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The Secretary of the Navy was as good as his word. He was on hand five minutes before five, and Oscar arrived ten minutes earlier, accompanied by Andy Greggs, who had had the model shipped on by express, in a stout coffin-like box.
The government experiment station boasted of a large pond of water, where all sorts of models were tried and experiments made.