New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-26
A BLOW FOR SIR ISAAC
Nercton's All Wrong about Gra0't0-
tioa-Miss Crane Says So.

r-.,t- 60 @ vortex and the Aurora
-,.o1:u -o,,.s II Thop5 that do not believe
:. ,a-, 90 nm TO Labrador and find out Miss
Martha Crane, from UP the State, told selecI
ro11n Of Brooklyn scientists, mostly female IN
Robertson's Hail. No 1872 Gates-ave, last nlsH'
that she had, and what was left OF Sir 1ss@o
Newton.s theory of gravitation would not make
good food for a goat The aurora comes Up OUT OF
the ground instead OF falling from the SKY anu
that is what does the trick Ii II zen out u
go ,,,v and split on an iceberg. Sir Isaac might
have a show. but it rises from Oi~cA 04OUu
With sound Of surprising melody. and suose-
-,a-,+1v swords of fame shoot athwaTt (this
word is used by perrnission) II with the sounu
NJ the clashing of a thousand cymoais-
A. NAV he imagined, Il IS appalling sight,
+u ona realizes that the soul is greater than
oil because # is silent. This is what Miss
crane did. and she was able to get up and re-
turn to her tent.
But on the way up she the ora and the
ninbus They got away before she could even
get a photograph OF them. Ora Is a nsh. Dut
she did not say whether ntmbus was ne"
tribe OF savages or an EsQuin1aux canoe she
saw them when she was looking over the size
oF the vessel at her shadow lying on the water
a had place for shadow to lie in those lati-
tudes.
wa those
sometimes get away without the public becon-
ing aware Of the fact until relief party Is
needed II consisted Of only herself and TWO
,rId guides There was also boat concerned.
b,,+ II did not play very large part, except %
xi,ys Miss Crane a chance to look over the size
o,6 sae little ora and nirnbus. No sc4entinc ep-
naratus went along. Miss Crane does not De-
Iievs In it. She says that she has never let any
bodv tell her anything in her life. and she olo
not find # hard 10 convince her auditors mat
she spoke the truth.
Labrador she discovered to be series u
ridges tnterspersed with deep ravines' roarNls
torrents and glaciers. She spent some time II
This delightful country before she founo JN'' -
Tight place from which to view the aurora "i0H
- 1,ss doing business at it's best One night one
Of her guides. who spoke not woFo Oh Hne
Itch or French and was tongue tied in his natiVe
Informed her by means OF signs that
the aurora was due with the next fun moon
rbe return trip was accomplished without
r,isban and Miss Crane appeared in Brooklyn
lot ntgbt TO deal poor SIR isaac ms
5esthhIoV incidentally, she mas LlVenteu I Q
machine by which she can prOaoos t M9t,
go Dowsr from the air without cornD1Stion-
go - tive OF the Brooklyn Union Gas Com
80, Who was present listened TO THIS state
nent with streaming eyes. ano ~ - sAL1 INA nS
80 n RockereIler's family viii make the
49, a+as4 errorts TO keep the news from him
A41otber Of the inventions is a machine to make
annIae fan up instead OF dropping from the
~ This viii be a great help 10 Professor
langley the next time he SENDS his assistants
out in his airship
Miss crane is about to build an airship. her
self she says-that Is. she is going to have q
-osI from Brussels do IT for her AL she is 60
inr 70 do is furnish the principle the public a
ay1ected to supply the interest Just like
standard Oil dividend. She has little thing
that she will put on top Of the airship and 4
U-iT 20 ND a-hying Then ships viii cease q
plough the sea, and the farmer will no longe
have burrows on his brow. Every one will sal
down to the tropics and live on hot air. Som
people don't have to go 10 the tropics.
When Miss Crane finished 1t was general.
conceded that there a vortex in either he
theory or Sir Isaac's.