Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-07-08

hhoIi AloA ~ dh AApPOd
4 Representative, that you should pa,
some tribute to the gameness ant
isquareness of the areoplanc crowl
which was here during the Carniva
] and for three weeks ahead. You un
Iderstand that this machine is not tho
one with which | made contrae
when in California for the Committee
in fact that any contract was turn
ed down by the committee Which
made one itself with representatives
of the machine which was shown
here, therefore, my interest is not
along the line OF clearing my owr
skirts, for l had nothing whateS~x-.te
do with bringing Mr.. Baldwin and
his areoplane here. But | am glad
the committee did not ratiiy the con
tract that | made with French avia-
tor, for, in the light Of the expert
ments just made, it is 4 sure thing il
would not have flown either,
''ln the first place those OF our cit
izens who were SO ready 10 cry lake
and takers when the machine de
clined to leave the grounds at the
race track during the trials there,
were, and are, making themselves
uncessfully ridiculous when it is
considered that the machine men
did not receive one single cent OF
money from the Carnival Commit
tee. Their good faith and conf
dence was plainly evident when they
voluntarily placed in their contract
the clause that ii they did not make
successful flights they were to re
ceive no compensation. Even some
Of the knockers ought to have intel
ligcnce enough TO grasp the point
that 'bunco' men do not make such
contracts.
"The areoplane itself is standard
Curtis machine-identically the same
as the one in which Hamilton recent
ly made his sensational flight from
Philadelphia to New York and IN
which Glenn Curtis astounded the
Frepch aviators at Paris last year,
in which he won the New YSrk
Worlds $4,000 prize a Jew weeks
ago for a flight from Albany to New
York, and in which some OF our own
people saw him fly in Los Angeles
The motor alone cost ST. 200 at the
factory. So much for the assertions
Of few foolish ones regarding the
machine itself.
"Now for the men with it-'1rauds'
some here call them. 1t was Mr..
Lyons, secretary OF the Alameda
Chamber OF Commerce, who induced
the others to make the effort to fly
here Evidently the good business
men of Alameda do not question his
integrity or they would not have re
elected him, as they did two weeks
ago. Even the school children know
who Ivy Baldwin, the aviator, IS.
and something of his accomplish
menks In areonautics. When the
United States Government placed
him in charge OF its most important
branch OF the signal corps during the
Spanish War, it probably did not
consider his good standing and IN
tegrity very questionable, any more
than did the Government OF Great
Britain when il engaged him TO com
plete some studies OF air currents.
Mr.. Jamison, another member OF the
party. is the president OF the lac
tory in which the machine was built,
and has the largest plant tor the
manufacture OF intricate wood parts
on the coast, and it is not likely his
gigantic business was built up on
methods at all questionable. Mr..
Paul, the mechanic in charge. was
Superintendent OF the factory n
which the engine was built
Therefore, all in all, it would be
extremely difficult to get together a
combination OF men better fitted toj
attempt new conquests OF the air than
the ones who came here.
I'm addition to being skilled in the
ways of the areoplane these people
came here with the hope of actually
making new worlds records. Any
one can understand that with the de-
mand for flying machine exhibits
from every town and city in the
land it woul not pay an aggregation
of this sort to spend three weeks in
Carson City for percentage OF the
gate receipts, which l understand
they were to receive. had they made