Ten minutes later all Philadelphia received the news through its telephones, and in less than an hour all America heard of it through the innumerable electric wires of the new continent.
No one would believe it! "It is an unseasonable joke," said some.

"It is all smoke," said others.

How could such a thing be done in Philadelphia, and so secretly, too?
How could the "Albatross" have been beached in Fairmount Park without its appearance having been signaled all over Pennsylvania?
Very good.

These were the arguments.

The incredulous had the right of doubting.