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[[newspaper clipping]] THIRTY YEARS AGO Someone interrupted a busy President, 30 years ago, to ask him to witness the departure of an airplane from Washington, D.C., to New York City. Woodrow Wilson went, and considered the occasion important. The "Flying Jenny" plane which took off carried the mail to New York and started the airmail service. By February of 1921 the first through transcontinental service was functioning and Congress, deeply impressed, appropriated a million and a quarter collars to expand the service and light the airways. Oldtimers will remember the posters on the mail boxes, pleading the people to give this new-fangled service a trial; the arguments that speed would offset the small advance in cost; and the assurances that the mail would be carried through. Some little time passed before the public really took to airmail. Today the airlines are offering six times the air transport capacity they had but seven years ago. [[newspaper clipping]] SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1911 BIPLANE FLIGHTS FEATURE OF GREAT DAY AT EL PIZMO The most successful [[?]] flight ever witnessed in this [[?]] was the feature of the great celebration in the history of El Pizmo beach yesterday, when Fred J. Wiseman, the noted aviator, circled [[?]] at an altitude of nearly 1000 [[?]] the heads of an assembled [[?]] of 5000 people gathered from [[?]] Obispo, Monterey and Santa [[?]] counties. There were many [[?]] interesting features of the [[da?]] aeroplane flights were what [[?]] most anxious to see, and the [[?]] of this portion of the [[ente?]] has given El Pizmo beach [[?]] which the people of this [[se?]] not soon forget. The crowd was the largest [[?]] at the popular resort in [[s?]] There were about 950 tickets [[?]] the excursion trains from [[?]] alone, and it is estimated [[?]] 1500 came down from King City and intermediate points. It was necessary to run an extra section here, and it was also necessary to run extra sections to accommodate the crowds from Guadalupe and other points to the south. Beside this hundreds came in rigs, autos and private conveyances of all kinds. In the morning the assemblage enjoyed a concert by the San Luis Military band while the beach was dotted for miles with those enjoying a stroll or a siesta on the sands. Many donned bathing suits and enjoyed a bracing dip in the surf, although the sky was overcast and the weather none too warm. At soon the exercises were held, Deputy Sheriff Ed Van Gordon acting as president of the day, in which capacity he made a most fitting speech. Warren M. John was president of the day, and delivered a brilliant oration on the flag and its history, and the greatness of the American nation today, which was received with liveral aplause. In the afternoon large crowds enjoyed dancing [[?]] and made a short flight, showing wonderful control of his biplane. The second flight was made shortly after four o'clock. The aviator rose from a oint near the hotel and soared off toward the hills to the northeast, rising abruptly as it seemed he was about to run into them, and making a sharp turn. He skimmed back over the beach at a height of 1000 feet, and disappeared rapidly into the fog banks in the direction of Oceano, reappearing in a few minutes flying back at the rate of more than a mile a minute. He soared over the heads of the crowd once more, and making another graceful circle, descended at an acute angle which showed wonderful control of his bird-like conveyance, upon the beach within a few hundred feet of his starting point. So successful were the flights, and so pleased were all who saw them, that the management of El Pizmo beach has decided to retain the aviator over next Sunday, when he will make more flights. [[newspaper clipping]] TRY AN OLYMPIAN WANT AD Morning [[?]] ESTABLISHED MARCH 15, 1891 OLYMPIA [[?]] BIRDMAN FLIES OVER [[?]] CHAMBER OF [[?]] MEET Thousands Watch From Tidelands [[?]] Hover Over Region From the roofs of business houses, distant hills, residences and all imaginable perches, the Olympia populace and visitors for miles around, witnessed the first aviation meet of the history of the city, when Aviator Fred J. Wiseman of California, the holder of the American speed record, made three successful ascents from the Carlyon waterfront fill yesterday afternoon in his big Curtiss-Farman-Wrigth bi-plane. The meet, despite the fact that it has been postponed two times and was originally to have been held from the Carlyon race track, was a complete success. It was held under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce and that organization is now being made the recipient of congratulations upon the success of the affair. Aviator Wiseman stated when he descended the first time that the day was perfect for the meet, as there were no treacherous air currents in the atmosphere which have been fatal to so many birdmen and he had the machine under perfect control at all times. He arose the first time at 3:05 o'clock, the second time at 3:50 o'clock and the last time at 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon, and circled around Olympia harbor remaining in the air about three minutes each time. He was scheduled to skirt around the state capitol building, the first time that this feat has been contemplated or has been possible, but the fact that the old flange of the propeller had not been replaced and it heated up so fast he was unable to remain in the air more than a few minutes at a time. He is expecting a new flange soon when the ability of the airship to remain in the air will be increased. Ropes were stretcred around the fill for admission, but as the performance could be witnessed from the outside easily, very little in actual money was realized. The birdman was enthusiastically cheered upon ascending and decending, and it was a much lass sketical crowd that went away than saw the first flight, when the daring aviator penetrated the aerial heights and gave an exhibition never before witnessed in Olympia, showing the greatest scientific achievement of the age. Wiseman is making a tour of the Northwest making aeroplane flights at various places. He came to Olympia Thursday from North Yakima and will fly next in Tacoma, after which he will go to Seattle to fly for two
