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Show Sailing Ninety Miles an Hour. Sailing on land Is a new diversion, experimented with at different times In the past, that has suddenly burst Into prominence, says e Technical World Magazine. No other summer amusement conveyance of man's Invention In-vention can mako anything like tho speed of the land sailing vessel. It skims over the ground with the actual speed of the wind. Its only rival In amusement conveyances of winter or summer Is the lcoboat; but the land sailing vessel furnishes much greater enjoyment than tho iceboat, for Its path 1b not limited by the narrow confines con-fines of an ice pond, and, moreover, It is a summer vehicle, made to sail In tho season when rapid open-air traveling is leally enjoyable. So fast will the lan boat move If permitted to go at Its full speed during a strong wind that Its occupants would find It Impossible to retain their seats. Hence Its speed hns to bo checked and regulated by tho manipulation of brakes and sails. From fifty to ninety miles an hour, however, has often been attained with safety when tho .a- precaution- was taken of seeing that the passengers wero well secured In their seats. |