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[[stamped]]FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE[[stamped]]

country flight in Canada when he flew from Vancouver up the Fraser River for 20 miles and return.  In April he flew from Texas and was at San Antonio on April 20th to 25th at an air meet and carried passengers.  Also flying at that event were Curtiss, Willard, Mars and Capt. Baldwin.  He rapidly developed a schedule of fancy flying capers of dips and dives that held his audiences spellbound.  In May he was in Georgia and Florida and on June 1at was flying at Mineola, Long Island, New York.

On June 13th he probably made the most outstanding flight of his fabulous flying career when he flew from New York to Philadelphia and return that day, winning the $10,000 prize offered by the New York Times and the Philadelphia Public Ledger to the first aviator to complete such a flight.  He was guided by a Pennsylvania Railroad train both ways.  Leaving Governors Island, New York at 7:37 A.M. he arrived in Philadelphia at 9:25, a distance of 85 miles.  As he arrived he was received by Gov. Stuart of Pennsylvania and the Mayor of Philadelphia.  Hamilton carried letters both ways to the Governors and Mayors of each State.  After a two-hour rest and a luncheon, he left Philadelphia at 11:43 A.M. but was forced to make a landing at South Amboy, New Jersey with missing spark plugs, and in landing broke the rudder.  Curtiss and a mechanic came from New York with a new one and Hamilton resumes his trip at 6:00 P.M., landing at Governors Island at 6:41 P.M., establishing a new distance record for one day's flying.  This flight has also been credited with possibly being the first inter-city airline.  During all of Hamilton's flying at this time he was using the same plane Curtiss used in winning the Gordon Bennett Race in France the year previous.

On June 19th to 26th Hamilton flew at Camp Dickerson, Nashville, Tennessee at a Military Tournament.  There he made two night flights with an acetylene tank and lamp attached to his plane, making the first flight in the evening, then another at 11:00 P.M. On June 18th and 19th he flew at Louisville, Kentucky with Curtiss and Mars.  July 2nd to 4th he thrilled his home town of New Britain, Connecticut with a great show of his most reckless stunts.  About this

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