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[[preprinted]] 24 [[/preprinted]] [[newspaper clipping]] WISEMAN FETED [[line]] Aviator Fred Wiseman and his associates were given a banquet by the old-time Pratt Club at the Bismarck restaurant Thursday evening at Santa Rosa, which proved a very enjoyable affair, as it was a reunion of popular young men who had not assembled before in years. The club was formerly one of the best known organizations in the city. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] WISEMAN, SANTA ROSA, FLIES WITH BIRD MEN Qualifies in Aviation Meet for the Amateurs His Machine, Engine and All, Was Built in California, and Makes Excellent Showing in Preliminary Flight at Selfridge Field San Francisco, Jan. 17.-The amateurs broke into the lime-light at the Aviation Meet here today when Fred J. Wiseman of Santa Rosa, with his 75-horsepower engine, made in Berkeley, in a California-built aeroplane, made several successful flights. When Wiseman wheeled his machine up before the grand stand, it was announced that a Californian in a California-built machine would attempt to make a record. When his attendants released the machine Wiseman rose in the air like a professional, and was given a hearty, and prolonged greeting. A gust of wind caught him as he passed the end of the grand stand, and drove him from the course, but he continued on making a tour of the soldier tents, passing over the slough, and making a beautiful turn landed in front of the grand stand, where he had started. He had covered a distance of two miles. The judges announced that as he had failed to keep the course it would not stand as an official record, but Wiseman simply smiled and said he would fly again. Half an hour later he took the air again and covered the course easily and with great steadiness, circled the pylons and returned, qualifying for the future amateur events. The last trip was about a mile and a half. San Francisco, Jan. 16.-The most spectacular event at the aviation meet today was the search conducted by Lieutenant Kelly, riding with Walter Bookins in his biplane, for a military expedition supposed to be en route from Half Moon bay to attack San Francisco. The detachment of troops were somewhere between the aviation field and the Presidio, and Lieutenant Kelly, with his camera and field glasses made an effort to locate them but did not succeed, although he made one of the most interesting flights of the meet. In the brick breeze which was blowing the two men ascended to a height of more than 2,000 feet and actually sailed through the clouds which hung over the eastern side of the field. This was the first attempt at actual scouting in an aeroplane, and for this reason was of special interest to the soldiers. The detachment of troops were hid in a grove five or six miles from the field. The aviators traveled twelve miles and photographed the country. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] AVIATOR WISEMAN WANTS TO MAKE A FLIGHT IN EUREKA [[image - photograph of Fred Wiseman inset in the corner of a photo of his plane with men standing around it]] [[caption]] FRED J. WISEMAN AVIATOR SANTA ROSA, CAL. AVIATOR WISEMAN AND OFFICIALS ATTACHING A BAROGRAPH IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE ENDURANCE RECORD TRIAL. [[/caption]] Fred J. Wiseman, considered the champion amateur aviator of the Pacific coast, has offered to make a flight or a series of aeroplane flights in this city sometime in May on a basis of no flight, no money. He has made his proposition known to Thos. Burger and Jas. Austin, two Eureka business men with whom he is personally acquainted, recently by letter and yesterday by telephone from Santa Rosa, his home city. Wiseman recently took part in an aviation meet at San Francisco, walking off with a prize of $1500, the only amateur to win laurels. Last week he flew from Petaluma to Santa Rosa, in 16 miles, in 16 minutes, or at the rate of a mile a minute. He has also made a number of flights at Cloverdale during the citrus fair. Wiseman has received considerable favorable mention of late. He flies in a machine of his own make, being unable to secure a professional equipment for his exhibition purposes. No request has been made by the Santa Rosa manbird for a big bonus from the chamber of commerce, business men or citizens. It has been suggested that some aviation events of the sort promised by Wiseman would be excellent attractions for the time during which the Knights of Pythias or the Druids will hold their grand lodge sessions in this city. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] WILL FLY AT CITRUS FAIR The board of directors of the Cloverdale Citrus Fair Association are arranging for an aviation meet during two days of the coming ninteenth annual citrus fair. While the arrangements have not yet been completed, it is more than probably that the services of Fred J. Wiseman will be secured for flights there on Santa Rosa day, February 22, and on the closing day of the fair, Saturday, February 25. [[/newspaper clipping]]
