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Show WHISTLES ARE TO BLOW FOR FOWLER When the Birdraan Starts Across Great Salt Lake, Approaching Ogden, Og-den, He Will Be Greeted by the Roar of Locomotives In the Yards and the Toot of Factory Whistles Landing Place Selected Is the Four-State Fair Enclosure. Traveling ahead of Bob Fowler, tho trans-continental air tourist, who Is flying via biplane from San Francisco Fran-cisco to New York, N R. Cooper arrived ar-rived In Ogden this morning and will mako arrangements for tho landing of the bird man In this city. Cooper says that Fowler will reach Ogden Sunday and that he will reach New York City within the thirty-day time limit set by W R. Hearst for tho winning of tho $50,000 prize mon-oy. mon-oy. The advance man scouts the Idea of falluro and vows that Fowler Fow-ler will never give up the trip as long as ho Is able to pull a lover. Tho tooting of whistles and the ringing of bells will announce the approach ap-proach of Fowler, when he wings his way into Ogden next Sunday -afternoon. Tho uproar will start when the blrdman is 100 miles . from tho city and will continue until tho aero-piano aero-piano has landed at the Fair grounds Arrangements to have Fowler appear ap-pear in Ogden were consummated at the Weber club thl3 noon Mr. Cooper, has signed contracts with Dr. H. M Rowo of the Four-State fair association associa-tion to havo the flyer descend at the fair grounds and to start east from that point probably Monday morning. Aviator Fowler will continue his air trip from California late tomorrow tomor-row afternoon, It is expected, making stops at Rono and Elko. Nov , where big demonstrations are being arranged ar-ranged jn his honor. If Fowler mee'ts with no mishaps or delays, ho should reach tho fair grounds in Ogden about 3 o'clock, Sunday aftornoou. A huge flag will show the flyer whore he Is to alight. This signal can bo seen by tho aviator when he is flying 1,000 feet in tho air. Telegraph Tele-graph messages will announce the blrdman's approach. Fowler ii now at Towle, Cal., within with-in thirty-four miles of the summit of the Sierra Nevada mountains. A telegram which Cooper rocolved this morning from the air man says that he Is all right and roady to renew his flight as soon as his machine is ready. The plane which arrived In this city yesterday afternoon was forwarded for-warded on this morning to tho .point of tho accident and if the wrecked machine Is not ready or the air by tho time of Its arrival, the new plane vlll be used. Tho blplano which left hero will arrive in Towle tomorrow morning and will requlro six hours to bo assomblcd and made readv for flying. It Is expected by Coopor that Fowler Fow-ler will leave Towle for Reno tomorrow to-morrow noon. When the daring bird man leaves Towle, he ventures upon the most dangerous lap pf his entire continental, trip. Ho must cross the treacherous cragc of the highest mountain rango which he encounters. At tho summit, ho will be flying above an altitude of 8,500 feet. Through the mountains l)e will . follow fol-low the lino of tho Southorn Pi-clflc. Pi-clflc. The 'flight from Rono will be comparatively easy till he reaches lakeside, when ho will begin the hazardous haz-ardous flight over tho Great Salt lake. In this water flight, ho tvIII follow the Ogden-Lucln cutoff. This will bo a new undertaking In aerial adventures as tho great' Inland sea has never been crossed by aeroplane In crossing some of the sagebrush country alighting will bo made difficult, dif-ficult, although not to a great extent. ex-tent. Leaving Ogden the flight over the Wasatch rango will be another of tho difficult laps of the Journey. In the high altitudes the plane will travel with greater speed than at a lower height and Cooper states that It Is not unlikely that Fowler will cross tho Sierra Nevadas at a speed of more than a mile a minute. "Through Nevada," said Cooper, "tho air currents are bad. I noticed many whirlwinds which rose to great heights and these are very dangerous to birdmen. I have reported re-ported tho conditions of the country and the air currents to Fowler, and he will U6e every precaution possible. Bob is game all the way through and he Is going to make this flight and win that monoy Ho has got to do It. He has every cent tied -up on this trip and ho has got to mako good. He bought four Wright planes that cost $25,000 alono and we figure on the trip costing $10,000. If wo don't win tho purse, all wo get out of It Is tho publicity. All of the planes may be Junk by the time we get to New York " In signaling to the aerial nnvlgator, a large French flag is used. The sight of this flag to the aviator directs di-rects him to his landing place. Asked why a French flag instead of an American Am-erican flag is used for signaling, Cooper explained that an American flag would be practically useless as a signal because of the large number num-ber of them that are sometimes flying fly-ing when tho blrdman reaches a city. Aviators have many times been fooled and have made bad landings whore the American flag was used. Cooper explained, and It Is becoming a vory common practice to use a French flag for directing aviators After reaching Ogden, Fowlor may mako a side trip to Salt Lake City, but will return to Ogden to contlnuo his flight east It is likely the man of tho air will remain In this city over night. Cooper will remain in this city till tomorrow, but will be In Cheyenne by tho time Fowler reaches Ogden. no |