The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11
Wind Wagon" to Fly Here

An airship on wheels, or, rather, a
bicycle propelled by windmill, is to
navigate Market street on Saturday af-
ternoon, as an advertisement of the
airship show to be given in Dreamland
pavilion Wednesday night, August IS,
by the Pacific Aero club.
j. Zenon Posadas, Jr., the young in
ventor, and sophomore at the Uni
versity of California, is the owner of
the continuance, which is called a
wind wagon" The machine is simply
a motorcycle equipped with a pro-
peller in front, which revolves at a
speed sufficient to draw the bicycle
along at the rate of 20 miles an hour.
The wind wagon" has never been
seen in Market street, and its appear
ance is expected to arouse great in
terest in the show.
Full plans for the exhibition were
made last evening at the meeting of
the Pacific Aero club presided over by
President J. C. Irvine. A large num-
Der of members were present and sew
eral enthusiasts were elected to men,
bership. Mayor E. R. Taylor has been
made an honorary member of the club.
PROGRAM OF EXHIBITION
The program for the exhibition has
been tentatively announced as follows:
Address by Hugh McIsaacs on the
history of ballooning.
Motion pictures of the aeroplanes of
the Wrights, Bleriot. Latham and
others, and the Zeppelin airship, with
explanatory remarks by c. c. Bradley.
Address by Captain p. A. Van Tas-
sell, on My Experiences in the Air
Aeroplane songs by Mrs Nunan, My
Aeroplane Girl" and other appropriate
numbers.
Demonstration of models
Stereopticoh lecture, Experiences on
a Balloon Trip, by ]. J. Masten.
Aeroplanes will be exhibited by the
inventors. Among them will be J. H.
Posadas. Cleve T. and Miss Geneve
Shaffer. j. T. Stanton and r. Spear of
Vallejo, who has invented an original
model of heliocopter.
The committee in charge of the ex-
hibition is composed of President j. c.
Irving. c. c. Bradley, Professor Hidalgo
A. L. Eisner and C. T. Shaffer.
PREPARE FOR PoRTOLA FETE
The proceeds of the exhibition will
go toward a fund with which to pur-
chase an experimental field and a dirig-
ible balloon. Tickes are for sale at
Tom billions and the Emporium.
The club adopted it's official badge
last evening, a button embossed with a
picture of the Bleriot machine which
The members of the club are busy
perfecting their machines so that they
can enter the contests to be held during
Portola week.
Balloon Crosses Alps
CHALLoNs, France, Aug. 1O-The
balloon Sirius has succeeded in flying
over the Alps. The airship left here
Sunday under the pilotage of NJ Spell
terine with three passengers. Fears
entertained for the voyagers' safety
have been dispelled by the receipt of a
report that they have landed safely
near Locarno, at an altitude of $500
feetN The four men, however, still have
a dangerous path to cover on foot into
Locarno. The Sirius traversed Mount
Blanc and scared over the Aiguille du
Dru and the Aiguille Verte. The high
est altitude attained was 1873 feet
Wright Goes to Germany
NEW YORK, Aug. 1O.-orville
Wright sailed today for Germany.
where he will make a series of flights
in demonstration of she merits of the
Wright aeroplane. He will make a.
brief stop in England but Wright
would not discuss the object of his visit
to that country The general purpose
of the flights to be made in Germany
he said, was to comply with the ar
rangements made last winter with the
company organized for the manufac-
ture of the Wright aeroplanes in that
country.