Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-11-23
Nib AIRSHIP A FACT.
oIirOrpIaus Tell a Story Of a Ays-
,srlcus Flying Machine.
,uE STATEMENT OF A LAWYER
,nytntioa as Yet Kept Secret
Some People Doubi tbs
Story.

IS go, FpANolsco, Nov. 2a.-Tbe
a rs,opicle prints a story which would
s'.No.ts that the nirship In practical
,.,m IA an established fact.
4 .hou, / O'Clock last Monday morn
- ,hs inhabitants OF Sacramento who
vsre aslir at that hour claim to have
.,sr an airship passing rapidly over
{ he city. Some merely said they saw
Z bright light, while others went 80
n, a. to say that they saw cigai-
,n.ned d ying machine and heard hui
man voices from it. The residents oil
Sp,klsnd also say they saw the same
,isbt q few nights ago.
n The story of the mysterious airship
a. been told all over the state and
4 rss created considerable amusement,ss
wss generally believed to be- a hoax.
3,rna Chronicle this morning prints an
,nisrvirw with George ID. Coilins. a
,sru,able lawyer OF this city, who says
a I'M tbe airship ia u reality. Attorney
tColllns says:
N III ia petfecily true that there 10 at
at a .uccessful sirehip in existence,
md Thai California will have the honor
IN bringing 1t before the world. have
N nown OF tue affair for some time ana
{, N acting as attorney for The inventor.
4 Ae h very wealthy r1an, who has
Hheu studying tne pupiec. OF lying
4mlchines Tor fifteen years, anu who
&csme here seven years ago from the
hate of Maine in or1er to be able to
,eriect his ideas away from the eyes
IN other inventors. During the last
live years he has spent At least $780,
fnO ON mis- work. He has not yet
&,scuted his patent, but his application
|, now In Washington. / cannot ssy
tmuch about the machine ne has
ERECTED, because be Is my client, and
sbe,ldes he fears that the Rppli cation
NM be stolen from the patent office II
It,ople come to know That his lnven-
\ on is practicable.
~ saw the machine one night last
|setk at the inventor's invitation. 1t
l b made OF metal, 10 about $50 feet
hong, and 10 built TO carry fifteen
petsons. There was NO motive power
Sio iar as l could see, certainly no
fiuam.
at 10 built on the aeroplane system
|sbd has two canvas wings eighteen
tisl wide and u rudder shaped like u
|birls tail. The Inventor climbed into
he machine, aud after he had been
knowing some OF the mechanism for o
:lpoment saw the thing begin to as.
rcenl from the earth, very gently. The
wings Tapped slowly as 1t rose and
',hen n little faster ~ II began TO move
against the wind. The machine was
under perfect control all the time.
"when 1t got to height OF about
ninety feet the inventor shouted to me
that ne was going Ia make series vi
circles. He Immediately did SO, be-
4 ginning by making circle about 100
yards in diameter and gradually mar.
rowing II Ri the machine got Within
thirty feet OF the ground. 1t then ieli
straight down, very grsoeluily, anu
touched the earth rs lightly Ne n fall
Ing leaf.
"Hhe reports from Sacramento the
other night were true. 1t was my cli-
enI's airship that the people saw. II
tt!aIted frem Oroville, in Blu te county,
and flew eixty miles In a straight line
I Directly over Sacramento. After run.
ming up anu down once or twice over
The capital my friend came right on u
distance Of another seventy miles and
landed at spot on the Oakland side
Z Of the bay, where the machine now
Lies, guarded by eighty men. The in
vebtor found during MS trial trip that
i hi, ship had weve-like motion TINT
made him seasick. IL 10 this defect
loaf he 10 now renedying. In another
elk dsys the trouble viii DO done AWAY
with, ana 1t r. then his intention to
Immediately give the people Of Sa d,
Francisco chance TO sec his machine.