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[[underline]] EXTRACT FROM PORTUGESE NEWSPAPER -- "0 SECULO", 28 MAY 1919. [[/underline]]

From the early hours of the afternoon, yesterday, when the American aeroplane, under the command of Captain Read, began to be expected in Lisbon, becoming the great event and subject of all conversation, the shriek of the sirens which would mark the approach to Lisbon of the interesting aviators, was awaited feverishly, and each moment after 4.00 p.m. the compact crowd of people converged towards the American vessels anchored in the river, every two hours notices arrived, communicating the advance of the planes, coming successively from the various stations in the Atlantic, an announcing a favorable wind and a speed of 85 miles an hour, and the certainty of the arrival about 9.00 o'clock.

The news that the American hydro-aeroplane would arrive yesterday in the Tagus was spread rapidly throughout the city, and about noon the sirens and whistles of the America vessels anchored in front of Black Horse Square, accompanied by various Portuguese merchant vessels, war vessels, and river ferries, united to disturb air with their alarming sounds. Then, a good multitude proceeded to the banks of the river, and the crowd was particularly thick in Black Horse Square, where they observed the maneuvers of the vessels. The American vessels were full dressed, with the American Flag at the top-mast, and our vessels followed the example, flying at the topmast the Red and Green flag. At the high points of the city, from where the river could be seen, many people watched the horizon, and a petty officer from one of the American vessels came on shore near the statue in Black Horse Square, with a large blackboard where he made a table showing the various stations and hours of arrival, in Portugese. Naturally, these numbers were written as they became known, and for this purpose, a signalman was placed on the wall and afterwards mounted to the top fo the guard house nearby, from which position he exchanged signals by means of flags, with the Rochester. The blackboard was placed at the base of the monument, looking towards the river, under the medallion of the Marquis of Pombal. In front of this improvised bulletin board, a great crowd collected, to which the sailor, who spoke in Portugese, announced from time to time through a megaphone, the advance of the American hydro-aeroplane, and that it would arrive at Lisbon between 7 and 9 o'clock. At 7.00 o'clock, in view of these notices, the crowd was enormous, and shortly after without exaggeration, those who had remained at home, or who were in positions not dominating the river, could be counted. The Black Horse Square was more crowded than on the occasion of the fire in the Post Office. At 6.30 the sirens and whistles of the vessels again burst forth, and this was repeated an hour and a half later. Meanwhile, the crowd continued waiting along the margins of the river and at the high points on roofs of houses, from which the river could be seen. The esplanade of the St.George Castle was overflowing with people, and never has the St.Catherine Hill seen such a crowd, not even during the nights of fireworks celebrations. The space reserved for the American aeroplane

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