The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-29
Turned His Engine Over to Beach that He Might Be Free to Prosecute His
 LabOrs.
Whitehead Claims that Ed
 itOr Owes Him Money and Has Deprived Him of
 First Chance in. Fifteen
 Years to Obtain Recogni- tion of. Aeronauts of
 America.

Gustave Whitehead, who lives at Lenox Heights, just over the town Ifne although he has lost his latest engine upon which he depended to make his flying machine fly. declares that he will keep at the problem of aerial navigation until,if necessary, he dies. Like Palissy, who burned his home piecemeal to glaze pottery Whiteheads wife and children have had to suffer by reason of his frenzy to solve one of the problems that af- fiict mankind. His time in jail, whith- CT he was hurried by Stanley Y. Beach, Stratford, son of the proprie- tor of the Scientific American, upon civil process, has neither soured In ventor Whitehead's temper, nor his engine to secure his, release he counts only one more payment to the genius of invention. While he was in jail he could not continue his work. His yielding was not due to a mere desire to enjoy bodily freedom.
 But he charges, in an interview giv- en to the Farmer to-day, that he has not received the payments that were promised him by Beach and he fur ther charges that his former partner not only did not boom the flying ma chine in the columns of the Scientific American as the invention of White head, but on the contrary referred ire quently to the flying machine that he himself was inventing.
 MT. Whitehead said this morning that he would like to know whom an inventor could expect help from if he could not get it from member of the Beach family, which is supposed to stand for the advancement of all that is excellent in the scientific world.
 He added: 'I have just completed 75 horsepower engine weighing 25t pounds and because the aeroplane in which I installed the machine did not fly at once MT. Beach insisted that I give up the engine to him for two weeks under the agreement. At the end of two weeks he has the right to purchase it of me for s200 although ii is worth $1 900.
 'I have got a flying machine that will fly and because I did not have money enough to get out the patents ,on it I gave MT. Beach half inter est in it with the understanding that he was to let me have SIP a week while. was working on the machine. He never kept this part of the agree ment- regularly and I never received the full amount. He handed me $5 or s6 whenever, he pleased. He gave me s5 for Christmas so that my fam fly could have a Merry Christmas and the week after he was S10 shy, allow ing me g. I am ashamed to say that I have half starved my wife and chill
  My wife sewed all of the cloth that is used on the machine, something like 1.500 yards. It had to be sewed many times and Beach said she would re- ceive ten cents an hour for her work. She never received the money.
 What grieveS me most is that for the first time in 15 years I had a chance to receive recognition from the men in this. country who are interest ed in aeronaEtics. This morning MT. L. s. Burrtdge, president of the Aero nautic Society, asked me to bring my engine to Morris Park for the use of the members who are going to make some flying tests there next week.
 "Now MT. Beach has the engine anu understand he is going to Morris Park with it himself. He has it in stalled in a machine that he got up himself and which is part Whitehead type and part Blearst Monoplane.
 'The engine that MT. Beach has built for a 50 horsepower, but MT.