Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1910-06-30
To CONSTRUCT
AN AEROPLANE
IN THIS CITY
Basement of Packer House
Garage Being Converted
Into Suitable Plant.
FRED KLEIN'S INVENTION
ITO FORM COMPANY

To provide for the construction of
an aeroplane, the basement of the
Packer House garage at Smith and
High streets, is being today trans
formed into plant, which, when
the apparatus is installed. will be
one of the largest and most COM
plete factories for the building and
equipping of air machines in this
section of the country.
A number of New York hnanciers
and two local business men, one the
proprietor of large dry goods
store, and the other, a factory OFF,
cial. are now organizing a stock
company to finance the project. At
the head of the mechanical depart
ment is to be Frederick Klein,
young mechanical engineer who has
been in this city but eight weeks and
who recently left his position at the
Perth Amboy Garage for one at the
Packer House Garage.
The proposed company grows out
of the ever Increasing demand for
aeroplanes and their present scar
city. So much has been accomplish
ed lately by the machines that
wherever they can be bought they
are snatched up with haste. Klein
has drawn plans for type of ma
chine that he believes will be bet
ter fitted for aerial flights than the
Curtiss machine used by Hamilton
in his fight over this city several
weeks ago, and which at the pres
ent is recognized as the best aero
plane extant He showed his plans
to the New York financiers and the
local men and they Immediately
agreed to finance his scheme to To-
cate factory here. Associated with
Klein Is Alexander Conquest, also of
the Packer House garage.
Rubbish and automobile fixtures
in the basement of the garage are
being removed today. Klein and
Conquest expect to have the plant in
operation in four weeks and the
construction OF Klein's first machine
will be started. His proposed ma
chine differs from Hamilton's in that
1t Will be equipped with a slx-cylin-
der eighty horsepower engine
weighing about 100 pounds. Hamil-
toms apparatus is an eight cylinder
Anair and develops speed Of only
sixty miles an hour.
~ His planes will be OF the same
shape az the aviator's but his defiec-
tor, instead Of tEe box-kite shaped
object used by Hamilton " re-
semble an inverted coal chute. tapeTS
ing to a point at the forward end
He claims that 1t will maintain a
speed Of 100 miles an hour and will
be capable of carrying three passen-
gers.
Klein believes his motor will be
a vast improvement over those now
In use. Instead of aluminium. he
Will have pistons Of iron castings.
which, he says, are more durable. al
though not so light. His propeller
Will be of aluminium instead OF
wood and will be twelve and one
half feet from tip to tip. HamiI-
toms propeller is but eight and
half feet long.
Active operations will not be be-
gun by the company until next
spring. Whether or not the venture
proves successful will depend large
ly on the result of Klein's prelim-
mary flights. He plans to make his
nrst ascension In the Raritan Cop-
per Works field, If permission can
be obtained, next spring. II his
trial flights are sue essful, and IL a
prize is offered, Klain SAYS he will
attempt flight from New York to
Washington, d. c., and return. AS
soon as the machine is completed II
will be placed on exhibition at the
garage. 1t is expected that 1t will be
ready for use by September, al
though no flights will be made until
the warm weather.
Klein is thirty years old and has
spent fifteen years of his life in the
study of mechanics. He received his
first knowledge of the profession in
Germany, and spent number of
months in the employ OF we'll
known aviator. at Mineola, Long
Island.