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connected [cut off] The machine is propelled on [cut off] wheels over the ground by this means. Later he expects to attach aeroplane surfaces to the mechanism, so as to make the machine fly and be absolutely dirigible at the same time. The steering of the new combination of automobile and flying machine is done from the rear because the propeller when put at a certain angle will lift the front wheel from the ground Times New York 5 Jan 1907 BIG BALLOON FOR U.S. ARMY. Largest Ever Constructed in America--To be Used at Fort Omaha The largest contract for a Government balloon ever awarded in this country was signed yesterday by Leo Stevens, the aeronaut and balloon builder, who is also a candidate for the American team in the coming international race on Oct. 19 from St. Louis. The Government already owns several small balloons, but for the last two months arrangements have been made for conducting balloon investigations on a larger scale than has ever been attempted before. The balloon that Stevens is to build will be the largest he has ever constructed, being of 75,000 cubic feet capacity and when finished it will be the biggest balloon in America. It is to be finished in ninety days and will be shipped at once to Fort Omaha, Neb., where a number of experiments to determine the utility of ballooning for military purposes will be conducted. The Aero Club of America hopes to be able to secure the balloon as a competitor for the America team, but if this should not be feasible it will probably be taken to St. Louis during the race for a special ascension under the direction of Government officers. It is quite likely that the balloon will also be seen in the aeronautical congress at the Jamestown Exposition, in which the Government has already lent to its aid. An effor is being made by the St. Louis committee in charge of the local plans for the international competition to secure permission for the presence of the Signal Corps of the United States Army at Jefferson Barracks during the big event. Lieut. Lahm, the winner of the Gordon-Bennett balloon trophy in the first race last Fall is still in France Investigation, on behalf of the army, the progress of ballooning abroad and particularly the French experiments for military purposes. He is expected to return early in the Spring and as he will be selected as one of the American defenders for the cup, it is barely possible that the new Government balloon may be placed at his disposal for the race. His father, Frank P. Lahm, will sail for Europe next week as a commissioner from the Aero Club of America to make final arrangements with the foreign clubs for the transportation of their balloons to this country for the race, and he will also extend invitations to a number of well-known aeronauts to visit the Jamestown Exposition and take part in the competitions that are now being arranged for the aeronautical meeting. [cutoff] K to the water on [cutoff] [cutoff] d with it he slashed [cutoff] black form that [cutoff] in their own tongue [cutoff] wine! Get back, an[cutoff] you drown my clerk [cutoff] My last clerk died [cutoff]ve got me no other [cutoff] don't lose this on[cutoff] [cutoff] any terrors to th[cutoff] [cutoff]w. It was as muc[cutoff]anything else tha[cutoff] their passenger t[cutoff] [cutoff]des, how were the [cutoff] [cutoff]ot swim as well a[cutoff] [cutoff]ut as well as a sea [cutoff] were not abov[cutoff] their services. [cutoff] a white pther o[cutoff]e. [cutoff] cash, suppose w[cutoff] [cutoff]ith my clerk, an[cutoff] ox of gin. Hurr[cutoff] a shark will cho[cutoff] [cutoff]d many pairs o[cutoff] [cutoff]rd. The old ma[cutoff]by pyjamas,an[cutoff] [[?]]he broken wate[cutoff] "It's all very we[cutoff] [cutoff]d out letters tha [cutoff]ble its business, [cutoff]ry don't send m[cutoff] [cutoff]in one piece, ho[cutoff] [cutoff] is going to buc[cutoff] [cutoff] they've got him chap, too. Well [cutoff]sh, I'm thinking [cutoff]r seem to stan[cutoff] [cutoff]g. It will be a [cutoff]pegs out withi[cutoff] [cutoff]t a case of gi[cutoff] [cutoff]edraggled Carte[cutoff] presently by the[cutoff][cutoff]p by the heels[cutoff] [cutoff] Atlantic drai[cutoff] [[?]], with engines [[?]] [[?]], [[?]] [[?]] [cutoff]ing firemen on the top of the fiddley, slewing ventilators to catch a flavor of the breeze. "They've seen us, sir, at the factory," said Mr. Balgarnie. "All the boys are out working cargo, and there's old Swizzle-Stick Smith sucking his eternal pipe and hustling them with a chiquot. I can catch the glint of his eyeglass. Wonder how long that man's been out on the coast? Must be a matter of twenty years now by all accounts since he had his last run home. He's found the right kind of ju-ju to dodge fever-palaver, anyhow. They say's he's a lazy old beach comber as a general thing, but he's up bright and early this morning." "Wouldn't you rouse out in a hurry if you only saw a Christian steamboat once in three months at the oftenest? I told the second mate to make fast the whistle string to the bridge rail when he judged he was five miles off the sinner's beach, and I guess Swizzle-Stick Smith jumped slap through his mosquito bar at the first toot. See those pyjamas he's wearing? he bought them at the forecastle shop aboard here just six months ago." "Blue, with a pink stripe, so they are. This is a rare good glass of yours, sir. Yes, I remember Chips telling me. Three pairs he got at nine bob a pair. Wouldn't pay a sixpence more. And tried to get a bottle of Eno thrown in as a make-weight. Phew! but this day's going to be a rightailed scorcher. Look at the moist clearing away from those hills at the back already." Capt. Image stuffed a pipe and lit it. "it's a murdering bad beach today," he repeated. "Always is when there's a few tons of cargo waiting for me to get commission on." The purser touched no cargo commission and so had but small sympathy for cargo gathering. "I see old Swizzle-Stick's making his boys run down the oil casks into the surf. They'll never swim them through. Rather a pity, isn't it, sir, to stay on here and let them try? They're bound to get half of them stove at the very least." "That's his palaver. I missed calling here last round. 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