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CABLE ADDRESS
"INTERATORS"
CODES: "A.B.C.. 4th Edition"
"LIEBER's"
"WESTERN UNION"
THE LARGEST and SAFEST FLYING FIELD IN THE WORLD"
THE MOISANT FIELD
Hempstead Plains. L.I.

The MOISANT AVIATION SCHOOL incorporated
U.S. Rubber Co. Building - Broadway & 58th St.
New York, N.Y.

SOME PROMINENT GRADUATES:
MISS MATHILDE MOISANT
MISS HARRIET QUIMBY
HAROLD KANTNER
J. HECTOR WORDEN
CLARENCE DE GIERS
MORTIMER F. BATES
S. S. JERWAN
JESSE SELIGMAN
CAPT. G. W. MACKAY
F. E. DE MURIAS
FRANCISCO ALVAREZ
A. BOLOGNESI
H. D. W. REICHERT

Telephone {9141 9142} Columbus

Garden City, L. Island, 
November 11, 1912.

Honorable Woodrow Wilson,
President-elect of the U. S.

Dear Sir:
Captain Horacio Ruiz of the Mexican Army, who was recently graduated from our school at Mineola, L. I., will have the unique honor of delivering this aerial letter addressed to your excellency.

Permit us to avail ourselves of this opportunity to extend our warmest congratulations upon your recent [[?]]unparalleled victory at the polls, a victory fraught with nation-wide significance for the American people whose hopes are hanging breathlessly upon your safe and sound governmental principles and policies.

It is a sad spectacle that the United States ranking as it does among the most powerful nations of the world would display so small a part in aviation, and we earnestly hope that upon your seizing of the reins of government on the fourth of March next, you will urge upon Congress the necessity of an appropriation for an aerial fleet, in keeping with the standing and dignity of this country in so vital a matter.

With its battleships out of sight of Sandy Hook, the enemy could easily release sufficient aeroplanes to play havoc with the city of new York.

The people of the United Stites little realize the necessity of an adequate aerial corps in our Army and Navy, so that we may be able to cope with other nations in this respect.

I remain, Dear Sir,
Yours respectfully,
S.S. Jerwan
Chief Pilot.

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