Show THAT FLYING SHIP conflicting stories of the thing in san francisco nobody can find it clr to inventor and there in wont talk S sin in francisco nov 23 the inventor of the airship which has been puzzling ng local scientists and others for the past pad week li Is believed to be dr E 11 II benjamin an alleged dentist who A ho has occupied rooms in aap ai ellis street lodging house for or the patt past two years but so eo far he has successfully evaded all attempts to discover his Il i entity ills attorney colllns collins when teen seen yesterday and pressed to tell something further about the alleged inventor and his machine said the othe morning the inventor came to my office in the crocker building and told me that he had tested the merits of the ship in last nights storm with the grea greatest success the wind cur rents were very contrary and the test was one that tried the merits of the machine in the hardest possible manner but it came out of the ordeal in good order having breasted the storm as well as any bird he started from the locality where the vessel Is housed and flew over the alcatraz and out to the golden gate skirting the cliff house and returning by the same route across the bay he covered hovered ovet over the seal real rocks for fully ten minutes and played his searchlight on the seals themselves his intention Is to make another trip this evening probably over the same ground running on his return trip as far as sacramento A dispatch was received from sacramento last night to the effect that hundreds of people there had again seen the mysterious in the heavens but as yet no one has been able to see tle the object sufficiently well to state definitely what it is |