New-York tribune., 1910-03-25
LET EVERYBODY FLY
WOULD STOP PATENTS
AerO Glib Diners Hear Plan
for L.. S. to Buy out H'rights.

a.-oDeuti,u have almost unlimited opuor-
,,,,i,ies for orators. and there were not a
few orators al the annual dinner of the
Aero club OF America. az the 81. Regis. last
night.
From the grim necessities for aeronauti-
cal anpliances IN the army and navy OF the
United States. defined by Brigadier General
lanes Allen. chief OF the United States
army signal corps. 20 word pictures that
made the diners see the argosies OF silken
sails that were promised 10 invade even
ones castles in the air. the instructive and
entertaining addresses continued until a
late hour.
William n. PAGE. a lawyer. thought he
saw one way out OF the Wright brothers
patent observation-disclosures that other
aviators we're experiencing by reason OF
the Wright patents. He submitted. amid
applause. the proposition for Congress TO
pass a law providing thai any patent that
runs 20 the woof and warp OF human neces-
sity might be condemned Let Congress
then condemn the Wright patents. he said.
and pay the Ohio inventors Sl.O00OOO or
s5.0o00oO for them. and send them on their
way rejoicing
At the speakers table President Cortiaudt
Field Bishop presiding. were Brigsdier Gen
sral Allen. J. c. Mccoy. Commodore Z. G
Benedict. r. n. Doubleday. Professor A.
Lawrence Rotch. William II. Page. Glenn
II. Curtiss. Congressman J. SlOat Fassett.
Rennold Wolf and Charles J. Glidden.
Among the one hundred and fifty guests
present were Arthur T. AtherhOlt. Captain
Thomas s. Baldwin. A. q. Batchelder.
Stanley Y. Beach. James A. Blair. jr. Fred
eric a. Durham. Frederic r. Coudert. Dr.
Charles L. Dana, Philip 7. Dodge, c. J.
Edwards. Colonel s. 7 Everett. Walter
Lowe Fairehild. A. Holland Forbes. Lyttle-
ton Fox, l. l. Gillespie. William Guggen-
helm. George H. Guy. A. r. HaEisy.
Charles Heitman. Thomas A Hin. E La
Rue Jones. Alexander Konta. Christopher
J. Lake. Israel Ludlow. A. "a. Lawson. eX-
Controller Metz. Dave H. Morris. A. H.
Morgan. ". " Niles. Charles E. Otis,
Samuel II. Perkins. Augustus Post, Henry
F Shoemaker. r. A. c. Smith. A Leo Ste
vcns. Gage z. Tarben Captain Albert c.
TFiaca- Leroy II Taylor. Samuel Il. Valen-
tine. Monros 5. Wheeler and J. Alvin
Young
Airships on View.
The two international trophies woE by
Edgar " Mix and Mr Curtiss in Europe
last year were on view; also the Lahm
cup. won By A. Holland Forbes. IN a flight
last summer from 81. Louis 70 near Rich
mond. Va. a distance Of ssT miles. and the
silver Bishop trophy. offered 10 the bal
loonist making the longest fight this year
starting from New England.
Mr. Bishop reviewed the Rheims meet. and
told Of his delight in hylng recently in an
aeroplane. He touched a model OF the
Wright aeropIane and said; While one
Of the earlier types. IL Is not perhaps, the
latest development Of the aeroplane-'
Congressman Fassett advised those pres
ent 70 catch Congress between spasns"
for the appropriations that were needed.
That viii be during recessF asked ex-
Controller Metz.
General Allen told Of the eninence Of Ger
many IN military aeronautics and pleaded
for an awakening IN this country along
such lines. The latest information from
Germany. he said. showed that the new
Zeppelin aiFship would be 50 feet long.
capable OF carrying three hundred persons
he emphasized that all first class powers
except the United States were providing
themselves with aerial fleets
1t is not considered possible" he said.
.'to attack airships by stationary guns on
the earth