Evening Capital And Maryland Gazette

NAVY AVIATION.

Flights Stopped Temporarily at Naval Academy—To Resume Shortly.

The local work of the naval aviators is in abeyance at present, though it had been hoped that the tests would be in full swing at this time.

Lieut. Theodore G. Ellyson is taking part in the contests at Nassau, L. I., and doing excellent work in competition with the best-known American aviators, and Lieut. John Rodgers has been granted a leave. Just why Lieutenant Rodgers determined to stop making flights at this time, leaving his machine in the hangar at the aviation grounds across the Severn, is not known at the Academy, nor is it known whether he will resume them shortly. The authorities are in just as much doubt as to Lieutenant Ellyson's movements when the Nassau meet closes. One of the latter's machines is here, but has not been set up.

The Naval Academy authorities know little of what is to be done along the line of aviation here. Though the orders pass through the Academy authorities, the plans are formulated between the officers connected with the work and the department and nothing is known officially at the Academy until the orders arrive.