Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — How Aviators Rose To Fame [ARTICLE]

How Aviators Rose To Fame

Hubert Latham Waa a Street Car Con. diietor Before Flying Career — Some Others. Hubert Latham began his career as • consumptive Street car conductor, doomed by the doctors. But either the doctors were wrong or flying is conducive to health, for Hubert Latham is still alive a}d well, having flown more miles ibid won more prize

money than any other aviator In the world. The Wright brothers ran a bicycle shop In a small American city when they first began ter realize the possibilities of the developing motor "Car power plant as a means to the solution of the aerial problem. They made themselves the first men in the world to get off the ground with a man-carrying power-driven machine

capable of continued flight For the last few years the Wright brothers?one of whom recently died, not in th* air, but where most men die In bedhave been regarded among the world’! foremost manufacturers of flying m» chines, and the property of the firm Is reputed to be worth close to a million dollars. — ■ . v» Curtiss was a motorcycle manufacturer until he achieved fame and fortune by the sdr route. Henry Farman was a bicycle racer until the sirens of the air allured him