The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-04
TO FLY THROUGH SPACE.
Pennington Will Guide His Airshil
From Chicago to New York.

From the PIttSblrp Dispatch.
Pennington. the king of airships and aerial
adventure, is again TO the front. In three
weeks time a grand human bird, il is
claimed, will sweep over Chicago In the
direction of New York, with a great spoon
wheel whirling IN front, two whirling fans
on either side, great fms on its back and to
the side; at the back an air rudder that
Steers TO starboard and port, and below 10 a
wide, thin slab that flaps at will like the
tail of orawfish with the collie, aud guides
the ship up TO dizzy nights or lowers it TO
the level OF numbering locomotives and con-
veyances Of a slower speed.
The redivivus OF the Pennin gton airShlp
takes place at Chicago Heights says the
Inter Ocean. Here the airship compa ny
has forty acres OF broad expansive meadow
land, where there Is plenty Of room TO boost
the great artificial hawk, aud to avoid any
casualties if the wonderful artiAce should
60 darling about deliriously In the manner
Of lop-sided kite.
The Pennington company has just finished
its first building. 1t is queer, tall struct-
ure, painted red. and is the only building
on earth devoted exclusively to the manu-
facture Of 6irships. IL covers 80 900 feet Of
floor space and has the most wonderful
stupendous doors ever constructed. These
doors are So feet high and 81 feet wide.
TO GO sEvENTY-FIVE MILES AN HOUR
These gigantic portals will be swung aside
and the great inflated cylinder that Is to
perforete the atmosphere at seventy-five
miles an hour and give the common fowl OF
the air the hiccough as it PUSHES by, this
great potbellied famingo will be ushsred
out and sent up into the air and headed for
New York city with spirit of confidence
that will make every railroad monopoliSt In
the land declare himself insolvent forthwith.
The airship factory is just completed,
and has many interesting sights within its
walls. The main portion is the Gargantuan
berth Of the great buoyancy chamber, or
inflated cylinder, which is 1876 feet long
with a mean diameter OF 30 feet. In another
shop is the car, which is aluminium metal,
with cushion seats filed with hydrogen
gas, and weighing altogether but 1855
pounds. The same sized car constructed of
ordinary material would weigh 1850
pounds. Everything Is relatively light.
The great fin on the back is hollow alumni
ium filed with hydrogen gas. and those on
either side are similarly made. The hori-
ship, and is in the manner of a birds tail,
and the perpendicular rudder which steers
it are also of aluminium and very light
THE MOTOR POWER.
The motor power consists of two beauti-
full little engines of alleged aluminium.
These engines each consist of four cylinders
with four piston rods attached to a single
center aud acting with reciprocal power.
Hydrogen gas is exploded by an electric
spark. One engine weighs a minimum of
As pounds, and has a maximum capacity of
l5-horse-power. These engines drive the
great wheel Of four spoons that bores
through the air, auger-liks, and draws the
ship after it, while the little fans on the side
elevate the ship or lower It.
Everything is as light as possible, and all
the different portions of the airship are at
present in course of construction.
"In about three or four weeks," said Ed
ward J. Pennington In his office, az shall
have the ship completed. / will sail up to
Chicago the first day and land on the lake
front. Thence l shall set out for New York
CITY, thence to New Orleans and over to the
Pacific coast, and from San Francisco back
to Chicago"
Mr. Pennington said this with the nom
chslance OF a man who is talking about
crossing the street. There is absolutely no
doubt In his mind but the airship will sail
without a hitch or a falter.
sANGUINE OF SUCCESS
In his mind there are no "ifs" and "buts."
The ship will sail. That is ali there Is about
it. Mr.. Pennington has spent nine years
Of his life to make the ship as it win appear
shortly. He has studied every work. ar
ticle aud magazine under the sun on aerial
navigation, and has combined all the SUI
perior points OF others machines and elimi-
mated all the hindranoes in the Pennington
airship.
The hydrogen gas in the great bIoated
pickle is not intended to raise the ship, but
simply to render its weight nil. The little
fans on the inside do the elevating, and the
great wheel in front draws the ship for
ward The present buoyancy chamber will
lift two tons and q half. The car attached
Immediately will carry ten passengers. The
airship, Theoretically, Is perfect. Every
possible mechanism to Tighten 1t and TO
overcome gravity and to lessen the atmos-
pheric currents has been secured.
Still, human credulity stands aghast when
it is asked TO put simple, trusting belief
in the claim that any man has ingenuity
enough TO rival the feathery creatures Of
the air.
LOOK OUT FOR IT.
Mr.. Pennington will have to blow I'D his
machine, get the wheels to going ana
ascend up over the sky-scrapers and shoot
of across the sky like streak Of creased
lightning before a select few OF the most
daring minds will believe he can hy, he
will have to cut figure 8s in the sky, play
tag with the stars and dance a cancan
around the moon before the masses will con-
sent to crown him king OF the air.
w III ue NO AT w AlA bhS ~ COZ pAbouI ora,
with a wheel behind and wheels TO the sides.
90 spinning through the air aud darting in
and out among the clouds. leaving lurid
streaks In the midnight sky with one cad
10 Chicago and the other in the outskirts of
Shaughail
Mr.. Pennington believes it will. He re-
counts that the steamboat, the steamship,
the telegraph, the telephone, the steam en-
glee-ail had 20 battle with incredulity and
the petty structures Of ridicule in their inolp-
iency.
But he does not ask anybody 20 accept
bis claims Within three weeks he will give
an actual exhibition, where the evidence of
the will be unanswerable. Meanwhile, IL
would be well enough for the humorously
inclined to occasionally drop around to the
lake front and look out for big, shining
monster to come slipping down among the
park tramps and paralyEe helf dozen on
the spot
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