The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-15
1T FLIES BY NIGHT.
kvERYBODY PULLING OVER THE
GREAT AlRSHlP MYSTERY
uany Say They Have Seen Ii-A Re-
porter Claims to Have Run IL Down-A
Chicago Paper Gives the story . Terse.
Old Fashioned Title.


The wonderful airship stories that
nave been kept in circulation for some
line past are exciting great deal OF
comment Hundreds of people alleee
that they have seen the aerial monster.
while the thousands who have not seen
1t are incredulous, but curious to know
lust what truth there Is In all the ru'
mors.
The Kansas City Times announces the
discovery of a man named Slower, who
is the owner of an airship, which The
Times believes 20 be the one recently
observed sailing over Kansas City The
ship is called the Great AUX
1.-The principle upon which the Great
AUX was built, says this paper, was
that of the aeroplane, Il sufficiently
hackneyed theory III aerial navigation,
but the principle upon which it was
propelled through the air was unique
Mr. Stoncr obtained his idea from
watching sheet of paper fall through
n still atmosphere from Il great height
He noticed that the tendency was TO de
scribe 2igzag course as Il vessel takes
against the wind. He at once concluded
that the shooting Of the paper in one di-
rection tended 10 form in front of it
slightly condensed cushion of air, which
repealed the sheet driving ii toward the
rarer atmosphere.
$50 he built the Great AUX TO travel
an undulating or waving plane, as a
sparrow flies, depending upon the down
ward tack TO compress a cushion of air
beneath and in front of the craft, which
would hoist it upon the crest of the
next wave, and so on. 1t was propelled
by revolving fans, fore and aft, and
was raised and lowered by two twin
fans working horizontally upon the mp
per deck. The undulating movement
was secured by hinged plane of canvas
in a steel frame, worked automatically.
The fans and canvas plane were worked
by a small engine, in which steam was
generated by the burning of crude oil.
The entire device was about 75 feet in
length by 90 feet in width.
1.-The sectional aspect of the device is
that Of cross, as there are really two
aeroplanes-one horizontal, the other
vertical. A side view suggests the hull
of yacht with centerboard attached. >"
A man in Minneapolis, who has great
faith in omens, says the airship mystery
means war, and that blood will be
spilled
Il have not seen the airship," said
he, but 1 know what it is. The red
light which those people have seen is
nothing but IL red light. and wherever
such light is to be seen is a sure sign
of bloodshed that will take place in the
near future Tor God sake let us avoid
war 1t 10 more blood be spilled On
Kansas soil or anywhere in the United
States. | write this because | feel that
| should 1t the people take heed, and
let Us not have war Bat as the sign las
been seen - some yGy gccd I,'t.s. !
am Glra:d that liccrshc d cc-2. l.,
avoided. Some may laugh at thiswcrn
ing, EUt 1t thc:l ret FORGET 1t.
The CEcaso Record refuses to put
faith in tic Great AUX 1t comments
on TIC situation IL The following irrev
erent vein:
are ut present struggling came suddenly
and without warning Chlcago stated
it nearly "a year ago with Mr.. Chapute :
exhibition Of mechanical birds down i'll
northern Indiana But Mr.. Chanute' S
large pine and canvas backed ducks and
fiamingocs were simply sort Of mea-
sles or Group in comparison with the
-, nf Hx-tnt W
which is now ravaging up and down the
country, attacking the very flower OF
the land and driving truth back to the
bottom of ner we'll One has but to read
the recent reports from Oklahoma, Mich
igan, Omaha, Everest, Kan, aud sCmt
of the Indian reservations TO be salts
fled of this.
Starting from the small and humble
beginning of the Indiana sand dunes
and the toboggan chute down which Mr.
Chanute used 10 slide his wooden birds
the plague of airships has virtually GOV
cred this country. No man is safe Ac
cording 10 the dispatches. one may flee
| from Grand Forks, n d.. in fear ant
| trembling, because of the apparition Of
II large, trultttt dtltpluHt Will SISSi
| eyes and long, flowing name and tail
and, 10, as he gets off the train at Dial
las. along toward the middle of TIT
night, his uneasy eyes, soaring heaven
ward, are paralyzed by the spectacle o
the red, white and blue air craft which
burns danger signals like an apotheca
rvs shop and chops around here ant
there in the upper ether, to the vas
danger of the stars and church steeples
Or he may go to Oklahoma, and thu
very first thing he knows after dele
CATION has taken him out to show hin
proudly where the cyclone was he |
bounced upon and held entranced by
double barreled skyship, 1897 model
with large sprockets and detachable
Damc plate. It's unfortunate. of course
but what can be done about it, Moth
ing. Absolutely nothing
Just as the world has worried throug
and has survived other great Affections
so the airship lie must be lived down
1t is dreadful thing to be lied at i
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