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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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s a playthingfor the capital city, it could hardly havebeen better devised. From Georgetownthe canoes and motor boats set forth indroves on holidays and Sundays. Theygo all the way up to Great Falls—and even beyond—working their pas-sage through the locks, loafing underthe shadows of the trees, drinking inthe indolence of the summer days. It makes folks who live in and aroundNew York a bit envious—our own op-portunities for still-water boating are solimited. Boating in our city parks is Some time in the early morning we about as much fun as splashing around docked at Washington. When weawoke the city was alive and we dweltom c again in a world of trains and oftrollc\ cars, of automobiles and peach-basket hats, of the telephone, the tele-graph, and the automatic gas meter. in an apartment-house bathtub. Still, these things have their compen-sations. The Washington folks saythey envy New Yorkers. The latterhave so much fun out of their oceanclose at hand. Perhaps theyre right. 722
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Photograph f?-om Edwin Levic/c, N. Y.FIRST SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH AEROPLANE. Mr. A. V. Roe, a young English engineer, is the first aviator to make a free flight inEngland on an all British machine. His first attempts were made with a 9 horse-powerengine, which has now been replaced by a 20 horse power. Mr. Roe uses paper atpresent for his planes, and is a firm believer in the triplane type of flier.

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