row Our Own Conresronoene Paris Sept. 5.
The flight across the Atlantic by the French airmen Costes amb Bellonte excited an immense amount! lof interest among their compatriots, On the night of their arrival in New York, the Place de l'Opera, tha boulevards and other central points were crowded with people waiting ta Know whether the attempt wax successful. ne scenes occurred in the large cities in the provinces, and it was clear that the publi regarded the flight as a national success.
While the wives and mothers the two herves are Leing over whelmed with lowers and compliments, someone with " financial ture mind has been calculating how much Costes will be required to con tribute to the revenue of his cwm country. Before he started, Costea said that if he were successful Tus expected to receive about. 50,000,042 frs, (£400,000) from his contract Costes, as a married man without children, [would have to pay 4,097,700 fey. under the salaries and wazes scho-Jdule and 18,595,666 fis, for generat income-tax," making a total 23,503,866 fre. (£19,0C0). This cal culation is, of course merely theorem tical. Costes will not return France with anything like 0,000,090
Most of the contracts are payable in America, and the U. S. Revenue Department can he relied upon collect its little bit of income.tax Jon whatever is paid to Costes beters the comes back. The French tax collectors will then get to work on what is left. Certain prizes, suck, as the Nobel, which come at the climax of @ career, are not taxed in France, but in the present case, we are officially told, there could he no such "exemption. Costes wilt receive promotion, which coste the Government nothing, in the army reserve ind the Legion of Honour, land $0 his companion,
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