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Show FLIGHT IS SUCCESSFUL ST. LOUIS, Oct 21 Propelled part of th wsy by Its own power and the remainder re-mainder of the distance by the wind, which was blowing at the rate of about nine or ten miles an hour, the airship Arrow, owned by Thomas S. Baldwin of San Francisco, in charge of A. R. Kna-benahue Kna-benahue of Toledo, made an unannounced ascension from the aeronautic concourse t the World's fair today and landed near Cahokia, 111., a distance of nearly ten miies. after a flight that attracted the attention at-tention of thousands of person?, wtio cheered almost contlhuously as the big flying machine paused over the exposition exposi-tion grounds, left the residence section of St. Louis far beneath it, and soared high above the towering office buildings of the business district. Clinging to the framework of the car. his precarious foothold an iron tube that forms one side of the base of the triangular trian-gular network of supports and ribs of the airship body. Knabenshue directed the movements of hta flying machine and maneuvered in circles and against the wind high over the monster exhibit palaces pal-aces of the exposition before an accident to his motor, which rendered the big fanlike fan-like propellers useless aud curtailed his command of the airship. Notwithstanding the breaking of the motor Knabenshue did not lose complete control of the machine, but with the momentum mo-mentum given bv the wind he was enabled ena-bled to steer the machine In a course that varied several points in each direction from the trend of the wind and land at a point of his own selection. |