New-York tribune., 1910-01-04


Smith, of No. lis Broadway. acting on be-
half Of the Wright company. The papers
eflege Infringement of the Wright brothers
patents in the use by Paulhan in his flights
OF a Farman flying machine. The suit
calls for an answer to the complaint be-
fore the first Monday in February.
With Paulhan on the steamer were d.
Mason and c. E Miscarrol, both French
aviators. and E. Ronon, a mechanician-
The party expect TO leave the city this
morning for Los Angeles, where Paulhan
has been engaged 10 fly at an aviation
meet.
His equipment consists of two Bleriot
1aonoplanes, No. II, and two Farman bi-
planes. One of the Farman machines is
built to carry three persons, besides the
aviator, and is equipped with a 50-horse-
power Gnome motor, and is said to carry
enough gasolene for flight of eight hours
When the Frenchman who has been
amazing Europe by the height of his aero
plane trips learned through an interpreter
that he did not have to proceed at once to
court he chose the Hotel Brevoort at Sth
street and Fifth avenue, refuge from
the chilliness of his American reception and
there opened champagne for the benefit of
his fellow flyers and a group of reporters.
complexion and clear brown eyes He is
small, but strongly knit; cool and extreme
ly courteous.
He sails under no false colors as to the
object of his visit here and his flights
abroad He said frankly that 1t was the
money he was after, and that he loved TO
fly high for much money. The machine
1hai would carry him most quickly TO the
most money was the one he most wanted.
He should like to try a Wright machine,
he said, ard a Curtiss machine; perhaps
they were better than the ones he had been
using.
Asked if he were to receive $4,000
month during his American exhibitions, he
shrugged his shoulders and apparently re-
ouested the interpreter to say:
Il only wish it were true; but It is not SO
much as that. Not at all
AS TO the action brought by the Wright
company. he said:
Il shall remove the small movable wings
and other things that may be construed as
snfrineements of the Wright patents and
steer by the rear rudder only / have al
ready experimental along these lines and
find can succeed
In an official flight al Chalcns Paul
hans took his machine to a height Of 1900
feet, and once remained three hours in
tHe SlT. HIS VIE mas uidIS lilEeo DlSiihS
with him. She is also dark eyed, and her
appearance bears out the statement Of her
husband that she knows no fear when
flying Indirect testimony also was ad-
1anced that the dog had been 3, passenger
more than once wEeen the earth below ZAP
peared small like map
Paulhan is one Of the numerous recruits
TO the field Of aerial activities who have
surprised the world since the Rheims in
1ernational contest was held last summer.
Less than a year ago he was a workman
in the Voisin aeroplane factory in Paris,
with a salary Of SIS a week.
PIiny w. Williamson, personal counsel for
the Wright brothers, said yesterday that
the bill OF complaint in the action for in
fringement Of patent was filed in the United
States Circuit Court here against Paulhan,
in accordance with a definite policy of the
Wright company to endeavor to uphold
The failure Of any representative of the
Aero Club TO meet Paulhan at the dock
was said to have arisen through a miscon-
neption as 10 his standing abroad. The
local club did not know, said a member
last night, that Paulhar belonged to the
Aero Club of France. But the aviator, not
without some show of proper pride. showed
reporters his certificate Of membership in
that organization. And he also showed he
had been the recipient of several honors
from that body.