Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-22

refuse to give lessons in a machine that
Il not yours. First buy: they teach you
after. And the Artoinettes have been
criticised as avid for a great mass of
business. or. more exact. to form nu-
mcrous army of Antoinette pilots. to SUD
port learners wear and tear on company
machines during perhaps three months
for SSW-and no aeroplane positively sold
on the deal.
At the beginning the Wright-Cle
ceau combination taught pupils for $500
fiat. without a buying engagement: but
they discovered it to be speculative. Some
pupils take three months. others fly in
six DAYS. as did Graham White. and on a
monop,ane at that, Yet there is a gen e.
man at Pan by the name of Elpel who
has been already four months without
getting beyond long Jumps on biz
plane.
There are three flying schools at Pau
Wright, Bleriot and Voisin: though the
main Noisin school is at Mourmelonne-
near Chalons. These are the two centers.
ChaIons and Pau. And they have sc
transformed the charming little Bearn-
aise capital that the mayor las just
agreed that the town Will have to make
a fourth aerodrome.
For example. the Surcouf airship Es-
pana. straight from Paris in one day.
took up much space in the SerS
(Rleriot) aerodome that Il private built
English machine could find no room i'll
it and had to be taken back to the
railway sheds. 4 Mr.. Macfie, inventor
and builder is putting up small aero
drome of his own. Graham White is
said to be on the point of doing the
same He now has his teaching d.
ploma and has gone to England to fetch
over batch of pupils. Obviously he
will want to keep them to himself
Doubtless the Wrights are socially
and materially rather in advance at
Pau. They have governmental backing,
in Ciemenceau fills and social and tech
meal prestige in Comte de Lambert ana
the sublime Tissandier. In one weel.
at Pau I counted thirty-four Wright
pupils in various stages of capacity,
but there were also twenty-nine Bleriot
pupils and eleven Eoisins. Among the
best known were the balloonists Rolls,
Leblanc, Cashier. Zens, Mamet and Bal
san: the auto sports Sallenave. Jalusc
Prince E:besco. Count Malenski tthe
fencing EXPERT. the Young Due de
Montpensier and the younger Count dc
Vogue. Among the English were Booth
by. Mander. Duckworth. Wilson, Hal TT
and Wilcox.
H.. u
had qualified. The former returns t.
Bucharest and the latter to South
America on exhibition engagements
The Due de- Montpensier. they say is
qualifying to shoot tigers from flying
machines in Indo China. and the young
De Vogue Is to be bis side partner
Most remarkable of Pau pupils was i
Miss Spencer Kavanagh. who had actu-
ally learned to go up and cut capers hi
a Bleriot monoplane.
Nowadays if you buy Wright. Bile
riot, Voison. Mors or Santos aeroplane
they teach you gratis-when You have
paid good premium price for the ma
chine. Or they will charge you, say.
$500 tuition-if you have beaten them
down, say. 5000 on the purchase.
The cheapest is Establishments De-
mOiselle quoted by the Intermediates
at 81 300 to 81 800 and catalogued direo
from the maker. Clement. at $1,000
whence g. series of lawsuits pending.
Santos, throwing his invention into
the public domain. stated in print: The
Demoiselle can be sold for $1,000.
Stop replied Darracq, who had been
his maker. We lost money studying
your motor You have no right to fix
a price" Then, although suit was In
course, Clements willingly took up the