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[[newspaper clipping]] WISEMAN BRINGS BIPLANE TO CITY AND IS READY FOR TOMORROW'S MEETING SAN JOSE Will Be Household Word Throughout Civilized World Sunday – James Radley Most Daring of the Aviators at the Selfridge Meet – Arrangements Complete. [[image - photograph of plane in the air]] [[caption]] JAMES RADLEY IN HIS BLERIOT MONOPLANE. Holder of the world's record for speed and quick starting. Time, 77 miles per hour. [[/caption]] [[image - photograph of plane in the air]] [[caption]] FRED J. WISEMAN. Celebrated California aviator, in a biplane of his own construction. This machine was built at Santa Rosa, Cal., and has proved to be a success. [[/caption]] GIVEN good weather tomorrow and Sunday San Jose will be placed upon the map. Sunday morning it will be a household world throughout the civilized world. Twenty-six thousand newspapers will carry the story of Radley's record-breaking flight on their first pages and the beauty of the Santa Clara Valley's winter climate will be heralded far and wide. The meet will do more to advertise the county than anything that has even taken place here. The morning after Radley's flight the frozen East will marvel that such things can be accomplished in the dead of winter. The advertising is such as could not be purchased at any price and this fact is being appreciated by the business men of the community. Photographs of the crowd of spectators will be carried with Radley wherever he goes from here and will be published in newspapers far and near. It is probable that the motion-picture concern which photographed every incident of the San Francisco meeting will have its men and instruments here to record the wonderful flight to Mount Hamilton. Wiseman's Farman-Curtiss biplane is in San Jose and today will be assembled for tomorrow's flights. Radley's Manager has completed arrangements for his flight from Selfridge Field to San Jose tomorrow morning and for the shipment of the machine to this city should the weather preclude the flight. The hangars will be set up at the Driving Park aviation field before noon today and everything is in readiness for the meet. Indications point to a record-breaking crowd and the weather man is being propitiated. From all parts of the State the scheduled flights here are attracting lovers of the spectacular. Special trains will be run from San Francisco, Oakland and Salinas. The Automobile Club of San Francisco has called a run for its members to attend the meet in a body and the city will be overrun by motorists during the two days. Bleriot Dangerous Machine. The San Jose aviation fans are particularly fortunate in having secured the services of so noted an aviator as James Radley. He is unquestionably the peer of them all. He holds the world's speed record of 77 miles an hour and also the quick-starting world's record. The racing Bleriot in (Concluded on Page Three.) [[newspaper clipping]] Fred J. Wiseman has the distinction of being the first and only amateur aviator in America to build and successfully fly a heavier-than-air machine of his original design. Yet his flying at the San Francisco International Aviation Meet just concluded placed him and his machine about on a par with the professional aviators. Wiseman started his career in the bicycle business, graduating from that to the automobile. As an automobile man, and gifted with what might appropriately be termed the "speed bug," he took up automobile racing as a pastime, winning much fame up and down the Coast and in the East, where he was thrown against some of the world-renowned professionals. Wiseman competed in the Indiana Trophy Race over the Cobe Cup Course, and although in competition with some of the best-known professionals in the East, he was successful ins securing fourth place, an unheard-of precedent to be established by one so young in the game. He holds the Around-the-Bay championship, Pelton Trophy, won in the marvelous time of 2 hours and 5 minutes, and has now held this record over a years. He also holds the record from Oakland to San Jose, made in the wonderful time of 34 minutes, which at that time was the American road record. In this connection it might be well to add that Eugene Ely, the Curtiss aviator, was (Concluded on Page Three) [[newspaper clipping]] RADLEY PLANS RECORD FLIGHT English Aviator Will Attempt to Make Trip to San Jose in 39 Minutes Frederick Wiseman of Santa Rosa to Join in Garden City Performances San Jose and San Francisco are to be linked in a record aeroplane flight next Saturday, if James Radley, the English aviator, finds the weather at all agreeable. The British birdman and his Bleriot monoplane will remain at Selfridge field until Saturday, and at 1:30 o'clock start for San Jose. After his arrival there Radley, assisted by Frederick J. Wiseman, the Santa Rosa aviator, in his original biplane, will give exhibition flights Saturday and Sunday afternoon. The San Jose rose carnival committee, the San Jose chamber of commerce and the Santa Clara Valley area club are financing the flying. Radley has taken Wiseman under hi wing as "the most promising amateur he ever saw," and the young Californian will take a prominent part in the meet at San Jose. Indeed, Wiseman will be the sole attraction Saturday afternoon until Radley comes buzzing on the scheme. Then both aviators will do fancy flying together during that and the following afternoon. The Englishman has set his heart on making the 40 miles between Selfridge field and San Jose in 39 minutes, which would be a record even for the swift flying Bleriot. As Radley flew a straight mile at Lanark, Scotland, at the rate of 77.6 miles an hour, he believes he can make the record here. Wiseman has a biplane of California make and idea. It is said that his craft bears most resemblance to a Farnam biplane, but it is original in control and equipment. The California lad has made many successful flights with his machine in Sonoma county and two very good flights at the meet now in progress. He is pronounced to be an expert in aviating and eligible, so far as skill goes, to the professional class. F. A. Marriott, vice president of the Santa Clara valley aero club, was at Selfridge field yesterday arranging for the flight to San Jose and the meet there. While on the field he was given a ride by Brookins in the Wright biplane. Argyl Campbell is the president of the Snta Clara valley aero club. [[newspaper clipping]] WISEMAN HAD VISIT WITH ARCH HOXSEY Aviators Had Known Each Other Previously as Automobile Racers and Had Pleasant Reunion on Friday Fred Wiseman, the Santa Rosa aviator, returned home from a few days visit in Southern California Saturday night. He had been visiting in the Wright Brothers' aviation camp at Los Angeles and was talking to Arch Hoxsey twenty-four hours previous to his death. Mr. Wiseman was surpised on arrival at the aviation grounds to have Hoxsey greet him by name, but after a few minutes' conversation he found that Hoxsey was a former automobile driver who had participated in the racing game and had met Wiseman in San Francisco when the latter was also racing. The two had a very pleasant visit and Hoxsey gave Wiseman every opportunity to examine the Wright machines and study his methods. Naturally, Mr. Wiseman was greatly shocked to hear of Hoxsey's fall and death. He declared Hoxsey was a fine young man and one who took few chances in aviation. [[newspaper clipping]] Weather Conditions Prevent Today's Flights MEET WILL BE HELD AT PARK TOMORROW IF THERE IS NO FLYING MONEY REFUNDED There was no flying at the San Jose Driving Park this afternoon. Weather conditions were such as made aerial navigation impossible. The committee announces, however, that the meet will be carried out tomorrow, Sunday, to the entire satisfaction of everyone who pays admission to the park, or their money will be refunded. The flight from San Francisco to San Jose, of course, will not be made. At Selfridge Park, Radley waited all morning for an opportunity to start on the flight to San Jose. His Bleriot biplane was in an excellent condition and he stated that he never saw the engine work better, but owing to the fact that there were continual showers and a strong wind blowing it was positively dangerous to start to San Jose. Under the circumstances, the local aviation committee, as well as the managers for the flyers, decided that it would not be wise to let either birdman make the trip. The entire program for the two days will take place tomorrow and every minute of the entire afternoon will be exceedingly interesting and exciting to the spectators. Mr. Fred Wiseman states that his machine is in excellent condition and everything is in readiness to give the public the best performance he has ever attempted. Every effort has been made today to get accurate reports on weather conditions from the weather bureaus of San Francisco, San Jose and Santa Clara College and each bureau reports the same. That is, that there would be strong southwest winds and showers during Saturday afternoon. To accommodate the aviation crowds tomorrow the Southern Pacific will run a special train which will leave the station at the foot of Market street at 1 o'clock in the afternoon stopping at the Santa Clara street crossing and at the Fourth street station. The round trip fare will be 15 cents, one way 10 cents. The train will await at the park until the close of the meet to accommodate the returning crowd. Tickets should be purchased in advance. The San Jose Railroads line will also run special and extra cars to the Driving Park.
