New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-22
Jesse SEL|GMAN, AVIATOR
Bankers Son Will Fly as a Pro-
feSSionaI in West Indies.
WIFE AND FAMILY APPROVE
Former Motorcycle Enthusiast
Proves Brilliant Pupil at the
Moisant School.

Jesse Seigman, son Of Albert ]. Selig
man. Of Seligman & Meyer, bankers and
brokers. at No. 80 Broadway. and a nephew
OF I. y. Seligman and Henry Selgman. OF
J. & w. Selgman & Co, bankers. OF No.
William street. has become a professional
aviator for the love Of the sport, and will
sail either Saturday or next Wednesday
for the West Indies to give exhibition
flights. The young man has the approval
of his family in thus striking out for him
self. and will take with him his wife who
was Miss Mary NJ. Maxwell. of Williams
port, Penn.
Mr.. Seligman has been flying now for
three months. having obtained his Aero
Club license in September. For eight years.
until this last summer. he was an enthu-
siastic motorcyclst, but the soaring of a
monoplane captured his imagination and
he forsook his old love to become pupil
Of Andre Houpert, a French teacher OF
the Mosant Aviation School. II is at the
grounds OF the school, at Garden city,
that Mr. Seligman has done most of his
flying though he took part I'm the meet
held last fall at Canton. Ohio.
He will go first to San Juan, Porto Rico
and having filled his contract to fly there
and at various other places on the island
he will go to Panama. where he hopes 20
he the first man to fly from the Atlantic 10
the Pacific, following the canal From Pan
anna he expects TO go to Cuba and then to
visit a number OF other islands In the
archipelago.
The machine he will use is n Moisant
monoplane. equipped with a fifty-horse-
power Gnome engine. With this aeroplane
he has made a speed of between 60 and ~
miles an hour. maintaining II for twenty
eight minutes. His ambition lies almost
entirely in the direction Of speed. on his
trip to the West Indies lie will go In for
racing almost exclusively. but on his re-
turn I'm the spring he will try also for the
duration prizes. 1t is very possible. how
ever. that his return will be delayed by a
trip TO South America in case dates and
terms can be satisfactorily arranged.
He has told his mother that he would
not go in for altitude. and it is this, he
says. that has reconciled her to his choi'e
of a vocation. But this Will not prevent
him from showing his audiences his skill
in volplaning, which his teachers consider
remarkable He is what they call
natural" flyer having started to volplane
almost as soon as he got into the air.
Young Seligman's record at the Garden
CITY Moisant School is considered unusual.
He outstrlpped all the other students IN
his tests for a license, going up In ff-
teen-mile wind and cutting double figure
Fights like a veteran. This was after only
Eve weeks of instruction. He is nervy,
but not foolhardy. according to his in
structor
I'm clean crazy about it, he said last
night Of flying LAS long as ! don't Try
for altitude my family won't object They
are perfectly willing l should 90 south 10
fv this winter. Mrs Selgman will 60 with
me wherever | go. She's enthusiastic
about the sport. At Canton she went up
with Harry Atwood. and since then she mas
made short flights with me at Mineola.
The monoplane suits me better than
the biplane because it has more speed.
It's not so steady. because it has only hall
the surface Of a biplane on which TO rest
but for that very reason it seems to me
N possess more scientific interest