Show -- rjafirti e nr f Jr intfiiriM iTIIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JULY 13 1930 az J oe bole To rr rr::iri-i"i- — zj-xr- irplane 233 as :-- jf y- - D - V 4 ' rsrAT' - — A f-- J 8i s4 a J ' - J --- ’ ’ws a FH ft r J Jr u Kv Jf -- H V m &' 'Nw ii4lZ3 £ “ “ - :k - J J - - ' K' jn li Home to iiii modest little house in a to receive their reward a Brothers jar being the first IVilbur Wright in prime taken in the days when he Worked for five discouraging years oath his brother survioing to Orville make the first airplane sale his O the came the Wright big broiled porterhouse steak men to fly agreed on and a cable to close the bargain Meanwhile a clique curtailed - surrey one-hor- power of its efforts was sent to Paris ailing authority of army men in Pans which had the commission had been working and arranged that its urgent cables to checkmate The commission was sadly exorfor action were ignored Only the cised as the Morocco crisis came to a climax remained calm They knew they had something whether disposed of then or later The war clouds dissipated with the settlement ot the Morocco dispute at the Algeciras conference Dus brought to the airplane to a victory to the army clique opposed ftcr irom America the commission was recalled fnm inconclusive weeks of negotiations three of Some two day after the rueful departure in Bond short ruddy itranger the Frenchman a Street clothes given to smoking a calabash pipe called on the brothers and greeted them in something like thia fashion: "Haw Mr Wilbur Wright 1 believe? And Mr Orville Wright Great pleasure and honor inventors of value Here is the inside story correcting much previous misinformation on the Wright brothers' 1 Hi 19" Whmm JN --A I 'Sis I tu ?-- f-- (n&w - years I’m bickering with England France and the U S trying to put over a deal for their successful flying machine of $ w five heart-breakin- g While the French negotiations were simmering in the late summer at long distance to a thin end themselves busied making a the inventors 1906 of horse- new motor of four cylinders yielding 30 New York Charles R Flint and Company hankers and promoters Were led by press items to consider the economic asiect of the airplane A Ulysses S Eddy called on th representative brothers at their Dayton office on the day after Thanksgiving 1906 The he d of the firm became a convert nd later sent another representative In George H Nolle to Dayton early” 907 a contract was made by which the Flints became the business agents on commission for the airplane in all countries except England and the United States The relations of the Wrights with : Flint concern are in refreshing J 4 "tvp ha fame of your achievements The reached me in London just dropped over to shake By the bv might I hands with you both awsk if the French commission is still about? U C sure 1 of I90S during the government The Wright plane in flight above Fort Myer Va he two eras cavalry the of juncture No camera ever recorded more effectively horse the marvelous mechanism of flight soaring above him d below on his f while-foole- trooper N C DEC 7 KITTYHAU’ BISHOP M WRIGHT 7 HAWTHORN ST FOUR FLIGHTS THURSDAY SUCCESS MORNING ALL AGAINST 21 MILL WIND STARTED FROM LEVEL WITH ENGINE POWER ALONE AVERAGE SPEED THROUGH AIR 31 MILES LONGEST 57 SECONDS INFORM PRESS HOME CHRISTMAS 1 vvRICT orville 525 P IX days after the above message was sent — two and Orville before Christmas — Wilbur days were met Ohio and arrived at Dayton Wright with a beaming I one-hors- e surrey Within the surrey were prideful Father Wright Sister Katharine and grinning Brother Lorin There were no brass hands confetti or shrieking sirens The nag jogged into Hawthorn street and stopped before broththe frame house pictured on this page The Wright ers were home again and for supper they had their favorite dish broiled porterhouse steak Perhaps it seemed to them as big a reward as the fathers of flight ever got later It was five year after this porterhouse steak before the of an air Wright brothers could celebrate their first sale feed such another with harpy plane with selling campaign The feat story of this has until recently never ill its worries and disappointments But in gathering information for a biography been told of the Wright brothers John R McMahon has uncovered sales effort in g the facts behind this most Through arrangement with Mcthe history of invention Mahon’s publishers Little Brown and Company the highlights of that first airplane sale are given here: five-ye- heart-breakin- 1903 the airplane had cost the TCfChristmas labor a cash outlay of around besides their Wrights UP 5000- - Katharine did not finance the airplane as the legend persists in maintaining Perhaps Tather Wright did At least the cost of the machine as stated was vshat the brothers realized from the sale of a paternal gift to them three years before of 160 acres of land halt of the fathers farm But they had a greater resource in their near Casey la sufficient to bicycle business from which the savings were four the for next them years keep going To perfect their machine the brothers wanted a flying Wilbur called on Torrence Huffman field near home hank who granted permission someof a Dayton president what as follows- "All right Wilbur vou can go as far as you like bure I won’t charge you boys a cent of put up a shed And I always liked your squareness and pluck in the rent bicycle business Hope you’ll not make a mistake in giving it up for this airship experiment or whatever it is to the For the next two years Dayton paid no attention historic doings in a cow pasture whereby the- conquet of the air was extended and perfected The rest of America Was little interested If America was asleep however the British Lion heard drone of the airplane in an Ohio cow pasture In fact a British army officer Colonel Capper who had been at the St Loins xposition was ordered hy his sun in the fall of 1904 and see what periors to viit Davt and talked Wrights had He spent a day in town f with the brothers He did not see Afterward the Vr ar the machine the British governof Department ment kept m touch with the Wrights for several years "Uncle Sam has first call on our invention" said the Wrights in reaction to the British interest They offered it to the War DeThe repartment at Washington of like that a busy short was ply man solicited by a pencil salesman The sensitive brothers looked “ ' meaningly at each other put the work on continued letter aside and f !“ ( a new machine which had its The enfirst trial m June 1905 i A as the previous same the was gine one but improved to deliver 20 r horsepower which gave the plane a speed of better than 38 miles an hour Wilbur the elder brother on Oct 5 before some 15 persons including a local reporter made a circular trip of 24 miles in about which was the air39 minutes plane distance and duration recHere in Dayton Ohio the The most famous bicycle shop the World ever saw ord for a number of years advised them not lo give bankers staid But machine ers perfected Dayton began to be mildly exotin R McMahon and LUUe motes courtesy (AU the cited about tire show bicycle men were offering in a pasture There was enough rumor and publicity to warn the nazy "We are not indigent seekers of a subsidy from the govWrights that they should desist from 6pen experiments in We ask for no money in advance we pay for ernment not had invention their Their order to safeguard patent and offer a finished produr t to be own our (he and closed experiments So the pasture hangar was been issued we Like every manufacturer for if satisfactory only paid The brothers machine dismantled in the autumn of 1905 Besides it is for our product have must specifications until 1908 did no more flying essrnliil for us to know whether the government wishes the creators of the airplane In three years 1903-190- 5 ' ' monopoly of the airplane developed it from the virgin flight of 852 feet at The reply to this emphasized ’that the boird does miles at of 24 Dayton to a circling tour j Hawk not care to formulate any requirements for the performance During this time no other person in the world had rien maa flying machine or take any further action until a of heavier-thacraft n of air from the ground in any sort chine is produced which by actual operation is shown to fe able to produce horizontal flight and carry an operrILBUR and Orville wrote a letter dated Oct 9 ator ” 1905 to the Secretary of War at Washington reOur military wiseacres resolved in effect that the air- of the airplane and lavof 24 newing their former tender plane did not cxit although it had made a flight to ing they did not want to take it abroad unless obliged miles do SO They offered a machine that would fly not less than 20 miles at the rate of 30 miles an hour and would T THIS time the clouds of the Morocco depute rose contract for a machine capable of flying 100 miles One There was direct to blacken the European horizon Ihe price not gisrn or more persons would be carried between France and Germany over the controversy machines of wou'd depend on performance control of northweMern Africa and if these two came to The reply informed them "that as mans' request have orld would be in- ol a rla'h all the rowers of the Old the development assistance financial for in !een made ilserl necesfound it de'gns for flying machines the board bks a Frenrh military cc def ilh secrecy sary to decline to make allotments fothe experimental deIt started with full of four men was sent to Dayton has ion and -mechanical d for flight vices velopment of route revoked en this was but to act in view power termined that before suggestions with that object It did not take lor g for the commission to become will be considered the device must have been brought to believers in the airplane They had not seen the the to without expense the stage of practical operation but vs ere more than convinced by the photographs machine United States" of it in flight by the tales of witnesses and 'the simple sinlire Wnghts were mildly indignant as may he read A price of 1000000 francs was This 19 misdated Oct cerity of the inventors between the lines rf their reply thus it sive lies before me and I venture to paraphrase U S A) tCopyritfht l'Jlv Ly LvuyVitck ila 3iz nc— I'nntcl In it t y I startling with contrast banker-promote- rs the time this business the was made of America Club Aero launched a subscription among its members to pay the inventors $ 00 000 for their patent rights in the United States which would then be turned over to the government or reThis was leased to the home public intended as a deed of patriotism and of useful honor to the men of Day-to- n AROUND "j 1 t 1 lb I cf jtSy ri S Lrfi almost nd their experience with the world of business in general Die neither sought nor took unfair advantage of the inventors A liberal contract was scrupulously kept 4 1 at the end of six months list registered about in$11000 and the Wrights weremade formed that lack of interest had the project a failure And the subscription President Theodore Roosevelt saw a brief note on the Wright flyin the Scientific Amering machine 1907 He sent the in spring of it to the Secretary of War Taft with the endorsement "Investigate" Mr ican othWright the Ficyile Co Brown up nd passed the item on to the Board The of Ordnance and Fortification board swallowed once or twice frowns d over the records of two previous snubs administered to the jnventorSi then wrote asking hemmed "What price airplane? "To Uncle Sam— now— $100000 in ers effect The dignified much interested replied the broth- board answered that though they wer stated exceeded all fundi available the sum of the Flints soon found a prospective customer Deutsch French oil magnate and patron of balwith looning T be magnate obtained an understanding the French Minister of War that the government would a number of machines Wilbur was summoned pure have to Pa ns A contract was drawn and everyone was ready the to sign But it fell through at the last minute because a Takeoff of political graft to not consent would Wrights — W ilBuf in the late fall of 1907 conferred with the U b War Department upon the building of an airplane for that Red tape required that a vehicle unique— government flying machine — smuld "Item: One (1) heavier-than-abe subjected to public bidding as with saddles horse feed and potatoes There were 22 bidders who offeied marhtnes Ihe Wrights at all prices between $300 ?nd $10000 X had been the As rights at tire contract $25000 got days the D hoping ever since the slender bicycle-sho- p last government was to have their plane at Fortune began to smile for Flint and Company reported had been to the brothers that their patent rights in France sold to a syndicate At these tidings we may believe that the dinner menu less than a thick at a house on Hawthorn Street comprised no I he first airplane sale had been made e steak A N agent in M ir ' porterhou-- I |