(When Moore met Orville, years later, and asked him what he thought of the account, Orville good-naturedly replied: “It was an amazing piece of work. Though ninety-nine per cent wrong, it did contain one fact that was correct. There _had_ been a flight.” Then Moore wrote that Orville had corroborated his story.) One must give the _Virginian-Pilot_ editors credit for treating the news as important. The headline over the flight story the next morning extended clear across the top of the first page. Moore sent brief “queries,” outlining the story, to twenty-one other newspapers over the country, including several in Ohio, one of them the Dayton _Journal_. But nearly all the telegraph editors resented having a correspondent suggest that a human being could fly by machinery. Of the twenty-one newspapers to whom it was offered, only five ordered the story. They were the New York _American_, the Washington (D.C.) _Post_, the Chicago _Record-Herald_, the Philadelphia _Record_, and the Cincinnati _Enquirer_. But not all five papers that received the story published it the next morning. The Chicago _Record-Herald_ and the Washington _Post_ delayed using it, and the Philadelphia _Record_ did not print it at all. Thus only three newspapers in the United States had a report of the great event at Kitty Hawk the next morning. The Cincinnati _Enquirer_ was the only one besides the _Virginian-Pilot_ that gave space to the account on the front page. As the Associated Press is a co-operative news-gathering agency and the _Virginian-Pilot_ was a member, the story was available to the AP at Norfolk, but the AP was not yet interested in it. One might have thought the news would especially interest the Dayton _Journal_; but Frank Tunison, the telegraph editor there (who also handled outgoing news for the Associated Press) was a man who took pride in not being easily fooled, and he paid no attention to the query from Norfolk. Orville’s telegram to his father did not reach Dayton until 5:25 that evening. In transmission, errors had got into the message; fifty-nine seconds had become fifty-seven, and the sender’s name was spelled “Orevelle.” Katharine Wright immediately sent a message to Octave Chanute that the “boys” had reported four successful flights. Bishop Wright asked his son Lorin to prepare a brief statement with a copy of the message and give it to the Associated Press. After he had finished his dinner, Lorin went to the office of the _Journal_ and inquired if the Associated Press representative was there. He was referred to Frank Tunison. Whether Tunison had already received the query from Moore at Norfolk is not certain. But he seemed annoyed over being expected to accept such a tale. Without looking up from his work, he yawned and said to Lorin: “Fifty-seven seconds, hey? If it had been fifty-seven minutes then it might have been a news item.”