Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-10-24 | Page 1 | Aviation is Dangerous

AVIATION IS DANGEROUS I But It Is Aost Profitable i Avocation as Shown by Winnings New York. Oct. 24. - A tabulation of prizes wnll by aviators In the United, States and Furope since the opening j of the Bret International meet at i Rhelms. a year ago, shows that J712.-I f.:.o has bce'u divided by tbe airmen In twelve months. The figures Include only official prizes competed for under the" rules of authorized organizations. They do not Include money paid for exhibition or Instruction. Paulhan Is credited with belug the I largest Individual winner. His twelve months' earning are slightly more than $S2h'mi. Morane come? next ni. tvtfnlo. I -at ham is close liehlod with $52,000. Rosier, who comes lext n tbe list, abaudoiied flying after a bad fall. Curtlss heads tbe lint of American prirr winners with $K.uoo with Brook-ins Brook-ins next. , Bleriot is down In the lbt with only $ 401. although be has mde a fortune by exhll-ltlons. So hae Ixitham. Paulhan and olhe.. Paulhans exbl-bltl. exbl-bltl. n tour In America, which Is sa'd to have netted him nearly $5". Is i Dot counted. The only woman In the Ht of winners Is th.- Bareness de la RechH. The !it of casualllei during the I-montbs I-montbs pericvl show that 24 aviators bt tbeir lives In flight 1