The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-07
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77o Gapel Stree.

a kite on new-fangled notions. All I wanted was a kite built on ordinary lines, but on such mammoth scale that it would be the biggest kite in the world. I have succeeded beyond my expectations. The kite is a wonder
 "The immense surface of the kite catches the wind as readily as the sails of racing yacht, and it rises in the air as gracefully as bird, holding it's position in the strongest wind more steadily, by reason of its great weight, than does the ordinary sized kite of the small boy.
 T have made the kite and flown it chiefly for my own amusement. The question of the usefulness of the great flyer leave to men of more scientific bent of mind than mine. I merely give the facts and state what I have found the great kite capable of doing. If there can be evolved from this any plan for utilizing the waste force of the kite in some way that will be of benefit to other people, I am sure shall be only too pleased to have been Instrumental in doing so.
 '"To begin with the dimensions of the kite. It is 25 feet high and 25 feet wide, and is of the ordinary triangle pattern. The sticks are made of white pine, 5Is by inches, and are tapered from the cross to 11a inches at the ends. At each corner of the cross there are two- inch screweyes. On these screweyes are tied the four corners of the canvas sail, which is made of sail drilling. The sail is sewed on the bias, and along the edge of the canvas is sewed rope three eigth of an inch thick, with loops at the corners. These loops are tied with separate rope in the screweyes on the frame, the frame being bolted at the cross with an eyebolt, making it easy to take the kite to pieces, very necessary thing, by the way, with a kite as big as house.
 "The centre bands are made of rope three-eigths of an inch thick, with heavy harness snaps, which are also hooked in the eyebolts, in the cross and screweyas in the corners.
 "I used when I made the first trial of the kite twenty-five hundred feet of silver lake sash cord, but found the strain too great, and had to procure the highest grade of Manila rope three eighths of an inch thick. This rope stood the strain of high wind without signs of breaking.
 'In strong breeze the pull, according to careful. estimates, was from four hundred to six hundred pounds. I have at different times attached bar few hundred feet from the hitching point and allowed myself to be pulled into the air to night of a hundred feet. The kite floats at an angle of from 50 to S( degrees, and my weight is 165 pounds The weight of the kite rigged is seven. ty pounds.
 Tt is very easy matter to raise the kite With the assistance of a few mer the sticks and canvas are put together and the flying rope securely hitched about a tree, the slack in the rope being nearly all take min. The kite is lai6 flat on the gound with the top toward the hitching point, and in a fair breeze the monster Is lifted up a little so as tc catch the breeze It does this very quickly, strengthening up like a thing of life and rising. with the wind as though anxious to be obliging as possible. In order to counteract any tendency that the kite may have fol tilting sideways, guide ropes are hung at the wings, and, if necessary, they can be used to keep the kite straight while it is rising from the earth to tht clouds "-South Bethlehem Penn correspondence of the Philadelphia Times.