The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16

I British channeD. when Engllshmen would
/ have 10 take their chances with the rest
l Of Europeans. They therefore hoped that
! should never succeed II I had replied
/ 10 this I should have said that the French
/ and Germans were attempting 10 make
I lying machines, that the defense against
/ flying machines would only be other fly
[ Ing machines. and that I. living in Eng
/ land and being Identified with the English
| people, would naturally be making mine
not 10 enable them to come here, but 70
keep them from coming here Therefore
/ one ought to pray in the other direction"
You VIII never Doe able TO build flying
machine big enough 20 take a 13-inch
| gun2"
Plying machines viii be used very
much as torpedo boats when they come.
! They are sure TO come in time because
| it is possible to make them. and what il
| is possible to make is sure to come. es~
/ pecialiy IL there is a great demand for IT,
For instance, If the United States should
| go to war with some great nation and
| have long war. there would certainly
De somebody to put money enough into
flying machines and enough engineers
would take hold of the matter and make
it a big success at once, instead of its de-
velopment depending upon one man."
Would not ships need TO he equipped
with specially made guns to train upon
| flying machines 2"
- ship. naturally, has to protect some
| thing besides itself 1t would be no use
10 have British ships in the channel with
the sole object of protecting themselves.
The ships are in the channel TO keep a
hostile army from landing in England.
II they had flying machines they could
come over in spite OF tie ships and drop
their bombs anywhere they liked Sup
pose, now, that some rich nation should
take hold of flying machines and develop
gh no
sessed of flying machines. People in other
countries might say they did not think
they would DO much damage. Suppose,
now, the English and the French had a
dispute about something and the question
Of going to war was being discussed in
the House Of Parliament. Say at about
s o'clock a vote might be taken declar-
ing war against France The French, by
some system Of Geographic codes would
know at once that war had been declared
and 1t might be possible, If they had a
lot of flying machines at BoulOgne. in two
hours after the declaration of war and
While the members were still discussing
the question, to have the whole house Of
parliament Knocked down over their heads
by ntrO-glycerine dropped from the sky,
and the next morning they might find
Portsmouth and Woolwich and a good
many bridges and gas works destroyed.
After that nations would be charry about
is the poor soldier who has to go forward
and take the brunt of the battle; it is the
soldier that has to become a living target;
the members of parliament, the king or
the emperor, or whoever it is, keep at a
distance. but when flying machines be-
come common instead of making war upon
the soldiers the first man to be attacked
will be the king or emperor, the first build
ing knocked down the royal palace the sec
Ond one the House of Parliament.
They would be great machines for in
vasion. No hostile man-of-war can get
near the United States now, but a flying
machine would go right in. There would
be no defense against them but flying ma
chimes. Flying machines could not strike
at so great a distance as q man-of-war. A
man-of-NHar can sail 10000 miles and still
fire a shot, but it will be a long time be-
fore flying machines are able to go over
1000 miles. If they should become a re-
ality as Instruments of war it would then
be necessary for the United States to take
possession of the whole continent and all
the Islands If they did not want any one
to make war on the United States from
Canada with flying machines, but not from
Great Britain or Ireland"
How long do you think it will be-" I
asked, before you have flying machine
ready for exhibition"
oh L don't know, = answered the inven-
tor; cit viii depend upon my luck and
how much money l make and have to spend
and how much time 1 can devote to it. As
rule when / am working the hardest /
am making most money and have less time
to spend. When am earning money have
no time and when have plenty of time L
am earning no money"
do you care to say how much money
you have already spent on flying ma
chinese" tt
"Oh, think SSO, 600 and what spare time
1 have had in four or five years"