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Show jLEir fiaim; juci'ixe. Tic folbtrln- account of a new Invention designed to solve the problem of re -ill invitation Is taken from the Seattle J'oii-fnCellijenecr: "In aa np-sulrs room in tin Western West-ern Hoasa at lUlIard lias lm de-tclop-sd within th pist eight months at hat In tho opinion or men or sound jalginsotwill prove, if practical, tho in veil! ion of the age. "Mr. William Allen, a realcttatc broker anl a former caiplotdof the West Coast improteuient Coaipmy, has nnarly completed tha inoje! r u a'rial -hip or flying machine. ,It consists con-sists or two oval orcigar-shap-sl lodles ti ith tajicnn g ends, the smaller .a-pe.ided .a-pe.ided wi bin the largar. Around Ih-largrrtn immens thread of h iff canvas, or some other strong but light material, winds spirally ftum end to end. Within the smaller body is situated th proelbng power, which by means of a ot of pulley. Inn Is, whel, eta, rotuhesthe Interior oval liody, an 1 as It moves s-i it causes the larger machine on the exterior to mote with eorrespondinsly grca'er wlocity. "Tho theory which William Allan lia hld an 1 reasoned upon fur Ihe last tttenty year i thl: A screw by revolution forces Itself through itood, o Mr. "Ilan concluded If ho could intent a machina with threads largo enough to revolve In the atmosphere it ttlll travel through spice and with great rapidity oa tha same principle. If Mr. Allan lie not a deluded intcn-lor intcn-lor one may travel in this machine. In any direction, with almost any sliced desired, and with perfect hi (My, bv means or a s'cering apparatus and "a ped regulator, which are atucheil and under the control or the aeronaut unhln tha bowels or the invention. H this invention proves practical, and Mr. Allan thinks It will, railroaisand ocoan grcyhoand will bo casilv distanced. dis-tanced. Tlie detiils or tha machine cannot le fully described, as only a working model has been constructed, and although Mr. Allan has obtained acavcat, he does no: wish to give awav Ids secret until he ,as more substantial substan-tial backing. "Mr. Allan also consimrtjj a bugo iinlcycle, or as soma paradoxically call it, a one-wheel birycle. It I seventeen reel In circumfoivnco and has a tiro one foot wide. Tlie cyclist stan Is in the centre, and by moving bis foci up and down on peilals turns a small wheel, which revolt-... it,-. larger ono at the same lime. Asetery revolution of tlia smaller w heel tinis Ihe larger It will readily lie b-ch the yclist go a distance or seventeen feet every revolution. Tha unlcycle I now in the yard or James McLach-lan, McLach-lan, a contractor and builder, who Is putting the finishing touches upon it under Mr. Allan' sujicn Won. "Itecenlly, in euntcrsaUon w.th a reporter, Itallanl's intentor said There may be some skeptical tieoplc who deem my Inventions Impracticable, Impractic-able, but tho nublic llmnl.t i-,,n.. Jwascraay when he was building the jCIaremont, and when Columbus was jtrjliig to convince the nionarrhs of j Illropa that another worlil existed I et en the children signlficamlt- iumtcd I their fiiigers to the r roreheads it hen he paed by. Itnt there was no screw Ioao In Columbus's head, neither was there in Fulton'.' " |