Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-09
MoIsANT'S MACHINE
 WAS IN FINE CONDITION
Official Examination of the BIeriot in
 Which Hs Met Death.

New York, Jan. 1s.--Feur of the in- ternational aviators who were with Moisant at New Orleans when he fell Co his death, have sent to the Asso- Ciatsd Press a signed statement of their findings in an examination of his machine, made on the spot immediate ly after the accident Rene Simon, Rene Barrier. GarroS and Audemars ell declare that the evidence shows that Moisant had shut off the power, that every stay and control was in- tact and that nobody will ever know why his wonderful and admired air Inanship" met defeat. But on one thing they are emphatic-that MOis- ants mechanicians had taken every precaution. and that his death was in nv way due to any omission of theirs.
 Albert Filux's published statement that Moisan's Bleriot had been too often broken and repaired and that it was overweighted with gasoline when he went up for the Michelin prize they deny as unfounded imputatiOn of neglect. Fil1x was the mechanic who made the Paris-London flight with Moisant and in personal private let Ger to & New York newspaper man, received today. GaFros writes for his fellows, supplementing the statement to the Associated Press in part as fol- lows:
 An discrimination of careIessness causing death Is 6 professional dis honor for those boys who are known in France among ths best men who ever worked on aviation fields. What was printed about them made them so sorry that they cried when they talked to us about 1t. They deserve nothing but praise for the way they prepared Moisant's machinery, spend- ing a whole days time changing ev- cry bolt and every wire of the con- trols for new ones."
 Coinoidentally with the arrival of the Garros letter, the Aero Club of America made known tonight that it has given up all hope that Grahame- White, the English aviator, will with draw his protest against the award to Moisant of Thomas Ryan's $10,000 prize for the Statue of Liberty flight
 A hearing on the protest is due to come up before the Federation Aero nautique Internationale, in Paris, day after tomorrow, January 10, but 1t has been thought. that because of Mois- ants unfortunate death at New or leans, the protest might be withdrawn No word of any such intention having been received at the eleventh hour, the Aero club gave out tonight an infor- maj resume of its position and of the brief White is to submit to the in- ternational arbitrators. In word, the club believes it was perfectly jus tified in awarding the prize to Mois- snt al the close of the international meet here, and it will fight to the end for his memory and estate, and for the good name of American sport.
 Briefly, Grshame-White's original protest to the Aero Club of America was based on the fact that he was not allowed to make a second trial against Moisants better time; but the protest now filed in his behalf by the Royal Aero club of Great Britain takes an other ground. The Aero club holds that the original requirements for qualification provided that no entury for the Statue of Liberty flight would he received unless the applicant had previously remained in the air one hour during the international meet. Moisant had not, for an accident cut him short for few minutes