The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-23


above the other. They looked like sails spread the
wrong way
When the doors had sprung open SO nosy the boys
looked toward the house to if they had been dscov
cred but not sound nor stir did they hear see
'Come in Let's look at the thing Glib said,
tering cautiously. 'What under the sun is itg''
Billy followed him and the boys perceived that
the deck of the fatboat which rested the Wheels
something that looked like the engine of steam
launch, but there boiler in sight-three round
cylinders of shining white metal placed one above the
Other and overhead series Of complicated belts and
Now four Strengthening objects resolved themselves into
four twisted fan-ike propelers.
''Goly! wish We had Light muttered Gibb
as he stumbled something on the floor
lie half fell against the fatboat and it rolled few
feet along the track
Goodness! doesn't it move easy9 said Billy giving
it shove -.
In fact it needed but little extra pushing to wheel
it out on the track into the air. 49, :.
The sky had clouded a little but there enough
light to see BY The boys clambered up the deck
it AS they ddso Glib out his hand to steady
himself and it touched something that moved. Now
strange thing happened. There a click, buzzing
sound and soft whirrng began close overhead Slowly
and surely the began to move. The whrring grew
louder and then with jump the whole fabric started off
at tremendous The boys clutched two of the up
rights in mad terror Before they knew it they were
tearing thru the orchard fifty miles 1t fact
it all happened quickly that the sensation Of these first
few seconds left but vague impression
There lifting trembling culver that caused both
the unwilling passengers to hold tighter if possible
than BEFORE and all there crash that almost
took out their They had reached the end of the
track, but they did not stop. Oh, mol AS stone skps
off the surface of mlpond they left the earth with
sickenng upward swoop that almost stopped their hearts
On and on, higher and higher, with roaring whirring
sound in their and then apparently they reached
height where for few moments Billy afterward put
it, they except keel'' But it long.
There dip forward and down they sWooped at
greater speed than they had assembled Glib began
now and fell fiat with his about the upright
and his legs spread OUT caWing with his toes keep him
self from slipping
twhere we going to- anywayY'' shrieked Glib, in
mortal fear.
IT dun no. chartered Billy with his hair on end.
"Hold tight; the old things goin' down again.
Sure enough the flying machine had taken sort Of
twist off to the eastward, and descending every
ond but such angle that would be minutes
before it struck. Half mile away they the waters
Of the bay The flight becoming less swift and they
sinking downward with sliding motion, softly and
surely but still with enough force to crush themselves to
pieces should they strike the earth. Beneath them they
house. Glib whimperng again, and Billy also
began to blubber
Oh, what would they not give to awake and find that
this all dream! But no; here they holding
tight for their ives and there below stretched the pier
where the lighthouse tender always landed There
the steamer Two minutes more and they would
But here is where Quartermaster Tim Mudoon
into the story. It his watch the deck of the u
S. 8. Fern, the lighthouse TENDER and Tim had returned
from liberty ashore early in the evening He droWsy
and tired. Suddenly he aroused by hearing sound
and then backward fiat upon deck; forty feet
above him huge thing shooting along thru the air.
Tim closed his eyes, and called in whisper upon the
saints He would have screamed but his voice apparently
had left him. The first shock over however he to his
feet rubbed his eyes. No. it was not imagination
There the huge thing dashng along the surface
of the bay AS Mr. Muldoon watched it, it remained
tionary for moment and then slowly sank With a
frightened look his face Tim went below and called
the other watch.
Half hour later two dripping boys appeared at the
Schneider house. They weak and pale, and when
Mrs Schneider them they stood there holding to
the banisters.
'Don' t let's tell them thing, whispered Billy
"Au right,'' said Glib. ''Let 'em think what they
want to.''
ttYou We been on the water and upset. said Mrs.
sehreber emphatioa W will IT, tn tell your father
'All right ma 'am,' said Billy meekly. IT guess
and Glib will 90 to bed.'
AS the boys went upstairs Mrs. Schneider heard her
nephew say,
f'Billy, guess swum half mile''
Now board the Fern they tell the story Quarter
master Mudoon that one night he fshhawk big
fulrigged ship down out of the sky and sink
the waters Of Horseshoe Point, where the charts
show bottom.
days after the Fourth Of July Mr. Schneider drove