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At the University of Pennsylvania they were detained hours for speeches in the grounds. At Baltimore they were received by Cardinal Gibbons in his mansion, an extraordinary courtesy, as they were not Catholics. The "hikers" reached Hyattsville, four miles from Washington, the evening of February 27 and spent the night there.
Two hours later I reached Mount Vernon and was surprised, as I left the train, to find General Wood himself waiting on the platform. "You got back quickly, General," I said. He gave me a sharp glance. "Back from where?" "Why, from where you met our train." "Your train? What train? I came here to meet Mr. Edison." "But you did meet him two hours ago in your automobile at Hyattsville."
His aeroplane scouts couldn't make out what that cheese-cloth was for; they thought it might be some new kind of electrocution storage battery, so the whole army waited." As we talked, the train stopped at Hyattsville, a few miles out of Washington, and a well-set-up officer in uniform came aboard and approached us with a pleasant smile. "Mr. Edison?
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