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Show job;, to make first trjals here Zi TuaUst Amoni; Bunch of Aviators Hasteninsj jo Salt LaXe Meet Jack ' .Tokasoa. champion heavy weight pugilist of the world, will meat aa aeroplane face te face for the flret time in this city during tha aviatioa carnival to be held here neat week. Jobntoa announced noma tima ago that he bad made up hia mind ta get into the. flying gams' in the role of aviator. lTmnoters of the local meet took the matter up with him and closed contracts for hi appearance ia this city during the carnival. Word waa received re-ceived thia morning that Johnson will leave Han Frsneiaro seat Haturday for Malt I-ase. The machine' wrack u being be-ing built for him at the Curtis factories fac-tories at liammondaport, S. J., waa to have beea shipped to Kansas City, but it will come here instead and should arrive ar-rive next Saturday or Sunday. Johnson John-son will be given a few Iraaona ia flying fly-ing by Olenn C'urtiee and if he prove in apt pupil he will ba gives aa opportunity oppor-tunity to kill himself at the local meet. Telegrams received at headquarter! thia morning annennred that Walter Brookim and PMIlp Parmalee will be hnre Thursday. Parmalee, who haa been riding tha air liaa aa tha Meaieaa border bor-der for several weeka, ia now ia Dayton! Day-ton! Ohio, and will leave there today with rtmokins f-r halt take. Ely, Wilier Wil-ier d and ea a"Hirtiea of the Curtiaa team will arrive baturday. They are now oa the ron.t. " - . Tiild OattlOg la Sbapa. The womoten visited the field yea tarda) and found 0 feet of the IDtKi-foot, IDtKi-foot, eleven tier grand 1 Hand already up. The spectators' field te being covered cov-ered with shale to Insure dryness. The grand stand 1 built so that from every seat thriai an unobstructed view of the take II given. Hpecial atteatioa haa been given thia feature on account of the hydro-aeroplane atunt to be performed per-formed by Ulana Curtiaa duriox the meet B. R. Young, general manager for the Curtiaa aeroplane teams, left yee-terdar yee-terdar for Denver, where he will attend at-tend to business matter before hi return re-turn lo tbi city for th coming meet. Mr, Young ia enthuaiaatre on aviatioa queatione and believe tbat tha acieare is destined to revolutionise the eommer-ial eommer-ial world. Before his departure for Denver Mr. Young said: To Have "MaUoplnne" tooa. ''it ia only a matter of time, a comparatively com-paratively enort time, nntil everything requiring rapid transportation will be sent via the aeroplane route. You and I, if we liv our allotted time, will surely see the dar when the United mates mails' will leave New York City In a mailoniane one njght and land ia Kausna City the next morning. "Lean than two yearn ago a flight of mile occasioned aa extra edition by big New York City aewer-apem. Now flight! of UKr-mile attract only passing pass-ing attentioa. If the progress of' the ecienee of aerial navigation is ai great in the aext two yearn aa .it haa been during the pant two year, thiak what wonderful tripe and passenger carrying teats will be aecnmpliahed hv that time. "8uch progress will doubtieaa be made. The greatest arientfio brains ef the world are being deviled to the study of the perfection of the aeroplane. aero-plane. Ia the past much of 'a machine's ma-chine's endurance and ipeed efficiency hai beea sacrificed for tha aake of lightnea. Now it haa been proved beyond be-yond a doubt thnt machines will, aad future effort! will be devoted largely to making them, fly for a long time, and make them capable of carrying load. - peed Moat Dlribl. "There Is absolutely no limit to speed poisibilitie with an aeroplane. They caa travel fait ai th wind. The faster the better, so with their construction con-struction perfected so tbat they ran stay la the air for day at a time if net'Mmrv, It i easy ta believe that they have a greet future ahead of them as mode of transportation for maa and material Farnam ha beea ia the air for aver eight hour at a stretch, so that the time of two or three day' continuous flight doe aot aeem very far distant " |