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Show AEROPLANE AND AUTO . BUSINESSES COMBINE A combination of tho aeroplane and automobile au-tomobile businesses by automobile dealers, deal-ers, making the demonstration and salo of flying machines poKBlble In many American cltleifi Is predicted by thoso who have wutched events In these two fields of gasoline- motor utility. Indicatlons"of this future turn of business bus-iness art- ecen In a number of towns where individuals and firms now selling automobiles have ulso secured tho agon-cles agon-cles for aeroplanes. A few days ago a Milwaukee auto concern con-cern became agcnL for tho Blorlot. Far-;ium Far-;ium and Curtlss types of aeroplanes In the state of Wisconsin. Tho Butte "Novelty "Nov-elty works of Butte, Mont., has taken up the Curtlss type. The knowledge of tho gasoline motor gained through selling automobiles has, In some Instances, led to more than a desire to sell aeroplanes, and Ralph G. Hamlin, a dealer In L,os Angeles, is building one, using a motor from ono of his cars. Tho dcalora who have entered tho fly- Ing machine business aro assured of a gcd Income from their mdomotm tia dc while they are developing Ihe aeror jloiie business. ThltJ, It Is claimed, will enab e tho air craft trade to be developed wltn-mtt wltn-mtt thomndlcap, which It wotild havo If the airship, dealer had no othci 1 . s-IncGS. s-IncGS. for it Is not expected that adlea will be extremely numerous at nrsi. The IntercHt of nutomobilp dealers in the acronlami is aald to bo due to.s mii-arlty mii-arlty between the machines, eacii oi which depend-; for Us success upon ho gasollno motor, and furnishes Psf'bl": tics for great speed and tho excrclao of courage and skill. Thero aro approximately 1S00 aeroplanes aero-planes In uso at tho present with nbout 1000 operators, of whom 450 are licensed. Of Iheso only eighteen arc In the united States. The number of automobiles and street cars In service with the number of fatalities due to these each year make tho airship casualty rate quite low In ! comparison. |