Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-23
|H0T AFTER BIG PR|ZE MILLIONS BACK TRUST
WASHINGTON Committee Off to Wright Brothers Form Comb
Meet Aero Club. nation to Control Aviation
GUARANTEE FUND FILLED THIS COUNTRY AND CANADA
Final $1,000 Subscribed by Mem Capital Placed at 100000 and
| beers Before Starting for New York No Stock on Sale
BALTIMOREANs JOIN PARTY MONOPOLY OF AIR CURRENT
of Aero
Be Guests Thomas to Proscu
at Dinner. Infringements
GUARANTEE FUND FILLED
Final $1,000 Subscribed by Mem
bers Before Starting for New York.
BALTIM0REANs TO JOIN PARTY
With Directors of Aero Club Will
Be Guests of Thomas F. Walsh
at Dinner.

Members of the Washington Aero Club
who are working to secure the interna-
tional aviation meet OF 1910 for Washing
ton left here this morning at 10 o'clock
for New York where they will be the
guests of Thomas F. Walsh at dinner
at the Metropolitan Club this evening.
The party was Joined in Baltimore by the
committee from that city. The two bodies
will meet at dinner the board of directors
of the Aero Club of America. the COM
mittee on site for the international meet
and a number of distinguished guests.
The Washington party consisted of Ed
ward j. Stellwagen. Clarence F. Norment.
Prof. Willis Moore, Charles j. Bell, Dr.
Albert F. Zahm and George Oakley Tot
ten. The Baltimore members of the dele
CATION were Col. Jerome II. Joyce, Gen.
Clinton Riggs, Gen. George Randolph.
Justice James T. O'Neil and Millard
Burgess.
Mr.. Walsh went to New York last night
and will meet the party this afternoon
The headquarters of the Baltimore dele-
CATION will be at the Waldorf-Astorla.
and that of the Washington contingent
at the Manhattan Hotel
To Hear Washington's Claims.
The meeting at the Metropolitan Club
this evening will be principally Tor the
purpose of laying before the Aero Cluo
the claims of Washington as point Tor
holding the international meet There are
a number of sites under consideration,
among the most prominently mentioned
being College Park. 1t will be SHOWN 10
the committee in New York that Wash
inston is the ideal spot for an 1nterna-
tional meet of this sort because it can be
held while Congress issin session ana
there will be present as spectators tne
whole of the diplomatic corps ana the
national legislature 1t has been suggest
ed that the best time for holding the
meet will be late in May or early IN
June It is true that Glenn Curtiss, VINO
won the Gordon Bennett speed cup ana
thus brought the meet to this country, Is
entitled to hold the trophy for year
from the date of his winning it, and this
would bring the meet in the latter part
of August Curtiss has said. however,
that he is perfectly willing to waive ms
claim to the cup for the rev mom!ns
that would be involved and he is willing
to have the meet held whenever the COM
mittee shall decide.
The Washington committee on sites
wishes to pick out some point that Will
be between Washington and Baltimore.
gagged to furnish half of the guarantee
fund that is to be raised.
Fund Is Now Complete.
1t was announced before the committee
left this morning that there remained
only 1890 of the Washington guarantee
fund to be raised, and the members of
the committee subscribed this themselves
before starting, SO that they will be able
Nl,,h Of Am rtc
with the statement that the whole of the
Washington guarantee fund is in hand.
The Baltimore members announced that
thew had raised $13,250 and had little ap-
prehension Of difficulty in raising the re-
mainder of their $4,000
1t has been hoped that one or both of
the Wrights would be present at the New
York dinner, but Wilbur Wright said this
morning that business of importance
would keep him here In Washington and
he would not be able to get to New York.
Orville Wright is also busy in Dayton
and he will not be there, either.