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Show tinO would lie necessary to secure an adjustment It was tentatively agre d by most of lli o aviators present tliat ? I.I.MImi would bo set a-ide lor the Wright Itrot liors. luir in some wny that would not prejudice the valid. ty f their jinient righto The amounts to he received 1y tho others were left for decision at a later date. I EJKN8WE They Want $100,000 to Fly at Aviation j Meet New York, Nov. P. San Francisco Is likely to linj the employment of star bird-men for tier proposed aviation meet an expensive bm-lness. A tele-tram, tele-tram, received here last night announced an-nounced that San Francisco would raise $7Vmhi for the tournament and that s;?0,imu cf this would be allowed for the expenses of the nviatois. Ten or a dozen of the big air men who are now In ih s city met forthwith to decide what their terms would be. Those present, included Wilbur Wilght C.rahame-Whlto. MeUsant. Hamilton. Captain Baldwin, thre,. f,f the French- 1 men who competed in the International Internation-al meet and a few others. Wilbur Wiight opened the session by asking a guarantee of slS.rtn". "We weie the first men to fly," he said, "and we th'nk that under the circumstances we should have at least $15,0nii In addition to the prize money in recognition of what we have done." The proposition apparently met general approval until Charles K Ham illon threw- the meeting Into eonfu-slon eonfu-slon by declaring that In his op nlon the Wright demand was equivalent to a demand for compensation for per milting the contest to take place and Plight be construed as acknowledgment acknowledg-ment of the validly of the Wric'nt patents. Such an arrangement, he declared, de-clared, would bind them all to submit to the Wright license at all future meets. This promptly caused all the aviators to announce that they would d sapprove the Wrlcht plan (Irahame-W'hlte then announced that he would expect at least a $25,-000 $25,-000 guarantee and Hamilton followed follow-ed by estimating his .services as worth $2vii" Moissant declared that bo would hob out for ?2).imiu and the Frenchmen were willing to donate their services for the sumo sum. A telegram was prepared to be sent to San Francisco promoters saying that a guarantee fund of about ?100,- |