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[[preprinted]]107[[/preprinted]] [[newspaper clipping]] No. 264. ---- MAY 16 ---- FRED J. WISEMAN TO MAKE FLIGHTS HERE NEXT WEEK ---- Holder of World's Speed Record in Bi-plane Sign Contract to Appear Here. ---- FLY IN HIS OWN MACHINE ---- Was First Man to Carry Mail For Government Over Aerial Route. ---- EXCURSIONS ARRANGED ---- Hundreds Expected to Come Here From Upper End of the County. ---- Arrangements were completed last evening to have Fred J. Wiseman give aeroplane flights in Ellensburg, Tuesday, May 16. The guarantee and contracts were signed by Ellensburg business men. The aeroplane meet will be held in the baseball park commencing shortly after noon and will last for several hours. Arrangements are being made today to run excursions here from Easton, Roslyn, Cle Elum and Thorpe over the Northern Pacific and an effort will be made to secure excursion rates on the Milwaukee from Othello, Warden, Beverly and Kittitas. Efforts were made to have flights on two days, but Wiseman was unable to do this as he had already signed contracts for flight at North Yakima Saturday and Sunday and for Olympia on the following Thursday. Is Ely's Flying Partner. Wiseman and his four mechanicians went through Ellensburg last evening on No. 42 for North Yakima, his aeroplane being shipped by express. D. C. Prentiss stopped in Ellensburg and signed the contracts for the meet here. Charles L. Young, manager of the party, is in Seattle today but will be in Ellensburg tomorrow to complete the arrangements for the meet. Wiseman is one of the best known aviators in America, although he has only been flying a year and a half. He was with the Curtis party in the aviation contests at Los Angeles and was with Hoxey just before the latter started on his fatal flight. Wiseman and Ely are team mates under the management of Charles L. Young. Ely is now teaching the army aviators to handle a machine at the maneuvers in Texas, but is soon to join the party. Holds World's Record. Wiseman made a world's record at San Diego, traveling 14 1/2 miles in 12 minutes and 32 seconds. He also was the first man to ever carry government mail in an aeroplane and also the first man to carry express shipments. This record was made between Santa Rosa and Petaluma, California. Wiseman has his own factory and [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] purpose, since it is such conditions that are feared by the highly protected pauper manufacturer. ---- Property owners and merchants on Pearl street who are anxious to have cluster lights placed on the Main business street of the city should call the attention of councilmen to the matter. To get the standards and globes will take time, to install the electroliers and get them in working order will take more time and even on a rush order the lamps can hardly be put in place before early fall. If persons interested will see their councilmen and impress upon them that lamps are wanted action leading to a much needed improvement can be taken. ---- The people of Alaska are growing tired of paying twelve and fifteen dollars a ton for coal imported from this state, when they have just as good in far greater quantity right at their own doors, but not an ounce of it can be had because the politicians at Washington are not yet through playing with it. A leasing system under which it might be mined without danger of its falling into the hands of monopolists should be easily arranged, and might be, if congress wasn't playing at making political capital. ---- The more on studies President Taft's suggestion made to the peace conference in session at Baltimore [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] [[Ledger]] TACOMA, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1911 ---- Ready to Fly This Afternoon; May Build Factory in Tacoma [[image of biplane]] Fred J. Wiseman Flying at Olympia. Fred J. Wiseman, aviator, in making flights in Northwestern cities, is laying the groundwork for the establishment of a factory probably at Tacoma, for the manufacture of aeroplanes, according to announcement by his manager last night. Wiseman, who will give an exhibition at the Tacoma Athletic grounds this afternoon and tomorrow, is head of a company organized in San Francisco to build flying machines from his own patents, on a combination of principles embodied in the Curtiss, Farnam and Wright biplanes. All the wood used in his biplanes is purchased in Washington, being almost entirely spruce. Wiseman expects to be in the air about 20 minutes this afternoon. Spectators are to be given opportunity to examine the machine at close range. At Olympia last week he circled about the top of the state capitol and flew over he city. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] HIGH FLYER ARRIVES; TALKS OF AIR SCOUTS ---- Wiseman Balks at Telling Age, but Discourses on Army Matters. ---- [[Tacoma Ledger 5/23]] The days of the daring army scout afoot and horseback are numbered, according to Fred J. Wiseman, the San Francisco birdman, who is to fly in Tacoma next Friday and Saturday. He said last night that in defending the country hereafter the army strategy board will have a swarm of flying machines to locate the enemy, photograph forts from a distance and to serve as couriers. Wiseman and his assistants, D. C. Prentiss, A. B. Cooper and R. A. Schieffer, arrived yesterday afternoon after a successful meet at Olympia. "It has already been shown that the aeroplane is to be a factor in the coast defense of the nations," said Wiseman. "I have been up several thousand feet and know from experience that a full survey of the earth beneath for miles around can be made. "I have taken a camera up on several flights and obtained photographs which would be of immense value to any army. While there are dangers at present, the machines will ultimately be so perfected that flights of hundreds of miles will be common and not attended by great danger. When this perfection in the flying machines is reached they will be an important factor in the equipment of any army. I do not believe that at a height of over 5,000 feet the rifles of an enemy could hit a machine, while from that point bombs could be dropped with comparative accuracy." Wiseman is a young man, but is as bashful as a maiden about telling his age. He quickly admitted that he has been in the air navigation business two years, but blushed and balked when asked his age. Before becoming an aviator he was an automobile racer. His home is in San Francisco, where he manufactured his own machine which is on the general lines of the Curtiss-Farman-Wright flyers. It weighs more than 800 pounds, being heavier than the machine used in Tacoma last summer by Charles K. Hamilton. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] [[Everitt]] Saturday Evening ---- SNOHOMISH ---- NO FLIGHT TODAY; FLIES TOMORROW ---- Special to the Daily Herald. SNOHOMISH, May 6. -- Aviator Wiseman did not attempt to fly this afternoon, so Everett people not in formed of the change in plans, had their vigil for nothing. The heavy downpour of rain this morning caused the decision not to fly and the consequent disappointment of the people here and in Everett. The disappointment, however, is to be only temporary, for if the weather is at all favorable the exhibition will be pulled off tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at Harvey park. Manager Prentice, when asked about the aviator's plans today said that much glue is used in the construction of the machine, which exposed for hours to a drenching rain might become softened, and after the lapse of 24 hours give way just as the machine was under the intense strain of evolutions about the field. As no building large enough to shelter the machine was at hand, it could not be set up this morning; so in spite of the fact that the sun afterwards came out, the flight to Everett could not take place. Present indications and the weather man both favor good weather for tomorrow afternoon. ---- DECSION AWARDED KIRKLAND CONTESTANT ---- [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] WISEMAN CARRIES FIRST PASSENGER ---- Takes Robert Schieffer Nearly a Mile and Then Makes Successful Cross-Country Flight ---- Fred J. Wiseman, the Santa Rosa aviator, created much interest in the vicinity of Mark West yesterday when he made a successful passenger carrying flight and followed it with a six or seven mile cross country flight. The effort at carrying a passenger was the first undertakening by the Santa Rosan, but with the machine working perfectly and conditions all that could be desired he experienced no difficulty in carrying on the machine with him Robert Schieffer, one of his machinists, for nearly a mile at an altitude of a hundred feet or more. After making the successful demonstration of the passenger-carrying capabilities of his machine, Wiseman flew off by himself, and after sailing over the Mark West station turned and went as far as the county road after which he made off towards Windsor for some distance, and finally returned to the starting point after covering about seven miles, and reaching an altitude estimated to vary from 300 to 400 feet. [[/newspaper clipping]]
