Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1915 — Chinese Youth Wins in Pittsburgh Kite Contest [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Chinese Youth Wins in Pittsburgh Kite Contest

■PITTSBURGH. —Kites of all descriptions, Including models of aeroplanes, a 1 figure of “Uncle Sam" and the outlines of animals, were seen at the first kite day held in Pittsburgh under the auspices of the bureau of recreation,

in Schenley park. The contests were held under the direction of William F. Ashe, superintendent of the bureau of recreation. Fifty-four prizes, including gold, silver and bronze medals, were awarded, the judges taking into consideration design, novelty, workmanship and altitude. Over six hundred boys took part in the contests. There were over five thousand persons witnessing the events. Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong and Councilmen Robert Garland and Enoch

Rauh were interested spectators of the boys’ fun. Mayor Armstrong apparently enjoyed the fun as much as the boys, and helped several of the lads to get their kites out of bad places. Mayor Armstrong pinned a first prize medal on a Chinese, Y. C. Lo, who won the first prize for novelty. Lo is a graduate of Cornell and is now taking a post-graduate course at the University of Pittsburgh. His kite was 70 feet long, being in several sections, and represented a centipede. It took Lo six weeks to make the kite. Aeroplanes of all kinds were entered and many prizes were awarded for construction of these machines. An intricate system of figuring the merits of each contestant was used. A boy would enter a contest, give his age, and offer his kite for inspection. He would be given a percentage for his workmanship or novelty and additional percentage for the altitude. The altitude was figured by a group of Omegie tech students who made their calculations with transits. The total points would be counted and the boy having the highest percentage tn his respective class would get a prize.