New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-01

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About a year AGO an elaborate description
taDpeared in these columns Of Or. solomon -
drews projected flying ship, then building az leltn
/ Amboy. Since then the enterprise lolo"lha Wy
march of all improvements, has taken up lts resi-
denee in New York, and for several mohlhs mas
| been undergoing preparations at the corner OF
/ Houston and Greene streets, having passed INTO
I the hands Of an efficient company Oh Whieh H.
| Andrews the inventor, is president
Yesterday afternoon at 4 p. NJ all being IN readl'
/ ness four rentlemen-Dr. Andrews, president; &.
! W. Trow, vice. president; c. NJ. Plumb, secretary
and G. Waldo Hill, director Of !" me Aerlaf Nayl-
/ cation Company y entered the spacious basket OF
| fba 4Aereon, = cutSoose from terra Rrp1d and
| started upon a voyage Of discovery through the
azure ether that hung as veil of beauty over the
busy city. The ship easily and gracefully ascended
at once to height OF some two thousand feet, OF
considerably more than six times the height OF
Trinity steeple, where, in mid air, the ceaseless
hum Of the city assembled with diminished and
scftened effect, and from whence the multtudnous
mass Of Humanity that darken the streets appeared
as Lilliputsi surrounded by houses Of equal minia
ture extent, each intent upon his petty task OF
pleasure.
The island and its suburbs lay stretched in mass.
like dstnetness, through which rivers and streets
threaded their snuous way, with effect to which
distance lent an enchantment that converted edit
cal gFossness into outlined beauty, and toned down
deformites to AWARDED and suggestive smoothness
and cleanliness pleasing to an artist as 1t would
have been satisfactory to the argus-eyed board Of
| health.
For the first Eve minutes the ship drifted steadily
in noTtheasteFly course bnt, little ballast cast
out she instantly and gracefully obeyed the direc-
| ton of the rudder, and was headed in a south
westerly line along which, though under but a
minimum of gas she shot at an underwriting, I'M
swaytng rate Of less than three minuits to the
mile.
AS the trip was purely experimental, the AERO
nauts kept aloat no longer than would assure the
practical success of the undertaking, and suggest
any needed improvements and alterations advisable
to the more complete outfit Of the flying cOnqueror
ofthe atmosphere and the annihilator of current
A further frightening of the erostatn or gas
containing section Of the machine to thirty feet
so as to secure fight angle Of fifteen degrees
and the stronger stifenng OF the rudder, were the
only additional measures recommended by the
results Of the trip. These will be Immediately
eifectuated
While in the car the wind blowing quite freshly
came almost directly athwart the faces of the voy
ayers. and pieces of paper cast on the bosom Of
pursued by the machine, thus conGlusively proving
that, unlike balloons, the "AereOnn can proceed,
II need be, against, and not savishly with the
wind, as the former always do
AFTER being supra Tfnlb0s for about twenty five
minutes, the docie and beautiful steam winged
bird was successfully persuaded to pay terres-
trial visit to Astoria, where both her highness and
her privileged masculine convoy were received
with surprised and welcomed acelamations by the
astonished deni2ens and whence, gathering in her
plumage, the Queen of the Air allowed herself to
be borne in plebeian car to her resting place in
the metropolis. Other and more extended flights
are in design during the summer weeks.
The initial and gratifying success Of this
measure is the reward of years of thought, toll
expense, and intelligent scientific research on the
ilpart OF DR.. Andrews, in the face of skepticism,
opposition, and red tape indifference, and assures
him not only recognition and peerhood among the
foremost inventors of the age, but, we hope a
return Of substantial results that will be none the
Il less deserved because wholly secondary consid-
/ GRAFTON to his nnind,--EN. Y. News.
Those radicals who are so maah fonder of the
negro than of the white man are fhepeople spoken
of in Scripture, who g love darkness rather than