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   Reporters had no difficulty in talking with either Baldwin or myself, and we always gave them the truth as we saw it.  Most of the boys were very kind to us but others, who could not see any immediate future in flying, called attention to the many defects, the crude manner in which the machine was constructed and assembled, and they made open merriment of the pilot's method of controlling the ship.  The Los Angeles Times printed such an account with illustrations which, to say the least, was amusing.  It was one of those things which discourage and hurt, for the effore was made honestly to give to the public an idea of the future of aeronautics.  Clearly, the effort was not appreciated.

     Baldwin was in San Francisco at the time I received a call from Charles E. Van Loan of the Los Angeles Examiner. Charlie wanted to print a detailed account of the airship with photo* graphs. I gave him all the information he requested and he printed an account of an interview which read very much like a jockey describing his mount. And this hurt me also, as it indicated a complete lack of appreciation.
          A RACE BETWEEN AN AUTOMOBILE AND DIRIGIBLE 
     On Sunday, February 12, 1905 I raced an automobile. it came about in this way. Ralph Hamlin was a Franklin automobile distributor. He was engaged in business on south main street within a block of Chutes Park, Baldwin and I had roome over his garage. We became very well acquainted with Mr. Hamlin. He was keeping a Pope Toledo car in his garage for a customer. The owner, who came from Shreveport, La. claimed to be the inventor of the disc