Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-05-25

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got in Indiana could mage for your
springs here sensation"
"Get the crowds down here" con.
tinued Miss Kessler. enthusiastically,
you've got the whole Middle West to
draw on and the East and the South.
too, for that matter l tell you, it's
great scheme, Mr.. Riley. Aviation's the
great question of peace and war. Let's
have fight! just wonder it didn't
hit me before. know the whole air
gang. / know them all, 1 tell you,
and Ii you big bugs will get up the
purse. / can get you any of the fancy
fliers of the world down here for an
exhibition flight"
"But Hiss KeSsler-"
81 know a mans got biplane In
his back shed right now that will TO
Gus the eyes of the world on Cadillac
Springs over night, if we can get him
down here for his first exhibition
flight. What would you sag IL ceald
get him down here on a moderate
purse, for the first exhibition flight OF
machine that's going to put flying
| forward quarter oS century, for
| you? This is the kind of Il field no
needs to prove that he's done that lit
tie thing! Ask any aviator the value
Of flat country. Why, I've got so
much faith, ladies and gentlemen, in
that Meyer biplane and in her new sta
bilizer that I'D stake million dol
lars on 1t, if had it. I'd bank my
soul on that machine"
'Loog how egzited she getG Aint
it a treat, Riley, to see her!"
But"
| "Start the ball rolling! Who'll start
her? Who? Mr., CAM, you're sue
| cessfhl business man who told me not
ten minutes ago that my smile was
worth five thousand. Prove it. Look
at it now. Is it still worth the money!
| Start the purse with that five thou
sand, Mr.. GAM, and if she don't loop
the double loop four times and write
each loop in fire, purse refunded like
| / promised. Start her with five thou
sand, Mr.. CAM. Are you a gentle
man of your word, Mr.. CAM, and
game enough to start her with five
thousandY
Miss Della, you-you're only fool
ing. Such little cut-up"
"Fooling! If 1 was any more in
earnest I'd break blood vessel"
Dots ride, Miss Gezzler, mage him
bay"
s'Start her with five thousand, MIR.
CAM. Come in on your share, Mr..
Riley. It's your enterprise, after all,
and you go him couple of thousand
better. It's cheap at the price, Mr..
Riley. Bjordstedt got twenty thou
sand for his last flight and came down
in ten minutes with a broken rudder,
| but just the same he put Great Neck
on the map. Don't be bunch of
| pikers. You, Mr.. Lobenz, if you're the
| good sport 1 think you are, what's
few thousand to you? Come on in it,
Mr.. Chalmers, and I'll make you for
get what ,ails you; you, Mrs. Van
Ritz. IL you're a gentleman of your
word, Mr. CAM, you'll start the ball
rolling with that five thousand"
"Twenty twenty-five - hundred,
Miss Kessler, is all II"
"Good! Twenty-Five hundred for a
starter. Mr.. Max GAM of Chicago
starts the ball rolling with twenty-five
hundred. Am 1 bid more? Am l bid
more? It's your enterprise down here,
Mr.. Riley, and the net results will be
yours. The proprietor of the Hotel
Cadillac must head the list. Am l bid
more? Five thousand, If you're good
business man and know a good thing
when you see 1t. Five thousand for
hundred thousand worth of publicity!
Five thousand"
give thousand"
"Hurrah! Five thousand from Mr..
Riley, and don't let them leave you at
the post, Mr.. Hirkhimer."
"a tousand doolar, Miss Gezzler,
but want from way up in the air he
should drop one tousand packages
Mimic chewing-gum when he reaches
two tousand feet"
"No sooner said than done!. One
thousand from Mr.. Hirkimer and now
you, Mr.. Lobenz. How muchT"
"You can't expect man in the au-
tomobile business, Miss Kessler, to
subscribe to aviation"
"Why not? The biggest automobile
man In the world started out manu-
| featuring one-horse shays. How much,
Mr.. Lorenz? Mr.. Mango? Mr.. Chal-
mers? Goods Let me put you down
for one thousand each, and now you
over there, Mrs. Van Ritz. Let's have
health, wealth and beauty on our list,
and it's up to you to supply the last.
How much, Mrs. wAs RsfS2 How
| much ~