The evening world., 1910-12-31
MOISANT DIDN'T
GET NE w PLANES
BECA USE OF A ROW.

At the aviation equipment show which
10 TO open tonight at the Grand cen
trail Palace are two men who we're in
innate friends Of John u. Moisant.
one Il Captain r. r. Lovciacc, the we'll
known builder of ~aeroplane parts, m
the other 10 Albert Fileus, the French
m~echanician who accompanied Moi
SAINT on the trip across the English
channel
Fileux was stroklng Moisant's mas
cot. the cat paree. that also made the
channel journey. when n reporter for
The Evening World through an in
terpreter broke tho news to him OF
his comrades death.
TIE big fellow cried Poor Johnny.
poor Johnny" He suaaled over and over
again and jumped up and ran from
tho building. Captain Lovclace was
also overcome. When he had recov-
cred he said!
II Moisant was killed as y
ne was, while trying to carry the
weight OF ~thirty-fvc gallons of addi-
tional gasoline without the adeauste
amount OF wing surface, his death. in.
directly at least, is attributable to the
recent failing out among the men
composing the company that organized
the travelling air circus.
Had Only Three Machines.
HE had with him n, New Orleans
only three machines-his old passen-
ser-carrying monoplane. the little Ble-
riot In which he made the Statue OF
Liberty hight and the new all-metal
machine OF his own design, which ar
rived from abroad n few days ago
and which assembled and shipped to
him by steamsr last week. a few days
ago ] had IA letter from him begging
mo to como to New Orleans and help
him put new and heavier planes on the
ali-metal flyer. 50 that he could carry
NJ the additional fuel supply in to-
days Night. MY neory In that he
undertook to carry an abnormal sup-
ply OF gasoline without waiting for
better equipment. The wings of his
little Bleriot were old and worn out.
Besides. they we're not large enough to
support the added weight. . And now
he In dead.
Yet I am satisfied ho would he alive
were 1t not for that quar-. ell. After
Moissnt n Fred Thompson, the the
atrical manager. fell out over the finan-
cial plans for the Southern our OF the
flyers Thompson ordered me as manage
OF the ThompsonLLovelace Aeroplane
not To complete the contracts
for two new machines and new APP
paratus which I had under way for
MoIsAnt At our Fort George factory.
Didn't Get New Apparatus.
II look Moisant's side of the row and
insisted on completing and delivering
the consignment. amounting to $1,000,
Thompson carried the Issue to the d.
rectors and they voted TO canoe the
order. The new machines. unfinished.
are now locked up In tho shut down
factory.
Had I been allowed to complete the
machines Moisant. instead OF undertake
ing a distance flight. 40 lily prepared.
would have had a pair OF new wings,
built by me II amply able to carry
him through the "trip. Poor little
Johnny-he raj the third Of my pals
20 die the same way. With tears In
my eyes I begged Delagrange not 10
attempt the same thing that Moisnnt
attempted to-day. lie wouldn't listen
and no was killed. Leblon was killed
In identioally the same fashion. And
now Johnny Moisant goes"
The monoplane In which Moisant made
his Channel fitsht IL exhibited Mt the
Grand Central Palace show. This after
noon II vas draped In black.