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couple of his men to spin the propellors. 

In almost nothing flat they were making sixteen ^[[1000]] hundred revolutions a minute and I never beheld such wold confusion. The air was litterly filled with men's hats, woman's hats, feathers off those hats ^[[O]] dust, and men, women and chidren ^[[all]] frantically trying to get out of one large double door at one and the same time. After this experience, there were none in all the crowd, but that knew exactly what made an airplane go.

On Thursday morning we were for the third consecutior timer, ready to resume. 
The weather was cold and dismal when we got away. Col landed at Aldine, Ind., because he was cold, and after getting his cream and some heat he was obliged to make four attempts before he could get into the air again.

The plane and train reached Hammond Ind. together, about six PM oct 5th.
The Erie used the Chicago v Western Indiana RR for its entrance into Chicago from Hammond, so this was the "End of the Road" so far as I was concerned.