The San Francisco call., 1909-11-06
! conspicuous part during


which Frank williams took such
conspicuous part during his
summer visit TO his city cousin.
Franks aerial warship, the Avengcr,
had achieved an untimely end shortly
after her victory over her enemy, the
Revenge He took one last sad look at
the wreck Of the Avenger as he started
for the station to board the train to
Prairieville. 1t was not his privilege TO
bring home even the framework for
the tangled remnants of the once noble
aeropIane tapped drearily in the breeze
from the telegraph wires she had coll
lded with.
But he did bring a full set Of the
plans from which he built her and it
was not very long after his arrival
home that he began construction on an
other alrship in the little balloon
shed" which had been the scene of so
many of his efforts
School opened shortly after Frank
returned home, but he worked after
school hours. and with what aid his
younger brother, Bill, could give him
the new Ayenger was finally completed.
AS lHeFe nothing TO aNenSe we
must call her some other name" re-
marked Frank when the AZ inch model
stood all ready to be tested.
"We ought to name her something
way the opposite from the Avenger'
he added, as he pondered what it
might be.
How would the Peacemaker DOR
observed Bill.
THAT sounds o X. Well call her the
Peacemak ker," Frank agreed. for it was
one of his good points that he was not
above accepting advice or timely sug-
gestion, even from his little brother.
Franks reputation as an aviator was
pretty well known to the Juvenile pop
ulation of Prairie county by this time,
and in response to the widespread in
terest taken in the building of the
Peacemaker he arranged to give the
official trial trips at the academy. The
new aeroplane was first successfully
tested in Franks "aerodrome,' which
those who have followed his exploits
will remember as the COW pasture. And
the day after the private test Frank
proudly carried his model to school, for
he was to give the public trials in the
academy grounds after school let out
that afternoon.
A crowd of children surrounded him,
all curious to see the Peacemaker. It's
construction, as previously described
in the building OF the late Avenger,
showed it to be a close copy Of the
famous Wright aeroplane, from it's
sleighlike skids Gas the runners upon
which it alighted were called to the
double propellers in the rear.
Frank refused to fly the Peacemaker
until the appointed time, but he will
ingiy explained how she was flown.
He showed how the projecting forward
planes could be tilted to send her up
or down and how the rudder worked
in the rear.
He gave q practical Illustration OF
how the motor worked. too. 1t was
only a rubber drum motor" though,
not a real engine. The two drums ran
parallel from front to rear, resting on
the center of the lower plane. Each
drum terminated in fixed two bladed
propeller. When Frank reyolved the
propellers toward each other this ac-
tion turned the drums, at the same time
twisting the heavy rubber band that
connected the drums tighter and
tighter.
When Frank had twisted the pro-
peller as many times around as the
tightest rubber bands would safely go
he released the propellers, the taut
rubber bands rapidly unwound, re-
volving the propellers at the drum
ends at high speed. The eager crowd
could see the machine tug impatiently