WHEN PLANES LANDED ALONG MAIN STREET

The Bar Harbor Record
August 16,  1911

FLYING MACHINE COMING

The Bar Harbor Business Association has recently been organized and the second article in the by-laws reads as follows;
"The object and all of then association shall be to promote the business interests of Bar Harbor."
In order to lengthen the season and aid businesses generally, the association has taken up the matter of getting a flying machine here.  We have corresponded with some of the most reliable companies in the business and have just received the following letter;
Bar Harbor Business Association, Bar Harbor Maine.
In reply to your favor of Aug. 4, we will say that we expect to have a machine in your vicinity the latter part of this month and would be pleased to give you some flights in Bar Harbor.  We will be able to furnish either a Crutles biplane or a Blerlot monoplane and possibly can furnish a woman aviator to pilot the former.  We will make you a special price for a three day's engagement (one flight each day) of $1,500. with a bonus of $100 per flight, for each flight that is made by an aviatrress instead of an aviator.  In making this proposition we presume that you have a large field at least one forth by one half mile in size that is free of trees and is otherwise unobstructed, and that is sufficiently smooth for an airplane to run over it without difficulty.  Hoping that you have such a field and that we shall hear from you favorably, we remain,
Very truly yours
The Scientific Aeroplane Co. (signed) Stanley Y. Beach, Pres.

Through the kindness of George B. Dorr and Mrs. John S. Kennedy we have secured the athletic field on Main Street as the starting point.  Main Street as the starting point.
The expenses of the exhibition must be raised by subscription and the amount made payable at once if we are to secure the attraction for this season.
If you are interested in this movement will you kindly subscribe any amount you feel willing to give.  If sufficient funds are not raised for this purpose subscriptions will be returned.
Checks should be made payable to W.H. Sherman, Treasurer.