Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1912 — MIOISANT FLYERS AGAIN AT KANKAKEE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MIOISANT FLYERS AGAIN AT KANKAKEE

Miss Mathilde Molsant Will Make 4 Dally Flights—Kankakee Fair Closes Contract for Week of Aviation. The Advance of Aerial Science The Kankakee Interstate Fair has closed a contract with the famous Molsant International Aviators to again hold an earial meet at their coming session, September 2 to 6. Miss Mathilde Molsant, a “near-native daughter” of Kankakee, will make a flight every day. She will make the exhibitions in the latest approved type of 1912 Military Type, Molsant Monoplane, which will be equipped with 4 fifty horsepower “Gnome” motor. Miss Moisant’s Reputation Established. Miss Moisant has recently returned from a winter tour of Mexico and Central'America, where she has made exhibitions almost daily. During these months she has established a reputation as the most skillful aviatrix of the world. In several instances on this tour she displayed remarkable courage and ability. In speaking of her experiences, Andre Houpert, one of the most experienced and oldest flyers, paid Miss Moisant a great compliment. “At Guadalajara,” he said, “while in the air, Miss Moisant showed her wonderful nerve, for in all my experience, I never found such air currents as those at Guadalajara, Guanjuata and Silao. There were few men who would have attempted to fly, but Miss Moisant, with true nerve, took her machine up where it was risking one’s life. In nerve she is equally as strong as poor old Johnnie, who met such a tragic death in New Orleana on December 31, 1910.” That she is a reliable operator is shown when it Is remembered that In Mexico and Central America an advertiser must perform all he has advertised to do, or be arrested. Miss Moisant made the four months’ tour wlth-

out a single complaint from police officers. The “Home-Coming” Exhibition. Miss Moisant will regard her week at Kankakee as a “home-coming” week. Quite recently she remarked: “I will certainly give the Kankakee Fair the best there is in aviation. I have always thought of Kankakee as my home, and the home of my people; and it will give me great pride to return home and outdo all my past efforts.” It is expected that the people of Kankakee and vicinity will turn out in large numbers to give an ovation of welcome to the “daring daughter of Kankakee.” The Record of the Moisant*. The Moisant International Aviators have an unbroken line of achievements. Early last year . they made an extensive tour of western Europe, making records at nearly every one of the large International meets. At the Chicago meet the Moisant flyers captured the distance- and altitude events. Rene Currier, Edmond Audemars and Rene Simon, the latter being the man who gave the wonderful exhibitions at Kankakee last year, are now in South America; and several of these men have been chosen representatives to the great World Meet to be hold late this year. These aviators can justly be said to have made the monoplane famous It is more difficult to interest men in the monoplane; for, while the monoplane is more graceful and capable of more diverse uses, it is somewhat the more dangerous type to fly. The Moisant Flyers have reduced the operation of the monoplane to a definite science. They have shown that the future of aviation lies in the development of this type. The Interest In Aviation. Many of the people who came to Kankakee to see the flights last year, came to see what they considered a passing fancy. But the genius of Rene Simon’s flights convinced them that aviation has come to stay. When aviation was first attempted ft wm greeted by some of that same scepticism that greeted Fulton with his steamboat and Stevenson with his locomotive. And as the steamboat and the locomotive have twice revolutionised transportation, so the aeroplane will again revolutionise it

Miss Matilda Moisant.