The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-18
.Iulius Doolittle,s Air Shin.

ulation to the scientific world to learn
 that the theory of aerial navigation
 which for many years past has been
 the dream and the study of many n
 scientist throughout the domain of knowledge has at last become prac-
 tlcal triumph or glorious realization at least in the imagination of n hum ble tiller of the soil in the Nutmeg state. Connecticut, which takes n just pride in being the birthplace of the in- yentor of the cotton-gin and the notate solum of other men of great scientific attachments and triumphs. can now. 1t
 is believed. add to her distinguished list of philosophers, living and dead
 the name of Julius Doolittle, Esquire. of Bethany, who enthusiastically
 comes forward and declares that he Is the inventor of an air ship which, al- though 1t has not yet been put to the test. Is considered, not only by himself
 but by others, as thoroughly practical
 While many gifted minds have been
 engaged for long period In figuring out the great and difficult problem of
 perpetual motion, other great minds have been equally absorbed In the ard uous mental struggle for the inven-
 tion of a practical contrivance Tor aerial navigation. Our friend Julius now feels that he can safely shout | Eureka" and not be the subject Of ridicule from doubting and unappre- ciative general public. For several years past he has kept the great secret of his life locked up in his mind, and rough model of his invention carefully locked up in a corner of his barn, and | only now has he succeeded in com | manding sufficient courage to take de- | cisive steps in the direction of prac- | tical illustration of his genius. We say | the secret has been locked up in his | breast, but this remark must be quail fled by saying that on several spasmo- | die occasions he has been bold enough l to broach the subject to certain of our Yale professors, unfolding to them his ideas as far as he safely dared, and has been flattered and encouraged by | the assurance that his machine was really practical" Thus encouraged, he now tells us that his air ship is be- | ing built in this city, and the world will soon fully realize that genius has no l limits beyond which it may not hope l to soar.
 l One thing which impressed us as l showing great strength of character | was the declaration made by MT. Doo- | little that no benefits accruing from his invention were to be permitted, un- der any consideration, to go to the re- publican party. Like D. B. Hill of New York, MT. Doolittle is a demo- crat, a fungus, as it were, of which the soil of our neighboring town of Betha- ny seems to be very prolific. We have often heard of machine politics." but never were aware before that machine politics" of the democratic kind took | the form of air ships.
 | Just how MT. Doolittle's machine is intended to be used in favor of the democratic and against the republican party the illustrious inventor has failed to explain. It might be used to spy out the camps and force and move ments of the political enemy, the same as balloons were employed, to some ex- tent, in our civil war. We can we'll imagine the intense satisfaction our friend Julius must feel to be lowering, | in his air ship, over the camps of his l hated political antagonists, and thus be | able, from his ''coigne of vantage" to l drop dynamite bombs upon their | worthless, unprotected heads. One quarter of the income from it, he says, is to go to the architect as per agree ment, and the remaining three-quar- ters to himself and the democratic party, which will, without doubt, swell the campaign fund of that party anna zingly, and ensure it's success in the future. If there is anything in the wide world which, next to scientific re- search, Julius really and intensely l loves, it is the democratic party. And when his air ship has been demonstra- l ted as a success, and the income from it begins pour in like a Niagara tor rent, Great Scott, what financial boom that party will have! For, says Julius, there's millions in it.'
 MT. Doolittle, a few days since, kindly 1 showed us a diagram, drawn by him. self, of his invention, the operating l principle of which he tried to explain, i but his explanation was not sufficiently | lucid for us to obtain good idea of its practical character. Two upright shafts, surmounted by a large oval shaped contrivance which is probably l intended to serve as a sort of para chute, was about all that could be made out of the diagram. Julius explained that the upright shafts were to revolve rapidly in opposite directions, the mo- tive power being some kind of an en- zine, located at the lower points, of
 two or three horsepower, which he had not yet fully decided upon, the
 upright shafts intended to act as a
 lifting contrivance on the principle of
 that mechanical power, the screw, but
 he failed to state how the machine was
 to take horizontal course through the
 heavens when it had attained suffi- | cicnt altitude to clear the tree tops and
 church steeples. It would not answer
 for such a machine to continually keep
 screwing itself upward, but this objec-
 ton had not evidently entered the in | ventor's mind.
 No one would suspect from MT. Doo-
 little's appearance that he was a. mat
 ural born genius," but we are ready to [ | concede that such may be the case 3 | when we reflect that "many flower is born to blush' and "waste its fra , I II.