Die Brüder Wright, eine Studie über die Entwicklung der Flugmaschine von Lilienthal bis Wright

Anhang: Korrespondenz von A. Hildebrandt.

Illustration: Brief von A. Hildebrandt an Bischof Wright; 21. April 1909

A. Hildebrandt

Hauptmann a.D.

Berlin W. 30

Martin Luther-Straße 10.

Berlin W. 30, den 21. April 1909

Mr.

Bishop Wright, Esqu.

Dayton (Ohio).

Dear Sir,

Relating to the acquaintance which to make of you I had the

Honour at the end of October in 1907 during my visit at Dayton

I beg to adress to you with a demand to day. I am going to write

a book about your celebrated sons. I should be very thankful to

you for willing send me some material. I should like to have any

dates of the youth of your sons, of the first experiences and also

of you and the lated Madame Wright; perhaps do you write me

also of your feeling, having had during the bold experiences of

your sons. If You could let me have portraits of you and the lated

Madame Wright, of your children and your house at Dayton, I

should very obliged to you. Please, will you have then the

kindness, to get reproduce such pictures an my account and to

send me the wished materiel as soon as possible, as I have to

make haste, for being the book ready still before the visit of your

sonns in Germany.

Hoping, that you will accomplish my wishes and thanking

you beforehand, I remain, Dear Sir,

Yours very most obedient

[Signature: Capt. A. Hildebrandt.]

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A. Hildebrandt

Hauptmann a. D.

Berlin W. 30

Martin Luther-Straße 10.

Berlin W. 30. den 22. Mai 1909.

Bishop Milton Wright, Esquire,

Dayton (Ohio)

Dear Sir,

With best thanks I confirm you the receipt of your kind letter

of the 11th inst. Your family-history has interested me very

much. I shall make use of them soon. But about something I am

not clear. You write: “This brings us in line with general United

States Grant and Grover-Cleveland.” I do not know, if you mean

two persons, the same general Grant and general Grover from

Cleveland? Also I thank you for your photograph. It is of

moment to me, also to have still photographs of the late Madame

Wright and her father, Mr. John Koerner, whom Germany the

native has been of. I should like to get still other photographs of

your children Wilbur and Orville, presenting them in young

years and also of Miss Katherine and if you have still a

photograph presenting your whole family joined. At last you

would oblige me much for sending me pictures also of your

present house, the flight-square near Dayton and the whole sight

of Dayton. As being immodest of me, to pronounce so many

wishes to you, I propose and beg you, to give order to anybody,

to procure me all the wished photographs and pictures on my

account. With great interest I am awaiting your further

informations, promised me in your letter, about the youth of

your sons and the matter, how these are gotten to the intention to

make experiences with a flying mashine. [Hand-written note: I

cannot found(?) Schleits in Saxony?]

Thanking you once more for the material, which to send me,

you have had the kindness, I remain, Dear Sir,

Yours most obedient

[Signature: Hildebrandt]

[Hand-written note: PS. The pictures are not ready, I have to

have them copied. M.W.]

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Dayton, Ohio, June 5, 1909.

Capt. A. Hildebrant,

Berlin, Germany.

Dear Sir:

You did not quite understand my letter. It was General

Ulysses S. Grant that I wrote of, and President Grover

Cleveland, of whom I spoke. They were two presidents of our

country, decended like myself from John Porter of Windsor

(16_37) from whom I am also descended. Hence they are distant

cousins of ours, and of each other.

My wife’s father was a regular German in his looks. He was

born six miles west of Scleitz in Saxony, the southwest part, as

you will see on any large map of Saxony. The family, of whom

we never had any group picture, is as follows:

Milton Wright, born November 17, 1828, in Rush County,

Indiana.

Susan Catharine (Koerner) Wright, born near Hillsboro,

Virginia, April 30, 1831.

Reuchlin Wright, born in Grant County, Indiana, March 17,

1861.

Lorin Wright, born in Fayette County, Indiana, November 18,

1862.

(These two older brothers are still living, are married, and

have lovely children—Reuchlin three, Lorin four, Reuchlin’s

oldest married).

Wilbur Wright, born, in Henry county, Indiana, April 16, 1867.

Otis Wright and Ida Wright (twins) born April 24, 1870, in

Dayton, Ohio.

(Without sickness or pain, they died at 13 and 18 days of age).

Orville Wright, born August 19, in Dayton, Ohio, 1871.

Katharine Wright, born in Dayton, Ohio, August 19, 1874.

They were all good children. And they are all of

unimpeachable morals yet. Reuchlin is a deacon on the

Congregational Church, in Tonganoxie, Kan. They are about

equal in intellect, the others having had better education than the

inventors. Katharine graduated in the Classical Course in

Oberlin College, and teaches in Dayton High School. I am a

traveling minister in the United Brethren in Christ, served

several years as pastor, ten as presiding elder, eight as editor of

our Church paper, and twenty-four as bishop. As bishop and

editor I was elected by General Conference every four years,

those offices being filled every four years by a ballot election. In

filling my duties, I have visited all the states west of the River,

and territories; and all states east of the Mississipi, except the six

New England states and five others. In all I have traveled by rail,

over two hundred thousand miles. My change of residence every

two years must account for my three older children being born

in three different counties in Indiana. Mrs. Wright, the sweetest

spirit earth ever knew, died twenty years ago, in Dayton, July 4,

1889. From that on I raised the children, left to my care. All the

children sprang to help their mother, but Wilbur cared for her,

prolonged her life, and I gave him five hundred dollars for his

incomparable care for her. [Hand-written note: He had no

promise of reward.]

Their first interest in the art of flying, they date back to about

the year 1879, when I brought home to them a Heliocoptere, a

toy which could fly. Later on they began to watch Lilienthal, and

followed him to his death, in the art of gliding. Their first active

work began in the year 1900, when as a vacation, they built a

gliding machine on the coast of North Carolina, and each year in

the fall of the year, spent a few weeks there till in 1903, they

attached a gasoline motor to it and flew, December 17th, four

short flights. They flew against the wind and made at the longest

only about a half mile, counting the velocity of the wind. In

actual measurment considerably less than a half mile. The place

of flight was on the sandy plain near Kill Devil Mills, in Dare

County, four miles from Kitty Hawk in Cerrituck County. The

following two summers and falls, they experimented at

Simson’s(?) Station (a mere stopping place, on the Dayton and

Springfield traction railroad, a perfectly level meadow ground)

where they made a few miles flight, but in 1905, September,

they flew as much as twenty-four miles, at one flight. They flew

no more for part of two years, but began negotiations for the sale

of their invention. In 1908, they engaged to a Company in

France, to sell their rights, and sold to the United states

government a single machine at twenty-five thousand dollars,

they in each case, to perform certain exploits with the machine.

Time crowding on them to meet engagements, they separated in

June 1908, Wilbur going to France, and Orville remaining to

complete at Ft. Myer (near Washington) the United States

contract. Of Wilbur’s scalding his arm in regulating his machine,

and his successful trial, before his arm was well, all have read.

But Orville having his machine ready at Ft. Myer, went far

ahead of Wilbur, but an easily avoided defect in his machine,

having under strain caused friction between the propeller of his

machine and a wire, and—far worst of all broke the

management of the tail of his machine, a most important part—

he was on a machine in the air over one hundred feet high, with

his control of the machine rendered useless, and after sinking to

about seventy-five feet, his machine descended vertically, to the

death of Lieutenant Selfridge, two hours later, and a tremendous

jolt to himself and the breaking of a thigh bone (left leg, one

third way down toward the knee) which confined him in the

hospital for several weeks, and from which he will entirely

recover. But Wilbur learning of Orvilles disaster, and reproached

as far behind him, rose to the situation, and in a few days, was

ahead of anything Orville had done, to the great joy of his

brother. The rest you know. Wilbur in France and Rome earned

his conracts, and came home with Orville and their Sister

Katharine, and they were hailed at the depot of his city, with the

ringing of bells, the firing of cannon, and by over a thousand

people, and the same at home, at the noon hour, and at night

more than ten thousand people came out as old friends and

neighbors to see them, the most splendid illumination of the

street, and decoration of the buildings for three squares, being

the order of the occasion. The city brought them on their arrival,

home in a train of coaches, thier carriage being drawn with four

white horses, in which rode with them their father and two

favorite grandchildren, Leontine and Horace Wright.

The boys were natural workmen in wood or metal. Their

father’s family, their mother’s family (and the mother herself)

were inventive and ingenius. The father at eighteen years

invented a type-writer, having never heard. It is useless to

develop inheritance in their invention.

The city (Dayton) has decreed them two days (Jne 17 and 18),

on which, besides innumerable ceremonies, they will be given

three gold medals; One voted by the nation, one by the State,

and another by the City.

Yours truly,

[Signature: Milton Wright]

Illustration: Brief von A. Hildebrandt an Bischof Wright; 28. Juni 1909

A. Hildebrandt

Hauptmann a.D.

Berlin W. 30

Martin-Luther-Straße 10.

Berlin W. 30, den 28. Huni 1909.

Bishop

Milton Wright, Esquire,

Dayton (Ohio).

Dear Sir,

For the two letters, you had the kindness to send me in last time,

be thanked very much. With great interess I am awaiting the

pictures, which you advised me of. I shall try now, to discover

the native place of Mr. John G. Koerner, the father of the late

Madame Wright.

Now still once more many thanks for the pains, you have had!

I am with great estime

ever Yours very truly

[Signature: A. Hildebrandt.]

Illustration: Brief von A. Hildebrandt an Bischof Wright; 9. Juli 1909

Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger

Redaktion.

Berlin SW 68,1

Zimmerstrasse 37-41.

9. Juli 1909

Dear Sir,

I wired to you: “Bishop Wright, Dayton. Book must be stamped.

Please send photographs.”

The biography of your sons shall be published of possible as

book already in 14 days. Therefore I should lik to recives

instantly the photographs requested from you. If it were not

possible to you to send me all photographs by retourn of mail,

please send later the rest, for. I should use the other pictures for

german papers.

I thank you for your endeavaurs and hope, shortly to see in

Berlin your souns and Mis Katherine.

With best regards

yours

[Signature: gez. Captain Hildebrandt]

Illustration: Brief von A. Hildebrandt an Bischof Wright; 18. Juli 1909

A. Hildebrandt

Hauptmann a.D.

Berlin W. 30

Martin-Luther-Straße 10.

Berlin W. 30, den 18. Juli 1909.

Bishop Milton Wright, Esquire,

Dayton (Ohio).

Dear Sir!

With many thanks I confirm you the receipt of the two

pictures and your letter of the 3rd inst., by which you have made

me great pleasure. I shall make use of the pictures as soon as

possible.

Thanking you once more for your kindness and being always

at your service, I remain, Dear Sir

ever Yours truly

[Signature: A. Hildebrandt.]

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