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Show VISITOR HERE 10 JO SIUBI Harry E. Blood, who stopped off in Ogden yesterday to spend tho day with his friend, Thomas E Foley, ulll make an attempt some time this summer sum-mer to cross Bcli ring siralts In an aeroplane. Mr. Blood, accompanied by his wife, has been spending the winter in California Cali-fornia and Oregon They are en route to their homo lu New York. In taking them out for a spin about town yesterday, yes-terday, including a run up Ogden canyon, Mr. Foley's chauffeur was so unfortunate a to become stalled with his mnrhine on the due-way, making It Impossible for the visitors to catch tho enat bound train upon which they had engagod transportation and draw ing-room accommodations. Mr. Blood's plans to take a considerable? consid-erable? party on a tour of Alaska this summer have been given considerable publicity. The party will sail from Seattle for Sitka and proceed thence to Juneau, Skagway, Chilcoot Pass, White Horte lake and then down tho White Horse river to Its junction with the Yukon and on to Dawson and Port Reliance. After inspecting the great gold fields of th Klondike region a steamer steam-er will again be employed and the long trip down the Yukon began. Stops will bo made at many points, including Circle City, Port Yukon, Sonatl Camp, Fort Hamlin and Mn-latl. Mn-latl. When reaching the mouth of the Yukon a trip will lo made to Nome, and it is while the party is In that vicinity that Mr. Blood will make his attempt to cross the straits In his flying fly-ing machine, from Camp Prince of Wales to Easy Cape, on the Asiatic sldo, a distance of about 28 miles. Mr. Blood was extremely reticent regarding his aerial experiments, and denied that such were his Intentions, but friends who accompanied him hero from Salt Lake assert that while In Ios Angeles, at the aviation tournament, tour-nament, Mr. Blood became much Interested In-terested In aerial work and negotiated nego-tiated for tho purchaso of a specially built machine of Ihe Vosln type of biplanes. The Demoiselle type of nionoplano Invented by Santos-Dumont Interested Mr. Blood owing to Us simplicity and extreme lightness, the perfected mi-chine mi-chine weighing less than 300 pounds. Mr Blood, however, Is of considerable weight, and aeroplane experts interested inter-ested In seeing the straits conquered by an American advised Mr. Blood to choose a machine of the Vosln typo. Ho will spend several months In California, Cali-fornia, previous to his departure for Alaska, In becoming thoroughly fa, miliar with the handling of his machine, ma-chine, which will be delhered In the early part of May. |