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ARLINGTON'S AVIATION PROPHET 



(Photograph by the Litchfield Studio.) 



J. T. TROWBRIDGE, AUTHOR OF "DARIUS GREEN." 



"DARIUS GREEN'S" 

 AUTH0R_AT MEET 



Trowbridge, Who Wrote Poem 

 40 Years Ago on Flying, 

 Sees Real Machine. 



Among the thousands that have gone 

 t<? Atlantic to witness the flights, there j 

 has been no more Interested spectator 

 than John Townsend Trowbridge, au- 



His Flying Machine," which made the 



Mi- 



Arlington and went to Atlantic for the i 

 first peep at a machine which had been I 



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that would fly 



He was Introduced to 



some of the a 



viators, too. among them 



Grahame-WUit 

 formances hav 



>, whose brilliant per- 

 = been the sensation. The 



inclement 5V6& 



her of the early part of 



the week. prec 



iudefl the poet's visiting 



the field, but 

 the meet is ov 





When Mr. Trowbridge wrote about 

 TWIn = r.rsen 40 vm« asm no one of 



that time expt 





chine that wo 



lid fly. There were lots 



o- tha rpalm nf the hirrts 



TbTbalefu! results of experiments of 





ere always jooKea upon, 







wrote that poem that such a thing as 



a real flying machine was possible ill my 

 time. I never had the thought of ac- 



tually seeing one. While I never at- 

 ti-mnfed to build one. I have followed 





is always seemed to me 





st factor and the hardest 



such powerful motors, and motors so 



ii-hi -is thev ire now using at Atlantic. 

 Thev wV-re'-i revelation to me. I don't 





ai'\ prophecies as to rue 

 seems to me that the 





for carrying passengers 

 onlv a. matter of time." 



