Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-12-05
THE AIRSHlP AGAIN.
Ex-Attorasy.Genera Hart Says 1t ts 0snuans.-A Letter to the Exam.
 finer From the Alleged Inventor,

tner From tho Alleged Inventor,
 The Los Angeles Express says: Ths alleged alrshIp oontin ues' to excite the pee pie snd the newspapers of the north ern part of the State. The Call, which pu blished the first dispatches from Sa crsmeDto about the appearance of the my sterious craft sOove the capital city on Tuesday night of last week, apparent l. ly tskes considerable erock in its gen. ui1enese. The Examiner ridicules the whole sHair io pictures and cartoons, but prints columns of matter rather ID o0rrOboration of tte existance of the fly. ing machine and it's appepran over San Francesca and other plsces. The Chronicle devotes less space to It, and evidently cOnslders 1t a cold fake.
 The alleged air-shlp, or it's my sterious lights, have been reported as having been seen somewhere nearly every night since it's first appearance at SscrpmentO. Pop ular illusions, or delusions, are by no means uncommon. There are plenty of people who believe that they have seen ghosts and other impossible things And ID the csss of this 60 called aIr-ship, hun- dreds of people of responsibility have seen some mysterious machine navigating the air end apparently under control, or they are the victims of their own lm- aginstions and credulity, as it Is not to be believed that they have sll deliberate ly and willfully lied.
 Wednesdays San Francisco papers re- port that ex. Attorney G Genersi w. H. H Hart became the attorney for the inven- tor of the sir-snip in place of George D. Collins, who talked too much. Lengthy interviews are reported with General Hart, in which be sfiems that the arr ship really existe; that 1t will not be pa tented, becsuse more money can be made by selling 1t for war purposes than by using 1t for transportation; that patent would expose its principles; that it's owners wish to correct some de- fleets in it. one of wh.cb IS that 1t must oe constantly moving Uhile in the s,r; that the motive power of the machine is a storage battery, and that the body or the machine is of aluminum; that it could be used to bring the Cuban war to c close by destyoying Havana; which could easily be accomplished ID icrty- eight hours. The General added;
 II have no.doHbt chat the object seen n the air over Sacramento and over Oakland, and possibly also over Twin Pesks. this oity was the airshlp. The light that is seen, may tell you, is a re- fiectsd light, not s direct light, like @ headlight. Some people who have seen it say that it looks like an archlieht. Of course it is not an srchlight. That is absurd. To provide the current for an archligbt would require almost as much power ss to operate the ship."
 The Examiner received letter Tuee- day afternoon. promising that the air. chip will vislt San Francisco thie Thanksgiving evening, from 9:3O to Il o'clock. Doubtless thousands of people wlli be on the lookout for it; and If the letter writer Is 8 practical joker, he will "hsve it" on enough people to keep him in liquid refreshments the remainder of his life. The letter is as follows:
 "Noyem Der A. 1896. To the editor of the Exsniner-Sm: As there seems to be good deal of skeptIcism as to wheth- CT or not @ ship capable of navigating the air has finally been invented and this is to inform the people of San Francisco through your columns that Thursday next, November 2Gth, at about 9:30 o'clock, will approach the city from . point in the interior, sailing over Goat Island and in the direction of tha Cliff House. at sn elevation of about 1000 feet. l will return over the same oourss about II o'clock. l am making some experiments in the heavy winds outside the Golden Gate. I am then go ing over the Sierras with my chip and will probably not be back for several dave.
 "As the secret is soon to be made pub- lic. [ desire ts prepare the people for it and to conv,pce them that sn sirship IS at laet sn sctuality. and that another era is at hand when transportation methods are to be revolutionizsd. Respectfully,
 "THE INVENTOR"