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WISEMAN MADE FLIGHT HERE ON SATURDAY

[[image – photo of the Wiseman-Peters bi-plane, with aviator sitting in front of the main wings, in level flight above the field with buildings and spectators in the distance; [[caption: Wonderful Photograph Taken of Fred J. Wiseman While in Flight in San Francisco At the Aviation Meet.]]

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struck him funny was that he saw horses and rabbits below him and they invariably got frightened and ran around in circles. He said, "I must've seen twenty-five rabbits." He thought likely the vibration caused by the missing of the engine because the wire to become loose, which tangled with the propeller and forced him to alight before he really wanted to. He expected to land in the circus ground on Santa Rosa avenue, but "when the wire hit the propeller," he said, "there was no time to be lost, so I headed directly down." He had just crossed Santa Rosa avenue when he came down.

Delivered Letters On Arrival
Arriving in this city Wiseman made calls at the Savings Bank of Santa Rosa, where he delivered letters from George P. McNear to Mayor James R. Edwards, and to ex-Mayor John P. Overton; thence to the postoffice, where he handed a letter from Postmaster J. Emmett Olmsted to Postmaster Hiram L. Tripp of this city, and to the firm of Kopf & Donovan with a package from Ricky & Vonsen.

Prentice Estimates Distance
Don Prentiss, one of the members of the Wiseman squad, with a number of others who are disinterested, went carefully over the distance that Wiseman traversed in his machine for the purpose of determining the distance. The gentleman compute the distance as fourteen miles, and Wiseman made the trip of that length and just twelve minutes and twenty seconds. This is much better than a mile a minute, which is something of a speed performance, as well as a daring trip on the part of the young aviator.

Maintained Good Altitude
Wiseman maintained an average altitude of about three hundred feet during the flight. At times he was considerably higher than this, and at the time the propeller became clogged with the wire he was about two hundred feet in the air.

Was Flying Low
at the time Wiseman came around the turn which brought him into view of the people of Santa Rosa he was flying rather low and his craft could only be discerned through the haze. A heavy fog held close to the ground in some places which made it difficult to see down [[torn off]] any [[distance?]]
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Will Fly at Cloverdale
Assembling of the biplane was begun Saturday morning by Wiseman's mechanicians and the machine will be shipped to Cloverdale Sunday and be reassembled there in time for the greatest exhibition Wiseman has yet given. A new propeller was ordered from San Francisco before 10 o'clock Saturday morning and will be received at Cloverdale by Monday. Even if the new propeller does not arrive, the flight at Cloverdale will not be delayed, as Wiseman has an extra propeller already. This was brought up from Petaluma Saturday in an automobile, so as to be ready in case of emergency.

Arrange for San Jose Meet
Don C. Prentiss departed for San Jose Saturday afternoon to close a deal with the committee in that city for an aviation meet their. Wiseman was to fly there on the Saturday following the San Francisco aviation meet but owing to the rainy weather that exhibition was postponed. The date for the San Jose aviation exhibition will be announced later.

Package For Grocers
Kopf & Donovan received a package of coffee from Hickey & Vonsen in Petaluma by Aviator Wiseman. The package has been suspended in their store and is an object of much curiosity.

Many automobiles loaded to their limits departed from the city when the whistles began to shriek their announcement that Wiseman was [[coming?]]
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Kenilworth Park, Petaluma, Cal., February 17, 1911.
H. L. Tripp, Postmaster, Santa Rosa Cal.,
Dear Sir and Friend:
Petaluma sends, via air route, congratulations and felicitations upon the successful mastery of the air by a Sonoma county boy in an aeroplane conceived by Sonoma county brains and directed by Sonoma county workmen.

Sped the day when the United States mail between our sister cities, of which this letter is the pioneer, may all leave by the air route with speed and safety.

J. E. Olmsted, Postmaster.
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WISEMAN TESTS NEW MACHINERY.
SANTA ROSA,  August 22. - Fred J. Wiseman, the local aviator, made a splendid flight this afternoon on the ranch of Supervisor Herbert W. Austin, in testing out some new machinery, which he has installed in his biplane. Since the breaking of the machine at Salinas recently, when Wiseman was compelled to drift down 500 feet without his engine and with his propeller broken, he has been working installing a new propeller and other machinery. In trying out the new machine this afternoon Wiseman flew about four miles about the country.
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WISEMAN AT TABLE WITH HIS FRIENDS
He is Guest of Honor at Bismarck Banquet Celeb rating his Home Coming and Conquest of the Air
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There was a Birdman's Banquet at the Bismarck Saturday evening and Fred J. Wiseman was toasted and honored for his pluck, his enterprise and his daring, and the other good qualities that inspired him and enabled him to undertake the air's conquest, and to preserve in the face of difficulties manifold, finally to triumph, to fly in company with the men who had already won their laurels, and ultimately to sail back in his own airship to his own native home. They feasted him and they toasted him, and he bore his honors like a boy who has won a Bible by reciting verses in Sunday school. Fred never loses his nerve on the hurricane-deck of an auto or when seated in an aeroplane, but put it up to him how fine a fellow he is, as they did last evening, and he "goes straight up in the air."

Fred J. Berolani and Louis Gnesa were the hosts at the Birdmans's Banquet. They had promised it to Wiseman in the event of his home-coming by the cloudland way and they did the honors in a fashion that cannot be surpassed. Besides the bounteous feast there was abundant flow of good humor and high compliment for the guest of honor, all of which passed merrily and well. Ralph Balden acted as toastmaster. The banquet lasted late, and
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THE WISEMAN BIPLANE, THE INVENTION OF A CALIFORNIAN, TO BE SEEN HERE SATURDAY
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[[caption: FRED J. WISEMAN IN THE MACHINE OF HIS OWN DESIGN AND MANUFATURE, WHICH MADE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT AT SELFRIDGE PARK AND IN WHICH HE WILL GIVE EXHIBITIONS IN SAN JOSE JANUARY 28 AND 29]]

To Fred J. Wiseman of Santa Rosa belongs the unique distinction of having perfected a flying machine of the biplane order that he has successfully kept in the air on more than a dozen occasions, one time maintaining a sustained flight of 16 minutes' duration. The Wiseman machine differs in some essential from the Curtiss and Wright biplane and created considerable comment at the Selfridge Field, where it was viewed by thousands.

At the aviation meet to be held in this city on Saturday and Sunday Wiseman will endeavor to eclipse all his former successes and with favorable weather conditions will undoubtedly make a number of creditable flights.
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