Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-26
SIXTY MILES AN HOUR.
Remarkable Performance OF Peter
Cooper Hewitt's New Craft.

Remarkable Performance Of Peter
Cooper Hewitt's New Craft.
A New York dispatch to the Balti-
more Sun says: Sixty miles an hour at
sea-the mile a minute craft is here.
New York to Liverpool in thirty
hours.
These are the amazing claims made
by engineering experts for what Is de-
clared by them to be the most stu
pendous invention in the annals Of
speed-a boat Of gliding craft built,
perfected and set afioat by Peter Coop
er Hewitt, the discoverer of the ia
nous Cooper Hewitt" light.
This new craft, aptly designated
Gliding, does not cut the water as do
other vessels, but actually flies or
skins over and clear Of the surface,
the body Of the craft being forced
high enough to permit free play for the
waves.
With only his rough model, Mr..
Cooper Hewitt has glided at the high
rate of thirty eight miles an hour on
Long Island sound. He is certain Of
much greater speed. Experts tell him
he has invented the mile-a-minute sea-
going vessel.
"I have attained a speed Of thirty
eight miles an hour with my rough
model" said Cooper Hewitt today, un-
der the necessarily adverse conditions
that always confront the early devel-
opment Of an idea, I can build 100
or 200-foot vessel that / will guarantee
to go fifty-fve miles an hour. AS to
further development, l would prefer
to take the predictions Of the compe-
tent engineers who have seen the craft
in it's performances.
A strong, steel frame extends over
the sides Of the shell and across either
end, the cross sections OF the frame
being equi- distant from their respect
i've ends Of the craft. From each cor
ner Of the frame there are dropped into
the water perpendicular steel arms.
These arms extend Is inches below the
bottom.
To the arms are fastened steel planes
having a slant upward in front OF
about one in eight. The bottom sub
merged planes have two square feet of
surface and those above 1t are larger.
The total supporting surface OF the
four principal planes, therefore, Is
eight square feet.
"The motor Is set forward and the
single screw turns just back OF the
front set Of plans. On either side or
the shell is a gasoline tank.
I'm operation the screw driving or
pulling the craft forward forces the
slightly slanted planes through the
water and, on account Of their slant,
the craft is forced upward. The great
er the speed the higher the craft rises.
When 1t has reached speed which
forces the topmost vanes out OF the
water, or partly out, part OF the sup
porting surface is lost and the craft
settles lower, this principle constantly
operating to maintain perfect level
for the shell at given distance above
the surface Of the water.
At from twelve to sixteen miles an
hour the topmost planes have the wa
ter; at thirty miles an hour all the
plates are driven upward out Of the
water except the bottom ones.
When gliding more than sixteen
miles an hour the craft proper does not
touch the water, but is carried above
It. The effect is that Of the shell be-
ing showed along on four fiat shoes or
skates. There is space between the
top Of the water and the bottom of the
craft The space is made great enough
to allow for the play Of the waves.
AS the waves do not touch the bot
tom Of the craft and as the principal
planes are below the trough OF the
waves. there is a gliding instead Of
rocking or pitching motion, at least
80 the inventor maintains.