The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-13
Wrecks At Morris Park Tell of
Disappointment
BUSINESS IS PRECARIOUS
Only One Invention Out of 80 Near
SUGGESTIVE Inventors Return
TO Arkansas BY Rail Instead
of Alrship.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
This airship and flying machine
business is a precarious proposition"
declared an inventor at the old Morris
Park race course as he viewed the re-
mains of several wrecked fiiers scat
tered about the lawn where the mem
bers of the Aeronautic society have
workshops.
The most discouraging part Of 1t all
is that not one of these graveyard
specimens has ever flown. Many a.
dream has gone astray in their con-
struction. and it has been mostly sac
rifice without gain.
Some of the inventors have risked
small fortunes on their flying machines.
but failure has not brought discourage
ment. There is hardly a man to be
found among them who would not be
willing to try it all over again. He is
sure It will come out all right the next
time. Every Wright or Bleriot success
acts like stimulant. and when one of
these aerial dreamers hears OF the for
nation of million dollar corporation
he Immediately gets busy with a new
scheme.
Out of the 80 or more inventors only
one has met with any degree of sue
cess. pr. William Greene recently made
a few short flights with biplane. This
success is said to have brought him
capital and it Is understood that he will
be at the head of a factory for the
production of aeroplenes.
The inventors are as varied in char
acter as in ideas. In the colony of
workers are two dentists, DIR. William
Greene and DR.. Henry Walden; a law
yer, r. F. Raiche; an actor. Charles
Lawrence; a plumber, Pincus Brauner;
an editor. Stanley Y. Beach; a patent
medicine man. John A. Riggs; a con-
sulting engineer, Wilbur r. Kimball; an
Arkansas farmer, Joel T. Rice; a me-
chanician and young college graduate,
C. ]. Hendrickson.
When the workshops opened a year
ago Mr.. Kimball was the sole inventor
on the ground. He had built helicop
ter which gave great promise but never
made good. After several attempts to
get into the air 1t went to smash.
Then Mr.. Kimball constructed a BIZ
plane that eventually met the same fate.
He is now engaged on third machine.
Stanley Y. Beach and Gustav White
head built an aeroplane with which they
| hoped to win the $500 prize offered by
| the promoters of the aeronautic exhibit
| ton held at Arlington. n. j. 1t proved
a perfectly good aeroplane with the ex-
| ception that it failed to fly. Thereupon
| the inventors fell out.
| Aeronaut Beach was convinced that
| the mistake was in making the machine
q biplane. He insisted it should have
been a monoplane. Aeronaut Whitehead
was satisfied that the whole trouble was
that they had not built d triplane.
Aeronaut Beach took matters into his
own hands, demolished the biplane and
constructed monoplane. When he had
finished 1t he looked about for the en-
| gine and found that 1t was missing.
Then more trouble started.
His partner, disguised. had seized the
engine. The indignant Mr.. Beach there
upon started legal proceedings to recover
the engine Mr.. Whitehead vowed that
he would never, never give 1t up until
Mr.. Beach consented to build a triplane.
He kept his vow for week. but then
| his resolution broke down. He sent for
| his former partner and told him he could
| have the engine and build a monoplane
| or any other type ne wanted 10.
Inc engine arriVeo, anu WI. an ~
tried out his new scheme, and sun nis
invention showed no piroiike lenoenoy'
1t Is housed at motifs falh, anu 800
sionany It's inventor lakes IL ~. anu
runs II arouna the .rach on ss,t. h,-
| plane which In appearance was much like
the wright machine; prr ~ s.oa
trial II was wrsokea; . ne Una - 80,
parts Were kept anu 'le insen'oi - 0u''
rebuilding IT,
4u.
motifs bohoa ooh ., - '',.,s
winch never go. OH ehe slouhu W. m,e,'
which ne TOOK inc pow p,iAe AZ 'he A.lAis
Ton aerla, cafhivs, hor .nu nSo e u,anrtao
ed aeropiane' LOUIS Aaans, 'i's.i a..ss.
that looked much like butterfly, but IL
never exhibited flying qualities.
Mr.. Hendrickson. the college graduate,
tried the bat scheme. but without sue