Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-25
PROSPECTS LOOK GOOD
indications Favor This City
for Aero Carnival.
NORFOLK IS IN SYMPATHY
Action Awaits Return of Head of
Aero Club of America.
FORMAL APPLICATION MAILED
Proposed Formation of Local Plane
Builders to Construct a Man
Carrying Machine.
FORMAL APPLICATION MAILED

There seems to have been some delay
in the mails in the effort of the Washing
ton and Norfolk business men to get to-
gether on the proposed aero carnival in
Washington. DR.. Albert Zahm, who is
the secretary Of the Washington Aero
Club and a member Of the special COM
mittee that is cooperating with the
Chamber of Commerce here. says that
he has already mailed a letter to Jo-
seph H. Hall. secretary of the Norfolk
Board of Trade, outlining the plains that
are under consideration in Washington,
stating how Baltimore is cooperating
with this city and asking the assistance
Of Norfolk in the same way.
Mr.. Hall says he has not received the
letter, but that as soon as he does he
will return a reply pledging the assistance
of Norfolk I'm every way possible. The
business men in Norfolk are much in
terested in the suggestion of fight over
the water from Washington to Norfolk
and are anxious to do all they can to
help secure the meet for Washington.
Col. Jerome n. Joyce OF Baltl more, who
is the head of the Baltimore committee,
has just returned from New York, where
he was present at the luncheon to Glenn
Curtiss He says that the prospects look
decidedly good for Washington. OF
course, nothing definite can be done until
President CORTLAND Field Bishop of the
Aero Club of America returns to New
York, but all the members of the Aero
Club there who have been approached
expressed themselves as in favor of
Washington as a place to hold the meet.
Committee to Select Place.
It was announced by DR.. Zahm here
today that the formal application of
ia hnr h.
been sent to New York. AS soon as Mr..
Bishop returns the committee for select
ing the place of the meet will be named
and the first hearing will be given to the
Washington committee. which will pre-
sent the claims of this city and invite
the committee from the Aero Club of
America to look over the ground.
The committee to meet the New York
ers has not yet been selected. but 1t
probably will contain members of the
Aero Club of Washington, the Washing
ton Chamber of Commerce and members
of the business mems associations of
Ba timore and Norfolk. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Bishop will return to New York
in a few days and. while the committee
probably will not DE appointed until after
the Hudson-Fulton celebration. the local
committee and the New Workers. will get
together very soon after that
In the meantime there are several
members of the Washington and BaIti-
more delegations remaining in New York
for the celebration and they will do all
the private missionary work that can oe
done among the members of the board of
directors of the Aero Club of America
Local Aeroplane Builders.
The aeroplane builders of Washington
are preparing to get together for the
formation of an association to build a
man-carrying machine. The idea has
been advanced by F.. L. Rice. who was
the chief mechanic for Israel Ludlow,
while he was building his machine here
last year. Associated with Mr.. Rice is
f. H. Young, an attorney, with whom
Mr.. Rice has been working on some pro-
peller problems. The organization meet
ing has not yet been held, but is to be
The trouble with the most inventors is
that while they are rich in ideas they are
not usually SO in funds, and it is thought
that If a number of them get together
they will be able to put out a machine
that none of them could produce alone
One of the things that worries the pro-
motors of the International aero carnival
here a little is the announcement made in
New York by Wilbur Wright that he and
his brother would sue Beriot and Farman
if either of them attempted to fly ma
chine in this country. 1t was explained
that the probable reason why the Wrights
had not bothered about Bieriot and Far
man in France was that they had sold
their French patent and would let the