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The airship was watched as long as it could be seen, and for quite half an hour afterward the patients were so interested in talking about what they had seen that they had no time to think of their aches and pains.  The improvements in the cases of some of them seems to have endured.  

In view of the evident affect wrought by the appearance of one airship over the hospital it is thought that a regular airship regiment would accomplish wonders."

Yes, I was now a famous aeronaut.  I had been the first in the United States to successfully fly a dirigible.  But my only thought was to do it again.  To perfect the next flight.  To return the ship to the starting point.  I, after a good night's sleep, returned to work and began readying the dirigible for the next flight.  This came two days later.  

Record of flight made by the "Arrow" from the ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC, October 26, 1904:

Starting point:  Aeronautic Concourse, World's Fair grounds.  
Finish:  near Chartrand School, St. Clair, County, Illinois, 
three miles south of East St. Louis and three and 
one half miles east of Mississippi River. 

Distance in bee line from start to finish:  eleven miles. 
Distance traversed by airship approximately:  fifteen miles.
Time of start:  1:52 PM Tuesday, October 25, 1904. 
Time of finish:  3:23 PM. 
Length of time of flight:  one hour and thirty-one minutes. 
Average rate of speed:  10 miles hourly.
Airship:  The California Arrow, invented by Capt. Thomas S. Baldwin.