BOSTON HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1910. 



Gets $22,100 for His Aviation 

 Feats at Banquet of 

 Algonquin Club. 



Congratulations of the state, city, 

 officials of the Harvard-Boston aero 

 meet and of private citizens were ao'ded 

 to the. $32,100 in prizes which Claude 

 Grahame-Whit3 received at the ban- 

 quet in the Algonquin Club last night. 



About 40 attended, most of them offi- 

 cials of the Harvard Aeronautical So- 

 ciety or members of the commutes in 

 charge of the meet. Gov. Draper, Coun- 

 cilman Baliantyne, Gen. Charles H. 

 Taylor, donor of the $10,000 prize for 

 the Boston light flight ; Adams D. Claf- 

 lin and Charles J. Glidden spoke. 



One of the events of the evening 

 was the arrival of A. V. Roe, who th« 

 preceding day, in an attempt to avoid 

 breaking faith with the management 

 of the meet started out in his triplane. 

 and was dashed 50 feet to the ground. 



That the meet, by bringing to New 

 England the star aviators of America 

 and England and encouraging the de- 

 velopment of interest in this new 

 branch of the world's progress, had 

 both aided the science of aeronautics 

 and added to the prosperity of Massa- 

 chusetts and Boston, was a prevailing i 

 aentlment in the speeches, in all of | 

 which unstinted praise to the skill and 

 daring of Claude Grahame-White was 



Draper Expresses Pleasure. 



Gov. Draper expressed his personal 

 pleasure which the feats of aviation 

 had aroused, and spoke of the benefits 

 which had come to the city and state 

 from the two weeks' series of flights. 

 Councilman Baliantyne. for the city, 

 gave commendation to the men who had 

 conceived the idea of the airship gath- 

 ering and carried it through to suc- 



Gen. Tavlor declared that he had 

 been led to offer the $10,000 prize by a 

 hope of stimulating a contest of the 

 air by inventors in New England, where 

 as long ago as the early days of Salem, 

 people were reputed to have solved 

 aerial navigation on broomsticks. He 

 praised the ingenuity of New England 

 inventors, and was sanguine of then- 

 success in the line of aerial develop- 

 ment. ■ •' 



At the end of his address, Graham- 

 White was presented first with a loving 

 cup and then with the $10,000 prize for 

 his flights to Boston Light. 



Adams D. Clatlin, after expressing the 

 pleasure of the Harvard Aeronautical 

 Society over the successful outcome of 

 the meet presided at the conferring of 

 the various prizes won by the English 

 aviator in the other contests. 



The events, which netted prizes for 

 Grahame-White and the money he re- 

 ceived for his showing in each were: 

 -peed, $3000; alti- 

 tude, $2000; duration, $1000; distance, 

 $H*iO; aetawav. $100; total, $12,101.). 



Charles J- Gil Men spoke in glowing 

 terms of the successful nature of the 

 meet and painted the benefits which 

 would be derived from the great gather- 

 ing at Atlantic. 



Aviators Fold Tents. 



Yesterday was dismantling day at the 

 Harvard aviation field at Atlantic. The 

 long tiers of bleachers which held ap- 

 plauding thousands while- the first 

 aerial tournament of New England was 

 in progress the past two weeks, looked 

 dreary when dawn broke. 



Mechanicians aided by squads of la- 

 borers were busy in the canvas han- j 

 gars preparing the craft of the ali- 

 tor shipment. i I 



Glenn H. Curtiss, une American cham- 

 pion, who won the international cup at 

 Rheims a year ago last August, has been 

 given a position on the United States 

 team of flyers. without being required to 

 qualify in the elimination events, which | 

 will shortly be run off for the purpose of] 

 selecting the most capable representa- 

 tive trio to defend Old Glory 



Wilbur Wright and Ralph 'Johnstone, 

 one of his two jockevs. will prepare for 

 the international meet to be held at 

 Belmont Par!?, N. T.. in October. Wal- 

 ter Brookins, the other Wright pupil, 

 went to Dayton O.. Thursday, to visit 

 the Wright factory and attend to ar- 

 rangements which the Wrights are re- 

 ported to be making concerning radical 

 innovations in the line of speed. 



