Show I PLANS AIRSHIP TO RID RIDE E GALE Rich Philadelphia Inventor Prepares to Build a Machine to Fly in All Kinds of Weather Philadelphia Pa June 5 An An airship along lines hitherto never nc attempted will be bo built bunt by Cyrus Crus Chambers Jr of ot Overbrook president of or Chambers Bros Dros company compan whose foundry Is Js at nt second Fifty and antI Media streets Many Ian of his imis inventions are In uso use throughout the world Work has imas been beon started upon upon upon up up- on the erection of an engine house In Overbrook for the purpose of testing engines to be bo used In lie the tho now new aerial craft which will be bo beor beof of or horse 1000 power While other Inventors havo have been navigating na the air In aeroplanes and dirigible balloons Mr Ir Chambers has been studying and making note noto of ot de defects de- de He lie has hundreds of books pertaining per por- to aerial navigation atlon and has studied time the subject thirty years cars Ho Tie declined to say what the appearance of ot his aerial craft would be but stated emphatically that It would not be bo an nn aeroplane or a 8 dirigible balloon to Gale I am nm not trying to build a fair tall fairweather fairweather weather airship said Mr Chambers What hat I hope to produce ultimately Isone isone Is la laone one which may sail In all nil kinds 01 ol weather In fact I think It should be operated so that I could summon the ship to my door as ne I would woul my automo automobile auto auto- mo mobile lle or carriage c and ride to my of ot- fice My Iy hope is to perfect a n craft that can be bo operated In a 0 tempest as os well wen wenns as ns In 11 sunshine and one which ma may be controlled absolutely b by the pilot My h haim aim Is to make mako It useful and not ornamentaL ornamental orna orna- mental Asked J what he thought of the time aeroplane aeroplane aero nero plane and dirigible balloon Mr Chambers Chambers Cham Chain bers bore remarked Jocularly The They arc are up a tree In m my opinion neither will solve olve the tho problem The Tho balloon exposes entirely too much surface sur- sur faco face to time the wind and the same mo may IKS be said of tho the aeroplane Thoro There Is too much resistance to overcome Mr 11 Chambers took his caller to th the the- third floor of or his home honee o of which one large larg- room has been fitted out as a testing plant Dynamos lathes work workbenches benches benh s and nearly every ery kind of tool used In tho time working of ot iron and wood can be bo found In this room It was ver very quiet t when Mr Ir Chambers entered the time plant but ho he touched a lever or two and in a moment tho the lar largo o room on the top floor of or his quiet mansion overlooking o rural was converted converted converted con con- Into a whirling machine shop Belts and wheels ls whirled about In nil all parts of ot the tho plant And this extensive plant with Its thousands of ot dollars dollars' worth of or tools Is only a n stepping stone tho Inventor explained toward building the machinery machin machin- ery cry for his airship Like Ilke all aU Inventors In Mr Ir Chambers has lens hasmet hasmet met with man many obstacles One which now confronts him Is his imis falling eyesight eye eye- sl sight ht His Ills somewhat defective vision bothers him considerably but he ho has prepared for Cor It lIe He has no end of or tools of oC the theer er very finest make and b by the time use uso of ot fine gauges he ime Is enabled to work down don to time the thousandth ten part of ot an inch Ho lie has a n system by which not one of or his hundreds of or tools ever er gets out of or place Behind er e every tool on the tho wall vall Is Its outline painted In black and the big black marks are aro hand handy guides to show tho tim exact spot where every tool belongs I- I Ever Iver ver since his Imis boyhood boyhood ho ho Is 60 years ears old old old- old Mr Ir Chambers has been devoted devoted de tie- voted to mechanics When hon on only I 13 years old he built a miniature steam en engine lne and at time the age of or 16 built a l smaller one which for a long time was tho smallest steam engine in tho the world Ono of ot his his' first geat a rn was as the In of ot oZa a newspaper fold I Ing machine which took up a piece of ot flat printed paper and folded it in good shape for tho time reader render Tho late lato George W W. Childs was among the first men In ln the city to recognize its value |