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New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
Clement H. Griscom Says Americans Are Recessy Exrapagan

(, into the loft and made the getting OF
cargoes the principal business OF the house
was doing with ships. in fact, what
Rockefeller was doing with refinerfes and
what Carnegie few years later. was to
do with blast furnaces and steel works.
Beginning with q few chartered sailing
vesaels-one month the first year or two
Mr. Griscom has bought and sold, built
and combined. until ne easily stands at the
head Of the shipping interests in the United
States and has become one of the great
ship owners of tie world. Abroad, he has
been the friend Md partner of kings. Some
| If the richest men in Great Britain are as
sociated with him in business. Helped by
| ]. PicTpOnt Morgan, he organized the In
! ternational Mercantile Marine Company,
with S60, 900 0G0 of common stock, 10000.
! 900 of preferred stock, and $65, ,000, 900 Of
! bonds. The company owns more than one
! hundred ocean liners and freighterS, sail
ing from ports in this country 10 make
countries in Europe Mr. Grscom was
president of the corporation. ON resiGning
to be chosen chairman OF the board OF
directors, he named his own successor, j.
, Bruce Ismay son Of Thomas Henry IsInay,
founder OF the White Star Line About the
time of Griscom's clerklng for 81 q month
the elder Ismay was a hoathuiider's ap-
prentice in Liverpool lie died worth So
900. .000
Partner Of the late King Leopold of Bel
gium, member of a London club with Ed
Ward VII when Prince OF Wales honorary
member of the British Institute of Naval
Arcnitects-aS is the Grand Duke Con
stantiIe, OF Russia-cheValie OF the Legion
of Honor. IN France. and knight OF the
order OF Orange Nassau, in Holland. 4
decoration conferred Oh nim by Queen VII
helmina; The personal friend OF William Nc
iNinleN banker, menufartmer, and a iii
rector OF tao PENNSYLVANIA Railroad for
! jvcutytsi. Years M. Criscom owns TWO
nerds of fancy COWS ard pcadles mix
amcng iis n"shbors.
What do you get for yOur milk
asked
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
BY James B. Morrow.

Philadelphia, Nov. Back to the days
when Marcus A. Hanna was a travelling
salesman of groceries for his Quaker father
and was shipping a large part OF his mer-
chandise by canal: when John d. Rookie
feller aged nineteen, was a commission
merchant on the shore Of the Cuyahoga
River, in Cleveland, and was entering his
contributions TO charity and the church in
Il little account book; when Henry II.
Rogers had quit clerking in a village store
fer s. a week and was baggage master
on a railroad in Massachusetts being paid
81 IC q day for his work; when Henry NJ.
Flagler, a country merchant in Ohio, was
sending Rockefeller consgnments of but
ter eggs and grain, a safe business he
abandoned TO make salt I'm Michigan at
which he failed, owing $4,000" he told
me- ITO fifty thousand Irishmen."
Pack in those days Clement Acton Girls
com son Of a Quaker physician in Phila-
delphia, was learning all about crockery
in the house of Peter Wright & Sons and
was being paid so a year for hard toll that
began early in the morning and only
stopped At the edge Of night
Groceries. produce, baggage, general
merchandise and crocl1ery diverse and
scattered interests, And embryonic mill
:ouarcs personally unknown 10 one an
other but they were TO come together AT
the can of trade, some as partners sud
some - friends in the loyal and sympa-
theiic Intimacy Of money making
ono linz Ic@ 10 another ia tho chain IF
con incrcc that joined tic oil of Eocke-
fciie FlaSler and Rogers. INTENDED for the
fsrngu market, 10 Griscoms ships and
fEaIi. 10 H&unas 5 Senate bill. written b.
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
Many Experts BeHe0e Man Will Ne1er
Learn TO Fly Safely Until He InVenfS
MofcrleSS Wings.

prises that motors often spring Fills dft
not even permit him to register as a con-
testant. He was flying 10 the judges stand
to leave shipping directions for the trophy.
when four cylinders went cold. The bows
heart was broken as nearly as boys hearts
break. and his minor bruises were oiled IN
in the nearest home for the injured The
machine gave up as soon as the motor re-
tired. and Claude Grahame-White. of ing
land. was the hero OF the day
Whether IL was the motor always tnat
brought down the Curtiss intermitteut liers
could not be learned. However that NAV
be. these machines came down with quite A
continuous patter on the lawn.
Grahame-White used a 100-hOrSepOv-s-
Bleriot, equipped with the Cinome revolving
cylinder motor. This remarkable engine ia
one of the lightest and most powerful Vet
built. The cylinders and the crank c,4e
ring are one piece Of metal. being machined
down from a heavy casting The ad-
vantage of the revolving cylinder design Is
its immunity from vibration. due TO the alb
sence of reciprOcating parts (the cylinders
travel in circle around the crankshaft
and the pistons In a circle around the
crankpin) and the elimination of the fly
wheel
August %. 1909. Glenn Curtiss won ths
cup and 5000 at Rheims, France making
! the fastest time for twenty kilometres. Ia
minutes 30 3-5 seconds. a speed of 47.06 miles
an hour. He won from NJ. BIeriOt by ap-
prOximately five seconds.
In the 1910 James Gordon Bennett Cup
race the silver trophy went 10 the Royal
Aero Club OF the United Kingdom and
5000 cash to Grahame-White for making
the fastest time for one hundred kilometres
(62.1 miles) flown over a course of five
kilometres (31 miles) in l hour I minute
74-1OO seconds, the average speed being
81 miles an hour. or an increase over last
years record of about so per cent.
While referring TO motors and their in
| fuence on the location of future aviation
contests. it might not be amiSs go SYM
pathize with Hamilton CnofficiaIIy Hamjl-
/ ton had the cup won several weeks before
| the tournament Stop watches would have
] to be especially made to keep time on MS
Hamiltonian biplane. il was believed. as
none used before the meet at Garden City
during his preliminary practice could bs
/ induced TO Indicate the possibility THAT
Hamilton could fly slower than Ion miles
an hour! He used 11O-horsepower motor.
| designed by Walter Christie. IN I'D street,
| New York The number of the street could
not have had much 10 DO with it. 10 must
| have been combination Of circumstance,
| but the fact remains that when all the
! hourly prizes had been won and the inter-
national race was with the SHOWS of last
year HamiIton's engine was ready 10 phCt-
phut and in no satisfactory way would il
/ phut-phut when there was Yet time for It's
! owner to pick UP a prize, be il ever 50
/ humble.
The man who invents a perfectly reliable
motor should of course advertise his dis
covery, but viii not have to do so If he
only proves his claim
T.. y. FINDLEY.
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
Farmer Of Late King Leopold Sells His
Ots'n CoasS MIX 10 His
Nef6hborE

tlaSler. multiplied his stores throughout
Great Britain and pushed his business into
india. Germany and the United States |
fancy b2d character would have been
given to him had he been an American"
What" l inquired ''is the matter with
the country?"
i think We Americans are becoming
rechlessly eNtraHagant. We condemn COM
Hnations. but BY the natural process OF
contra iization We brought about economics
IN operation. and thus reduced the cost Of
many products 10 the consumer. Ccmbipa-
tons, therefore We're an offset. bv their
II iiuenCe on prices. L. th. increasing ~
traVaSauce ot the people There. was u
natural balance, you see. and We were. in
no danger. But new wavs of spending
money are coming into fashion. am a
director IN banks and trust companies and
know what ! am talking about
MORTGAGES are being nut ON homes to
"ht2m luXurieS What would have been
said five years ago or a vo,,pr man who
pledged his house. the refuge ~ his wife
anu children. that he might buv two or
three horses and a carriage? Well the
practice rs common now. only the vehicle
: NOT carriage, and the motor is a saso-
iene ENGINE and not horseheSN. We are
"S"'s tue olu oalaEce between economies
o' operation and our expenditures ioy
an''ES that are not wholly necessary
mere is menace in the situation.
N"reoNe,' have been thinking abou;
the one million Immigrants who annually
swarm INTO our country rlev are Ital-
'"eS' largely, and are needed an eur rail.
ways
'"e i''S" COME no more. and those who
do are not common lahorars The immI-
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06

company submits fits thesis and SENDS 1orlh
its shoals of flying students.
Patrick Henry and Lots wife looked
backward Leaving Lots wife out of il
and gazing into the past made popular by
patriotic Patrick, what have been some of
the less grewsome dramas in this country
for which motors OF defective reliability
have acted the part Of stage manager,
scenery and orchestra?
Two million persons say that the flags
hung limp at their mastheads one autumnal
afternoon little year ago. This 10 them
meant that Wilbur Wright would soon go
up from Governors Island. Whispers had
It that ~ hen Mr.. Wright got up aeronautic
history would develop faster than the wire
less could fash it to a waiting world. In
the effort TO make the Hudson Fulton cele-
bration noteworthy Mr.. Wright had done
his share The flights around the Statue
Of Liberty and up the Hudson River to
Grants Tomb and down TO Governors ISL
and again had whetted the appetites of the
visiting and native multitudes for more
The hour had come. the breezes had gone,
the Jersey Brooklyn and Manhattan shores
We're bordered with humanity as if in
mourning.
Mr.. Wright told those not representing
the press that he meant to startle the
world, the conditions being ideal, by flying
UP the East River over and under ire
bridges, over The Bronx, across the Hud-
son. beyond the Jersey flats to perhaps
Newark circle Miss Liberty, and, not until
then. call # day.
Draw the veil. A lone cricket chirped
when II was all over. Wilbur Wrights
face showed disappointment, and then he
snliIed-sometDng that not all Of the two
million did Till later. A cylinder head
popped off his motor where it had never
popped before. The motor gave no more
warning Of its intention 10 resign than a
grand opera pTima donna OF her deter
nnstion 10 cast off her matrimonial bonds.
When motors move they move faster than
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06

Until man flies with motorless wings
results with motorless wings are now the
dream Of engineers well as poets-the
vsgsries of motors viii occupy his most
. lnomentous moments when in the air and
he the subject Of his studious night
thoughts during the wtching hours when
aviation fields are like banquet halls de-
serted
A flying machine motor without at least
one vagaryi The farmer for the first time
saw the giraffe under the circus tent in
Posey County. Ind. He saw it for nine
consecutive minutes. Just then the giraffe S
head disappeared through an opening be-
tween the scallops of the tent and the
farmer, tickling his chin fringe, said 10 his
wife: There amt such crtter."
The dramas that have been lived and
some day may be written for which the
vagaTies of motors have already been re-
sponsibIei The fears and tears the heart
burns and deaths their fickleness has
caused in the comparatively brief time that
has elapsed since Wilbur Wright flew first
over the sand dunes of the North Carolina
coast less than seven years ago, Readers
OF the daily newspaper know how men in
she prime of life and flushed with the JOY
of doing wonderful things on high are
picked up all too frequently in these early
days of the science of aviation dashed to
IN unrecDgnizable mass the sport of mo-
tors with ungovernable whms
Wilbur Wright says aeroplane motors will
never he much more trustworthy than now
Are motorless wings, then. necessary If
flight by man is to become anything like
general? A thrashing machine company
IS the latest recruit TO the number of in
vestigators in the field of aeroplane motor
perfection. Perhaps no judgment should
be formed until the thrashing machine
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06

of important candidates must be taken down
in shorthand. written out in manifold form
and given to reporters the same evening
This cost us $500 in 1903
Some newspaper people believe that cam
paiSns in the future are to be conducted by
advertising. Under the influence of this
progressive Idea we spent one year SIS. 500
The expense of the great Madison Square
Garden meeting, at which President Taft
and Governor Hughes spoke in October.
1908, together with the cost of the torch
light parade, was approximately $4,000 In
the Presidential campaign the county COM
mttee established three tent camps and
maintained one set Of MONDAY meetings
They cost $4,000.
Last year about $4,000 and a great deal
of effort were expended under the efficient
direction of Edward r. Finch in providing
against fraudulent registration and voting.
The men who did the work were very
largely college and law students Usually
some detective work is necessary. One year
we spent $4,000 on such work Usually
about $4,000, which is about $40 to each
election district, is distributed for use on
Election Day In getting out the vote The
amendments to the corrupt practices act
this year require the filing of a statement
giving the name of every person employed
and the amount he receives-a very desir-
able reform.
The total Of the expenditures for the
purposes which 1 have already described
amounts to s2OS,20 This represents expen-
ditures primarily within the jurisdiction of
the county committee. The state COM
mittee has expenses of it's own in main
tanning headquarters, supplying train ser-
vice to the leading candidates and printing
and circulating campaign material. Al
times it defrays few of the expenses that
! l have enumerated so sometimes does the
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
VdSarieS of Obese Crank y Machines Which
Haxe Caused Deafb. Wrecks
the Loss of Prizes.

! thought and when they don't move they
mulishness.
Charles X. Hamilton. the lghtest heavier
than-air operator that ever hailed from
tended not to hear the taunts of his motor
the day he flew from New York to Phila-
delphia and return. At New Brunswick
y. J.. one cylinder of his eight pouted and
soon refused to play with the others. A
few miles further the road to yester-
day. another took its dolls and sat down In
a corner Hamilton knew enough of he
characteristics OF his power plant TO real
ize that the only chance at winning the
money for his trip was to talk placidly TO
himself as though he We're ignorant OF the
fact that two idlers were tagging along.
When the Governor OF Pennsylvania and
countless voters of his state cheered Ham
ilton upon his arrival near the gas tank
the red-haired hero did not say one unkind
word about his temperamental twins. Like
q fond mother, he petted them, sent to town
for lust the sweetest oil that they were
fondest of. and when asked before starting
back If he would so to Grants Tomb for
good measure said, behind his hand, so as
not TO be heard by his engine: IF my
motor is willing I will"
Perhaps it was for the best. But that
was an awful test OF a mans intentness
on winning prize. For five hours sunk in
a swamp. compelled to caress a motor that
went heartlessly on strike when within
twenty-five miles of the goal
Just a quick glance abroad at dawn OF
a summers morning, and Hubert Latham,
the idol of France, found himself literally
sitting in the sea while he smoked a cigar
ette The Antoinette had left the shore at
Cherbourg twenty minutes before, the
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
MorfSdSeS Are Being Puf Upon Homes TO
Purchase Mere La eurieS,
He Declares,
He Declares.

George +. Edmunds, providing and au-
thoriZing a government subsidy 10 yes
els OF American registry. The burly smith
that forged the links was the Pennsylvania
Railroad, seeking freight and an outlet.
| From the first to last. changing the hg-
ure, Il was mostly brotherhood of busi-
| ness
Hanna. specializing in coal and iron, was
not concerned, except by sentiment and
political doctrine, with ships upon the
ocean. His ships We're on the Great Lakes.
After CIiscom left pottery for shipping he
bought kerosene of Hanna. SO began a
formal acquaintance by letter that bios
somed ultimately into an affectonate
friendship. But Hannas refinery, rough
shanty against a hill burned down.
NOW" SAID his father-in-law, Daniel
Rhodes, father of James Ford Rhodes, the
historian. quit being a fool and come into
my coal business"
The dual command and proposal was
reluctantly obeyed and accepted. Spec
ulatively, il is interesting to think what
might have happened TO Rockefeller If
Hanna, dominating intense and a cen
tralist by instinct, had raked away the
ashes and built again. As 1t was. Howard
Melville, ms brother continued in the bust
ness My rich brother" Marcus 4. al
ways called him. From oil Mel he
is known 10 his associates went into
tobacco. ss promising trist product, and
now he is quoted q; SIG, ,0o0 900 iu Wall
StTeet
There arc a'so purchases 10y Griacom
/ nom R3ck"fcIer and Flagcr. IS q matter
Of fact. his irst ships were intended for
the oil trade. \ boy in Years. he had
crowded Peter Wrishts imported crockery
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06

national committee.
Locally every Assembly district has ex-
penses entirely apart from those enumer-
ated as county committee expenses. There
is headquarters club in every Assembly
district open the year round, the expense
of which is betrayed by the members dues,
entertainments and chowder parties. Some
districts never call on the county COM
mttee for any expenditures on their behalf.
They themselves pay all their expenses of
registration. Election Day, meetings. 5~ak-
ers and literature There are only 20 or
three that can afford to do this. An eff
feCtive campaign in a Republican district
costs. including the expenses of headquar-
tiers of local candidates, $1,000. according
to my recollection. Have 1 not made it
clear that We need the money?
We can run an effective campaign in this
county for less than s2OSOO0. We ought TO
have $l2OOOo We will have to do with
whatever we get. We will have to size
up the situation and guess a what we will
set and plan a campaign on that guess,
long before we get the money. If we
don't get it. we cut down we can. For
any difference between what we get and
what we incur. the chairman and treas
urer viii be dunned-a privilege of which
the non-participating refOrmer deprives
himself
If you have not the newspapers with YOU
personal canvass is the only way To have
your side heard. II is as expensive as i,
f is effective. over 100000 could he spent on
lit legitimately. All of which means that
unless You rely wholly on newspapers in
Guiding those in opposition. YOU must spend
money TO reach the voters mind. and local
candidates in great city receive almost
no notice from the newspapers, and never
will receive much attention. short balIor o;
lCnS hallOt.-Thc Outlook
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06

Some people would register without any aid
or invitation, some will not register until
they are personally called upon. There
are. on the subject of registration, all va
rieties OF human nature between the two
extremes
The expenses of the campaign itself are
very great. In each of two campaigns our
county committee spend more than ST.
on postage. We spent in printing one year
s24 0OQ and $1,000 in addressing and mailing.
Local candidates usually pay for their own
Autographs, or their districts do; but there
us considerable expense for Autographs of
the leading candidates, and that expense is
included under printing. We do not pay
many speakers. Volunteer speakers are
uncertain quantities, especially in distant
localities; nor do they like to speak in the
open air, where the most educational meet
inGs are held; so that a corps of paid
speakers must be maintained for truck
or "cart-taiI' meetings, and for the out
lying districts in the Borough of The Bronx
Some very able speakers are in such de-
mand that it IS only fair TO compensate
them for their time
Rent is an important item of all indoor
meetings. Speakers and meetings will cost
about $4,000. five-sixths of 1t for meetings.
which means rent. some red fire to adver-
tise the meeting and sometimes music or a
quartet to sing campaign songs. This was
our average after l had cut out every
vestige of any plan OF using the speakers
bureau as patronage
| Important candidates, such as candidates
/ for President, Vice e-President and Governor
! have to be taken in automobiles in order
! to meet their appointments, and so do tn,
reporters who are to comment favora bl,
or Unfavorably, on their speeches Sever
/ hundred dollars must he allowed for auto
mobiles during a campaign. The speeche!
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
AeropLane Motors Are Harder to Understand Than Women

newspapers had his finishing time com
puteo' and then his motor stopped, anu
30 did Leblanc and his Bleriot. but nor
uhIii they had broken off a telegraph poie
ten feet from its base
Leolanc's hopes and the Bleriot and teie-
graph pole all smashed within mile ana
haif from the finishing line. Why? Be
cause the feed pipe connection to his mo-
Tor broke. Leblanc swore in fricasseeo
French, but not at his jewelied Gnome
revolving motor. Nom" the small
| boy said when hfs mother inquired if he
would like to wash his face. Leblanc
swore at the committee. and the weather
most of all at his mechaniciaus. and par
ticularly he swore at one. but he ordered
ms motor carried tenderIy to its shed. The
pride and joy of the French team suffered
such agony in defeat that he wept ana
! such anger that he discharged one or his
| mechanicians and sent him adrift in u
! strange country without one warping wing
II the motor had had no vagary the
next International race woud not he held
| in England. 1t is seemingly we'll founded
that the cup except for the sudden vaca-
tiOnng OF one-half the eight cylinders on
| Brookinss Wright racer would have re-
mained in Nrnerica. despite Curtiss's re-
fusal to to keep il here. Walter
Broohins all is said and done, Is
the most expert aviator III the Wright
camp. The work of HOXsey and john
stone renders further praise unnecessary
There is not much doubt that Brookns
would "whack up" his last 10-cent piece
at any time with Wilbur and Orvills
! Wright. Miss Katharine Wright said las
week that the boys" felt that BroOkins
was very near to them
Orvilie Wright built and tested the baby
racer; Brookins was to fly IT. The day be-
fore the International race Orviile flew in II
over the two and one-half kilometre course
New-York tribune., 1910-11-06

proudest ship of air that had ever sailed,
its musical rhythm attuned to the wonder
full beauty of the scene, fore and aft, port
and starbOard. and-perhaps partly respon-
sible for its look of proud alOofness-also
far beneath. With all its inherent tenden-
cies to co0uetry, why any one ever per
mitted a motor also to be named for a
young woman has not been satisfactorily
explained Latham's motor was (and, as he
is true. still is) named for the daughter
OF the inventor and is known as the An
toinette.
She was singing blithely, then, on that
summerss morning, and Latham saw
through the scented mists the town of
Dover by-the-Sea. Latham was to be the
first man to fly across the English Chan
mel. On! the pride and Joy of that mo-
menti And then Miss Antoinette misplaced
a note and then another, made discord,
continued for while diminuendo, fixed her