A Project for Flying.

In Earnest at Last!

1871

Price, TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.




A Project for Flying.


In Earnest At Last.



The following appeared in one of our public journals of the date
indicated

_To the Editor of the Tribune._

SIR:--You rightly appreciate the interest with which the popular
mind regards all efforts in the direction of navigating the air.

One man of my acquaintance was deeply interested to know the
results of the California Experiment, because he alone, as he believed,
had questioned Nature and learned from her the great secret of aerial
navigation.