New-York tribune., 1908-09-29
EXHIBIT OF AIRSH[PS
Unusual Display To Be Made IN
Connection 1cith .4utO Shoe.

The greatest exhibition of aeronautical apparatus
ever shown. II said yesterday, Will De tha' vi
the Aero Club of America this winter IN conhe'
ton with one of the automobile shows 1t has not
been decided whether the Aero Cuo exnipitloh
shall be held under the auspices of the Automopie
Club of America, whose show this year VIII De
handled by the American Motor Car Manu1act-
urers' Association and held December 81 to
January at Grand Central Palace, or ee a part
of the automobile show which will be conducteo
by the Association of Licensed Automobile Manu-
facturers at Madison Square Garden, from Janu-
airy 10 to g.
1t is understood that each automobile asso-
citation desires obtain the exhibit, Believing that
the machine of the Wright brothers. which will be
included would attract large crowds that might
otherwise not attend a strictly automobile show
If arrangements made for the aeronautic dis
play to be held in Madison Square Garden it prob
ably will be held the roof. it was said yes
terday that there room in the building large
enough for the exhibit that the Aero Club has
planned.
The automobile association, making final arrange
ments with the Aero Club is to help provide a
fund make the show a complete success, and 1t
is believed that the American Museum of Natural
History will not only make appropriation, but
that the machines will be installed afterward In
the new building of the museum as permanent
exhibit
Several conferences have been held between
George H. Sherwood, secretary of the American
Museum of Natural History, and Israel Ludlow,
representing the Aero Club, and yesterday after
noon Mr.. Ludlow wrote formal statement at the
request of Mr.. Sherwood outlining to the board of
directors plan for a permanent display.
The Aero Club plans make the exhibition
sort of jubilee affair by obtaining the aeropanes
of the Wright brothers and a. VI. Herring and the
June Bug of the Aeronautical Experiment Associa-
ton, and also to duplicates of famous de-
vices which the forerunners of these aero
planes. showing along what lines the science has
advanced well giving credit to the pioneers 1t
is felt that it would be loss If these models
destroyed.
Among the famous models that will be dupli-
Gated are Wenham's aeroplane for which he re-
ceived patent in Great Britain 1885, Strngfel-
lows model of 1s6S made when he member
of the Aeronautcal Society of Great Britain; Ho-
ratio Phllipss model of 1898; Otto Lillienthals
brdlke aeropIane. and that of Ader, of Paris.
Well models of the first balloon made by the Mont
golfer brothers. of France, and several devices of
the sixteenth century, nearly they be
reproduced from the vague drawings and descrip
tions left by the early inventors.
The letter from Mr.. Ludlow to Mr.. Sherwood
outlining the plan for permanent exhibit the
museum says:
I think you will agree with me that the present
time is most opportune for taking up this work.
point The remarkable feats Of OFT the WrFht broth
ers have placed it upon a basis which assures the
recent and knowledge of them so definite
that the chance TO make and gather correct and
1t is proposed to hold the usual exhibit Of the
Aero Club of America in the month OF January.
and it would be possible to obtain after this
hibt is over the different apparatuses there placed
on view for permanent installation with the Amer
lean Museum Of Natural History.
| suggest that you cooperate by adding to the
fund of approximately 81. 900 which the Aero Club
win have to prepare for this exhibit, and through
joint effort prepare exhibit which shall have
an historical interest by the reproduction of noted
apparatuSes including. among others, Montgolfers
paper balloon of 11S3 Qn model, the aeropanes Of
Wenham. StriDgfelow and others, and the gliderS
Of Liilienthal Chanute and Herring
1t IS obvious that it viii be easier to secure at
the present time machines constructed by the
Wright brothers, DR.. Alexander Graham Bell and
the Aerial Experiment Association, and that these
machines as time passes will have extra ordinary
interest as being among the pioneers in this line
Of endeaVor
1t was said yesterday that action by the board
of directors Of the American Museum of Natural
History probably would be taken this week.