The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-11-23
SAILING IN THE AIR
Aerial Navigation Said to Be One Of
the Possibilities.
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
u Is said a Maine Man Has Per-
fected a Machine that Does
the Work Mysterious Light
In the Heavens.

san Francisco. Nov. ss.-The Chron-
lc'r prints story which would indl-
cate that thu airship IN practicable
f'm is an established fact. About |
o'clock last Monday morning. the In
h7bt,ints Of Sacramento who were
asiir az that hour claim they believe
they saw an airship passing rapidly
over the city. Some merely said they
saw u bright llgit. while others went
- far "a 10 say they saw a cigar
shaped dying ma rhine and h ard hui
man voices from Il. The residents or
Oakland also say they saw the same
sight a few nights ago. Tho story Of
the mysterious airship has been told all
over tha state and has created COnsid-
cradle amusement, as Il was generally
believed tn be q hoax. The Chronicle
this morning prints an interview with
George u. Collins. n reputable lawyer
Of this city, who says that the airship
is a reality.
Attorney Collins says: "It Is per-
ftctly true that there IL at last a sue
cessful airship In existence, and that
California Will have the honor Of bring
ing II before the world. ! have known
~ the affair fer some time ard am act-,
ing as attorney for the inventor. lie
* very wealthy man. whn has been
studying the subject of flying machines
f5r IL years and who came here seven
years ago from the state of Maine In
order to he able to perfect his ideas
away from the eyes OF other inventors.
During the last five wears he has spent
nj least SlO0,000 ON his work. He he's
not yet secured his ltcpt, hut his APP
pliCation is now I'm Washington. | can
not say much about the machine he has
perfected because he IL my client. and
besides he fears his application VIII be
n ltn from the patent office If people
c"m' to know that his invention Is
practicable
II saw the machine one night last
week at the inventors invitation. u Is
made of metal. Is about $50 feet long
and y built to carry ~ persons. There
was no motive power as far as | could
So, certainly no steam. II Is built on
the aCruplane system and has two can
vas wings Is feet wide and a ruidcr.
staped like q birds toll The inventor
climbed into thu mlchln, and after he
bad been moving come mechanism a
moment saw the thing begin 10 ascend
from the earth. very gently. The
wings Mapped slowly as II rose and
then little faster az II began to move
against the wind The machine was
u1d'r perfect control all the time
when II got To "A height OF about 90
feet the Inventor shouted to me that he
was going to make a series of circles.
He Immediately did 80. beginning by
making a circle about 100 yards in
d'lTcter and gradually narrowing II
till the machine SGT within 80 fett OF
the ground. VI then fen straight down.
very gracefully. and touched the earth
as lightly as a falling leaf
THE reports from Sacramento the
either night " r" true. II was my Cli-
ent's airshlp that the people saw. 1t
started from Ornville. In Butte county,
AMI ilew 65 miles in q strlight line dl-
rectly over Sacramento. After running
up and down once or twice over the
capitol. my friend came right on, a
distance of another 10 miles ana land
ed at n srot on the Oakland side OF the
hay. where the machine now Hes
guarded by so men. The inventor
found. during his trial trip, that his
ship had wave-lilyc motion that made
him scnsick. II Is this defect that he
Is row remedyng
I'm another six days tn, trouble will
be done away WITH and II IL then his
intUrdCn to imm llately give the poo
nj of san Francisco a chance to see
his machine, He viii fly right over the
city and Gcrcss Market street A dozen
times. | carnot tell you where he Is
housing the Snip or what his name IL,
rs 7 an under a pledge OF secrecy, but
Il IS n fact that tho mHrhlnr does its
work perfectly. and will astound the
world and revolutionize travel when II