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Flatiron Building.  I descended to 500 feet and circled around the building and started back again intending to land in Central Park.  It would have been impossible to get back into the lot again because of the high buildings which surrounded it on three sides.  At about 52nd Street the motor stopped.  Fortunately, the wind helped me to make the balance of the trip into Central Parke where we landed safely in a tree.  
    The crowd rushed to help and the police found it necessary to hit some of the more curious on the head to make them understand.  We finally walked into the ship back to the lot.  The police notified us that we were not to land there again as the people had trampled shrubbery and flower beds.  They threatened that if we did we would be arrested on charge of destruction.of public property.  As it was impossible to find another place to land, I informed MR. Eldridge.  I heard nothing further from the police.

        SECOND FLIGHT FOR THE AMERICAN
    I had had so much motor trouble that further flights seemed to be impossible.  A young man named Bert Murphy told me he could make the motor run if I would give him a chance.  We removed the pistons and turned them down on a lathe to give seven thousandths of an inch more clearance.  We then assembled the motor again.  It seemed to run well so we decided to attempt to make a second trip.  
    Again, starting down Broadway and gaining an altitude of 1,000 feet with the motor running nobly, I felt that we would succeed this time without futher trouble.  When the ship gave a lurch passing from one strata to another I fell off of the frame without being able to grasp anything.  My right toe caught in the cross wires.  I quickly scrambled up again, got in posi-