The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-30
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pearance' before large, paying crowd.
Il admitted that thought the scheme
might be worked provided his flying
machine worked, and then he showed
1t to me. 1t was nothing but wings so
far as / could see-great spreading
wings of white, shining metal, which
he explained was aluminium. l admit
ted that l didn't know anything about
balloons, flying machines or anything
of that kind, and he went into the his
tory of the whole business. He told
me that human ignorance. prejudice
and stingineSs had thus far been the
chief obstacle to successful navigation
of the air, and that at an earlier day
religious superstition had defeated and
destroyed some OF the most remarkable
efforts to fly He told about some arch
bishop who, having witnessed the sue
cessful flight of an aeronaut, had i'm
mediately caused the scientist TO be
burned at the stake for witchcraft.
we got down to brass tackS after
awhile, and l said that if he would give
me a private exhibition of his flying
ability I'd take him to Denver and pull
] of show in which we might both
make some money. 1 stayed all night
at his shack, and he explained the
/ workings of his invention 1t was, as
| l told you, mostly wings. but there was
| a piece of harness which reached from
! the butt of the wings to his feet, by
means of which he claimed to be able
| to launch himself from the earth. In
1 other words, once hitched UP to his
continuance, he could by a few vigor-
Gus strokes with both legs set up such
a vigorous Tapping of his wings that
he rose at once. After that it was
I mostly question of slow, steady leg
strokes. the manipulation of the wings
| with his hands soaring posing and
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Beyond CamerOn's Cone. a thousand
feet or more below the cliff that faces
south, there is a wide, smooth table
land of perhaps a thousand acres. I
was to go there IN the morning. while
he, winged and ready, was to launch
himself from the cliff, mount, stoop.
soar, descend, alight. sind in every way
demonstrate his ability to fly When I
got to my place about noon I could
descry him only by the reflection which
the sun cast from his bright wings.
He looked like an ant aloft, and I sat
down in the shade of a small oak and
waited. Presently / saw his wings
spread. He seemed to leap from the
precipitous edge of the cliff against the
wind. I felt sick and dizzy as 1 waited
for his fall But instead of falling he
hoated out across the chasm like a
bird. Then the wind, which was against
him, drove him back and upward like
a kite. The wings were motionless. but
he cireled and rose, as you have seen
buzzards circle and Mount with wings
that seemed rigid. Then he swung out
across the abyss and away, quartering
toward the east as fast as eagle ever
few; then poised again. and came
swooping like a hawk toward the table
4 where / lay, fascinated. watching him.
I thought he would be dashed to pieces
1 against the ground, but when he was
perhaps 400 feet above me, descending
like a dead missile. saw the strokes
of his legs The great. cleaning wings
snote the air rapidly, and he stood
still in mldair. leaning, as it We're,
tagainst the breeze, and then, in swiftly