Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-21
Baltimore and Norfolk Want
Aviation Meet Held Here.
ARE WORKING IN EARNEST
Committees Going Over to New York
to Push It Along.
WESTINGHOUSE CHANCES GOOD
Aero Club Members Confident Guar
antee Fund Of 800, 900 Can Be
Raised-Soon to Be Settled.

Baltimore and Norfolk are containing
their neighborly overtime work to bring
next years International aviation meet to
Washington. If they expected to hog the
high-fying carnival all to themselves
they couldn't appear more in earnest. The
only thing that Baltimore will get out OF
the meet. If it is held here, will be the
other end Of a possible cross-country
aeroplane flight. and Norfolk has even
less to anticipate as the receiving end OF
the proposed here to Norfolk race for
heavier-than-air machines. But neither
city seems worried. They are both going
right ahead telling everybody what a
grand town Washington is and how en-
ergetic the people are here and how easily
the necessary money could be raised and
all that sort of thing. It's more than
neighborly; it's sisterly. that's what 1t is.
or course Washington Is real interest
ed, too. If you'll just drop into the Cos
mos Club or stop at the headquarters of
Balloon Pilots Local. No. IA. or walk
into the temporary offices of the Original
Aviators' Union, you'll always find three
ing their initials in the rime on long.
frigid glasses, and working to bring next
years international aviation meet to
Washington. Recently several Of them
Pullnranned to Baltimore to talk things
over. They haven't gone down to Nor
folk yet. It's a long trip by boat and
anyhow Norfolk is working as hard as
she can for Washington already.
Committee Going to New York.
Washington has made formal appli-
cation for the aviation carnival, too, and
tonight delegation OF prominent folks
from Baltimore. including Mayor Mahool.
Col. Jerome A. Joyce. Gen. Clinton Riggs,
Charles s. Abel, Frederick Gottlieb, Will
liam Fehsenfeld and William Lanahan.
10 going over to New York to see what 1t
can do to help out Washington. The
members .of the delegation will
attend the luncheon to Glenn Cur
tiss at the Lawyers Club tomorrow and
to CORTLAND Field Bishop, president Of
the Aero Club Of America, who will ap-
point the committee that will select the
city for the next aviation meet Those
Baltimoreans are just dead set on having
Washington get that aviation carnival.
Norfolk also will probably send a repre-
sentative to work for Washington.
Charles j. Bell and George Oakley
Totten. representing the Washington
Aero Club, are also going over to New
York, and 1t is expected that they will
second the efforts Of the Baltimoreans
and the Norfolkians to bring the avia-
ton carnival here. Mr.. Bell is quite
optimistic over the outlook. =
II am confident" he said yesterday,
that Washington will be decided upon
provided some other city is not Sc
lected"
Mr. Bell is also confident that Wash
ington could raise the minimum Of
100000 necessary to the holding of
the meet here. and he likewise ex-
pressed the opinion that the efforts OF
10
very helpful.
Capital the Proper Place.
The Baltimore representatives have
expressed their intention OF making an
appeal to President Bishop on the
ground that 1t will be most fitting for
the first International aviation carni-
val to be held in this country to grace
the National Capital. 1t is confidently
expected that Messrs. Bell and Totten
will indorse this view.
Glenn Curtiss will arrive in New
York today on the Kaiser Wilhelm II.
He Is accompanied by CORTLAND F.
Bishop. who will preside at the lunch
con- There will be men interested in
aviation present from all over the coun-
try, and the committee to select the
site Of the aero carnival will be prac-
Wilbur Wright. who is assembling his
aeroplane on Governors Island in prep
aration for the flights at the Hudson
Fulton celebration. has not yet an
nounced whether or not he will be pres
ent at the luncheon to Curtiss. He and
his brother Orville. now in Berlin, have
entered suit against Curtiss for in
fringement of patent, and this may
have something to do with keeping him
away from the luncheon. Wilbur
Wright has said. however, that the
mere fact that he is prosecuting a law
suit against Curtiss has nothing to do
with the fact that he regards him high
ly as a man and appreciates fully his
achievements abroad.
AS the flights that Wilbur Wright
will make at New York will occupy
him till the first week in October, there
is no prospect Of his getting here for
the training flights at College Park till
toward the middle of October. even II
the weather then permits Of flying.