Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-22
FLYING MACHINES.
The Interesting Experiments Of Two
PASSPORT Young Men.

Two PASSPORT young men have, after
a winters work. succeeded in building
a flying machine, which they claim
has proved successful. Writes the
Frontier News: The machine which
the inventors think will surely solve
the problem of how to cut through
space has already cut quite a huge
junk out Of the atmosphere in the sew
eral attempts they have made to start
for Mars on an investigating tour. The
| first attempt was to start from Es-
| tey's Mead to Shackfords Head, and
after several sudden dimensions in
the briny deep they finally made an
lattempt which was successful, that is,
they did not have any stations to stop
at no dimensions, but a fair run trip
or fly from one head to the other. The
machine is truly and wonderfully
made; the body, in which the naviga-
tor sits, is shaped something like a BIZ
cycle and the wings, or prOpelling APP
paratus is operated by foot power
which causes the wings to initiate the
fiaping of a bird or bat. The wings
are covered with oil skin and are very
strong. The whole machine represents
great ingenuity and skill on the part
of the builders and if their next at
tempt, which will be an effort to fly
from Esteys Head to Birch Point.
Perry, is successful. a patent will be
applied for and the machine taken to
ST. Louis for exhi nltion al The great
fair in 1903. Instead ri trying to fly
around the Eiffel tour la Santos
Dumas, they will make an attempt to
lily around the EastpOrt stand pipe,
which the water company intend fill
| ing with pure water in order to resist
any shock of the machine striking the
pipe. Should the machine prove to
steer easily a challenge may issue to
any inventor of flying machines. San
tos Dumas preferred, for a match
race, no preliminaries, go as you please
The flying part is all right, but the
alighting is the sticker. Fortunately
snowdrifts abound in the vicinity, and
as one of our leading insurance men
has taken an accident risk for them,
they are perfectly resigned.
Not to be outdone by Santos Dumas
or even the two EastpOrt young men
who were credited last week with
building an airship, two of the young
er residents have come to the front
this week with a unique invention,
called snow boat, something similar
to an iceboat, but to be used about the
roads and on the crust when there
was sufficient snow and they have been
rewarded with quite a novel sailor.
The two runners are like wood snow
, shoe runners made of the width of the
average sleigh SO that the boys could
sail their novel boat in the streets. A
small mast was set up near the front
of the platform and a sail fastened to
the stick. The boys gave their new
boat a trial trip in one of the large
fields in the western part of the city
and it went like the wind. During the
week they intend making a trip to the
surrounding country where there Is
plenty of room for the runners and no
fear of soaring the horses.
PASSPORT young men seem to have
decidedly inventive minds. Two other
young residents last week came to the
conclusion that if different kinds OF
salt water fish could be caught on the
many hooks of trawl, such as IS
used by the Quoddy fishermen, they
could catch animals by the same pro-
cess, so the experiment was tried and
with success. The men in question Sc
cured one of the travis, stretched the
lime along the run of the rabbits in
one of the neighboring woods. then
lbaited the 100 hooks with cabbage
|leaves-a favorite food of the white
rabbits in that part Of the State. The
men then went into camp for the
night and waited for results. The fol-
lowing morning they found rabbit on
nearly every hook. alive and held fast
lby the mouth. The snares formerly
used by the local hunters had failed TO
gather in more than one rabbit at
time, and it was slow work catching
the fieet-footed animals. On the FOL
lowing day they did not get so many
rabbits but came in for share OF
other kinds of small animals found
lin this vicinity. Two raccoons. several
rats of fair size, four squirrels, wea-
eel and fully half hundred rabbits
lwere gathered in. Trawling for gulls
in Passamaquoddy Bay has been tried
lon different occasions. by neighboring
fishermen, and many Of the sea birds
have been caught on the hook peIore
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