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[[torn page]] Today's Program.
The program will be as follows:

2 p. m. to 3 p. m.--Aeroplanes of all makes on exhibition for visitors' inspection.
2:15 p. m. to 3 p. m.--Tryouts of model flying machines.
3 p. m. to 3:20--Sky exhibition " cruise " of all the fliers.
3:20 to 3:45--Otto W. Brodie and De Lloyd Thompson wil ltake tests for pilot certificate.
3:50--Five mile handicap speed race will start with Mestach, Tournier, and Lillie as entries.
4:05 to 4:20--Demonstration of safe flying by Andrew Drew in Wright biplane.
4:20 to 4:50 [three events]--Lillie in exhibition of slow glide. [[underline]] Studensky in altitude record try, [[/underline]] and Tournier in rounding pylon tests.
4:30--Mestach will start the first Chicago aerial mail route with 70 pounds of mail for the Elmhurst and Wheaton Golf clubs.
4:50 to 6--Passenger carrying flights.

As large an exhibition of aeroplanes will be made as has been displayed at one time this year.
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Henri Tournier Falls Into a Plowed Field Near Elmhurst in Thunderstorm.
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HAD DELIVERED MAIL.
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Was Racing with Max Lillie When Motor Was Short Circuited.
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The first real accident of the four days' aviation meet at Cicero field happened yesterday, when Henri Tournier and his Nieuport monoplane fell into a plowed field just outside of Elmhurst. Tournier escaped without any broken bones, but his machine is a wreck.
 
Tournier was on a thirty mile circuit flight at the time. He had mail for Elmhurst and Wheaton, while Max Lillie, who flies a biplane of less speed than the monoplane, was racing with him.  Lillie was to stop only at Elmhurst. The first man to return to Cicero field after delivering his mail was to win.

Machine Wrecked by Fall.
Tournier delivered his letters to the aero subpostal station in Elmhurst ahead of Lillie and flew away toward Wheaton. Before he was out of sight a thunder storm broke. The rain short circuited his motor and down he came in a plowed field. The machine turned over; the propeller and rudder plane were smashed, and the wing tips crumpled. Tournier landed in the soft ground.
  
Howard Linn, president of the National Aeroplane company, was at Elmhurst watching Tournier's flight. He saw the monoplane fall and jumped into his automobile. He found the aviator and helped haul the machine under a shed.

Cuts Figures in Air.
Andrew Drew, director at Cicero, went aloft in a Wright biplane late in the afternoon and did figure eights and glides for the benefit of the crowd. [[underline in red]] Paul Studensky got the big National biplane, which has been giving him some trouble, into working trim and took it to the 3,000 foot level without mishap.[[/underline in red]]
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