The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-26
JESSE HADEY DISCOVERS MANY STRANGE THINGS TRIP TO THE MOON

a~~ ANY years ago when Jesse Trumbul
HNA Hadley's father was young he invent
bV ed flying machine and had 1t almost
! completed when be thought of some
thing else. He put the flying machine
away IN the garrett and soon forgot all about it, but
little Jesse. who on rainy days played IN the
parret. used 10 crawl over the old rusty machinery
so often that he to know every part OF it.
and when he was about y years old he heard so
much about flying machines that he resolved to try
to finish his fathers work that he. too, could go
soaring over the houses and astonish the people OF
Tuckahoe.
It was no easy task to get the machine down into
the yard. but he did it. and for days he tinkered
with the rusty wires and plates and bars, but, try
as hard as he could, he made no progress toward
fitting it for flight He didn't tell his father what
he was doing, but experimental alone and studied
books about all sorts of things meanwhile in order
to learn what had already been done in that direc-
ton. He learned an immense lot about chemistry,
mechanics and such things, but he got little that
would help him In his daily experiments he used
to try all sorts of queer Things, sticking into the
vacant spaces of the old machine every possible sort
day he placed in the space between two fiat iron
plates, in order to hold them apart thick piece OF
glass upon one side of which had accidentally been
stuck sheet of sticky Aypaper. Now, whether 1t
was the glass or the fypaper, or both, that pro-
duced the astonishing result, cannot say, but as
soon as the glass had been placed In the machine 1t
suddenly rose into the air with slow motion and
startled Jesse so that be grabbed at it and in trying
to hold it down he pulled out the pane of glass.
Sails Away From Home
The flying machine instantly fell to the ground
with a thud narrowly missing his toes. In state
of mind between establishment and delight Jesse
inserted the glass again with the same result, and
he only managed TO get it out the machine lifted
him from the ground. It didn't fly, but just rose
straight in the air. and after he had tested 1t few
times he became convinced that there something
in the glass or the fypaper that caused the Attrac-
ton of Gravitation to be abolished suspended
You may know all about the Attraction of Gravita-
tion but for fear you do not, will explain that 1t
is something in the middle of the earth that makes
everything draw toward that spot and if there was
a hole clear through the world like well and you
fell into it, you wouldn't fall past the middle of
the EARTH but Just hang there in the centre of the
we'll forever. Nobody knows what makes 1t do so,
but it always Does and before Jesse fixed the flying
machinery nobody had ever been able to suspend its
action the least mite. He knew at once what won
derful thing he had done and was awfully tickled
but he determined to test it carefully before he told
anybody about his discovery. He got into the car,
for that all there was to the machine, as the
balloon part for the gas had never been made, and
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between the iron plates Up went the rusty old
trivance like rubber bali, suddenly that 1t al
most took his breath away, and IN an instant he
was as high as the steeple of the church Then he
became little alarmed and drew out the glass,
which caused the car to drop quickly, but he
managed to replace it about halfway and in time to
prevent an awful bump, which would surely have
wrecked the car and Jesse, also. A few such ex-
periments gave him complete control of the power
of Gravitation so that he could shoot up down
at will but now, such immense crowd of excited
people had gathered IN the street that he wanted to
move away in order to avoid answering their ques-
tons There was little windmill affair at the back
of the car, but it had not power enough to it
ahead an inch and he wished that he had made a
balloon before he had started off, as the wind was
blowing nicely. Then he had another idea, and
quickly descending in his own yard he into the
house and got an umbrella When he was high in
the air again he opened the umbrella and of course
he promptly sailed away over the city. All the
people ran wildly under him, but the wind soon
blew too fast for them and he left them far behind
Delighted with his success, he sailed along rarely
going higher than a mile two, and enjoying the
wonderful sensation without realizing how far he
was from home and the impossibilty of returning
unless the wind changed. 1t WIS only when he saw
that the earth below was in darkness that he came
to his senses for, Of course, away up there the
was still shining He promptly dropped to the
ground and found himself at the gate of big farm
house. at the door of which he knocked, 1t was
opened By little girl. who said with smile:
SaOes TzUo LfVeS
At am glad somebody's come at last, for have
waited here for hours l was lost in the woods and
came here to get some to take me home"
When Jesse told her that he didn't belong there,
the little girl looked as if she were about to cry and
Jesse added: Il can take you home if the wind
changes but not tonight Is there anything to eat
hereG" She said that she had found lots of good
things in the pantry, but she didn't to take
them without permission Jesse didn't have any
such sorupes, being boy, and she ate with him.
Nobody came and finally they both went to sleep on
the sofa and slept soundly until morning. Then
something walked Jesse and he listened intently,
little bit alarmed and then he distinguished weak
voice calling for help. lie ran out and soon dis
eovared that the voice came from the well and he