The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-06-14
Erial Navigation.


About year ago, an elaborate dc.
scription. appeared in these columns OF
DR.. Solomon Andrews projected Av.
mg-ship, then building at Perth Am.
! boy. Since then, the enterprise. fol.
lowing all improvements, has taken
up its residence in Now York, and for
several months has been undergone
preparations at the corner of Houston
and Greene streets, having passed into
the hands of an efficient company, of
which DIR. Andrews, the inventor, is
president.
Yesterday afternoon at d u. M. all
Delng IN readiness, four gentlemen
DR.. Andrews, President; G. w. Trow,
Vlco-President G. Nj. Plumb, Secrc-
tary and q. Waldo Hill, director of
"Ihc Erial Navigation Company,
entered the spacious basket of the
"I.rcon" cut loose from terra f,,pa.
ana started upon voyage of discovc-
ry through thc azure ether that hung
;;; rs veil of beauty over the busy city.
The ship easily and gracefully ascend
ca at once to "A light of some 2.OOO
feet, or considerably more than six
timn~,tL h-..-',-.., .. -
the city ascoudod with dimrlshod
and softencd effect, and from whence
the multitudinous mass Of humanity
that darkcn the streets appeared as
Lilliputs, surrounded by houses OF
equal miniature extent, each intent
upon his petty task of pleasure.
The island and its suburbs lay
stretched in masslikc distincncss,
through which rivers and streets
threaded their sinuous way with an cf-
| feet to which distance lent onchant-
mcnt that converted cditicial grossncss
into outlined beauty, and toned down
deformitics to varied and suggestive
smoothncss and cleanliness as pleasing
to an artist as it would have been sat.
isfactory to tho argus-cycd Board Oh
Health.
For the first five minutes the shiI
lriftcd steadily in a North-castcrly
course, but little ballast cast out, she
instantly and gracefully ob1ycd the
direction of the rudder and was
headed in South-wcsterly line along
which, though under minimum ol
gas, she shot at an andevlated undo
; Waiting unswaying rate of less than
three minutes to the mile, As the
$ trip was purel experimental, the
0 acronauts kept float no longer thar
, would assure tc practical success O
: the undertaking, and suggest any
{ needed implements and alteration
/ advisable tothe moro complete outf
: of the flyin, conqueror of the asmos
q nbere and he annihilator of current
! A further Tightening of the "acros
IF tat" or gls-0ntaining section, of th'
!, machine to thirty feet, so as to secur,
"a a fight anSc of fifteen degrees, and
,S stronger yffening of the rudder, wer
,t the only additional measures recon
+ mendei y the results Of tho trip
,h Thesc vi be Immediately effectu
IN ated.
ot Wbc in the car, the wind BLOWN,
of ou;f, freshly came almost directl
,st atb 4rt the faces of the voyagers, an,
or pies of paper cast on the bosom o
.rc tbair were waited in course con
,at Try to that pursued by tho machine
,ot JUS conclusively proving that, unlik
to )aloons, the "Hrcon" can proceed
n, need be, against, and not slavishly
Ia with the wind, as the former alway
u do. g5
, After being supru ninsbos for abou
twenty-five minutes, the docile an
: beautiful steam-winged bird was sue
l cessfully persuaded to pay terrestis
visit to Astria, where both her higl