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Show BALDWIN'S GOOD CHANCE FOR PART OF THE MONEY WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Tho airship air-ship board of tho pigualcorps today calculated cal-culated that Thomas S. Baldwin's dir-iciblo dir-iciblo balloon traveled a( the ralo of lfJ.01 miles an hour, in tho oflicial test j yesterday at Fort M;'cr. This speed j is subject to correction. Unless Oeneral Allen, chief signal officer, of-ficer, allows Captain Baldwiu further speed trials the la her will not receive $5737.50 for his military dirigible. This is much less than the actual cost of delivering de-livering tho airship to the government has been to Captain Baldwiu. Ho estimates esti-mates the total expense of building the I ship at. $S00O. . Captain Baldwin was allowed three speed trials nnd now will have an op-I op-I porlunity to make three trials for cn-i cn-i durance. |