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motor stopped. Hastily inspecting the motor, I saw that one of the wires on the spark coil had broken off. George Duesler, who was with me, cleaned the end of the wire and fastened it in place and then started the motor again. We then started back and steered the ship over the steel plants to give the boys at work an opportunity to see the machine. We made a second trip late in the afternoon which fulfilled the terms of the contract.

A contract had been made with the State Fair at Phoenix, Arizona and the outfit was shipped by express. We sent home everything not absolutely necessary. The materials for making gas were purchased at Los Angeles, the acid being shipped in steel drums, and the iron fillings shipped in burlap bags to avoid loss. The iron cost $24.00 and the freight bill was $127.00. Personally, I did not expect to find much of a crowd as distances were so great that it would seem to be unreasonable to expect people to travel to attend an annual fair. But I was greatly mistaken. We did have a big crowd and a great variety of nationalities. There were people from all parts of the world who had settled in the desert country. There were Mexicans and several tribes of American Indians, some of them well read and intelligent people. My stay in Phoenix was very pleasant. 

DICK FERRIS, ANOTHER GREAT PROMOTER

We then shipped to Los Angeles where I had a contract for ten weeks at Chutes Park, the place where I had first flown in Los Angeles in 1904. Here I met another great promoter, the Honorable Dick Ferris, who, seeing possibilities in the airship for personal publicity for himself, was constantly proposing that I make some extraordinary flight from which there could be no possible revenue. He planned a flight over the city at night.