Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09

In 1911 his goal was the Ben k@@ II
nett Cup. He wanted to win it, 49, ~
to prove the superiority of his M
machine over any in the world. E1AA x3 l.,.Sl4
He built monoplane with AA6AE3A -
enormous engine On the first
flight it developed terrific speed.
Aviaors who watched it declared that nothing could stop
Newport from winning the cup Then in one OF the final
trials he fell and they found his body hidden under the
machine. Swift success had been, death was even
switzerland the brilliant inventor left his two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for others to spend
nF European aviation magnates, though, it has re-
- NAMED for an Engshman to realize the full posi-
bies of the business Not only does Claude Grahame
White win his full share of prize money but he has adj
ditiona sources of big revenue. These are the manu-
featuring of machines, the touring of staff of trained
flyers, and the maintenance of aviation showhouse
where good days from ten to twenty thousand
Engishmen pay money to see his machines in flight
Beginning with a technical knowledge of engines
nothing more, GrahameWhte is today worth eight
hundred thousand dollars. From the of modestly
fixed gentleman farmer of Hampshire who tinkered
about automobiles, Grahame- White became the most
successful flyer of the British nation. Beaten by Paul
han for the fifty thousand dollar London to- Manchester
prize the young of Hampshire set sail for America
Arriving in time to compete in the Boston meet, he
began zewinnng tour that netted him one hundred
thousand dollars in very few months thus retrieving
doubly the loss suffered to Paulhan.
Returning to England Grahame White organized
flying school and making one hundred thousand more,
began to manufacture his own machines. Everything
he touched seemed to turn to money So successful was
his manufacturing that he finally dared his own amuse
drome at Hendon near London, and experienced show
shook their heads They feared the brilliant young
destined for fall. They didn't think such
venture would pay. But in a month Grahame- White
had made the Hendon Droe popular that it became
fashionable gathering place Every Sunday afternoon
it is trimmed soldy in automobiles and swarming with
we'll dressed men and women. They pay from four
shings to pound, according to the locations OF their
chairs and will soon swell the Hampshire farmer boys
fortune another hundred thousand dollars.
TN this country, though, the Wrghts have been
more successful; that is, when measure success
in the terms of money earned up to the present time
You have heard how, starting small cycle makers
DAYTON Ohio they finally evolved the first practical
aeropane. You may not have heard though, that the
Wrghts mon-dollar corporation; that they were
backed by August Belmont that John Plerpont Nor
gan, Thomas F. Ryan, Henry Prick, and other Wall
Street magnates have at time another been in
terested More you may not know, that although the
little from the actual manufacture and sale of the
Wright biplane Only from corps of exhibition flyers
and from royalties the patents they hold has their
big money been made. In 1911 the Wnghts had
gross of million dollars Think of it-a million in
year, mostly from exhibiting the aeropane!
The secret of the Wrghts tremendous financial sue
be traced to the monopoly that they early
joyed American aviation Having the patents on
the first machine they regarded as the ideal In
two months after their first public exhibition many
daredevs wanted to fly the Wright biplane that the
corporation could demand an overwhelming share OF
the returns. tombstone and Hoxey, now dead, killed
by the reckless flying beloved of the exhibition crowds
received only twenty dollars week and fifty dollars
additional every day they flew. They Won thousands
and thousands of dollars prize moneybut that didn't
matter. 1t all went to the company. Also it may be
mentioned that neither Hoxey tombstone left cent.
Their expenses were HUGE their savings practically
nothing.
Brookins, another Wright flyer, earned one hundred
dollars week. with the fifty dollars day additional.
So did Coffvn But there's Coffyns word for it that
the Wnghts rule forbidding Sunday flying, together
with the cost of travel,
breakage, bad weather
postponements, and Ill
health, prevented the
<h best aviator of the