| Show THE AIRSHIP A FACT sax BAN nov 22 the chronicle prints a story atory which would indicate that the airship in practical form la 18 an established fact about I 1 last monday MOD day morning the inhabitants of sacramento who were astir at that hour claim to have seen lean gin an airship passing rapidly over the city some merely said they saw a bright briga light while others went su so far as ae to say gay that they saw a cigar shaped fly ing mach ina and board beard human voices from it the residents ot of oakland also may bay they saw the same sight eight a few nights bights ago the story of the mysterious airship hag bag been told lold all over the state and has created considerable amusements amuse it was wae generally believed to be a hoax the chronicle this morning prints ao an interview with george D collins Coli ioB a reputable lawyer of this city who earb that the airship la Is a reality attorney collios collins saye it la is perfectly true that there Is ie at last a successful airship in existence and that california will have the honor of bringing it before the world I 1 have hilve known ot of the affair for some time ano and am acting so att attorney for or the inventor he is A very wealthy man who has haa been stua studying ying the subject of flying machines lor for fifteen years and who came here seven years ago from the state of maine in order to be able to perfect his ideas idea away from the eyes ayes of other in indenture venture during the last five years he be has spent at least on bis big work he has not yet secured his patents patent but his application is 18 LOW lu in washington I 1 cannot say BOY much about the machine be has perfected because he is my client and besides he be fears ears wat that the application will be stolen from the patent office I 1 ii people come to know that his big invention is practicable 1 saw the machine one night last week at the invent inventors invitation it is made of metal is about feet long and Is built to carry fifteen persons there was no motive power so tar for as I 1 could see certainly no steam asit it to is built on the aeroplane system and has two canvas wings eighteen feet wide and a rudder shaped like a biru birus birds s tall tail the iu lu climbed into the machine aud after he bad been moving some of the mee mechanism for a moment I 1 saw the thing begin to ascona ascend from the earth very gently the wings flapped slowly as it rose and then a little taster as an it began to move against the th wind this the machine was under perfect control all the time when it got to a height of about ninety toot feet the inventor shouted to me that he be was going ta make a series u circles he immediately did aid so bt gloning by making a circle about yards iu in ul ameter and gradually narrowing it till lill the machine got within thirty teet of the ground it then leli fell straight dowe very tend aou touched the earth as I 1 ghaly as a falling leaf abe reports report from sacramento the abe other night were true it was my clients that the people saw it started from frem oroville borov alle in bu te county and flew fiew sixty miles to lu a straight lint directly over sacramento after running up and down once or twice ovet the capital my friend como came right on a distance of another seventy miles and landed at a spot on the oakland side bide of toe the bay where the machine now BOW lieu guarded by eighty men the inventor found during his big trial trip that his ship had bad a wavelike wave like motion that made him seasick ees it is this defect wag that he be to now remedying in another six alx days the trouble will be done away with and it la is then his bia intention to go immediately give the people of sac francisco a chance to see aee h hla Is machine he fie will fly right over the city and cross market street a dozen times timely 1 I cannot tell you where he la Is housing his hie ship or what his oame name la Is as I 1 am under a pie go ge of secrecy but it is a tact fact that last the machine does its work perfectly and will astound the world and revolutionize travel when it has been displayed before the me public f the inventor can go to new york with it if he wants to he has forsaken the ideas of maxim and langley entirely in building the machine and nas 1388 constructed it on an absolutely now new theory in ID reply to mr colliner Coll Col liney lne statement there are many skeptics who say flatly they do not believe his story it to i almost incredible that an airship test feet long could be secreted eted to in any building near ban bali francisco without the fact being made public toe the mysterious lights seen over sacramento it if any were seen meen are thought to have been meteors which passed dithing the range of avelon of the be citizens who thought they a w an airship SAN BAN francisco cal nov 22 the inventor ol at the mysterious airship which has been puzzling nuzzling local boien lists and others for the past week in believed to be one dr E H benjamin an alleged dentist who has occupied rooms in ellis bills street lodging house bouse for the past two years but so far he be has successfully evaded all attempts to discover me identity his him attorney collins when seen been yesterday anu anil pressed to tell something further about the alleged inventor and his bis machine said 11 irble the ingeri inventor tor came to my office la in the crooker building and told me that he bad tested the tb e merits oi 01 the ship in last nights s storm with wibb the greatest success the wind currents 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 0 the ordeal 1 li good order having pre breasted asted the storm as well as we the bird he started from the locality where the vessel is housed and flow flew over al callaman oat cal rasan raman sod out to the golden gale skirting the cliff house bouse and returning oy by the same route across the bay he covered over the seal rocks for fully ton ten minutes and played his bis search ight on the seals HIS IL la in to make anther an ther trip bib evening probably over the same rouno brouno running on his bis return trip at ae fur hr as sacramento JI |
