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stage to help the Fays with their experiments. But on other evenings, when he is on the steps, he bows gracefully to the plaudits of the rubber wagon. It's very annoying."

At this point somebody who didn't live in the block sought to show the objectors how illogical it was to blame Dr. Thomas because somebody else threw the limelight upon him. The neighbors couldn't see it.

"And there's his automobile," broke in another man who lives across the street at 167. "The doctor used to have a habit of having his car pull up in front of his house in the morning and keeping it on exhibition there all day. Then when friends of Mrs. Brown drove up to call on her they couldn't get near her stone carriage step because the automobile was always near that. But one day there was a kick to the police and after that Dr. Thomas discontinued the habit of keeping the machine out front all day. I believe there is a law now that forbids anyone to turn the street into a garage when there is no driver seated in the car, and ---

"And I just want to say," spoke up the man who lives at 171, "that I'm sick and tired of people coming to our door to ask for a loaf of Dr. Thomas's bread. When the maid is on the third floor--"

"People who live on the doctor's side of the street," continued an objector who lives in the home of C. C. Murphy, "will have to put up signs, 'Dr. Thomas does no [[sic]] live here,' if the bread line continues to ring the wrong doorbell as they have been doing. Heaven knows, business is crowding in on us fast enough without having a bread line right on our quiet street."

In answer to questions at this point, it was learned that the bread line, next to the wind wagon experiments, causes the most heartfelt anguish among the neighbors. All the kickers seemed to ignore the fact that the doctor cannot be blamed if anxious seekers for his bread start to ring doorbells before they reach his house. The bread in question is a secret preparation of the doctor's which, taken internally, is advertised to cure a disease commonly known as "dyspepsy," although it is often referred to as by the vulgar as stomach ache.

The talkfest finally worked up to the wind wagon experiments out in front of the doctor's house like a thunder cloud coming west from Jersey. The wind wagon trials and the accompanying crowds fo noisy curiosity seekers might be grouped as the principal winter kick. When some one remarked that the doctor was working only in the interest of science the male members of the talkfest spoke in short, sharp sentences and tugged at their collars for air. 

They seemed to lack all interest in science. Some even intimated that Dr. Thomas selected Broadway at Seventy-second street for the wind wagon stunts merely to draw attention. When these people were told ton good authority that Dr. Thomas has been known as a matter of fact to object very strongly to much of the publicity he has received of late in many of the newspapers the talkfest merely shook its head incredulously. 

The news that the neighbors were kicking about various things seemed to surprise Dr. Thomas very much when told about it. He said he did not mix his own bread in the house, as some had asserted, but that it was made elsewhere. Upon consideration, he decided not to go into the matter further. Nothing definite was decided at yesterday's kicks and from present appearances he is as firmly anchored in the block as he is in the Aero club.

Herald New York
11 Jan 1907

[[cut off]] NDON PLEASED WITH 'NELLY NEIL'
Caryll's Tunes and Edna May's Clever Acting Are Alike Praised.
[[cut off]] UATIONS ARE TELLING
Critic Declares It Is as Catchy as "The Belle of New York," but Less Vulgar.

[SPECIAL CABLE TO THE HERALD]
[[cut off]] HERALD'S European edition publishes [[cut off]] folling from its correspondent--

[[cut off]]ndon, Friday--"Nelly Neil," a new [[cut off]] play, was produced by Charles [[cut off]] man at the Aldwych Theatre last [[cut off]] ng. The aythor is C. M. S. McLellan [[cut off]] the composer Ivan Caryll. Miss Edna [[cut off]] takes the title role.

The He[[cut off]] the follow [[cut off]]

Comte [[cut off]] very successful [[cut off]] Sartrouville [[cut off]] height of 250 metres and effecting landings without exterieur aid. The Comte [[cut off]] Vaulx yesterday exhibited his apparatus to a party of military experts.

No ascent was made, but the balloon was examined in detail as it lay suspended in its huge shed. The visitors displayed the keenest interest in the structure, and questioned the Comte de La Vaulx closely on teh working of the various parts. They expressed approval of the form of the balloon and the manner in which the mechanical parts had been distributed.

M. Juillot, an engineer, interviewed by the Herald correspondent, stated that the model appeared to him to be strikingly adapted for the use of men wishing to take up steerable balloons as a sport. He believed the same design on a larger scale, permitting the driver to be assisted by a mechanic who would devote himself exclusively to the motor, would prove successful from all points of view.

Before leaving the visitors were offered champagne, and they drank to the health of Comte Henry de La Vaulx and his new contribution to the science of aerial navigation. The motor and propeller were then set going, and an opportunity was thus given of remarking the enormous grip on the air obtained by the two bladed screw revolving at nine hundred revolutions a minute.

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