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^[[Yakima Republic 5/12]]
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AVIATION WILL SOON HAVE PRACTICAL USE
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Machines Will be Used by Men of Affairs to Make Hurry-Up Business Trips.

Though flying machines will not soon have commercial value, the time is not far distant when they will come into practical use, says aviator Fred Wiseman, who is to make flights at the fairgrounds tomorrow and Sunday, under the auspices of the North Yakima Commercial club.

"As an example of what I mean," said Mr. Wiseman, this morning, I believe men of big affairs will own aeroplanes and when pressed for time in big affairs they will get out their machines and rush on trips of some distance."

Commenting on the returns which aviators now receive, Mr. Wiseman says the smallness of the estate left by the late Ralph Johnson was no matter for surprise. "An aviator," he declared, "spends as much money as he makes experimenting on new machines and new parts in an effort to get the greatest lifting and propelling power. The machine I am now using represents an investment of $7500, and I have two others. Mine is not really a Curtis machine, but a Curtiss-Farman-Wright.

Mr. Wiseman is much interested in tests which are to be made of propellers on a device invented by Prof. J.J. Montgomery of Santa Clara, Cal., in order to determine the pulling power of different patterns of blades.
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Sermons on Citizenship
Beginning Sunday evening, may 14, Dr. H.L. Boardman will deliver a series of evening discourses on "Fundamentals of Good Citizenship." The particular topics will be as follows:
First, "Respect for Law;" second, "The Sense of Personal Responsibility;" third, "The Sacrifice of Private Interests to Public Well Being;" fourth, "The Moral Good Supreme in Citizenship."

The purpose of the series of studies is to bring to the notice of people, in a practical way, some of the things which are vitally related to the improvement of government conditions in North Yakima.
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^[[Tacoma Tribune 5/23]]
BEAT HAMILTON IN LAST FLIGHT
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Fred J. Wiseman, the California aviator now in Tacoma preparing for flights Friday and Saturday at the athletic park grounds, gave the Olympia audience one of the best flights ever witnessed in the Northwest.  Those who had seen Hamilton fly were surprised to witness the ease with which Wiseman handled his machine and the daring with which he left the grounds and returned. Dropping like a plummet from smoke cloud, Wiseman swooped almost to the roof of the grandstand in his return to the field at Olympia and, traveling like an arrow, suddenly turned his machine and settled softly as a bird to earth. It was a remarkable exhibition of skill and daring.

The Wiseman aeroplane is being assembled at the baseball grounds today and tryouts will be  made tomorrow and Thursday, making it certain that all is in condition for the trip to the clouds.

"Really, I'd like to fly around Mount Tacoma," said Wiseman last night. This might have caused a smile, were it not known that Wiseman has really negotiated the higher altitudes for long distance. In his flight from Petaluma to Santa  Rosa, Wiseman crossed the Montezuma hills. He covered the distance of 68 miles without alighting and without accident.

The aviator is also known as the "money-back" birdman, it having been his policy wherever an accident prevented a flight, to return all admission fees on call at the gate.

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^[[Tacoma Tribune 5/23]]
EXAMPLE OF SPORTSMANSHIP
One of the best examples of true sportsmanship who has landed in the Tacoma palisades in several weeks is this lad Fred J. Wiseman, ex-auto driver and determined aviator. Wiseman is one of the grittiest in the business and while he lacks he experience of the Paulhan or a Curtiss, there are none who can gainsay his nerve. In the days when automobile racing was at its most dangerous enthusiasm, Wiseman drove many cars to victory on the tracks of the East and South and in one instance in California he attended the funeral of his mechanician and returned to enter the next day over the same course where an exploding tire had sent his machine skyrocketing into the fence. He won that day, too.

In one of his California flights Wiseman encountered a gale of wind and was hurled from a height of 100 feet into a cornfield. The tail of the machine was completely wrecked. The wrecked portions of the machine are still in California. Wiseman constructed an altogether differently shaped tail and although the wind was blowing at even a higher speed the next morning, he ascended with the new part and made good.

The aviator is a modest young fellow and it requires the regular attendance of a press agent to dig out any of his experiences for publication, but he is "all there."
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[[?]] Insures Two Flights

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