Show an air ship the new york sun says charles 11 lamson of portland me ale performed a feat practically demonstrating that a large airship or kite capable of 0 carrying a man cart can be floated successfully and ste dily lie ile raised his ship with a dummy man on it feet the retaining rope broke when the ship was at that altitude had it not been for this break aar lamson would have sert up a man to navigate his ship As it was war W 11 II eddy of bayonne Bayon nc N J an authority on aerial experiments declared that lammons Lam sons was the greatest step toward solving the problem of aerial navigation mr air lamson built his airship after I 1 hargraves lar graves general plan but added improvements prove ments of his own to make it more manageable in the enlarged form the passenger by manipulating a lever can keep the airship on an even keel make it rise or fall and direct its course in coming coining down lateral steering can be accomplished by changing the weight to either side of the center the aerial vessel then turning curving toward the side where the weight Is greatest each pair of wings Is like that of a bird there are also ribbed fore and aft and covered so that the stream of air can have its full lifting affect following the curve from front to rear and preventing all shaking or flapping of the fas faerie A heavy windlass loaded with sand bags held the two thousand feet of cord when being operated all that was as nce necessary essar y to launch the airship was to raise its forward end a little and take a short run which causes the kite to mount up in the air like a balloon air lamson was af disappointed at the collapse of tile the rope but was pleased at tile the success of the experiment lie ile sad ad thi the performance of my airship satisfies me beyond all question that the ship in its 16 present form will always ascend in a fair breeze and will remain div living ing any length of time under favorable atmospheric conditions that a kite of this size will sustain and carry a man all ail night and that the latter can regulate the direction of the kite in the air and descend I 1 do notrea not mean n that he can propel he kite this remains to be dit discovered covered but I 1 mean that taking advantage of the air currents he can guide the airship to a very large extent by means of the guiding lever he can regulate the course up or dowland down dow nand and by changing ills hie weights weight he can curve to the right or left |