances warn you BUY a GLEN WOOD RANGE EVERY ONE FULLY GUARAN TEED— MATTER WHAT TUB riticxs For Sals By JAS. W. HELLMAN 719-7:3 8. Spring St v^^7*r?r» Cook says ha f^pi^-~-C^~r^ZSy\ did it. Peary. \fTiff ffr^ | * '^Y'\ ays.he dld ltp ■ffl, — ri-U H "vM^^J but the) 1 it, M i \ X I chances are lif V' {( °' 7 A neither one did IVI ' Mil." Xy' it unless hB- O^i^^irsdfcl'y took one of a: v. WHITNEY'S trunks. Store and Factory. 238 So. Main «t. , Sboei Half Prlct aid Lest Over two hundred big display bargain table*, are displaying shoes for men. women anil children, on «ale In many Instances for bait price and lea*. Convlnoe yourself and com* to th* .- -• ■ ■ ■ ' :' , .\.-"v'*. 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