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ONE CENT IN CHICAGO AND SUBURBS. ELSEWHERE TWO CENTS. 37TH YEAR.
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THRILLS PROMISED AT BIG AVIATION MEETING
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Flyers Prepare to Startle Crowd at Cicero Field with Sensational Feats of Their Flying Machines.
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Mestach to Carry Mail and Katherine Stinson Is to Sail Around with Lillie Again-Latter Has Trouble on Return from Grant Park.
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More thrills were scheduled for to-day at the Cicero aviation meet. Previous to the official programme this afternoon numerous trial flights, to all practical purposes as thrilling and daring as those during the official flying hours, were planned. Otto Brodie planned to fly his Farman biplane, Max Lillie his Wright biplane, George Mestach his Borel monoplane and many others their various types of machines.

Programme for To-Day.

The programme of the day was announced as follows:

10:30 a. m.—Hangars open to public.
2 p. m.—General parade of all machines under their own power on the ground.
2:30 p. m.—Aerial sky cruise: flight of all machines at same time.
3 p. m.—Demonstration of Nieuport monoplane by Tournier.
3:30 p. m.—Model aeroplane contests.
4 p. m.—Otto Brodie to try for his pilot's license. He must make five figure eights between two posts 1,540 feet apart and land within twenty-five feet of a designated spot.
4:30 p. m.—Metach to start on his flight to Wheaton and Elmhurst, with United States mail.
5 p. m.—Handicap speed race between Tournier and Brodie.
5:30 p. m.—Lillie to demonstrate how a student is taught to fly. Miss Katherine Stinson to occupy the machine with him.
6 p. m.—Andrew Drew, official instructor, to demonstrate "safe flying."

Daring Feats Mark Day.

Daring cruises marked yesterday afternoon at the big field. While Max Lillie did not return from his flight to the Columbia Yacht club until after the close of the events, a big crowd watched Brodie defeat Marcel Tournier in two five mile heats. Brodie flew his Farnum biplane, with a one minute handicap, and Tournier his Nieuport monoplane. The time was 7:33 and 6:46, respectively.

Studensky also "pulled off" some fancy dips and curves at a hair raising altitude and "Jimmie" Ward, a popular flyer, darted in about 5 p. m. in his Curtiss biplane from an amusement park, where he is one of the attractions.

The return flight of Aviator Lillie after his arrest, his release and his dinner at the Columbia Yacht club, whither he flew with Miss Katherine Stinson, a pupil at the aviation school, as his passenger, was a troublous one. He did not set forth on the return trip until about 5:15 p. m., and for the same reason that he made a wide detour in coming into the city—fear that his license would be revoked by the Aero Club of America—he was forced to fly far to the south before soaring away toward the west.

Lillie Lands Near Elmhurst.

It was dark when the flyer guided his machine around the south end of the city and started westward, and in a short time he had lost himself. In order to learn his whereabouts he landed on the farm of Henry Pollitz at Elmhurst, near the grounds of the Elmhurst Golf club, six miles west of Cicero.

As he was preparing to start again T. E. Wilder, a member of the golf club on whose grounds an aerial postal station has been established, hastened up and handed the aviator a bundle of letters which had been left for Aviator Mestach. Mestach is to carry mail by aeroplane to and from the Elmhurst and Wheaton aerial postal stations and the one established in the Cicero flying field. Lillie took the mail to Cicero.
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