Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-11-26 | Page 3 | Colombian Invents Novel Glider

COLOMBIAN INVENTS NOVEL GLIDER -nS8&. V--&-a frW-ftiA t--TT,,ir,fl :5S I Ti One of the queerest objects to be dubbed a boat is the Yolanda II, a low-lying, low-lying, rakish craft, which promises to bring about as important a change in inland water traffic as Robert Fulton's Claremont did in 1807, when she made her way up the Hudson river without sails. The boat, which is a development develop-ment of the hydroplane idea, is the invention of Gonzalo Mejla (shown above), a Colombian banker, who has the contract to carry mails for the Colombian government up the Magdalena river, Colombia. When not in motion, the Yolanda II draws five inches of water, but as soon as the big retractors whir the boat glides over the surface with an inch or less of draught, at a maximum maxi-mum speed of 50 miles an hour.