New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-31
AERONAUTS HONORED
SPEECHES At RHEIMS.
Coming Contests IN america Many
Orders for Airships.

Rheims. Aug. So-Aviation week was officially
closed to-day with breakfast given by the COM
mittee of organization in honor of the aeronauts.
More than five hundred guests We're present. NJ.
Berot attended with his in a sling. result
of his accident of yesterday. and he and Glenn III.
Curtiss the American: Henry Farman. the Eng
lishman. and Hubert Latham and LOgis Paulhan,
the French flyers were cheered repeatedly
Cortlandt F. Bishop, president of The American
Aero Club. also was warmly greeted. Speaking
for the club and the people OF America. Mr. Bishop
heartily thanked the committee its cordial
ception and treatment of the Americans and in
vited the aviators of the world TO to America.
He protested gooI naturedly against the insinua-
ton of Mr.. Wallace president OF the british Aero
Club. that America had placed prohibitory export
duty international cups. pointing out that the
first Gordon Bennett balloon cup captured in 1906,
had returned 70 Europe the following year. Natu-
rally. will do best keep this cup Mr..
Bishop said. but II you will come-if NJ. Bleriot
comes. he has prOmised-I shall fear for the
result"
THE ASCENT OF RHEIMS.
Mr. Bishop aroused great outburst of applause
when he compared the Roman gladatoral COM
bats. which took place in the ancient city of
Rheims with the enlightened tournament OF last
week. I'm those days the spectators looked down
the combats." Mr.. Bishop said: now they look
up to them
Turning To the champagne manufacturers. Mr..
Bishop said that he knew that Rheims was dis
satisfied with the increase of American duties on
champagne; nevertheless, he was sure they would
be pleased to know that the American who won
the international cup came from a small district OF
New York State which owed much of its pros
perity to the fact that after the fall of the first
French Empire some disconnected wine growers
Of Rheims had emigrated to America. taking their
grape vines with them. Some descendants OF these
emigrants still cultivated grapes on the hills around
Hammondsport Victor Mason. the owner of one
ef the principal cellars, relative OF Fred
eric Mason, the celebrated biogTapher of Napoleon
and another Masscn secretary of the Curtiss
company. This remark was greeted with applause
In conclusion Mr. Bishop said IL America enter
tanned hsr visitors nalf well Rheims had, he
would be contenteJ
The Marquis az Polignac announced a gift OF
s2OoO TO NJ. Latham by a Paris newspaper for his
beautiful flights" NJ Latham accepted. not for
himself. but behalf Of "Lavssseur. the genius
whose motor had made the flights possible"
Mr.. Wallace. I'm his address said that a
for humanity had been born the field Of Beth
eny. Referring TO the winning of the international
cup by American, Mr. Wallace said that Eu-
rope could hardly be content with this. But Eng
land has discovered 20 her SORROW. he said that
the American regulations against the exporting
Of international cups"
Mr.. Curtss did not speak
The Marquis de Polgnac president Of the
mittee. announced that a second series of contests
would be held. beginning August q 1910 He read
speeches followed. They all prophesied that avIa-
ton week marked only the beginning OF maryels
In the conquest OF the air. Among the speakers
were the Mayor Of Rheims. NJ Langlis and NJ
Loreau. president OF the Mixed Aerial Commission
The latter referred 10 the disappointment OF France
at the failure to retain the international cup and
caused a hearty round OF applause when he added:
But l appropriate for myself and all Frenchmen
the remark OF NJ. Bleriot when ne learned that
France had been defeated This was: 1 will 20 TO
q eFHF FA In. fe
Mr.. Curtiss's machine was packed and shipped 10
Paris this afternoon. the aeTonaut and Cortlandt r
b-shop following IL later by automobile to the
frehch capital The difficulty in obtaining passage
on board steamer next Saturday Tor New York.
coupled with the nsistence OF the managers OF the
races 10 be held at BreScia, Italy, makes MIR Cur
tiss again hesitate about returning TO America.
The Brescla committee offers 10 guarantee all 81
Mr.. curtiss's expenses and 10 reduce the distance
~ the big race. which is worth $500. from 100 to
80 kilometres
GREAT FINANCIAL SUCCESS.
The meeting Rheims has been a great success
financially. There were two hundred thousand
PAID entries 10 the aerodrome yesterday. and prob
ably one hundred thousand more people the
flights from the hills outside the course
The aeroplane companies took orders for hfty-tuo
aeroplanes during the week. 81 them from
persons not before interested in aviation. Manu-
lecturers believe that spOrtsmen OF every country
VIII now begin 10 buy aeroplsnes particularly as
'''N "''Na H'bHAS uutlnE tHe week, estlulateu
at over thirteen hundred. without a single
serious accident This demonstrates that rying is
no more dangerous than automobling was IN It's
early stages The OF the different machines
ranges from ,2,ccO 10 s. coo
A Of 1864 words were telegraphed from the
press stand at Betheny during the week Most Of
the Paris newspapers used the telephone
Speaking Of his flight yesterday for height Latham
said that after reaching altitude or 800 feet his
engine. due perhaps 10 the height missed fire con
made imDOSsiblo IN IN drfv
his machine higher. When asked what he would
have done had his motor stopped. he answered: II
should have glided TO the ground l felt no appre-
hension. however"