Testimony concerning the existence of an airship which is supposed to be navigating the air over the bay cities by night and hiding from observation in some secluded place before daybreak came in yesterday from many sources. Many persons saw mysterious lights moving overhead.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt defied death this afternoon in going up in a flying machine while 10,000 people looked on. The ex-President made his initial air trip with Archie Hoxsey, an aviator for the Wright Brothers, and he was up in cloud land for exactly three minutes and twenty seconds, going over the heads of the scared throng.