Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
GUARANTY FOR MEET
Contingencies BEHIND SeIeC-
ton of Aviation Site.
WHAT AERO CLUB WANTS
Fund of 100000 and Ability to
Handle Crowds.
AIRSHIP RACES FOR THE EAST
Balloon Events Will Be Awarded
St. Louis-New York to
Get Busy.
WHAT AERO CLUB WANTS
AIRSHIP RACES FOR THE EAST

! Special Dispatch TO The Star.
| NEW YORK. November 2i.-The con-
test among a dozen American cities for
| the international aviation meet Of 1910
/ will soon he growing hot. New York city
| has not yet awakened to the financial
! possibilities involved in event which
| will attract many visitors from all parts
of the world. but will awake next Tues
! day when the directors of the Aero Club
/ of America are to dine with Thomas r.
! Walsh of the Aero Club of Washington.
( These directors are the men who are to
decide where the big event will be held.
/ They have not dined in a body with the
! boomers of any other site although the
advocates of st. Louis have been enter
tanned informally in the New York Yacht
Club by President CORTLAND Field Bishop
of the Aero Club OF America
; 1t can be stated that it is practically
settled that the balloon races. segregated
! from the other events, will be awarded
/ to st. Louis. The other races will it is
stead Plains. Long Island. or at some
point to be agreed upon by the Washing
ton and Baltimore boomers.
Far West Out of It.
Far western cities claiming to have
raised "a guarantee fund of $4,000. or
even more, will not be considered serious
| ly by the directors of the Aero Club of
America for the reason that most of
these cities have not the means of han
ding the crowds that will want to witness
! the races. The boomers of the Maryland
! site will be In an excellent tactical posi-
! ton If they can assure the Aero Club of
America directors that they can COM
mand a guarantee fund of 100000, and
| that they will be able to handle the
| crowds.
New York city has not taken any steps
! toward securing the meet because of the
| lack of real civic pride here and because
! of feeling among business men that
| the invasion of the city by great crowds
| of eXcurSoniSts constitutes a nuisance
and a deterrent to the orderly course OF
stock speculation and other lines of bust
ness
New Workers to Bid.
But with the dinner to be given here
Tuesday night to the boomers from
| Washington and Baltimore there is to
| be started a movement favoring New
York, and the raising Of a guaranty
fund Of s150,0O0 by New Workers will be
a matter of only Il few weeks work.
! The five directors of the Aero Club of
| America who are to make the final deciS-
! ion are New Workers, and they are sup
| DOSed 10 nave SAmpatflleS more OF less
/ favorable to their own city. The officials
! of the Pennsylvania railroad. which owns
| the Long Island railroad. the only rail-
road line running TO Hampstead Plains,
/ are to join in the movement. having for
| it's object the selection OF the New York
! site for the big event of next October.
! President Bishop would not intimate
! tonight what the attitude of the directors
might be toward the various competing
! Cities but at the dinner Tuesday in the
! LOT, III slI,l linn h..rp M
/ MilliOnaires' Club. a hint viii be dropped
| TO the effect that an international avia-
! ton race from any Pacific coast city, or
| any city further west than st. Louis will
! he passed over very lightly, as would
! the bid of a mining camp for the Jeffries-
| johnson tight.