Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-08
GAN MEN LEARN TO FLN
! Problem Agitating the Academy of s<s ence-A Company to Boom Invention.

FrODi6m Astating me Academy ot SeS
 ence-A Company to Boom Invention.
 An adventurous aeronaut succeeded in flying d couple of miles in the sub, urbs of New York, with the aid of {, huge machine that had wings. and tlas seemed ti use them with considerable success. For something like genera ton the inventor of this flying ma chine had been at work upon it, and had been laughed at because of it as heartily y as ever the irreprcssible Keely, of motor.fame. was laughed at. But he was Scotchman, who possessed true Scotch tenacity He stuck to his idea and finally had tho satisfaction of see ing it's great wings beat the air over Coney Island and carry it consider able distance before it was though: well to let it rest
 AS a result of this there has been or. ganizcd a company with a capital of $l ,000. 900, the object of which is edu cate the public in the matter of uying, and to supply the wings that will be necessary.
 Even the august academy of sci ences. which once every week discus ses subjects that most people know nothing about, and whose members lMow pretty much everything that mortal man ought to know. is taking some cognizance of the affair at issue, and in quiet way are discussing the question as to whether or not man will be able to fly. Many of the learned professors insist that, as man has by the help of machinery been able to propel himself through the water. there is no reason why he should not conquer the air in the same manner, But many more of the professors shake their heads in solemn negation when this argument is advanced.
 Still the Scotch inventors success has created an impression. His fly ing machine is cigar shaped, some 6G feet in length and 42 feet in diameter. Its wings work exactly like those of 8 bird by the aid of a propeller worked by electricity, and the passenger is carried justas an eagle carries it's prey. It is a peculiar affair, but has been more successful than anything of it's kind, and hence the arguments among tine scientific professors. Most of these professors believe that man will be able to fly by mechanism only when that mechanism is made after that of the bird. One of these learned men, discussing the matter the other day expressed this opinion. He said that from the earliest time the dominant wish of man had been to fly after the manner and method of the bird. Most models of the air ships that have been attempted have been after the bird of flight, and particularly of the sea bird, whose ability fov continual flight, owing to the power of tighten ing its body, is well known.
 Should man ever fly successfully" Y" sail the learned man, The will have to do it by means of mechanism modelled after the elastic and muscular form of the sea bird"
 The authorities tell us that the fly ing machine is of prehistorical origin. We are told also that some 400 years B. c. a wooden pigeon was made tc fly with considerable success. As this exploit was accomplished more thay 2,2oO years before the trial of our Scotch inventors machine we havv not much to boast of.
 Just what will come of the discus sion at the Academy of Science re,
 mains to be seen Nothing at all ma, come of it in the end except a goo6 deal of theorizing. But in the mean- time Patrick C. Campbell, the doughty Scotchman, who is the inventor of s machine that made the successful flight through the air, is going right ahead and is terribly in earnest. He has worked nearly all his life on his inven- ton, and now, backed as he is by g capitalized company, he thinks he sees success ahead. New York Mail and Express.