Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-29
Modest Man Makes Machine
Which Astounds Experts.
AEROPLANE BY UNKNOWN
No One Heard of Schneider's Work
Until It Was Done.
SURE TO FLY. SAY SCIENTISTS
Has Three Aluminium Propcllers and
Starts on Bicycle Wheels-Only
Sixteen Feet Long.

NEW YORK. December 2a.-Taere is
new. completed aerorla1e in town. and
the name % its inventor is now on tie
tongues of many aeronauiical enthusiasts.
The aeroplane came from Brooklyn II
was in many small pieces. packed in one
box sixteen feet long. four feet Wide ana
one foot high. when il arrived
No one had heard or the flying machine
until its inventor knocked AT The gaze
of the Norris Park racetrack and asked
permission OF the Aeronautic Society 10
assemble his apparatus. No one had then
heard OF Fred Schneider. the inventor.
This was Sunday afternoon.
But when the silver-tinted aeroplare
was rolled out on the lawn late ,esterdav
AFTERNOON and the members of the society
saw that by working all of Sunday night,
is we'll as all day Yesterday. Mr.. Schnei-
der had transformed the hundreds Of
intricate parts into a delicately formed
hylng machine. which. although frankly
including many points OF the Virgil
brothers and the Farman aeroplane was
seen at glance 10 possess many new
features. they said repeatedly:
He will NY in that machine; he can't
help il"
New Aeroplane by Unknown.
The thing that strikes every one as be-
ing odd in connecting with the whole mat
ter Is that almost without moments
warning a completed aeroplane and an
unknown inventor should burst forth
simultaneously in this city. where such
close watch IS kept Of all aerona utical
developments Mr.. Schneider. who was
born in Germany thirty years ago. vas
asked to explain how he had managed 10
elude publicity.
He said:
Until last April I was in the milk
business. Always | have hoped to build
flying machine. I was superintendent
Of machinery for the Nathan Straus pas-
ieurized milk laboratory for over two
years. and invented for Mr.. Straus the
machinery he is now using. both here and
In Germany. for washing and filling milk
bottles. I also made the home pa steur-
izer. ! superintendent the installation or
the complete Straus system In Europe for
Mr.. Straus last year
My money I kept putting away Last
spring l quit the milk business and made
lieve in saying anything about such
things: better wait until you do some
thing real
Il began 10 build this machine two
months ago. think maybe ii will H..
Anyway. I have spent my own money To
build it, and, as / am not married. no
one else will fee the hurt If ii fails
Three Aluminium Propellers.
The inventor lives at No JOG state
street. Brooklyn. His aeroplane is the
first 10 have three propel,ers These are
of aluminium ard are five and a half fee
long each. One Of these IL placed oa
either side of the propeller which is "-
Gated Immediately behind the motor The
two outside propellers turn in opposite
directions. which is intended Ia give
ih,.l,t tn te o-I jnin
the chance Of turning turtle.
The motor is known as an Adams-Fai
well. and is the frs, of its kind to be
tried on any flying apparatus. 1t is a
36-horsepower gasolene air-cooled gyro-
scopic engine and weighs ninety-seven
and a half pounds. 1t was tried out yes
terdsy and acted we'll. Although caus
ing considerable vibration the aeroplan.
was not in any way injured.
The flying machine is thirty feet wide.
twenty -eight feet long and weighs 4.,u
pounds, including the motor. The Far
man aeroplane weighs 1,ljO pounds and
the WrightS' machine $50. The frame
work Is of ash. followed out. so that il
weighs, the inventor says. only one-fourth
OF pound to the foot. Ii runs along thu
ground on bicycle wheels, similar to the
Farman machine.
Those who saw il yesterday pronounced
it beautiful 70 look upon and absolutely
bound to fly. The inventor is modest.
and when asked il he would leave the
ground this week. said, smiling kindly
May be never. WHO knows? ! would
much prefer TO say nothing now. except 1
hope
Wright at Aeronautic Show.
PARIS. December 29.-M. Cruppi yes
terday visited the aeronautic display a.
the Grand Palais. Wilbur Wright also
was there. He came up from lie Mans in
order to take a glance at the aeronautie
section.
The American aeronaut expressed
feeling almost of establishment al the
enormous number of aeroplane models on
view He did not cI'iticise any, as ii is
not his practice to critic Sc. but to MAX
OF his own ability 10 ny
with a machine almost universally con
demned by wnat are known as aeronau-
teal experts.
lie smiled when he saw a copy OF his
machine on exhibition at the snow.
B. and o. Flagman Killed by Train.