. Book of the Royal blue . >, in the windows, in parks and gar-dens, in hospital wards and sickrooms,there never before was such a show. Sosimple was it, so free and popular, sogeneral and so generous that it may beeasilv concluded that Hubert Latham hadthe greatest number of admiring spec-tators for his exhibition that ever any oneman has had up to this time. Thev harl read and heard before ofmen flying in heavier-than-air machines:they had believed that it was possible formen to rise above the ground with canvaswings and powerful engines of alumi-mnn and steel, because the intelligence of
. Book of the Royal blue . >, in the windows, in parks and gar-dens, in hospital wards and sickrooms,there never before was such a show. Sosimple was it, so free and popular, sogeneral and so generous that it may beeasilv concluded that Hubert Latham hadthe greatest number of admiring spec-tators for his exhibition that ever any oneman has had up to this time. Thev harl read and heard before ofmen flying in heavier-than-air machines:they had believed that it was possible formen to rise above the ground with canvaswings and powerful engines of alumi-mnn and steel, because the intelligence ofthe day told them so; they knew it waspossible—now they saw it w itli their owneyes. They saw the w hirliug propeller at thenose of Lathams Antoinette, which sailedtliousands of feet above their heads, andthev knew that with some momentary de-rangement of machinery the gracefulbird with outstretched wings of frameand cmvas and metal engine W(iuld t^p-l)le (Inwu with fearful force and a human PR A CTICA L A 17,4 Tit >N. \r~ I 11,III ciNii: i; \i,i iMiiiiio. sekn fkiim i; \\uiiih; & onio building/ PR A CTICAL A VIA •OTes^mKoHM 3 LATHAM IN IIIE FACR OF A STUUM Phof^. by Lieut. fleiaM N. form would be crushed and niani^led andthe soul of the eagle would lie gdne froma framework of man and machine. Nowonder that cheers were choked andcrowds of hundreds of thousands gazedon the silent majesty of mans final do-minion over the air itself—to say nothingabdut the beasts of the field or the fowl-of the air; for here was a man of the the Scripture sayeth nothing ofdominion over him. The wonder, the danger, the noveltx nfit! It awed even the children on thehouse-tops and the streets and older ]ieo-ple talked in whispers; yet the coole>, sauciest of the wdiole throng inand about old Baltimore was the dare-devil sailing up there in the airshiji farabove the gazing multitude. The lighting of the scene was sun shone in a brill
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