Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-23
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Jules Verne many years ago Wrote a
number of important stories that We're
all the more interesting because nothing
Of the kind had ever happened and for
that never was likely to happen. only
a short time ago an Associated Press
dispatch appeared in the eastern DALI
les as follows:
Flying thru the night at an average
speed of thirty to forty miles an hour,
a mysterious airship tonight appeared
over Worcester this evening, lowered
over the city a few minutes disap-
peared for about two hours and then
returned to cut four circles above the
gaping city, feanwhile sweeping the
heavens with searchlght of great
power. The news of its presence spread
like wildfire and thousands thronged
the streets to watch the mysterious
visitor.
The airship remained over the city
for about fifteen minutes. all the time
at height that most observers set at
about 2.o00 feet, too far to enable even
its precise shape to be seen. The glar-
ing rays of its great searclllight, how
ever. We're sharply defined by reelection
against the light snowfall which was
covering the city at the time. The dark
mass of the ship could be dimly seen
behind the light. After a time it dis
appeared in the direction of Marlboro,
only to return later.
At the time of the airship's visit
Wallace +. Tillinghast. the Worcester
man who recently claimed to have m
vented a marvellous aeroplane in which
he said he had journeyed to New York
and returned by way of Boston, was
absent from his home and could not
be located. The visitor from the clouds
was first sighted over Marlboro al 80.
The sixteen miles between this city ami
Marlboro it covered in thirty minutes
Coming up from the southeast, the
sky voyager veered to the west, re-
manned in sight a few moments and
then disappeared to the northwest. In
five minutes the searchlight was again
seen glowing in the distance like a
monster star and the ship came up.
moved over the city snort time and
disappeared to the southeast.
An airship was sighted over MARI
boro early tonight, going northwest az
thirty or more miles an hour.
And there is now bin before con-
gress which seeks to regulate the use
of the air Not to prevent all we need
and want. but to make a law which
shall govern the use OF il in wireless
Biography The author of the bill. Mr..
Roberts expects to have il favorably
reported on at an early date and it
is not expected that there viii be any
opposition to its passage in either tho
senate or the house. The main diff
Guilty. he says, will be 10 agree on the
composition of the wireless board and
the manner in which amateur and COM
mercial wireless stations must be resu-
lated He believes this can be ac-
complished by licensing all regular sta
tons and by assigning to them certain
hours in the twentyfour when they
will be permitted free and uninterrupt-
ed use of the air. crj
Twenty thousand Leagues Under
the Sea- is a story. piece of pure fic-
ton dealing with reported occurrences
absolutely false at the time of the pub
LEGATION. A great many people now
living read it with great enjoy
ment, but now read with equal enjoy
ment and not half the astonishment
and wonder a press dispatch dealing
with facts that even Jules Verne and
his readers deemed impossibilities
forty years ago. Ii emphasizes the old
saw. Truth is stranger than fiction