. Book of the Royal blue . T fOLLECJE IAKK, MD. ^ernment Aero Park Mr. Wright made history when he flewfrom Governors Island up the HudsonRiver and around the warships at SpuytenDuyvil and back again, a distance of twentymiles. Mr. Wright has now made morehistory by flying his machine along the lineof the first railroad and the first is over eighty-one years since the railroadwas established, and over sixty-five yearssince the first telegraph message was sentbetween Baltimore and Washington. Theaeroplane is in its infancy and it is safe topredict that there will be greater strides

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. Book of the Royal blue . T fOLLECJE IAKK, MD. ^ernment Aero Park Mr. Wright made history when he flewfrom Governors Island up the HudsonRiver and around the warships at SpuytenDuyvil and back again, a distance of twentymiles. Mr. Wright has now made morehistory by flying his machine along the lineof the first railroad and the first is over eighty-one years since the railroadwas established, and over sixty-five yearssince the first telegraph message was sentbetween Baltimore and Washington. Theaeroplane is in its infancy and it is safe topredict that there will be greater strides inthe evolution of this machine than therewere in the perfection of either railroad ortelegraph. Mr. Wrights obligations to the Govern-ment are finished; his machine met the requirements and was accepted, and hisinstructions to the lieutenants selected bythe Government ended when those gentle-men were able to manipulate the machinefor themselves. In the two or three weeks that Mr. Wrightwas instructing his pupils, ascensi

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