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Show ' AVIATOR, AGED 18, FLIES I OVER 2 RIVERS AND HARBOR I I Jlmv Ward at Charleston, S. C, I Soars Above Ocean, Breaks I Record and Wins Prize. I I Charleston, S. (!., Jan. 0. Jimmy I J Ward, the IS year old aviator. In a I twenty-four horse power aeroplano today made a flight across two rivers, the harbor ,and out over tho Atlantic bcoan. Mo broke tho world's altjtudo (ccord for low power muchlnes and won a prize of $5,000 by circling over two of the strongest fortifications on tho Atlantic coast, demonstrating the efficiency of tho aeroplano as a scout In tlmo of war. Landing gracofull on tho beach In front of Fort Moultrie on Sulllvnn'B Island, ho handed a note to Col. Marsh, which tho latter signed. Ward then reentered his machine nnd rose from tho beach, and flow back across tho I harbor In a direct lino to the aviation I fiold north of tho city. He covored a I distance of about twenty-flvo miles In K fifty-four mlnutos. |