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AT
The famous
Sunday, July
Execursion from San Luis Obispo both days.


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^[[Salinas Index 7/21]]
VOL. XXX.  SALINAS, MON

WISEMAN FLIES THROUGH SPACE IN HIS OWN BIPLANE
Interesting Facts About the Daring Aviator Who Will Give Exhibitions Here During the One Big Week

Chris N. Thorup, chairman of the aviation committee of the one big week, and Don C. Prentiss, manager of Fred Wiseman, concluded negotiations yesterday afternoon, by the terms of which the noted young California aviator will open the one big week celebration with daring flights among the clouds in a biplane of his own construction, built at his private factory in San Francisco.  Mr. Prentiss came here on the 11:30 train yesterday morning from Pismo beach where Wiseman has been making successful and thrilling flights since July 4.  He went to the resort to play one engagement [[?]]

of the water.  The spectators expected him to drop into the water and be drowned, but he astonished them by starting the motor again and flying out of danger.

Wiseman, when ready to fly, usually makes a ground run of from 100 to 150 yards, thought when making time he has been known to rise with a fifty yard run.  The crowd often surges around him when he is making these runs, sometimes to his disadvantage, but he has never been known to lose his composure thereat.  For instance, when he started to fly last Sunday at Pismo the crowd lined the beach on either side and he was unable to turn [[?]]


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TALK OF BROAD GUAGE ROAD THRU SANTA MARIA

Saturday's issue of the Santa Maria Graphic says:

During the past month there have been rumours of railroads flying all over the valley, surveying parties have been at work along the bluff of the Mesa sough of town and lines have been run into town at various points.

The whole matter was brought out and the general plans of the people behind the surveys laid before a party of business men and property [[?holders]] of Santa Maria at a meeting held [[?at the Masonic]] hall Monday evening.

[[?ng]] the day invitations were extended to those who could be reached to attend a meeting at the Masonic hall Monday evening at the [[?]]
land passengers close to Broadway and Main streets.  The passenger traffic to be handled by two gasoline motors, one running to the field and the other to Guadalupe and Betteravia.  The motor to the oil field would be so run that a man in the field could come to town in the morning and return in the evening, while a man from town could go out in the morning and return in the evening.

The motor to Guadalupe would run to meet all trains on the Southern Pacific.

In connection with the railroad the company intends to build and operate a large asphaltum refinery at Bradley canyon terminus and this of itself will give the line a tonnage of 


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PROPELLER BREAKS IN SKY

Aviator Fred Wiseman had a narrow escape from serious injury, if not death, to-day when his biplane got out of order in midair.  He attempted to alight in Oak Park, but chose a place where grapevines and barb wire caused the machine to be badly wrecked.

Wiseman soared from the aviation field at the Fair Grounds at 11:00 o'clock this morning, and at the start there was every indication of a successful flight.  But beore he had flown far the hoodoo that has gripped every birdman thus far to attempt a flight in Sacramento put in an appearance.  The machine began to balk, and Wiseman, to save himself from death, attempted to glide to earth.  He steered towards a seemingly open spot in Oak Park, and dropped towards it.

The place was strewn with grapevines and barb wire, and the result that the machine became entangled, the propeller was broken, the running gear was torn away, and other damage was done to the delicate craft.

Wiseman escaped without injury.  It was announced that the machine will be repaired in time for to-morrow's flight.

Wiseman remained in the air about three minutes.  He left the ground gracefully, and soared high over the grand stand, waving his hands at the cheering crowds.  Soon after the engines began to be troublesome and the hurried descent was made imperative.  Wiseman says the propeller split while he was 300 feet in air.

Not yet has a really successful flight been made in Sacramento.  Every aviator that has attempted to conquor the air has failed for one reason or another.  Last year Aviator Hamilton, after a series of unsuccessful attempts to reach the higher altitudes, finally got off the ground to a good hight.  Then an accident occurred which plunged the machine and aviator to the ground, and almost cost Hamilton his life.

Others have essayed to fly, but Willard, who flew around the Capitol dome, has been the only genuinely successful one.  Defective engines, broken propellers, weather and other causes have contributed to the jinks that has been ever present at local aviation meets.