Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-10-09 | Page 2 | Fifty Thousand Dollars for Cross-Country Flight

H FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS H I FOR CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT By Associated Press. NEW YORK, Oct. 8. William R. Hearst offere $50,000 for a flight in a heavler-than-air machine from the Atlantic to the B Pacific coast. This announcement will ap- B pear in the New York American tomor- Mk l "Mr. Hearst offers a special prize of K v SuO.000 to any aviator who within one H I year flics from -the Atlantic seaboard at H Boston or New York to the Pacific coast Lo at Lqh Angeles or San Francisco, or re- tff t versing the direction from tho Pacific to JT the Atlantic coast, starting and finishing B at either of the cities named. m j "The contestant may be American or H foreign and may use any type or make of f 1 self-propelled aeroplane which Is heavicr- v i. than-air, not dirigible balloon. Ho may m, ( rhooHe his own time, season and route, hut including Chicago on the way; he may B slop where, when and as often hh he m: pleases and make any nccGBuary repairs M, and replacements of parts of his machine, HJ but the llight must bo accomplished with- Hi . in thirty days from the start. : "It Is not necessary (hat this shall be H' 1 a race. If only one contestant for the prize appears and achieves tho flight, tho prize of 350,000 will be paid; if more than R. j two contestants .start, tho one that nc- H; t compllshes the feat first will he awarded B j nvlzc. There uro no other conditions." By