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

TO prove the superiority OF his 4
machine over any in the world. I'M ~
He built a monoplane with an EIIAAxsIA -
enormous engine. On the FIRST
flight it developed terrific speed.
Aviaors who watched it declared that nothing could stop
Neuport from winning the cup Then in one OF the final
trials he fell and they found his body hidden under the
machine Swift as success had been, death even
swfer-and the brilliant inventor left his two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for others to spend.
OF European aviation magnateS, though, II mas re-
~ NAMED for an Engishman 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
ditional of big revenue These are the manu-
featuring of machines, the touring OF staff OF trained
FLYERS and the maintenance OF an aviation ShOWhOuSe
where on good days from ten TO twenty thousand
Enqlshmen pay money to see his machines in flight.
Beginning with technical knowledge OF engines,
nothing more GrahameWhe is today worth eight
hundred thousand dollars. From the son Of a modesy
fixed "qentleman farmer" of Hampshire who tnkcred
about automobiles, Grahame-Whte became the most
successful flyer Of the British nation Beaten by Paul
han for the ifty-thousand- dollar Londonto Manchester
rizc the Young man OF Hampshire set sail for America
Arriving in time to compete in the Boston mcct, lie
began przewinning that Melted him one hundred
thousand dollars in very few months thus retTi.'Ing
do,blv the loss suffered TO Paulhan
Returning to England, Grahame-Whe organized
nving school and making one hundred Thousand more
bcqan 10 manufacture his own machines. Ever ing
he touched seemed 10 money. 80 SUGGEST" was
his manufacturing that he finally dared his aruse
,nent plant He opened the Grahame-Wme Aero
drome at Hcndon near London and experience .ow-
men shook their heads. They feared the brlian lung
man was destined for iall. They didn mink ,i.n a
venture would pay But in a month Grahaire-N aite
had made the Hcndon Drome popular that Il u' me
fashionable gathering place Every SUNDAY afternoon
il is trimmed sodly in automobiles and swarning With
well dressed men and women. !ney pay i'. .ouT
chairs and will soon swell the Hampshire arme- .oys
fortune another hundred thousand dollars.
IN this country though, the Wnghts have been ven
1 more successful: that IS when we measure s -ess
in the terms of money earned up to the preSen me
Won have heard how starting rs small cycle ma rs IN
DAYTON Ohio, they finally evolved the hrSt pr zeal
aeroDlane You NAV not have heard, though that the
Wrghts are a mliondollar corporation; that the we're
backed by August Belmont that John Plcrpon' Nor.
Gan Thomas f. RYAN. Henry Frick, and Other al
Street magnates have at one time or another D,.n IN
,crested More YOU may not know. that although the
corporation is run hard business lines, 1t mas made
little from the actual manufacture and sale % The
Wright biplane Only from corps Of exhibition NEerS
and from royalties on the patents they noi ha. 'er
bio money been made. In 1911 the Wnghts had q
gross Of million dollars Think Of lta million IN
Year. mostly from exhibiting the aerophne.
The secret Of the Wrights tremendous financial Sue
cess can be- traced tie monopoly that they early en-
loved on American aviation. Having the patent ~
the first machine they were regarded as the ideal IN
two months after their first public exhibition So many
daredcvils wanted 20 hv the Wright bplane '1a, The
CORPORATION could demand an overwhelming share =
the returns tombstone and HoXey, now dead. killed
bv the reckless flying beloved Of the exhibition crowds
received only twenty dollars week and iitF dollars
additional every dav they flew They won thousands
and thousands OF dollars prize money-bu that a.n
matter Il all went 10 the company. Also II may be
mentioned that neither Foxey nor tombstone LEFT cent
Their expenses were huge; their savings practically
nothing.
Brookins. another Wright flyer, earned one hundred
dollars a week with the fifty dollars day additional
S. did Cofyu But there's Cotfyns word Tor Il '.at
the Wnghts rule forbiddng Sunday flying. ''-, aer
with the cost 0t travel.
brcakagc bad Wc.' ..-.
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