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Show oo IW OGDEKITES SEE AVIATORS FLY With weather conditions which wero very near Ideal, tho first aviation meet ever held in tho Intermountain country opened at Barrlngtou field In Salt .Lake City yesterday afternoon and a crowd of more than ten thousand thou-sand peoplo witnessed some oxcellont flights hy Aviators Ely and Wllllard. While there was nothing sensational In the afternoon's efforts of tho Cur-Uss Cur-Uss aviators, tho flights were vory good examples of what haa been attained at-tained In the manipulation of aeroplanes. aero-planes. Thero was not the slightest accident, either to the aviators or spectators, io mar the afternoon's performance. per-formance. Ogden was woll represented at tho moeUng. From the best estimate that can be made after the business of the various transportation lines hns been summed up, it is apparent that no Jess than 300 residents of this city were at the meet. The only unfavorable condition con-dition was the mud, which not only do- . ..- g traded from the pleasure of the Bpec- ' tutors, but also interfered somewhat ' 15? with tho aviators. t The flights began about a o'clock ! M and lasted for two hours. Ely and JB Wllllard made all of the ascents, Clar- ' fl enco Walker, the Salt Iike aviator '. ' being unable to get his machine from Ly the ground, owing to a low-power en-t by glno which he uses. Tho oUier ma- HU chinos ascended as high as -J00 feet, mm and Ely remained in the air at ono wfl tlmo for twenty minutes. 'l |