The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-16
A CHERAW AIR SHIP.
REMARKABLE INVENTION oFASoUTH
CAROLINA GENIUS.
A Flying Machine With the Power to 60
With or Against Air Currents, Upward
or Downward, as Directed.

A Flying Machine With the Power TO 60
With or Against Air Currents, Upward
or Downward, as Directed.
CHERAw, 8. G., Dec. 9.-The pub
licity given by the New York Worlds
account of the mysterious air ship, ex.
citing SO much attention on the Pacl-
fic coast causes your correspondent to
report the work of Cheraw man in
this direction. As yet he has men
toned the fact of his discovery to but
few, and this article will be as great
surprise to citizens of this place as it
will elsewhere. The inventor or dis
coverer or perfector. of this strange
mode of navigati on Of the air has Civ
en- considerable time to the study and
has shown his drawings to the writer.
and from his limited knowledge of
such things he is constrained to say
that the thing is success, particular.
ly since he has read the description Of
the capabilities of the California shib.
Everything claimed by sAttorneyS y
General Hart for the western ship
the speed, the propelling power, the
the moving against currents Of air as
well as with them, and the power to :
dart from side to side and forward,
downward or upward. are all possess
ed by the Cheraw ship.
The inventor asserts that he would
not hesitate to take his family up in
his ship and that it can be controlled
by child, so simple are the devices
for increasing or lessening the speed.
A comparison with the claims made:
with the rival shows that the carrying
capacity of the Cheraw ship is greater
and capable of much larger freight
and passenger carriage. It is hoped
that he will carry out his idea and
soon have ship constructed to demon
strate all that he claims for it.
For reasons satisfactory to your
correspondent and the inventor his
name Is for the present withheld from
the public, but will be furnished inter-
estedpaftieawho might be OF assistance
to him in the completion OF the M0fk
he has undertaken, When "a man
sees thing with his own eyes he
knows it and the writer has critically
examined the Cheraw ship and il
there is weak point about 1t he fail.
edto discover it, nor does he believe
that such exists.
The Cheraw genius has condolences
in it, those who have seen it likewise
and little more time and encourage
ment only are needed to surprissthe
world. That the air will be navigated
ere long all admit. /,
Attorney General Hart says: :"
am of the opinion that his air ship
will be success, and its success Is lar
more probable att This time than
Morse's telegraphy was at the time
Morse first offered the same to the
public" So the writer believes about
the one here.
Why not South Carolina lead in
this9 Why not Cheraw lead South
Carolina9 It can do tit will do 1t it
the matter is pushed. The inventor
here is not on the make, he has not
given the subject a thought from 9
pecuniary standpoint; he is possessed
of an inventive mind and has spent
much time gratifying it, and today Is
about ready to ast onish the world with
the production of great human need
one that is reality and not an idle
dream of one vainly specializing on an
impossibility.-News and Courier.