New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-28
\. Bingham Brown Thinks Avi-
ator'S Conduct Nothing
Short OF a Crime.
"WOULDN'T PICK IT UP"
R. F. Lemat, Who Will Manage
Venture, Says Boston Man
Used Cash Merely as a Sig
nal to Try for Altitude.

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get rusty. He has his pilots license. No
100 issued by the Royal Aero Club Of
the United Kingdom last June. and as
soon as he decides whether 10 mono or
biplane after IL. he will choose Coney
Island for a starting point and fly across
country night or day. rain or shine. in
circles or dashing straightaway. 10 any
landing point that Will guarantee him a
living wage. Brown is known as the
Boston midget. weighing just 10
pounds
To be protected against possible care
lessness. first iE locating and collecting
all Of the money in sight. H Bingham
Brown will be managed by r. F. Lemat.
o. Washington. a man Of sporting in
stincts and experience. who followed At
wood throughout his long journey, and
has therefore seen with his own eyes
not less than $4,000 lying unchaperoned
on the surface between st. Louis and
New York.
Atwood is a college man and lacks ex-
perience. according TO Lemat. His man
aeer could do nothing with him. He
would talk with Atwood long into the
night and tell him there was $500 all
tagged ready for shipment 10 his home
address. and all that was required Of
him was 10 ny % a nearby meadow,
where the money was. and there pub
lcly bind himself that it would be re-
ce.ved by his Boston bankers.
Kept Away from Money.
That was all YOU had TO tell Atwood.
said lIr. Lemat I'm suite 80. 500. at the
Hotel Imperial last night. He would
get into his machine in the morning. and
a. the last minute ask ior a railroad
time table. You'd hand him one with a
little cross marking the spot where the
yellow boys We're living in the sun.
III you found him again you were
lucky. because he would be anywhere
except in that meadow. just as soon as
he saw that the money was all counted
out and lying in a row. seemed like he
couldn't bring himself 10 stoop To pick
II Up
You couldn't do nothin with min. He
amt had no bringing UP. you might say.
There was the money. understand ME.
He used il for signal TO try for alti-
tude He run away from 100000, and
when he pays FOR having his laundry
done UP. after making the trip, he won't
have nothin.
lIr Lemat Ht fresh cigar and con-
tiuued.
why. lookit here; take Cleveland.
There was the Country Club at Cleve
land absolutely with a headache, they
was so anxious 10 give Atwood 5000
f0r a twenty-five minute entertainment.
The sprinkled down the dust, KNOWN
him 70 De fussy. and had thousands out
there % see him light.
The mistake was made in letting him
in on the secret that there was going TO
be something in il for him. He lit then,
JUST 500 as 20 be out Of sight. back Of the
frst cIump Of trees. Did it a purpose
Then the next morning. it seems he
rerented He flew over 70 !he County
Club before even the janitor of the
grounds was awake The little birds
saw him. but the money had flown
away.
"Do YOU think YOU could make him see
that his repentance done him no good
him nor nobody else? You couldn't
pound nothin' into him. It's been a
crime the way he let the money 90 by.
He'd a been thought twice as much Of If
he had come into this town with $4,000, |
stead Of broke. you might say"
To Start Without a Penny
In the room with Lemat and Brown
was George Frank Lawson, chief mech
anician for Atwood. who has been en-
Tloyed by the Burgess-Curtis Company,
builders OF the Burgess Wright aero
plane
Mr Brown said he would fly cross
country as the Hobo aviator. He said
he had no object in making the trip ex-
cept 90 get the money that Atwood hac
neglected.
Believing America did not offer adj
vantages 10 aeronautic students equal
10 those abroad Brown. who is twenty
aght years old. attended the Hewitt
NhG Blondane dying school at Brook
Ends. near London. He learned 10 oper-
1te a Farman machine, and since June
has been flying in England.
I propose 10 go right back over the
ground that Atwood covered without a
penny in my pocket" said Brown. and
clean up the money that he left behind.
] will probably start from Coney Island.
We can get the money there. In a nut
shell. that's what I'm after"
He added that Lawson had about de-
cided 20 desert Atwood. lawson he
said. was pretty tired picking up At
woods tools and never knowing what
the strange Bostonian might next re-
quire Of him. Lawson was not AFRAID
10 work according 10 Brown. but ne had
been three DAYS now without being IA
vored with instructions from Atwood
and IL was telling on him.
You can say for me- interJected
lawson. that l am seriously consider
ing Mr.. Browns offer 10 go with him as
his chief mechanician on the trip he
mentions"
Mr Lemat will guide the aviator to
the golden landing places. assisted per
hsps by A. Leo stevens. VINO is also
familiar with the location Of many rich
veins that Atwood overlooked
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