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Show DROPS EGGS FROM SKY; NONE BROKEN (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 14. Bridie Bri-die Stinson, flying at a height of 700 feet and at a epeed of seventy miles an hour, dropped a crate of eggs on the Atlantic air port without smashing ono of the number. The eggs were tossed over the side of the plane by W. L. Watklns of Seattle, inventor in-ventor of the parachute used in the demonstration, dem-onstration, while the machine was liur tlinff through space. The wind carried the parachute and its eggs three hundred paces from the point over which they were released and not an egg was broken, much to the relief re-lief of the holders, who knew that the "hen fruit" had been at the station ten days, awaiting a chance to skylark, and they were cold storage product at the beginning. be-ginning. An automatic release dropped the crate on the ground as gently as they ever settled set-tled in a nest. Incidentally, the eggs brought real "high" prices as souvenirs, witnesses of the novel demonstration of the practicability of -the paraohute paying pay-ing 25 cents apiece for them. |