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Auto Collides with Wagon; Three Are Hurt In Crash

Dr. Ramsay’s Buick Is Overturned in Darkness Between New Brunswick and Metuchen.

TWO TAKEN TO CITY HOSPITAL

Mrs. Ramsay and Chauffeur Conquest Brought Here-Miss Brennan, of Metuchen, Taken Home.

Mrs. Ramsay, wife of Dr. William E. Ramsay, and Alexander Conquest, proprietor of the Packer House garage, are in the city hospital at the result of an automobile accident between Metuchen and New Brunswick about 6 o’clock last night. Miss Olive Virginia Brennan, a niece of Col. C. C. Weber, of Metuchen, who wae also badly Injured, wag removed to her home.

As a result of the accident Mrs. Ramsay has a broken collar bone and is suffering from shock, but her injuries are not regarded as serious. Mr. Conquest has a slight concussion of the brain and is bruised about the body. The latter, when seen by a reporter this morning, said that his head hurt him and there was a soreness all over his legs, and his back pained him considerably.

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Wright Encircles Statue of Liberty

Newspaper photograph of a steamship with the caption "Replica of the Clermont, Fulton's first steamboat, out for a trial spin on the Hudson."

The First Aviation Day of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Is Marked by Successful Demonstrations by Both Wright and Curtiss—Dirigible Balloons Come to Grief Very Quickly.

Yonkers, N. Y., Sept. 25—As the Clermont came within sight of the docks here the water in her boilers became exhausted and the engine became overheated. Her machinery was stopped, while a tug put a line aboard and towed the craft ashore.

New York, Sept. 29.—Wilbur Wright circled the great statue of Liberty at the entrance of New York harbor in his aeroplane today. while in the upper part of the city two dirigible balloons failed ingloriously in their task. This, the first day of flight of the Hudson-Fulton celebration, was a victory for the heavier-than-air machine.