Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-01

TTy HE contract with the French syn
dicate of leading aviators. headed
- by Paulham and including Doro-
thy Leavitt and Viscomte Puybeau-
det, will be completed today when
Henry e. Huntington, president Oh tie
California Aviation society, Will caple
to a Paris bank $25, 900 TO be paid 10
Edmund Cleary, manager of the syn
dicate This insures international rep
resentation, for Curtiss, Willard ana
probably several other Amercan AVA
! tors will be aere,
1t also means a whirlwind campaign
for money on the part of the aVlat'oh
week executive committee of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association,
for the fund of 100000 should be com
pleted within a month. If this is done,
it will make the rest of the world stare
at Los Angeles, for other. cities nave
been struggling for months TO raise
an equal amount for the international
aviation meet next summer. Los An
geles proposes to do as much practl-
caIly overnight as larger cities are TAX
ing six months to accomplish.
Dick Ferris, general manager OF tne
aviation events, will take on MS shoul-
ders the burden of all exhibition ana
similar details. while the other mem
bers of the committee, ID. A. liam
burger Perry Weidner, NJ. u. Neuner'
Fred L. Baker, Robert Marsh and +,
I Zeehandelaar, will make united ef-
forts to break all records for raising
money.
New Method Adopted
Subscriptions are not exactly sub
scriptions; they are more in the nature
of a loan, for every subscriber VIII
have his contribution returned to MN
pro rata out of the receipts from au-
missions and concessions, poth OF
which will be large. 1t is not improb-
able that the net receipts may pe
more than 100000 in which case the
profits also will be returned as ciear
dividend.
The greatest contribution will not be
the money end. although that Is at
present the most essential, but the I'M
mense advertising that is already be-
ginning to come not only to Los An
geles but also to all of California. Inc
Associated Press and other telegraphlc
clearing houses are carrying frequent
mention of the importance of the Los
Angeles aviation week, and when the
program is on thousands of newspaper
dispatches will call attention to mid
winter flying in Los Angeles.
The money which will be cabled to-
day includes an outright contribution
of $4,000 from Mr.. Huntington, while
SIS 900 advanced by him will be re
turned to him by the Merchants and
Manufacturers association. The avia-
ton executive committee yesterday
sent the following letter to Mr.. Hunt
ington:
Acknowledgment Made
We beg to express our grateful
acknowledgment for your generous
offer to contribute $4,000 and adj
vance at once $4,000 more, to secure
the services of the European avia-
tors for the Aviation week to be
held in this city for ten days, COM
mencing January 10, 1910
You have once more proved your
deep interest in the welfare of this
CITY. and your willingness to ad-
vance every movement that would
tend to advertise Les Angeles and
insure our prosperity and advance
ment
We guarantee that the $4,000
cabled by you to Paris will be paid
to YOU out of the funds collected
by this association for the aviation
week.
Thanking you again, we remain,
Yours very truly,
j. M. SCHNEIDER,
President.
d. A. HAMBURGER,
Chairman executive committee.
f. j. ZEEHANDELAAR,
Secretary.
Dick Ferris already has mailed a
contract to Glenn II. Curtiss and has
a telegram from Roy Knabenshue as
suring the appearance of c. F. Willard,
who has made many successful flights
with the Golden Filler, a Curtiss aero
plane. Senator Flint is confident that
the army Wright aeroplane will be sent
to Los Angeles.
Means international Affair
All this means that the Los Angeles
week will be a great International af-
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