New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-11
Perils of Air Solved by q.
Schleusselburg, After
Eight Years Testing.
PLANS CORPORATION
TO EXPLOIT IDEAS
Expects to Build New Style Ma
chine-Trips to Coast and Over
the Atlantic in Prospect.
By GORDON BRUCE.

Cheers! Much Joy! Aviation has
come into it's own. It Is as safe as
walking, perhaps safer-who knows?
If you doubt it, 20 to 300 Broadway.
Talk with George Schleusselburg and
be convinced. Or, If you haven't the
energy, ponder over this extract from
a letter prepared for investors By him
and his associates:
"We wish to call your attention TO
the unlimited possibilities which this
extraordinary proposition offers to
large and small investors. At last a
machine has been constructed which
makes flying absolutely safe. The
president Of this corporation, George
Schleusselburg, has succeeded (after
eight years of experimenting in solv-
ing the problem.
ain order to enable the inventor to
start with the construction of his aero
plane on a larger scale, a corporation
with a capital of 100000, all in COM
mon stock at rs cents par value a
share, has been formed, of which we
offer 100000 shares for sale to raise
the necessary funds.
Fortune Ahead, Says Circular.
at is we'll known that this country
offers better inducements than any
other at present to realize fortunes by
the exploitation of new and revolu-
tionizing idea like the one in question.
"The American army is VIGOROUSLY
backward in it's aerial equipment, and
a
chine has been demonstrated salts
factorily to the authorities in Wash
ington there is not the least doubt that
same will be adopted. We have already
opened negotiations to that effect. :.
There is no preferred stock for sale,
thus insuring to the purchaser, OF even
only a few shares in this stock a sub
stantial profit"
The beauty Of the proposition is that
orders for as little as ten shares OF
stock will be promptly filed. Mr..
Schleusselburg has the handsome GER
tlficates all ready. A few strokes OF
pen and there you are. For $3.50 you
can tote away the proof that you own
a whole thousand shares. And the
certificate is as big and looks quite as
fascinating as the one that goes with
the shares in one of the big railroads.
Flight to Coast Planned.
But wait. Just to give you line on
where the profits are coming from,
aside from those jimmied out OF Uncle
Sam. here is a gem from the circular
labelled Special Limited Offering OF
the Stock of Schleusselburg's Aero
plane Corporation"
THE building of the first aeroplane
will take about two months, and after
completion and trial flights George
Schleusselburg, president OF the com
pany, will make his first flight from
New York TO San Francisco for the
$1,000 prize.
"He will give many exhibitions with
our aeroplane, which should earn big
, money for the company and its stock
holders, and if the time Of the year per-
mits it, will make an attempt TO cross
the Atlantic Ocean to earn the several
prizes therefor. He claims he can posi-
lively make the trip in twenty-four
hours. Hence, one can readily see the
enormous earnings the company Will
have for the payment of dividends"
To substantiate the inventors high
opinion of his machine one may refer
to "Mr. f. Kasper, the well known
European technologist and aviator, OF
Hamburg, Germany" who expresses by
letter the belief that the machine when
completed will carry from twenty TO
thirty passengers and have speed
range of from fifty to one hundred and
fifty miles an hour.
1t is going TO be some" machine all
right. Length, 100 feet; width, so
feet; two 200-horsepower motors, and
made as strong as strong can be. Mr..
Schleusselburg said so; 1t can't tip
over. he confided, and there were ever
so many other things he told US, too.
It's too bad that the inventor never
built a n-carrying machine after the
present plans. So far he has managed
to get out only model. But. remem-
Der, it's a pretty model, and the faults
in construction in the model would not
exist in the big machine.
And don't think for a minute that the
fact that no $4,000 prize has been
offered for trip to San Francisco is
going to prevent the intrepid aviator
from winning it.