Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
AWATORS OFFER
SERVICES FOR WAR
NTH Volunteers U. S. Could
Have Seventy-fiVe Planes
Ready in Ten Days.

NEW YORK, April 21.-More than
pity aviators, licensed pilots of the
Aero Club of America, will offer their
services to the government for duty
In Mexico in case war is declared.
There was little except war talk yes
terday at the club house, at Madison
avenue and Forty1first street.
Colonel Mortimer Delano, of the
First Provisional Aviation Corps, has
written to the war department Of
tering the services of the corps. AL
bert Bond Lambert, of the st. Louis
Aero Club, has enlisted the services
Of aviators all over the country in
his aviation reserves Captain
Thomas S. Baldwin, the veteran
hirigible balloon and aeroplane pilot,
has offered the use of his machines
at lakewood Heights and his own
services.
Colonel Delano sent the following
pette ryesterday:
Il have the honor to offer for serv
Ice the organization of the First Pro-
Visional Aviation Corps headquar-
tiers in New York.
"The corps includes aeroplane and
hydroplane pilots and pilot students,
gas engine engineers, mechanics and
those trained in all of the branches
relating to the handling, care, upkeep
and repair of all classes of aeronautic
apparatus
The corps is organized under the
provisions of General Order No. rs,
United States War Department, De-
eember, 1918, and possesses the proper
complement of staff and field officers,
Yates
"The corps would naturally prefer
10 retain it's identity by enlisting as a
body, but should this not be in accord
with your ideas your disposition of
its units will meet with hearty con-
Currence.'
Among the officers in Colonel Del
AMOS corps are: Colonel Laurance
Hill Grahame, Colonel Il. G. Scher-
merhorn, Colonel Eugene Kelly
Austin, Lieutenant-Colonel William
Fitzhigh Whitehouse. Lieutenant-Col-
Dnel Beckwith Ravens and Bieuten
Rnt-Colonel w. Redmond Cross, Lieu
tenant Colonel Havens was the only
volunteer aviator with the New York
National Guard in the manoeuVres
of 1912 and made some remarkable
flights.
Practically every pilot in this coun-
try is connected with one of the
aviation squadrons and is ready to
start for Mexico at the first call
There are about thirty aeroplanes,
flying boats and hydro aeroplanes in
this section that could be made ready
20 ship within a few days. Captain
Thomas S. Baldwin has at two pas
senger dirigiblc balloon that he will
offer to the government.
Counting the army and navy ma
chimes it would be possible to have
seventy-five flying machines of the
most modern designs on the Mexican
border or coast in ten days" Captain
Baldwin said Yesterday
Alfred Moisant of the Moisant in
ternational aviators denied the report
that he had recently delivered a
monoplane to General Huerta. Harold
Kantner, one of the Moisant aViators,
recently returned from Juarez, where
he delivered a monoplane to General
Ca1tranza.
.,tNf. >Moisant sold three aeroplanes
TO the Mexican government three
years ago, he said, and he believes
that two of these are still in use near
Mexico City. Andrew Hardy, who
was formerly with Mr. Moisant, is
in charge of the machines there.