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...Roe Before Christian Association...
...Clifford G. Roe will speak on "The White Slave Traffic" at the meeting of the University Christian Association in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Mr. Roe is a graduate of the University of Michigan and was for several years assistant district attorney of Chicago. He resigned his office to take up the crusade against the white slavery in Chicago and is now recognized as the leader in the fight against that evil in American. Mr. Roe has made an extensive tour of the country and has already spoken at several of the larger...
Harvard graduates in Boston have subscribed for the construction of an artificial glider slope about 40 feet high. From this the machines will be launched for flight. Work on it has already commenced. Besides two gliders the Harvard society will send down the Roe triplane. Several other colleges will also enter more than one machine...
...machines, and an artificial slope will be built at Squantum, where most of the experimental work will be carried on. The society's glider will be equipped with effective controls so that it can be used for free flights from an elevation. It is also planned to remodel the Roe triplane and to use in this the 30 horsepower engine which Mr. Roe used at the Squantum meet. If enough money is available, a different system of control will be placed on the Harvard I and a Roe engine will be installed, as the engine which was used last year...
...most fortunate features of the meet was the comparatively few accidents. Nobody was seriously injured and no aeroplane was damaged beyond repair. A. V. Roe was the greatest sufferer in this respect, breaking both of his triplanes, because his engines were not powerful enough to sustain the machines in air. The aviator himself escaped with a few scratches and bruises. Kearney's Pfitzner monoplane was nearly demolished early in the meet when his engine stopped and he crashed into the wire fence in front of the grand-stand. Kearney fortunately sustained but few injuries himself. Clifford B. Harmon, an amateur...