The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-25
Av|ATORS WILL MEET
 IN CHAT TANOOGA
Prizes of $10,000 Have Been
 Offered for Flights
OVER TWENTY ENTRIES
Hamilton, Latham, Moissant and Oth- CTS Less Prominent VIII Take Part in Contests at an
 Early Date

Chattanooga November 22.-(Special
 Correspondence.) )-Everything is in. per
 feet readiness here for the big aviation
 meet. which will take place at Olympia
 park November 2S, 29 and 30. AS an in-
 centive to the participating birdmen to
 excel the various aerial records, s10,000
 has been offered by local men interested
 in this scientific sport to be distributed
 as cash prizes in case any of the various
 worlds records, such as altitude or dis tance, are surpassed.
 More than 20 aviators will appear in
 the local meet exhibiting every known type of aerial craft with the exception of dirigible balloons. Among the most noted ayia tors who will appear are Charles K. Hamilton, who made the famous flight from New York to Philadelphia; Herbert Latham, the holder of several worlds records; J. B. Moissant, the celebrated French aviator; Simon, the speed de- mon: Frisbie, and Vandeman. The types of machines which will be used will in
 Hlude the Wright, Bleriot. Curtiss. and
 Farman.
 The meet will be held under the au-
 spices of the International Aviators' as-
 sociation, and their representative. Max
 Rosen has been in Chattanooga for sev-
 eral days perfecting all the necessary ar
 engagements
 All the participants who will appear in
 the local meet were collected in New
 York just after the famous flights at
 Belmont park and were persuaded to re-
 main in this country for several weeks before returning to Europe. Several of the interesting features
 which have been arranged are flights from Olympia park to the brow of Lookout mountain, over the historic valley of the
 Tennessee and Moccasin bend. and flight from Chattanooga to Chickamauga park. The local sporting fraternity con siders the meet the greatest event which has happened in the local sporting world since the town was located on the map, and as special rates have been put on by all the railroads, large crowds are ex- pected from Atlanta, Birmingham and Knoxville.
 At the monthly meeting of the Manu- lecturers association, held several days ago. E. c. Patten, vice president of the | Chattanooga Medicine company, was elected president for the ensuing year. | The important feature of the meeting was
  permanent secretary, which showed that | the members of the association had been saved more than s1000 during the month | of October in freight overcharges. which the railroads had been forced to remit. while in the month of September when | shipping was heavier, over 5000 was I saved.
 Boy Scout Movement The Boy Scout movement which was | inaugurated here some time ago received 1 a material boost this week at meeting | held for the purpose of perfecting per manent organization for the movement | at the rooms of the chamber of com merce.
 Tentative plans were agreed upon which will absolutely assure the perma- nency of the order in this city. The main feature of the meeting was an ad-
 dress by W. H. King of Long Island City, wealthy New Yorker, who has
 for some time been interested in the
 movement and who gave considerable information in regard to it. which had
 been gained by actual experience. Plans
 have been agreed upon which will place
 a band of the order in all of the public schools of the city.
 Hospital Management Members of the local medical fraternity are extremely indignant over the efforts of certain local politicians to effect change in the management of Erlanger hospital Various physicians of promi- hence throughout the town assert that the action of the political ring here in attempting to effect a change Is merely to place the hospital under the direct control of politics and to make the po- sition of its superintendent political plum for loyal henchmen.
 The Hamilton County Medical society has passed resolution indorsing the present management as efficient and con demning any change whatsoever In the personnel of that force as injurious to the welfare of SO important public es- sential.
 The present board of trustees is com nosed of A. J. Gahagan, A. w. Gains, E. Y. Chapin and H. s. Chamberlain. All of these men hold positions of such bus mess importance in the community as to guarantee their integrity and eff ciency and all sthe local physicians will use every means In their power to pre- vent change.
 Bfg Coal Combine Coal and iron men of this section are very much excited over the rumors which have been prevalent generally for the last month to the effect that every coal company in this immediate vicinity, with the exception of the Montlake Coal con- pany, has formed gigantic consclida- ton which Is financed Dy the flrSt Na- ticnal bank of New York city. The
 companies involved are the Fox Coal
 company, owned by D. P. Montague and
 H S. Chamberlain; the Durham Coal
 and Coke company, sowned by C. E.. James; the Soddy Coal and Coke com
 psny, owned by D. P. Montague and H. s. Chamberlain, and the Sale Creek Coal and Coke company, owned by D. P. Mon tague and H. s. Chamberlain. The cap i4o ffAr, r,f l,a A. ton will run into the millions, but the exact figures are not known. It is ru- mored that a bridge will be built over the Tennessee river to give direct phy- sical connection with the huge coal and mineral lands in that section upon which the combine has options. This is neither affirmed or denied, but the initiated state that the erection of this bridge was the one provided for in reality when the legislature at its last session granted Hamilton county the right to erect cer- tain bridges over the Tennessee.