St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-10
CHEAT RIVERS HERMIT.
Soiitudes Devising Flying Ma
chimes.

| ChlneS.
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
For years Bernard CreSsler has lived
alone away up toward the source of the
| beautiful Cheat. He is known as Sclen.
| tiSt and astronomer Of no mean note
In sthat locality, and of late uncanDy
| reports have crept down the mountains
of the strange dOings i'll the vicinity of
| his little cabin.
In the midst of the widest scenes the
scientist, astronomer and hermit was
| found. OF all the hobbies this man
! rides, one is paramount and has been
the cause of his leaving civilization
that he might study and experiment
alone with nature. That hobby is a
flying machine. Cressler has spent years
i'll this study, and believes the only
perfect machine is that devised and
controlled by the Divine Builder, and
this he has taken as his model.
CreSSler'S model is the enOrmuS hawk
OF these mountains, which is capable
with immOvable wings of soaring for
hours, not combating the wind, but util-
iZing such air currents as power to lift
it higher. This hawk he compares to a
skillful skater, who has acquired his
momentum artificially, and then by
merely throwing his body this way and
that, by force Of gravity continues as he
pleases. his cleverly poised body Oh the
keen skates being an assistance instead
OF hlndrance to grace and speed.
CreSsler's continuance is not machine,
nor is it built to atagoniZe, but rather to
utilize, the force of nature. He says the
SchOol-bOy's kite comes nearer to the
ideal flying machine than any intricate
and labOred effort of million fond eX-
periments. Being taXidermiSt, with
wonderful eye for nature, he has
scores of hawks in his cabin poised in
all the positions assumed for flving.
Some of these attitudes to layman'S
eye appear extremely awkward, but
the SCIENTISTS explanations are plausible
and his proofs convincing.
For instance, he has gone so far into
the science of the hawks flying that he
has dissected the muscles of score,
made draughts of each particular set.
and noted on the drawing their peculiar
uses when the bird is flying. He has
also closely estimated the strength
eXerted by each muscle or set of
muscles, and applying them to the whole
declares positively that man possesses
each muscle necessary, and besides
that has ten-fold the requisite strength.
His machine is made to be worn like
an ordinary suit, but when donned it UNI
folds marvellous possibilities. 1t fits like
glove, and is manipulated instinctively
as part of the body, each muscle of
arm and leg and body eXerting itself
at the proper time. The wearer rises
perpendicularly in the air, and then,
throwing out the bat-shaped wings
floats or rather scars at ease, not de-
scending as One.would naturally suppose
but if wind is blowing he rather rises
with it, making no effort to combat the
air current, but adapting his flight 10 its
strength and fitting his wings, which
guide his flight. In fact, CresSler does
not fly, he rather sOsrs. To this one
end he has bent all his energies of mind
and body for years, and it only remains
for practice to bring more intelligent
flight, coupled with absolute certainty
of direction.