New-York tribune., 1910-06-08
WILBUR, THE SILENT, TALKS.
Saws Chief Usefulness of Aero
plane Will Be as Military Scout.
WRIGHT MACHINES TO FLY
Will Be Entered in Long Dis
tance Flights and Will Win,
SAYS Inventor.

Three of Ane-fca's foremost aviators sat
in lsa+her chairs in this city yesterday
attending to various kinds OF business
affairs when not receiving newspaper re-
porters who urged aeronautic predictions
of q startling nature. The leather cnalrs
were in separate rooms. The personalities
of the aviators were markedly different IN
many respects but It was noticed tnat IN
the case of each most Of the talking was
done by the reporters.
Wilbur Wright. whom many maintain 10
be the greatest figure in the aeronautlc
world, was at the Hotel Manhattan and at
the Office of the Wright Company, at No.
527 Fifth avenue Glenn H. Curtiss and
Charles K. Hamilton were at the Hotel
Astor H A. Toulmin, Of Springfield.
Ohio, chief counsel for the Wright Com
pany. was at the Hotel Belmont Mr..
Wright came TO town TO attend the sitting
OF the United States Circuit Court Of Ap-
peaIs in the matter Of the appeal OF
Louis Paulhan from the injunction granted
against him by Judge Hand in favor Of the
Wright Company The case was postponed
for a day or two. so the Ohio inventor left
the city for Dayton last night.
He met while here Mr.. Hamilton, the
marvel of Garden City and elsewhere. It
was like trying to get information from
Western railroad presidents after a call
upon President Taft TO ascertain from
either aviator just what occurred. Mr..
Wright said yesterday, Mr.. Hamilton Is a
good operator Mr.. Hamilton said. Mr..
Wright is a fine man. I had never met
him"
When it was known that they had met
and talked many wondered whether con-
solidation Of their aerial daring and verbal
reticence might be in contemplation.
Mr. Wright was asked what he thought
of Hamiltons playing tag with animals and
men while flying over the field at Garden
City.
IT'S all right to play tricks on animals,
maybe, he replied but in the case Of a
man I think it would be better first to OBJ
tain his consent. When I was at Rome,
about two years ago. moving picture man
wanted me to cut some capers while he
lay on the ground. He said he could get
better photographs that way. I said all
right. and explained to him that If he
would lie still in one spot I could fly di-
rectIy over him, dropping from height of
2 thousand feet and evolving some more or
less interesting curves while on the way
The photogra pher consented but we for
thing about the plan. The picture man was
lying on the sand, the only human being
inside the lines, and when I began to ap-
proach him by the dip route there was a
small panic 'Orv' was behind the ropes.
He was still weak from his fall at Wash
inCton He saw the man in the middle of
/ the parade ground and ran toward him
with all his might. BY the time he was
within six or seven feet Of the fellow
was preparing to swoop over him.
d" 'Orv' looked up, thought l had gone
crazy and Immediately lay down with his
face 10 the sand. 1t was the worst scare
/ Orv' ever had, he said afterward. but the
other man was unconcerned I had his
consent and he had confidence in me
passed over him by margin of only three
feet. Orv' and the crowd got an extra
thrill"
is it particularly dangerous to make
dips with full power on?' ne was asked
/ NO 1t is spectacular and pretty to see
4 Take 'Orv' at Dayton d few days ago. H'
made one of those gIides from an altitude
! of 200 feet. 1t took him a minute and Z
( half TO reach the ground. That is dropping
! thirty feet a second He thought nothing
nf it
What is the most important use t
which YOU believe the aeroplane can b.
put?'' he was asked
y have always considered the aeroplan'
a military contrivance,' he replied.
viii there be fighting between aero
planes?'
I'D rather be on the machine that wa
fred at than on the one that carried
p,,n he said No, ! think the most vaiu
able thing that the aeroplane will do 10
! a long time will be TO enable military torce
n locate the position of the enemy. II
know where the enemy is and their con
dition might easily be worth forty thousan'
men"
SnaakinG Of 'cross-country flights, MI
Wright said: "If there are going TO be
lot Of prizes offered for such flying tht
wright machine viii undoubtedly be en-
+arad Neither 'Orv I shall compete
/ Rut the Wright machine, which is abso-
I Iutalv the only machine that can carry rue
for q thousand-miIe fight. will be on hanc
to win"
He added thatsthe most economical speed
( At ubicb TO travel was thirty miles an hour
/ Five .ittIe Wrights" will cut short cor
rere and spin around like tops in the all
at indianapolis next week at the nrst ha-
+ionaI aviation meet ever held in this coun-
/ try -,
! Asked If something new would be shoWr
then. Mr.. Wright's mouth tWitched IN
MOST confident manner. and he said
"Corne out to Indiana. I think well IN
/ 49,. ,.o,, m a few new ones.