Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-23
Wright Brothers Form Combi-
nation to Control Aviation.
THIS COUNTRY AND CANADA
Capital Placed at $1,000, 900 and
No Stock on Sale.
MONOPOLY OF AIR CURRENT
Company to Take Over Wright
Patents and to Prosecute All
Infringements.

NEW YORK, November o2.-For the
purpose OF controlling absolutely in this
country and Canada all aviation by means
of heavier-than-air machines the Wright
company, backed by financiers controlling
probably a billion dollars, was formed
yesterday.
The men behind the flying machine trust
are nearly all prominent in financial and
trust affairs Those named in the pa
pers flied with the secretary Of state in
clude August Belmont, Edward j. Ber-
WIND. the coal magnate; Robert ]. Col
lier, millionaire publisher; Andrew Freed
man. Howard Gould, Morton F. Plant of
the Plant railway system: Allan A. Ryan.
son of Thomas F.. Ryan. who is being
groomed to succeed his father in the
financial world, and who has his father
backing: Theodore P. Shonts Of the In
terboroueh, Cornelius Vanderbilt and
Russell A. Alger of Detroit, son of former
Secretary of War Alger.
The capital of the company is mOdestly
placed at $1.O00.OOO, and it is announced
that there is no stock for sale. The COM
pany, which has been formed to take
over the patents OF the Wrights and to
prosecute all infringements claims as an
the control of the equilibrium of the ma
chine
Gives Company Monopoly.
If this contention is upheld by the Su-
preme Court of the United States, and
De Lancey Nicoll, who as general counsel
of the company made public the facts of
| the Incorporation last evening. believes
it will be- the company will have a
monopoly of the air.
The men of millions associated in the
company are so confident the Wrights
will be sustained in all their contentious
that they have announced their plans for
| the future. salesroom is to be opened
| in the Night and Day Bank building and
| orders taken for aeroplanes. They have
arranged for a great field upon which to
teach purchasers of machines how to fly.
This field is to be in Florida this winter,
where those with money enough to buy
an aeroplane may journey and be taught
to fly. 1t will be continued in operation
until April.
A large factory is to be built near Day
ton. Ohio. Orders taken for machines are
to be filled by spring.
Field for Training.
In addition there is to be a field for the
training of men and the carrying Of pas
sengers. 1t is declared a car can be
built to carry twenty passengers. 1t is
planned to have mails carried by the
aeroplanes to remote places in the west
where speed is desired, where there are
no railroads and where roads are unfit
for automobiles.
The Wrights are to be associated ac-
lively with the enterprise. Wilbur Wrigh,
will be president and his brother Orville
vice president. Clinton r. Peterkin is to
be secretary and treasurer.
IT was said Yesterday that the men Tho
had organized the company and stood
ready to invest their money had done SO
only after it had been demonstrated to
them that aerial navigation had pro-
meroial proposition.
The Wrights. it was said, purposely had
not revealed the possibilities of their ma
chine. The making of sensational flights
they had left to others. The Wright
aeroplane, it was said, is now a devel-
oped and commercial success. The surest
proof of this 1t was suggested, was the
fact that the men who had put up the
ers, but millionaires. noted for their abil-
ity to gather in and control anything that
looks good to them.
Combination of Great Wealth.
AS q combination OF capital. 1t probab bly,
for the first time brings money of the
Belmonts. GouIds, Plants, Ryans and
Vanderbilts into one great plan for the
control of what they believe is going to
be practical method of transportation.
In memorandum prepared to guide
those who were told of the incorporation
Of the company and its purposes 1t is
stated:
"One of the main purposes in the for
nation of the company and the organiza-
ton of so strong a board Of directors was
to assist the Wrights in every way in
maintaining the impregnability of their
patent position. Infringements will be
prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
and so long as the Wrights can supply
the demand for aeroplanes no licenses
will be granted"
1.-The patents to be protected control
absolutely the principles under which
aerial flight is now accomplished is an
other strong point in the memorandum of
Mr.. Nicoll.
While the company and the Wrights
believe the biplane far superior to any
other type of machine, it Is possible, it
Is said, that other types will be manu-
featured.
AS to the possibilities of fight with the
Wright machine, 1t was said last night
that the present aeroplane of the
Wrights, with no change except as to
| size, is capable of flying 100 miles with
out a stop.
Wind Not Serious Obstruction.
While it has been believed generally
that wind of from twenty to forty miles
an hour made Wright machine unsafe,
it is stated that in Germany Orville
Wright's flights were made in wind never
less than twelve miles an hour and as
high as thirty-f1ve, and that at all times
the aeroplane was under perfect control.
In the use of machine, the inventors
state that q man can be instructed In
less than an hours actual fight. They
believe ii is easier to learn to operate an
aeroplane than 1t is to learn to ride a
bicycle.
AS to the backing of the Wrights and
| the results expected it was said:
The organization of this company is
going to have a far-reaching effect on the
development, introduction and early uni
versal adoption Of the aeroplane i'm sport
! and commercially. AS sport it will
| hold sway for many years to come. 1t
is far safer than automobile racing and
is more spectacular for the spectators.
THE Wrights believe twenty-passen-
ger machine is entirely possible. Indorse-
| ment by the men composing the board of
directors of the Wright company of the
Wright invention will prove tremendous
stimulus to the science of aerial naviga-
| ton and the commercial introduction of
the aeroplane."
Suits Alleging Infringement.
| The wrights at present have several