The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-06
FLEW LIKE AN EAGLE.
But When the Airship Went Up
Against wireless" She
Found Trouble.
(New York WORLDLY


Leo Stevens made a successful flight
with the Baldwin airship at Brighton
Beach yesterday morning. He cut
circle and figure Fights, over the
meadows behind the Boer War in
closure and had the natives of Brigh-
ton and Col. Lewis, of the Brighton
Beach Development Company con-
vinced that aerial navigation was az
easy as walking when his airship tried
TO butt down a wireless telegraph
outfit and smashed it's own propeller
into a bunch of kindling wood, went
away back and sat down.
Stevens is paid by the Brighton
Beach Development Company to try
to make that airship work i'm time
to attract people to Brighton Beach.
Its name is Arrow and it is the
same light creature which made a few
flights at St Louis during the fair
there last summer 1t has been lfv-
ing in a high shed with a door which
makes you think it was built for a
giraffe, and the aerial professor has
been tinkering the thing and letting
it fly around a bit outside the coop,
held by the anchor rope, while he
awaited the moment for a good seat
and n fair start.
The machine consists of a cigar
shaped balloon, from which is sus-
pended cigar-Shaped framework of
wood. If the operator doesn't like the
way his birdie is balancing, he can
get up and crawl around the frame
work to suit himself. If he crawls
aft the nose of the ship will point up
ward and she will go shooting into
the empyrean. If he crawls forward
she will dig into the earth. This
crawling around on strips about the
Of will Mi of
heights above the earth, is one of the
celebrating features of skyfiying and
one which is likely to prove popular.
At last the hour had come! The
wind was blowing gently off the
ocean, thus guaranteeing that there
would be no voyage to sea. 1t was
the witching hour of IL a. M, and
Prof. Stevens led his ship out of the
shed and got aboard.
The ship rose until 1t hung in the
air about 200 feet above the ground.
The professor seemed to know what
he was doing for he put on the pow
er. The big balloon cavorted around
in the air like a lamb in a burdock
patch, and Colonel Lewis yelled with
joy He saw visions of the ship sail
ing over the Boer War Enclosure and
alighting like the dove of peace be-
fore the delighted gaze of the specta-
tors
steer her over to the battle!" he
shouted to Stevens. The aeronaut
heard, and turned her head toward
the Enclosure. She obeyed her helm
perfectly, but the Professor soon saw
that she was aiming directly at big
steel pole of the De Forest Wireless
Telephone Company.
"Aha!" he said to himself Wen
just steer around that" and he steer
ed around, forgetting, however, that
beyond there was another pole just
like Il and that the two were con-
nected by a very stout wire. Two
hundred feet in the air the craft tried
to climb this wire. The propeller
crinkled up and the shaft snapped off
short. The ship rebounded and shot
diagonally across the railroad and the
aeronaut climbed for fair, but not
without barking his shins to get her
nose over the trotha of telegraph
wires. Finally he landed neatly in
the long grass of the meadow