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where in the neighborhood of 11 in the morning, the hour of the start of the Globe's $10,000 interstate cross-country aeroplane race. From 11 to 12 o'clock practically everyone in the big office building, who could do so, had managed to reach the roofs to view the race.

Viewed from the rooftops of the big office buildings, the race was a thrilling one for the spectators. The contestants could be seen almost as soon as they left the aerodrome at Squantum and could be viewed until after they had passed beyond the Middlesex Fells at Winchester, where the fast dying machines melted into the clouds and were lost to view. 

It was with great anxiety that the spectators saw the second monoplane and then the first biplane meet with trouble and begin to descend. From the rooftops in BOston, with the aid of powerful glasses, it could be seen that both the aviators had come down in the neighborhood of the old Mystic racetrack.
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Ovington Traveling at Great Speed.
Just before 11 o'clock people began to appear on the tops of the buildings in Boston and from there it could be seen that many others [[? ?dered]]on points of vantage on the [[?]] hills of Chelsea, Middlesex Fells [[and?]] the Blue Hills.

For 15 minutes there was a wait for those on the tall buildings, before pointing [[? ? ? ?]]one at least of those on these [[?]] could discern the first of the contestants on the way down from the [[Johnson?]] field toward Boston.

At 11:17, it could be seen that it was a monoplane that was coming, steadily rising to get above the treacherous air currents, and approaching at express train speed.

Soon, to those familiar with the aviators and their machines, it could be seen that the oncoming birdman was Ovington, and that he was bucking the steady headwind at tremendous speed. He rode easily and evenly and seemingly was having little trouble to keep his craft steady, while the way his airship flew past the fluffy white clouds above him showed the speed he was making.

He was apparently flying at an elevation of [[1000 ?]] feet as he passed over the harbor and headed up the Mystic river toward the Fells and Winchester. The shrieking of the steamboat and factory whistles at the harbor front could be distinctly heard to those on the rooftops in the city proper as the aviator was seen making toward the Mystic river.

Long before he had reached that point, or to be more exact, at 11:20 o'clock, the second monoplane could be seen coming from Squantum. This second contestant, who proved to be Stone, was flying at a very much lower altitude than did Ovington, and to those watching the flights from the Boston buildings, teh second machine did not seem to be making anything like the speed attained by the first.

This second monoplane went [[?]] the east of the course of [[the other?]] contestant and at the lower elevation he was traveling seemed to be greatly troubled by the wind, which rocked his craft so that every squall it encountered could be noted by the tilting of the planes and the dipping of the craft.
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Stone, and Then Atwood Descended.
The wind on the tops of the office buildings freshened considerably as Stone was passing over East Boston, and from that on the aviator seemed to be much troubled by the currents he found at the low elevation he was traveling. He, too, was seen to turn up the course of the Mystic river and when a short distance up the stream was seen to waver and finally to make an abrupt descent.

This was about 11:30 o'clock.

That left but one of the monoplanes in the contest.

At 11:37 the first of the biplanes could be seen coming north from Squantum. This was seen gradually rising and following the course of the two monoplanes, but traveling at a very low elevation as compared with the other aviators.

It was Harry Atwood, from whom so much had been expected because of his marvelous flights across country recently. Atwood was not making anything like the speed of the two preceding flyers. He followed more nearly the course of the harbor than did the others, and at the low elevation he selected his machine was buffeted considerably by the wind, so that the rise and swing of his planes and the constant tilting of his machine showed plainly the trouble he was having in maintaining the [[?]]

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What an atmospheric description of the local Boston area at this date! Seems like a rescan of other sections compared to pages before