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[[stamped]]165[[/stamped]] [[newspaper clipping]] THE SACRAMENTO UNION, FRIDAY, SEPTEMB SACRAMENTO DAY AT STATE [[boxed text]] WISEMAN FLIES AT STATE FAIR [[dividing line of characters]] Faulty Engine Causes Aviator Much Trouble [[/boxed text]] [[image of biplane over fairgrounds in front of grandstands full of people]] WISEMAN IN AIR AT FAIR GROUNDS. [[image of Fred Wiseman]] Fred Wiseman. [[image of a black horse]] SHORT FLIGHT IS DISAPPOINTING --- Motor and Wind Interfere-- Better Exhibition Is Promised Today. --- San Joaquin and Delta Day at the state fair yesterday brought out a crowd that closely rivaled the record attendance of Wednesday, when nearly 12,000 visitors packed the grounds at Agricultural park. Shortly before noon a special train of the Central California Traction company brought into the fair grounds more than 300 visitors from Stockton and other points in the San Joaquin valley. Each member of the delegation wore a yellow ribbon on which was printed the words: "Meet me at the San Joaquin county fair at Stockton, September 12-16." The visitors had the time of their lives. They were given the run of the grounds and saw everything worth seeing from noon until the last spark of fireworks died out last night and the evening horse show was over. During the afternoon track program the visitors occupied a section of the main grandstand and were well entertained by the various events. The cowboy and cowgirl races were especially pleasing and the delegation made itself heard above the noise of the crowds by hearty applause. The aeroplane flight by Aviator Fred J. Wiseman yesterday morning, shortly after 12 o'clock, was somewhat of a disappointment to a fair-sized crowd which had waited some time for th purpose of witnessing an exte series of aerial maneuvers. Wiseman's first attempt at flying his disastrous fall Monday [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] [[handwritten note]] Tacoma Ledger 5/23[[/handwritten note]] BIRDMEN PREPARING TO FLY AT TACOMA --- Fred J. Wiseman, Who Will Send Up His Airship Friday and Saturday, Is Daring Aviator. --- Following succesful biplane flights at Olympia, Fred J. Wiseman, the California aviator, and his asistants, A. B. Cooper and B. A. Schieffer, reached Tacoma Sunday and are preparing for the series of flights which they are to give in the baseball park Friday and Saturday. Wiseman is the man who invented the apparatus used on the battleship Pennsylvania to stop the machine in which Ely flew to that vessel from shore last February. Both Wiseman and Ely started their careers as drivers of fast automobiles, and are considered among the most successful and daring aviators in the country. One of the most thrilling automobile races pulled off by this pair was from Oakland around the San Francisco bay to San Jose and back to San Francisco. In this race Wiseman passed Ely on the way to San Jose and between San Jose and San Francisco Ely passed and defeated Wiseman. Those who witnessed the event claimed tht after leaving San Jose Wiseman's engine was practically loosened and dropped from the fram of the machine by the terrific speed. Wiseman was one of the big drawing cards at the recent San Francico meet and has been flying continually since then. He was one of the few who was able to carry away prize money at the Tanforan meet at San Francisco. His recent flights have been in Santa Rosa, Petaluma, and Vallejo. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] HIGH FLYER ARRIVES; TALKS OF AIR SCOUTS --- Wiseman Balks at Telling Age, but Discourses on Army Matters. --- 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, [[strikeout]]D. C. Prentiss, A. B. Cooper and R. A. Schieffer,[[/strikeout]] 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.
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