The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-07-05
Travel Through the Ally.

when steam was applied to loco
motives it was thought to be the won
ger OF ts" age, but when electricity
was harnessed as q motor to propel
trolley cars and run heavy machinery
the world stood in amazement at the
wondrous feat.
Some of the very aged people were
as much astonished when Moyses'
telegraph became a marvel and aston
lshment in the land, and I have lived
long enough to hear the spoken words
over tbo first official telephone which
connected the capitol in Washington
City with the government printing
office, one mile distant.
Therefore, it is no violent stretch Of
Imagination to foresee the coming
aerial travel which is as certain to
come as any Of these other facts, ex.
cept that it has been somewhat be-
lated.
With high pressure automobiles
people can almost fly over the earth,
so swiftly and lightly do these ex-
pensive carriages do their automatic
work under the light pressure of the
human hand.
Perhaps it will be after you aud 7,
dear reader, have gone to our long
home, but the day is coming when
people will travel through the air
with incredible ease and celebrity.
In my humble judgment the COM
ing aerial cars or balloons will not be
the immense and clumsy things which
our experts are now figuring on and
experimenting with; but the simplic-
isy Of the successful one will make
them wonder why it had not been ear
lier understood and adopted.
We will not forget that sail vessels
were extremely cumbersome, yet
everybody thought there was no other
Way by which to traverse the path
less ocean except with immense
stretch of canvas to catch the wind.
When the wind departed the vessel
wallowed in the troughs of the sea
until Eolus came to his own again.
Some of the most tragic sea stories
have read were concerned with such
dead calms under an equatorial sun.
With stagnation there came filthy
bilge water and too often death from
yellow fever and cholera.
+ The aerial vehicles which will fill
the bill will be constructed on the line
of least resistance. The ease with
which bird can rise in the air and
the comfort which it enjoys in a swift
descent will be IL some measure the
model of the coming airship.
Airships as at present constructed
are dangerous of course. The ma
terial must be light and the gas is
risky.
OF course the danger will be no de-
terrent factor in the business of navi-
getting the air. Danger gives spice to
any such adventures.
Automobiles have reputation for
killing people that is unsurpassed /,
still the market is active with the
making and selling Of these expensive
auto carriages.
Alpine climbing is continually en-
phaSized By death and destruction of
the adventurous, yet they can hardly
be missed in the next season, 80 great
is the desire Of mankind to risk dan
gers and perils for science or plain
amusement:
1t is easy to suppose chat aerial car
riages will be in demand because of
fact that there will he no hindrance to
speed such as bad roads or obstruc-
tions. common to land travel. If they
can only rise to height that will give
them free course. in air currents, the
difficulty will be solved because they
can come down by force Of gravity
when the currents are shut of and the
weight Of the light machine lie directed
downwards.l
Also there will be small trouble in
finding the way when the serial nayi-
gator 10 far above everything now fas-
tened, to the earth.
His vision will be clear in that ex-
panssof ether unless beset by rain or
storm clouds, and as they are prone
TO attach themselves to mundane
affairs the aerial navigator can sit
aloft and look down on the strife Of
these elements in perfect safety. Il.
I prophesy that those who are then
living will be quite independent Of
such things as horse vehicles, auto.
mobiles, etc., for they may touch q
button aud rise and pnll q cord to
come down. and thosa that than a .