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Prizes amounting to $50,000 offered by the society in addition to a special prize of $10,000 offered by the Boston Globe for the best time for a flight to Boston Light and return twice, were inducements which led to some spectacular exhibitions. The prizes were distributed among the events as follows: speed, $6,000; altitude, $6,000; duration, $4,000; distance, $4,000; slow lap, $1,500; getaway, $150; accuracy, $750; dropping bombs on dummy battleship, $5,000; Boston Globe special, $10,000. One world's record was broken, that for accuracy in landing; and the American records...
Many distinguished persons attended the meet, among them being President Taft, President Lowell, Governor Draper, Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston, Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassador, and Secretary George von L. Meyer. Wilbur Wright was on the field during the whole time watching his pupils. Johnstone and Brookins, and he made several trips as a passenger with the latter. People were taken up at several times by the aviators, Mayor Fitzgerald making a flight with Grahame-White, and J. V. Martin uC., going up with Johnstone...
Theobald Smith, discoverer of the cause of Texas Fever, who taught men to seek in insects the source of human plagues; he stands among the great benefactors of mankind...
Thomas Leonard Livermore, soldier, lawyer, man of affairs, and writer; who almost in boyhood fought in the Civil War; now a profound student of its history; pre-eminent among statisticians of the conflict...
John Pierpont Morgan, public-spirited citizen; patron of literature and art; prince among merchants, who by his skill, his wisdom, and his courage has twice in times of stress repelled a national danger of financial panic...