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Show Aviator Begins Long Journey Across the Continent San Francisco, SepL 11. With tho puff of a trado wind at his back, Robert G. Fowler climbed into tho sky today and doubled back over tho trail of the Forty-nlncrs. Tho start of the first transcontinental aeroplane aero-plane flight was made from the Stadium, In Golden Gate park, at 1:37 o'clock this afternoon. As the green concavity of the field, rimmed with verdure covered hills, dropjied beneath be-neath hlra, he flipped the tal of his big kite to the westward, nosed his way up into the sky until he found the in-bound wind, nnd winged away to tho northeast across the roof of the city Throngs crowding tho roofs of skyscrapers and office buildings cheered cheer-ed his passing. Ho rose higher as he neared Golden Gold-en Gate and was well up in the bluo when he swept over the ferryboats packed with spectators gazing skyward. sky-ward. Fowler will attempt to jockey his biplano to New York 'by easy stages via Sacramento, Rono, Elko, Ogden. Granger, Cheyenne, North Platte, Omaha, Rock Island. Chicago, Fort Wayne, Pittsburg, Buffalo and Albany, reaching tho end of his journey October Oc-tober 10. The aviator nad planned to get into in-to the air at 11:00 o'clock this morning morn-ing but owing to the necessity of changing his gasoline and keying up his machine, tho goLiway was delayed. de-layed. Tho ascent was the signal for the starting of the special train which will accompany the blrdman on his flight. |