The San Francisco call., 1896-11-22

| bay, and / was somewhat surprised this
morning to see that no mention was made
OF 1t in the papers. / would really like to
have that thing found. so that could sa t.
isfy myself as to now it worked, for more
interesting thing 1 have never seen."
Miss Hagstrom, who resides on Tele-
graph avenue, saw the same object about
six weeks ago. The feature that mpressed
her most was the bright light which she
distinctly saw. On returning home, she
told her brother of what she had seen. but
nothing more was thought OF it until she
read recently that similar object had
been seen in another part of the State.
Charles Hagstrom, the brother of the
young lady who witnessed this queer
object in the sky, is also in the employ of
the Piedmont and Mountain View Rail-
ways.
when my sister first told me what she
had seen l treated it as Joke" he said
this evening, land placed little credence
in her story, believing that she had seen
nothing more mysterious than falling
star or me cor. When l heard the same
thing had been seen elsewhere, last week,
and heard again last night of what was
seen in this part of town, | am now con-
vinced that my sister saw the same thing,
/ have talked to several people to-day who
witnessed the object last night, and they
are all confident that it was nothing more
nor less than genuine airship."
w. J. Rodda and his wifi, whe reside at
a grocery store at 2042 Broadway. were
also witnesses TO the strange aerial visitor
s'When we first saw it, said Mrs. Rodda
tonight, I'VE thought 1T was balloon,
and if it were not for the bright light /
should still be inclined to think it was a
peculiarly shaped balloon, but 1 never
knew of balloon to carry bright lights
and travel st nighttime the way that did.
l could not see any fans myself, but others
say that they most undoubtedly saw the
propellers which sent the thing along
As it passed over it ahgied downward, &,
and if it kept on in the same direction il
should have landed somewhere across the
bay. [ at once concluded that it was The
same machine that had been seen in Sac
ramento. | believe that airships will be
brought to perfection, and / wouldn't be
the least bit surprised to hear that some
one had already built practical machine
of that kind and was operating with it in
this neighborhood.
Many of the passengers on Yost's car
live out at Piedmont, and all are of the
opinion that they saw real airship.
An Oakland artist who crosses to San
Francisco every day said this evening
that the airship was seen rom Golden
Gate Park yesterday afternoon. II was
coming home last night, he said. "in
company with friend who had been ont
to Golden Gate Park. He told me that he
and others had seen an airship during the
evening and that 1t closely resembled the
picture of the one published in The CALL.
He said that they tried to explain il bv
all kinds of means, but they came to the
conclusion that it was the same machine.
1t was dusk when they saw it and the re-
markaole brllliancy OF tie lights on it al
tracted their attention. shouldn't have
thought any more of it, but to-day in this
city 1 heard several people discussing it,''
1t is the prevalent opinion that some
one in Alameda or neighboring counties
has solved the problem of flying In the
air, and has been for some weeks put ting
his experiment to a practical test,