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that I enjoyed from the airship was the sail boats.  There are quite a number of them in and around Chicago.  And while I did not witness any races, I could picture the skipper and his family thoroughly enjoying the sail on Lake Michigan.  Pictures were made purely as a private enterprise for which I received no profit.  But I did use the 1914 film to show to the Navy and the Army and through these pictures, I was able to secure a contract to build observations balloons in 1917.

LAWSUITS
     Immediately after joining the Wright Brothers in Dayton I had been sent to Springfield to be interviewed by their patent attorney and for some unknown reason I did not like him.  He appeared to be very arrogant, and had a high opinion of himself.  But I was able to give some testimony which proved of value in the patent suit.
     There was another thing that worried me considerably.  A law suit instigated against Glenn H. Curtiss and the Curtiss Airplane and Motor Company.  It all hinged on their use of the patents obtained by the Wright Brothers.  Curtiss himself acting for the Aeronautical Experimental Association of which Dr. Bell was the head, had written to the Wright Brothers asking permission to use their ideas and he promised in subsequent correspondence that there would be no infringement of their patents for commercial purposes.  They merely wanted to do some experimenting and wanted to feel free to utilize everything they knew about or were able to get information about.  When it was found that Curtiss had really started in to manufacture for commercial purposes, then the law suits were started.  Up until that time, I had been fairly friendly with Curtiss, admired him as a country boy, honest, upright, but when I saw the correspondence