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DAILY TRIBUTE, TACOMA, WASHINGTON.
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[[caption]] Wiseman Aeroplane at Start of Flight Over Montezuma Hills [[/caption]]

INVITES YOUNG WOMAN TO MAKE FLIGHT IN AEROPLANE

Does any young woman in Tacoma wish to go joy-riding in an aeroplane?

If there are any who would enjoy, or believe they would enjoy, the sensation of a swift flight through the upper atmosphere, that privilege may be obtained by communicating with Fred J. Wiseman at the Olympus hotel.  Wiseman, the California aviator, who will give flights at the Tacoma baseball park Friday and Saturday, has often carried passengers with him upon his flights, having carried a woman as a passenger in a flight at Santa Rosa last February.

There is but one way, he declares, to properly appreciate the thrill of darting away from the earth and swooping about like a winged creature of the mountain peaks, and that is to be a passenger in the machine when the first swift buzz of the propeller gives the lifting start to the planes.  The first woman to apply may claim the trip offered by the aviator.

Incidentally Wiseman believes that within five years Tacoma will see not only one aeroplane, but scores of them in daily use.  As an inventor of his own particular type of machine, he believes that the flying machine will be not only a commercial asset of the future, but one of the leading mediums of sport.  He said yesterday that in a few years he would expect to see harbors like that of Tacoma dotted with hydro-plane flying machines, owned and operated by those who are now enthusiasts in yachting and boating.  He believes the hydro-plane machine with wings to be as safe as the ordinary sailing boat.

Wiseman has been peculiarly successful in his manipulation of the aeroplane and promises to try for a flight over the city of weather conditions are favorable on either of his exhibition days.  He has flown over the business section of other cities, but says he would like to circle some of Tacoma's skyscrapers and make a flight over the harbor.  The attempt may be made either Friday or Saturday.  The Wiseman aeroplane was taken to the baseball park yesterday and a corps of mechanicians is at work today assembling it for flight.


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^[[Times 5/23]]
MUCH INTEREST IN AVIATOR

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[[caption]] WISEMAN JUST LEAVING THE GROUND IN HIS FLIGHT AT OLYMPIA LAST SATURDAY. [[/caption]]

Man's conquest of the air in its most important sense will be displayed in this city on Friday and Saturday at the ball park, when Fred J. Wiseman, the Aviator, will appear in his Curtis-Farman-Wright biplane.  Great interest is being displayed here and Tacomans are glad to get an opportunity to see the aerial stunts which are scheduled on the program.


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^[[Tribune [[?]] 4/30]]

EVERETT MAY SEE A FLIGHT
Plan Now Is to Use Ball Park at Snohomish and Fly to Everett and Make a Landing.
EXHIBITION PROMOTER WILL DECIDE ABOUT PLAN TODAY
Next Saturday and Sunday Will Be the Dates if Facilities Are Found Satisfactory.

Charles L. Young, of the Curtis Exhibition company, who decided on Friday that an aviation exhibition could not be given in Everett because Robbins park was too small an enclosure, returned to Everett yesterday to consider a new proposition made by Secretary Patton of the Chamber of Commerce.  The plan now is to use the ball park at Snohomish for the exhibition, with a flight to Everett and landing in the vicinity of Tenth street and Hoyt avenue.

Mr. Young will go to Snohomish today to inspect the ball ground, and if he finds it large enough exhibitions will be given next Saturday and Sunday.

One of the most expert aviators in the country will be brought for the exhibition here.  Fred J. Wiseman will be remembered as the man who made a record speed flight at San Diego.  There is considerable risk in flying in a timbered section, as it is difficult to instantly pick a place to land in case of accident to the machinery.  But the course between here and Snohomish would be down the river valley, and many places could be found if the aviator had to alight.  There is room enough in the north end of the city to make the landing easy.  The aviator always tries to minimie the risk, as an aeroplane costs $6,000 and the wreck of a machine would wipe out the profit of many exhibitions.  The aeroplane which would be used here is said to have the best engine in the west, and unless the wind should be exceptionally strong the exhibitions would be given on schedule and would prove a great attraction.  The people of Everett would have a free exhibition, and could go to Snohomish if they wished to see the evolutions within the enclosure and get a near view of the workings of the wonderful machine.