The Billboard 1911-06-24: Vol 23 Iss 25 (1911-06-24)

. The Billboard JUNE 24, 1911. The Week’s Events in the World of Aviation YOUTHFUL AVIATOR A WONDER. Toledo, 0., June 16 (Special to The Billboard). —Howard LeVan, the seventeen year old aviator, who is under the managementship of Charles J. Strobel, is certainly a wonderful flyer. The youngster, at the aviation meet recently held here, did some fancy stunts In his biplane that caused thousands of spectators to hold thelr breath as long as possible, and gasp like a chick with the pip. More than one expected to see the juvenile bird-man dip his wings once too often, and come to earth like a meteor let loose from heaven. tut not so with young Mr. LeVan. He kept his balance, and when he descended from his long sail ever Maumee Bay he was as fresh as a daisy and ready w perform the feat a second time. On one of his trins he carried Col. C. B. Winder, inspector of rifle practice of the Ohio National Guard, with him.* The Colonel was much delighted with his trip, and is ready to give Mr. Strobel’s you.iful agent a certificate of safety at any tive desired, TWO NEW BUILDERS. Mason City, lowa., June 13 (Special to The Billboard).—-Two aeroplanes are now being constructed in this city. Charles Hathorne and Kenneth Jay are each building a machine and beth are after the Curtiss model, although they gill be equipped with different engines. Jey started last March in building his macnine and is doing all the work himself and maxiug a perfect machine so far as mechanical shill is concerned, Hathorne is the chief mechanic in the Bathorne garage and is skilled in his line of work. The outlay on the machines when completed will be in the neighborhood of $1,000 for each machine and this is not figuring in their tim:. ixcw AVIATOR FOR MADISON SHOWS Conshohocken, Pa.. June 17 (Special to The Billboard) To the executive staff of the Mad ison Greater Shows, the death in Havana, Cuba, of Marcel Pinot, the aviator, came as a shock and a distinct personal loss. M. Pinot had been coached in aviation at the Mineola, L. L., grounds by Adolph Seemon, manager of the Madison Show, and had been engaged by W. M. ; Madison for a series of flights which were to have begun on July 1 In the meantime he had joined the De Costa forces in Havana for a few exhibition flirhts On June 2. Mr. Pinot fell from a great height. and died June 6 As a result of this accident, Mr. Seemon has left the Madison Greater Shows for a short time, and now is in Mineola. coaching Dick Simmons, who will fulfill the Pinot contracts with the Madison organization. “TOPEKA” LANDS SAFELY. ‘Topeka, Kan., June 14 (Special to The Rill board).—The balloon ‘‘Topeka’’ with its party of three men, made a safe landing about 7 c’clock last night only six miles west of To peka. The balloon was in the air for an hour and a half and most of the time it was staMonary in the heavens. It was watched from the city during the time it was on its ascension. The party included the pilot, Frank Jacobs; George 8S. Badders, secretary of the Commercelal Club, and Arthur J. Carruth, a representative of a Topeka newspaper. MEET AT SPIRIT LAKE. Spirit Lake, lowa, June 17 (Special to The Rillboard).—Birdmen may fly over the Great Takes of lowa during the months of July and August. State Senator Francis has just returned from Des Moines, where he attended the aviation meeting and is enthusiastic over the sport. He will propose to the Spirit Lake Roosters’ Association at its next meeting that some aviators be engaged for an entire week to fiy over the lakes here. They will probably be engaged during the summer months when the outing rates are in effect on all railroads. AN AERIAL TERMINUS. Frankfort, Germany. June 15.—Frankfort, the financial center on the highway of the Rhine, will become the intersecting point for the airship lines in Western Germany. For this reason the city has given the site on the Mainzer strasse for great workshops and a dock, which it leases from the Zennelin Co. The city has already appropriated $30,000 for building streets to the dockage fencing and extending its street railway system. NO AVIATION AT CORONATION. I/ndon, June 12 conferred by the act Parliament an order Acting under the powers recently passed by the Hieme Secretary Churchill has issued prohibiting navigation of aircraft of mny description over the county of London on the ether days devoted to events connected with the coronation. The penalty for violations is imprisonment for six months or a fine of $1,000, SEVEN AVIATORS START. Johannisthal, Germany, June 11.—The Germean aviation circuit race covering a_ total ef 1,164 miles, started at 5 o‘clock this morning Within an hour seven aviators were sent away. The only untoward event was the burning of an aedoplane. Fully 200,000 persons witnessed the start. EVANSVILLE MEET A SUCCESS. Fvansville. Ind.. June 14 (Special to The Bill board).—The Glenn Curtiss Aviation here, proved one of the biggest affairs in outdoor amusements ever to take place in Southern Indiama. Ideal weather bronght out thousands , Texas, or ; the Readville AVIATION MEET IN OKLAHOMA. —_ Chickasha, Okla., June 14 (Special to The Billboard).—Yesterday afternoon, at a meeting of several of the stockholders in the Chickasha Aeroplane Company, it was decided that the stock of the local company would be turned over to the New York and Northwestern Aero plane Company. They also recommended that an aero meet be held in Chickasha about the 15th of July, at which an expert aviator with a standard machine will insure a flight, and the Blackburn machine will be tried out for the first time. Mr. Blackburn reports his Lawton business trip of Wednesday as being highly satisfactory to himself and the company. WOMAN TO FLY AT WALTHAM. Boston, June 11 (Special to The Billboard).— More than a dozen aviators will compete hereabouts the coming week in two aero meets of unusual interest On Thursday a six-day meet will open at Waltham, while Friday and Saturday there will be combined automobile and aeroplane races and cross-country trips at Race Track. At the Waltham meet seven fliers will compete, including Mrs. James V. Martin, a Scotch woman, wife of the manager of the Harvard Aeronautical Society, who has done considerable flying in England. The prizes are $25,000 for a 5¥-mile cross-country trip, $10,000 for a i}-mile flight from the field around the State Hiouse dome in Boston and return, and $25,000 for aerodrome events. The Readville meet will have as fiyers Lincoln Beachey and C. C, Witner. 85 MILES IN 55 MINUTES. Buc, France, June’ 8.—Aviator Averiga flew from Orleans to this place today in 55 minutes. The distance approximately is 85 miles. He traveled at a height of 7,500 feet in a northeast wind having a velocity of 30 miles an hour. AVIATOR KILLED IN AUSTRIA. Vienna, June 11.—The first aviation fatality in Austria occurred today at Wiener-Neustadt. Vincenz Wiesenbach of Luxemburg was killed by a fall of fifty feet from a monoplane of his own invention AIR-CURRENTS. Eugene Ely made a spectacular flight at the | aviation field, Butte, Mont., June 12. The large crowd that saw the famous birdman soaring above the clouds marveled at the way he handled his machine. There were at least 8,000 per sons present to cheer Mr. Ely when he alighted from his hazardous trip. To escape a sentence of death passed upon him by the Terrorists, of whom he was one, Captain Mazenwitch, a Russian Army aviator, committed suicide at St. Petersburg by turning his biplane over at a height of 2.000 feet and being crushed beyond recognition in the fall of his machine. L. ’Auto estimates that ‘‘Vedrine.”’ the win ner of the Paris-to-Madrid race, whose proper name is Jules Vedrines, attained the prodigious speed of 155 miles an hour, covering the 77 5-10 miles separating Dijon and St. Laurent-lesMacon in thirty minutes, Another entry in the national balloon race of Jule 10 has been received by the Aero Club of America, the entrant being J. H. Wade Jr. of Cleveland, 0., who will pilot the Buckeye in the contest. The starting point is New York. Massillon, O., people will, on July 19, be given an opportunity to see Glenn Curtiss fly in his aeroplane, if the plans of the joint p.cnic committee of the Massillon Business Mea’s Association and the Protected Home Circle materializes, W. R. Miller, secretary of the Nebraska St« te fair board, is in Des Moines conferring with Secretary Corey of the Iowa State Fair Rorrd The Nebraska Fair Board and the Iowa Fair Foard are endeavoring to secure the same aviation meet, the aviators to go from an exhibition at one fair direct to the other. The building at St. Louis of a fac*>-y to man ufacture aeroplanes by the Farman Co. of America is the object of negotiations actively begun by A. W. Lawson of New York, a director of the Farman Co.. and the Business Men’; Leagu: and the Aero Club of St. Louis. Mr. Laws arrived in St. Louis yesterday on the ‘invita tion of the league and conferred with Tle! ore Bates, industrial commissioner of the league. and A. B. Lambert, president of the Aero Ciao. Harry N. Atwood, Boston aviator, produced a new one from his box of fl¥f&mg tricks a1 Squon tum. Twice during last week be and Charles K. Hamilton had flown from the aviatien field to the Squantum Inn for luncheon. Recently he went a step further in finding a short cut to a meal and took a snack while flying. Gillett. Wyo., one of the enterprising cities cf that state, has closed with the Mathewson (Co. for flights at that place July 3 and 4. ‘ae deal was made through Dr. Paul N. Newcomer, «bairman of the Gillett entertainment comriu ‘tec Charles K. Hamilton, the aviator, nas sust completed a novel stunt. He towed an aeroplane behind his automobile from Squantum, Moss., a distance of 148 miles. and made the trip in six hours. Hamilton Was in a hurry to get there to be made an Elk, and could not spare the time to take the aeroplane to pleces for trans portation by freight. the Fourth of July and the Conduc tors and Engineers expect this to be one of the big drawing cards for their excursion out of this city. After being In the air for 47 minutes, aad making the most successful flight both as to dis | tance and time that he has yet made, Howard | Levan, Meet, | jing to the Toledo Yacht Club. of people to the Tri-State Fair Grounds long be| fere the program started. who was flying at Toledo O.,. had a narrow escape Saturday when his machine be came entangled in the electric light wires lead Levan dropped 30 feet with the machine, but was practically unhurt. The Red Devil was badly wrecked, one wing of the machine being broken off near the engine, and the frame twisted and bent. New York loses and Washington gains in certain matter of aviation, at Minneola, the aviators who have been prac ticing there have been notified that the fleld has been leased by the Moisant Aviation School and that they must secure other quarters, and it is reported that the former occupants of Min neola field have decided to come to Washington While the report does not bear the official seal of approval, yet it is generally accepted as true. Capt. T. S. Baldwin, tee rormer dirigible expert, has already moved his quarters to College Park, contiguous to the national capital, and has rented on: of the new hancars there Capt Raldwin sold the only dirizible balloon to the Government. He says he will have his new ma chine here within a few days Messrs and Shriver, Baldwin as aviators, but as they will be on the road the greater part of the time as exhibitors seeing them this summer. The now Baldwin type. The latest has in its construction a frame built of thi steel tubing filled with hickory making it very light and strong. It is covered with red fabric and will present a most striking appearance. Captain Raldwin hes made s-y eral long flights in his new machine end it has shown itself to be both fast and reliable The Rex Smith Company jis building a factory at College Park and the structure is now com pleted, the company being at pr sent in installing the machinery, including a fifteen horsepower gasoline engine No time will be lost in starting on orders that are already in, The Government will bave four machines built as rapidly as possible. Some of the army offi cers detailed to the flying squad will be on hand to practice as soon as the first machin meted, which will be within a few days.—Ed Wynn. For AEROPLANE EXHIBITION FLIGHTS GUARANTEED. — WRITE — AERIAL EXHIBITION & MFG. 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