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. Book of the Royal blue . alethor])eField, Baltimore, opened auspiciously onNovember 2nd, on as beautiful an Indiansummer day as ever was known in truthor fiction, and the flight of the man-birds awed the thousands of spectator^who went home to tell the other tens ofthousands to go and see something newunder the sun. Under the auspices of theAero Club of America were gathered some of the greatest aviators ofthe world, whose names were known inevery country. There were HubertLatham and Count Jacques dc Lesseps,of France ; James Radley, of England ; Drexel, of America, andMessrs. Charles F. Willard and EugeneEly. representing Glenn H. Curtiss. ofAmerica, and Archibald Hoxsey, repre- senting the Wright Brothers, of .-\ u--ed an .ti linette monoplane,which like a monster dragonflvand wliose symmetrical lines and gracefulflights were a continual joy to the multi-tudes. Count de Lesseps, Radley andDrexel all used monoplanes of theBleriiit t\pe ; Willard and Ely used the. M. IICUKKT LATHIM AND COMTI-: BEHTKAXI) DE LESSEPS Looking Over of thi-Top of 1 he Baltimore .fc Ohio HuildiiiK PR A CTICAL A T TION

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