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[[newspaper clipping]] ^[[Index Salinas 7/28]] WISEMAN WILL FLY AT RACE TRACK Famous Aviator Will Make His First Flight In Salinas Sunday Afternoon. IT WILL BE A WONDERFUL SIGHT Start the One Big Week Right By Seeing the Birdman Sail Through Space. [[image - portrait photograph of Wiseman]] The people of this city and the surrounding country are on the tip toe of expectation and are anxiously waiting for what will be the most remarkable exhibition of aerial navigation that has ever been sent in this state. It will be the first prime event of the one big week and will take place at the race track at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Fred J. Wiseman, the intrepid aviator, will be the star performer. Seated in a biplane of his own invention he will make a series of flights, similar to those that have won for him the admiration of thousands who have watched his course through the heavens. The biplane itself is a wonderful piece of mechanism, and its adaptability to the purpose for which it was designed has been tested in many a daring flight in none of which has the aviator made a failure. Start the one big week right by taking in the aviation meet at the race track. Wiseman is not an unknown quantity. He has a splendid record. One of his greatest flights was at Olympia, Wash., last May. The Tacoma Tribune, speaking of it, said. "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 plummet from a smoke cloud, Wiseman swooped almost to the roof of the grand stand in his return to the field at Olympia and, traveling like an arrow, suddenly turned his machine and settled as softly as a bird to earth. It was a remarkable exhibition of skill and daring. "During his second flight he soared over the city and encircled the dome of the state capitol." [[newspaper clipping]] ^[[Salinas [[?Daily]] 7/25]] AVIATOR IS TO FLY AT RACE TRACK COMING SUNDAY D. C. Prentiss, manager for Fred Wiseman, the world-famous birdman who is to give a series of flights during the Big Week, was in this city last night making preliminary arrangements for the aviator. Wiseman has closed a very successful engagement at Pizmo beach and will be in this city today. His biplane will probably arrive here Thursday. [[image - photograph of Wiseman with plane]] [[caption]] Aviator Wiseman in His Biplane [[/caption]] The first flight by Wiseman will be Sunday afternoon at the race track. Mr. Wiseman will start in front of the grand stand and after soaring into the skies will alight at the same place. He will make three flights during the afternoon and will be in the air nearly half an hour each flight. While in the air he will perform many aerial maneuvers and illustrate his famous dip. The San Luis Obispo Tribune has the following to say about his closing flight at Pizmo beach Sunday: "The fast crowd at El Pizmo beach on Sunday afternoon were not disappointed as the two flights made by [[?]] Wiseman were the best since [[?]] down the [[?]] made [[?]] automobiles. The southern end of this and Monterey county, besides the northern part of Santa Barbara were well represented by those, many of whom had failed to see the former exhibitions given by Wiseman. The daring aviator from Santa Rosa has made good every time he was scheduled to fly, which speaks well for him. Yesterday Wiseman and his agent Prentiss were in town in company with Manager Percival of El Pizmo. Wiseman intends to leave for Salinas today, where he will give exhibitions in his biplane during the carnival and races in the Burbank city. He is scheduled to make his first flight next Sunday and the people of Monterey county will not be disappointed." A daily feature of the week is to be the balloon ascensions by Captain Price. His ascension is different from the ordinary ones, as the balloonist, while in mid-air, is fired from a cannon which is attached to the balloon. He makes a parachute drop after being hurled through space from the mouth of the cannon, which at the time is several hundred feet in the air. [[newspaper clipping]] ^[[P-D]] FRED WISEMAN HAD THRILLER Story of the Accident Last Sunday at Salinas Told by a Salinas Newspaper Many Santa Rosa and Sonoma county friends will be interested in reading an account of the accident to Fred Wiseman's aeroplane at Salinas last Sunday morning. It is taken from the Salinas Morning Democrat, which was received at this office yesterday morning, and is as follows: "Seldom is there a big carnival or fiesta of any kind at any place, but there are accidents, and some things going wrong. Although the opening days of the big week are successful in the extreme, there was a serious misfortune in the way of the breaking of the aeroplane of Fred J. Wiseman in the morning, which prevented the flights. The crowds that expected to attend were disappointed, although the success of the other festivities made up for it. "Mr. Wiseman performed a thrilling flight in the morning at the race track, when a broken propeller blade and a disabled engine, he successful brought his machine to the ground after his first tryout. That the aviator was not killed outright seems a miracle. He had risen to an altitude of about 500 feet and skirted the outer edges of town and was on the return trip to the hangar when a bolt in the propeller became loose. This in turn tore out the base of the engine. Not daunted by the odds against him the daring aviator with great presence of mind safely landed his machine on terra firma by the skillful use of his wings after a dive of 500 feet. "The accident, however, put a damper on his afternoon performance and it is not for certainty that he will be able to appear again this week. "A meeting of he aviation committee was held yesterday afternoon for the purpose of arranging with Mr. Wiseman for a later flight. The aeroplane was badly broken, but it is thought that it can be fixed in a few days. It was reported on the streets last evening that the aviation meet would take place Sunday morning next but this could not be verified." Mr. Wiseman is expected in Santa Rosa today, according to a report here yesterday, and it is stated that the airship will follow him.
