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"I've had a fancy that some day the business men of the country will have to go into politics and run it on business lines." The other pondered the reply. "That sounds simple," he said. "But doesn't it mean the overthrow of Republican institutions?" "I am afraid it would," said Curtiss. "But what's to be done?" There was no answer. "Do you know any remedy?" he persisted.

Tied outside it was the buggy and horse of farmer Curtiss and on the platform stood three figures that the party in the auto made out at once as Jack Curtiss, Bill Bender and their unsavory ally. The road took a long curve at this point and while they could see the station the pursuers had the mortification of knowing that it would be some minutes before they could reach it.

"Your political machines and your offices are in the hands of peanut-politicians and grafters who are looking for what's coming to them. If you want anything, you have to pay them for it, just the same as in any other business. You face the same situation every hour 'Pay or quit." "Look," Curtiss went on, after a pause, "take our own case. Here we are, and we want to build a little railroad.

Especially was this true of the boys of the Eagle Patrol, who were every one of them anxious to see what kind of aeroplanes Jack Curtiss and Bill Bender would have produced. The lecture, however, at last came to an end, and the gentlemen on the platform shook hands with the professor and the professor shook hands with them, and somebody called for three cheers for "Hampton's distinguished son."

There were no other wires approaching the shed, nor could he find any connection to which it could be attached. He examined the instrument more closely, and then he saw that it was not of the standard government pattern. It was marked "The A. M. Curtiss Co., Philadelphia, Pa."

In America others besides the Wrights had wakened to the possibilities of heavier-than-air flight; Glenn Curtiss, in company with Dr Alexander Graham Bell, with J. A. D. McCurdy, and with F. W. Baldwin, a Canadian engineer, formed the Aerial Experiment Company, which built a number of aeroplanes, most famous of which were the 'June Bug, the 'Red Wing, and the 'White Wing. In 1908 the 'June Bug 'won a cup presented by the Scientific American it was the first prize offered in America in connection with aeroplane flight.

After the adjustments for actual flight had been made in the Curtiss factory, according to the minute descriptions contained in the Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, the aeroplane was taken to the shore of Lake Keuka, beside the Curtiss hangars, and assembled for launching.

I'm so important that Government can't find a substitute if I go away. Ye-es, I'd like to be Gaddy, whoever his wife may be. CURTISS. You've passed the turn of life that Mackesy was speaking of. DOONE. Indeed I have, but I never yet had the brutality to ask a woman to share my life out here. BLAYNE. On my soul I believe you're right. I'm thinking of Mrs. Cockley. The woman's an absolute wreck.

They are our judges. Just fancy, you know! And I as innocent as a spring chicken!" "I should think things like that would get out in the end," said Montague. Curtiss shrugged his shoulders. "How could you prove it?" he asked. "But if a certain judge always decided in favour of the railroad " began Montague. "Oh, pshaw!" said Curtiss. "Leave that to the judge!

She won't leave Cockley, and he's doing his best to get her to go. CURTISS. Good, indeed! Here's Mrs. Cockley's health. To the only wife in the Station and a damned brave woman! BLAYNE. I suppose Gaddy will bring his wife here at the end of the cold weather. They are going to be married almost immediately, I believe.