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1907 June 1 Saturday at Baddeck

Tribune New York

15 Mar 1907

PROGRESS IN AIRSHIPS. 

Wright Brother Send Letter--Colgate Hoyt's Prediction.

With this great balloon trophy, the Bennett cup, flanked by the Lahm cup, on view, the Aero Club of America held its first annual dinner last night at the St. Regis, with Courtlandt Field Bishop, as president, presiding. Most of the diners came in their automobiles, but when the next dinner is held most of them were sure last night that they would come in their airships. The Aero Club is young, only eighteen months old, but it is old enough to have offspring, the Aero clubs of Philadelphia and St. Louis, the presidents of which were present to speak for the new sport.

The Lahm cup is a challenge trophy to commemorate the flight made by Lieutenant Frank Purdy Lahm, U.S.A., of 402 miles, and it is necessary to duplicate his flight within the borders of this country to hold it. It represents a globular balloon, such as he won the Bennett cup with, that trophy showing a dirgible sausage shaped balloon. At the entrance to the dining hall was the model of a statue to represent aeronautics by Gutzon Borglum, the friend of Paul Nocquet, the young sculptor who met death in the South Bay marshes after a successful balloon trip.

President Bishop read a cable dispatch of congratulations from the Aero Club of France, which held its annual dinner in the afternoon in Paris, and another from Lieutenant Lahm, whose military duties kept him away.

Accidents and illness kept some of the guests away, one of them, William J. Hammer, having got mixed up in an automobile accident on his way to dinner. The accident caused Mr. Hammer the loss of the greater part of his clothing, Mr. Bishop said, but did not injure him otherwise to any serious extent. In spite of great efforts made to bring them here, Orville and Orcutt Wright of Dayton, Ohio, were not at the dinner. Instead, they sent this letter:

It certainly would give us great pleasure to attend the Aero Club dinner, but we cannot conveniently make a trip East at this time. We send our best wishes.

As we have done no outdoor work since 1905, we have no new records to report, nor are our plans for future flight in such shape that we can make a public announcement. But we certainly expect to fly again before the year is over; and while we cannot promise that the flights will be public, we can assure you that they will effectually remove all question that the flying art originated in America.

As to the matter of prizes, which you mention, it is our view that the conditions of the early prizes should be such as to stimulate the inventor, rather than the operator. If the conditions are made so hard that the inventors will despair of winning them, the prize will have little effect, no matter how large it may be. A boy will jump harder for a dime held almost within his reach than for a dollar held so high that he cannot hope to get it until he grows much taller. Reasonable nearness is fully as great an incentive as the amount.

Unless the average inventor feels that he could win the Aero Club prize within a few years, he will turn his attention to other prizes. In that case the novelty of flying will be worn off before the prize is won, and the winning of it will not be the great event it ought to be.

Following the reading of the letter from the Wright brothers, Mr. Bishop some of the prize which the Aero Club is seeking to give, and which it hopes to make the biggest of the kind in the world. He said that prizes in Europe for aeroplanes now aggregate about a quarter of a million dollars, and that the Wright brothers probably could clean up the entire lot in about a week. He wanted this country, he said, not only to have the honor of producing the first aeroplane, but also of being able to keep and reward its inventors within its borders. He then introduced James E. Smith, chairman of the Business Men's League of St. Louis, where the next Bennett cup race will start October 14.

Mr. Smith said that he thought he could safely promise to send all those who then came to St. Lois home in an airship or a flying machine of some sort. He told of the preparations being made by St. Louis for the race, these including the offer of four large cash prizes for the contestants, free gas, reduced hotel and railroad rates, and a suitable balloon park. General Allen, he said, he would have enough soldiers there thoroughly to police the grounds.

Colgate Hoyt lamented that he had not been able to seek J. Pierpont Morgan at sea in an airship when he was mixed up in Wall Street yesterday. Incidentally most of the other speakers made about the same plaint, most of them evidently having been caught along with the other bulls. Mr. Hoyt told of some youthful experiments in parachute jumping, the family cat and umbrella having formed the basis of the experiments. Later his brother took the place of the cat one day, with disastrous effect to both umbrella and brother. He predicted that soon flight through the air would be as easy and swifter than anything we now have on the earth.

The next speaker was Harry St. George Tucker, president of the Jamestown Exhibition, who told of the plans for the aeronautical congress to be held there this spring and summer. Then McCready Sykes told a few stories.

Then Mr. Bishop introduced E.B. Bronson, once of The Tribune staff, who made a flight for The Tribune in 1874 from Madison Square Garden to West Point, establishing an endurance record which still holds good in this country, of having stayed in the air for twenty-six hours.

Ex-Congressman Wise, of Virginia, told of experiments made by his son, Lieutenant Wise, U.S.A., in taking photographs from balloons during the Spanish-American War in Cuba, and Burgess Johnson told about "Some High Flyers."

Among those who were at the dinner were Alfred N. Chandler, president of the Aero Club of Philadelphia; Congressman Herbert Parsons, Admiral C.M. Chester, L.D. Dozier, president of the Aero Club of St. Louis; Burgess Johnson, Daniel C. Nugent, Captain Charles De Forrest Chandler, Charles Jerome Edwards, Henry S. Gratz, Alan R. Hawley, Israel Ludlow, J.C. McCoy, Luke J. Minahan, of Pittsfield; Augustus Post, A. Leo Stevens, Dr. Julian P. Thomas, Professor David Todd. General Thomas L. Watson and Samuel H.

Herald New York
15 Mar 1907

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