New-York tribune., 1910-06-22
AERO FIGHT UP TODAY.
New Rivals of Parent Club Will
Hold Joint Convention.
CONTROL OF SPORT ISSUE
Some Predict Harmony, While
Others Expect Entirely New
90 Association.

A convention of the Aeronautic Fedora
ton Of America and the American Aero
nautical Association will be held in tnls
city to-day Several things may happen.
The federation and the association may
combine to try to take away the cohtroi
of aeronautical matters in this country
from the Aero Club of America Inc leu
Grafton may join forces with the Aero Ciuo
of America, and thus permit the associa-
ton to struggle for prestige. lacking .he
help in that direction that the Aero Ciuo
can give
Also. both the federation and the asso-
citation may be wooed successfully oy the
Aero Club of America and only harhlohS ,
prevail, in which event many VIII say 'hd'
Clifford B. Harmon, the amateur aNld'oi ;
should receive not little of the creoit IoI
an outcome that three weeks ago seeHeo
impossible
yacht some tact and determination
by the several interests to promote aero
nautics in America may, II is saio. fesoi'
TODAY in a better understanding than mas
ex' sted for many months between the aero
Club and it's affiliated organizations.
Manv delegates to the convention arrived
in this city yesterday. and Mr. Har liioh'
Of the Aero Club, lost no time in TAKING
them out for a sail in his yacht' Anioiie
those on board were George Myers anu
w B. Strang, representing the aero Sluo
of Kansas City; James E. Plew ana VIC
tor Lougheed, representing the Aero Ciun
of Illinois, DR.. A. F. Zahm, OF the Aeio
Club of Washington; Colonel jerome H.
Joyce, of the Baltimore Aero Clao; 1aiiies
Blair. representing the Aero Club Oh Ne"
England, and Augustus Post, W. W. Mics
and L. L. Gillespie, who Will De deleea'es
~ +he convention from the Aero Club OF
America.
The Aeronautic Federation of America
was formed in this city feW weeks aeo
with the idea of wrestling by concerted ac-
ton from the Aero Club of America It's con-
troll of aeronautics in the United States
The movement received an impetus "hen
the Aero Club entered into an agreement
with the Wright company not 10 recoshi%e
anv aviation meet unless it had first been
licensed by the Wrights. A few days a1ter
the preliminary steps were taken by the
federation. several men from the west
representing various affiliated aero CLUBS
came to New York to talk things over with
the Aero Club.
II was a sort of intimation to the parent
bedv that if the governors of the Aero Club
did NOT awaken to the fact that the West
ern clubs required more representation and
less the treatment that children receive, the
Western clubs would raise Cain"
An unfortunate failure on the part OF the
governors Of the Aero Club to appreciate
the spirit of the Western men led to the
formation early in June, in the rooms OF
the Aero Club. of the American Aeronautlc
Association
Now that the aero club has removed the
chief cause of friction by announcing tnat
It would recognize all proper meets IN
view Of the courts decision not to grant
the request of the Wrights for an injunc-
ton against Paulhan and Curtiss. many
believe the important aero clubs through
out the country will remain with the Aero
Club of America.
The aero clubs rooms In the Engineers
Building have been placed at the disposal
of the convention this afternoon at 3
o'clock. sT sss s.
The intention, however. is to hold the
convention at the Hotel Astor, and rumor
was prevalent last night that Clifford B.
Harmon would be elected president of an
amaIgamation of the two new bodies that
would be known as the American Aero
nautic Federation.