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Show How Aviators Rose To Fame Hubert Latham Was a Street Car Con. ductor Before Flying Career Some Others. Hubert Latham began his career as i consumptive street car conductor, loomed by the doctors. But either ihe doctors were wrong or flying is conducive to health, for Hubert Lath-m Lath-m Is still alive and well, having 3own more miles and won more prize money than any other aviator in the world. The Wright brothers ran a bicycle shop in a small American city when they first began to realize the possibilities possi-bilities of the developing motor car power plant as a means to the solution solu-tion of the aerial problem. They I made themselves the first men In the world to get off the ground with a ' man-carrying power driven machine capable of continued flight. For the last few years the Wright brothers-one brothers-one of whom recently died, not in tht air, but where most men die in bed have been regarded among the world't j foremoFt manufacturers of flying ma I chines, and the property of the firm is ; reputed to be worth close to a milllor I dollars. I Curtiss was a small motorcvcli manufacturer until he achieved fatu ! I r-nd fortune by the air route. HeM i I Farman was a bicycle racer u-iUl tb : sirens of the air allured him i ! i i |