New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-09

stance, the charge for an aeroplane from
New York TO Chicago is one hundred doiiaiS'
Smashups are also expensive and eat ii''o
profits
Three wears ago there were aviators III
this country who made one thousand dollars
a day. Today many fly for one hundred
dollars, and are glad to get It, For EXHIBIT
ing aviators the golden days are passing
BrookinS has given up to enter the antoilio-
bile business. Coffyn, now flying lndeperu-
emily, is not making fortune. Inc tiiih'
red-haired Hamilton, who made ana loSt
several twentv-thousand bankrolls, IS no"
picking up what money he can at county
fairs. When the late Calbraith +. Rodgers
crossed the American continent from New
York to Los Angeles, 1t cost him iiltech
thousand dollars Harry Atwood st. LOUIS
to New York trip gave him loss OF tour
hundred dollars The prize didn't come up
to his expenses. Even Beachcy IS fnding
his earnings falling off. The business OF
exhibiting aeroplancs, you see, Is about dead.
out, urged on by the past success OF these
- men. hundreds of Others are trying 10
succeed like them. SO opens another way
whereby money can be made from the arr
by conducting schools. OF these schools
there are many. You will find them IN prac-
ticallv every State where the acroplanc mas
been flown. But most Of them are take
backward academies, founded by the get
rich-ouick profession Only a few are known
70 he trustworthy, equipped with compe-
tent instructors. actually teaching the pupils
70 Nv Among these real schools are the
Wright at DAYTON, Ohio; the Curtiss at
Hanmondsport, New York, and San Diego,
California: the MoiSant at Wcstbury, Long
Island. the Renoist at Chicago; the Burgess
Company & Curtiss at Marblchcad, Mass
achusctts: the army school at College Point,
MARYLAND: and the Beatty school.
OF them the story of the Beatty school Is
perhaps the most interesting -Four years
ago Beatty was a linotype operator One
dav there was an aviation meet IN the city
where ne worked, and he bought an adj
mission ticket. Two hours later he had de-
cidcd TO become an aviator. Two months
later he was flying wherever an engagement
could be secured. And so Beatty went on
with his transforming; continued 1t untll
receipts began TO fall off.
Then he had another idea. He thought a
school with himself, practical flyer at the
head. would pay well. The school was or.
panizcd. \ little tract Of land was secured
down on Long Island; a shed was erected.
All being ready, Beatty advertised IN the
aviation periodicals. He promised to make
anyone a flyer on payment OF two hundred
and fifty dollars. Brcakagc charges were
extra. So the Beatty school began. The
other dav Beatty was counting up his profits
for the first year There were twenty-five
pupils at two hundred and fifty dollars.
After much figuring so one OF his very good
friends told mc-hc found that the net was
four thousand dollars-which was not at all
bad for a linotypcr 70 make out OF SIX
months aviation school.
But the profits in conducting schools are
small To make five thousand dollars IS re-
markablc. Curtiss cleared that in 1911
The Moisant school Melted four thousand,
the Burgess people three thousand, and the
Bcnoist thrity-cight hundred, 50 unofficial
reports have It.
But let rs see what YOU would pass through
were YOU 20 enter one OF these schools, hop
ing 20 become % high-chss flyer and earn the
money that Bcachcy earns. N the outset
YOU would find that YOU would have 10 give
six weeks Of Your time 10 learning. That's the
period it takes at the Wright school -Four
hours DAY are spent IN the air, the total
being divided into lessons oi five To ten min
u'cs The charge is generally FIVE hundred
dollars. and vou have 10 be- bonded 10 the
extent Of a thousand dollars 20 safeguard
against brcakagc. Bcatty's rates were low.
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