Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-17
CHANCE FOR FLIGHT
AviatorS Would Enter New
York-Washington Contest.
NO REPLY FROM WRIGHTS
Another Attempt Will Be Made to
Get Them to Compete.
FOREIGN FLYER MAY RACE
Aero Club in Pennsylvania Has Con-
tracted for Machine From
European Builders.
FOREIGN FLYER MAY RACE

| While nothing has been heard from the
Wright brothers in response to the invi-
tation sent them to participate in the
! flight from New York TO WASHINGTON
! there are several other aspirants for
place in this flight. so that it looks as
| though race might Yet be arranged.o
| y letter was received this morning by
DR.. Albert Zahm. secretary of the Wash
lngton Aero Club, from Henry VI. Nicely,
chairman OF the committee on contests
OF the Aero Club Of Pennsylvania. This
is club which controls all of the local
clubs in the keystone state. Mr.. Nicely
said that the local manager for Joseph
seymour, who flies a CurtisS machine,
was anxious to enter Mr.. Seymour in the
New York Washington flight. This
would mean merely pittins operators of
different Curtiss machines against each
other. and it is not known for certain
whether such an offer would be accepted
Get Machine From Abroad.
Mr.. Nicely said also that one of the
pennsylvania clubs had contracted abroad /
ior Mountaineering machine that had |
made excellent cross country flights and |
winch 1t wished to enter in the race |
from New York to Washington. He did |
not say what sort of machine this was |
but in all proba ability il was Roisi, |
which seems to be the onlv successful
machine that the wright syndicate !
abroad does not consider an infringement |
reports from indianapolis state that |
there has been considerable enthusiasm
over the exhibition flights that have been
given by the Wright Company there. In |
an interview with the manager of the |
asiation meet Yesterday. he was quoted |
as saying that he could not understand |
the turning out of only few hundred !
people 10 witness the performance of such |
great invention. He thought how |
go ma. tne pubic demanded competi- |
ions rather than exhibitions
Offer Made Two Weeks AGO.
The Washington Aero Club and the
chamber of Commerce almost two weeks
ago made the Wrights an offer of $50 Ooo |
Tor flight from New York to Washinp
ton' Curtiss, through his representative |
having already accepted. The Wrights. so
1ar nave not answered the communica |
tlon. though it was made both by tele |
graph and letter Dr. Zahm, the sec |
rotary of the joint committee and also
!ne secretary of the Aero Club, has |
decided to write again to Dayton.
IN the meantime the temporary in |
}unction against Curtiss and Paulhan
has been vacated The Injunction was
obtained by the Wrights for alleged in
1rlngement of patent. In it the lower |
court held that the fitting planes or |
a aa by which the Curtiss and
oalSnce. were the same in principle as
the warping wings used by the Wrights |
Still Another Complication.
This introduces another complication into
the situation. The Wrights have made !
contract with the Aero Club of America |
whereby they agree to license any avia-
ton meet at which machines compete |
which they hold infringe their patent BY |
the terms of this contract the licensing |
agreement is to hold good only SO long |
as the claims of the Wrights are sup |
ported by the United States courts
Whether the action of the United States |
court at New York in vacating the tenn.
porary injunction against Curtiss and
Paulhan will invalidate this licensing !
contract is not yet known The Wrights |
have not yet stated, but Wilbur Wright |
said In an Interview yesterday that. while |
his company would not sue out iniunc- |
tons against what he considered infrine-
ing machinery, they would institute civil
suits for damages
1t is thought by the members of the |
Washington Aero Club that the pendencv
of the suit which dissolved the TEMPORARY
injunction may have had something TO do |
with the delay of the Wrights in replying
10 the offer of Washington for flight |
from New York to Washington IT * |
also possible that they have been too |
busiy engaged at Indianapolis to attend |
to correspondence. The first and SO far |
the only meet that the Wright company |
has induced to accept its license was a |
show that opened al Indianapolis Mon |
day.
Little Speed Shown
The Wright brothers did not contract |
TO fly themselves, but Orville Yesterday |
gave All exhibition flight after most of |