Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-09
Chicago Capitalists Propose to Ann hi
late Distance with an Aerial
Invention.
The Aeronautic Manufacturing Com
pany Incorporated with Capt.
tai Stock of $50. 100000.
The Problem of Aerial Locomotion
Apparently S0lyed-Around the
World in Five Days.


dozen gentlemen have been gathered at the
Grand Pacific in earnest discussion of a
plan which sounds like a tale from the
Arabian Nights If carried out-and
$50 600. 900 Of solid cash have been paid in
to say that it will be-their schemes will
result in making railroad trains appear
like mere stage-coacles will make the
transportation of the mails almost
equal to the telegraph. allow a
business man to have his office in New
York and yet live il Chicago with no
more inconvenience than if his home were
Just around the corner. The tourist will
be permitted to leave any point IN the
United States one day and arrive in Eu-
rooe the next, and any one may have the
opportunity of leaving Nellie BLY, back in
the middle ages 10y making the circuit of
the globe in just five days.
The project was completed yesterday af-
ternoon and today at Springfield the Mount
Carmel Aeronaubc Manufacturing com
pany will be chartered with a capital of
$4,000, 600. Within. sixty days the lirsthir-
ship is to arrive in Chicago. The company
is backed 10y powerful English syndicate
and 10y eastern capitalists. both these m
terests having representatives at the Grand
Pacific meeting. The incorporators, how
ever, are the inventors, +. J, Pennington
and Richard Butler of the Mount Carmel
machine and pulley works at Mount Car
mel, Ill.,, w, c. Dewey of the Grand Rap
ids Furniture Manufacturing company of
Grand Rapids, Mich, f.. L. Chamberlain
and James A. Pugh.
The proposed air-ship, models of which
have been successfully tested, will carry
cars the size of the Pullmans and will con
tain fifty persons each, special cars being
manufactured for quick mail and passenger
SCI vice Work will commence immedi-
ately at Mount Carmel upon the manufac-
tory, the plant being a mammoth one
covering many acres. The first building
to be erected will be 800 feet square, and
the contracts FIR it have already been let.
The company will manufacture all it needs
from the raw material, even to the alumni
mum of which the air-ships will be almost
entirely composed This metal is not
only the strongest and lightest, but by a
new process owned by the company, 1t can
be made the cheapest.
The ship combines safety, speed and
comfort, and is so perfect as to be under
the absolute control of a crew Of two men.
1t is shaped much like the hull of an or
binary sea vessel. 1t has on either side,
and extending the entire length, large
wings arranged so as to turn into para
chute in case Of accident At the corners
of these wings there are propeller wheels,
enabling the ship TO be raised or lowered
ut will, large propeller wheel
at the Low gives the ship power
either to 90 backward or forward. Above
the buoying chamber is a rudder for steer
ing horizontally Just in the rear of this
is a smaller one tc steer either to the right
or left, The cabin % car IL suspended I'M
mediatey beneath this framework and
beneath this are the storage batteries,
which also act as ballast. In the front OF
the car is a place FOR the pilot, who Is pro
vided with levers for switching the cleo
trio appliances. the rudders and propelers
being controlled by electricity. The chief
secret IN this final and successful solving
of the aerial navigation problem has been
aluminium. In addition to this all the
machinery is Of an entirely new design
and of the lightest weight possible. 1t is
also TO be noticed that in order TO cause
the ship to fall or to be lost control of at
oil the rudders, the wings, the propeller
wheels, and the buoyancy chamber must
break at once, for any one OF these would
keep it suspended. But even if they
should do so the automatic parachute,
formed instantly 10y the wings, should
allow the shipto descend gently to the
earth, and as special cars will be made
for crossing the ocean, even should this
happen in mid-ocean it would float on
touching The water.
The inventors and the members Of the
company have met every obstacle suggest
ed by the few TO whom they have revealed
their plans with the most convincing
proofs. When it was decided yesterday
to 90 to work at once on the construction
Of buildings, and that the first ship
for travel should be completed and
in Chicago within sixty days, there
were those " no said that such things could
only come after years of preparation and
development. But three years it was
shown had already been spent. Hundreds
/ Of partly successful attempts have been
made in the same direction and the reason
why until today it has never been sue
cessfuly accomplished were that
electricity had not reached a high
mouge perfection and aluminum-the
only possible material for construction
was not sufficiently cheap or well enough
understood. Matters equally stupendous
were sneered at few years ago, get are
now in ordinary daily use
The first car will leave st. Louis for
Mount Carmel within two months and will
then come TO Chicago, where the men and
a few invited guests will take days va
cation for trip TO the Pacific coast or to
some other distant point,