The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-07-08
DANE PLANS To
FLY ACROSS SEA
0IdSea Captain Building AeropIare
In Brooklyn Tenement

| New York, July Son the morn
ing of Sept. 1 an old sea captain liv-
ing with a negro bodyguard in a
| barrioaded room on the first floor of a
| Brooklyn tenement in the shadows of
the Brooklyn bridge will so To a
hangar at Coney Island and take out
u new giant type If acroplane of his
| own. and put 1t to its first test, prepa-
Iatory TO contemplated flight across
the Atlantic ocean.
Carl l.. Flint is his name, and he
! is a Dane lie has been working
night and day for seven years, assem-
bling seagoing airship that would
mean something To the commercial
world. An accurate description of his
machine, which is designed To carry
fifty passengers, is impossible; for the
old man has kept it "A secret. What de-
scription has been given out has leak
ed through friends. In his room
| living quarters he has whitewashed the
windows.
| Today when a Globe Democrat re-
| porter called the door leading to the
|
across it, and what talking was done
went on with Flint in his room behind
his wire netting and the reporter ON
the sidewalk.
Dane Rents 40 Rooms.
These precautions were not enough,
however, for. three months ago. ten
| ants i'm the nve-story building peeked
| Al, 20,
open and otherwise bothered him. He
saw the landlord and made arrange
mcnts whereby he was to have the
whole tenement to himself
Flint said he was willing TO pay
rent for the 40 rooms in the building
in order that he might proceed with
| plans for his great ner. The land
lord was only too glad and today the
old Dane is living in one room and
| paying rent for 40. \ negro boy is his
bodyguard
Until nine months ago Flint had no
financial hacker. He had spent all
| his money and most OF that of his
| friends, he says, in putting together
and destroying ~ models Of his air
ship
IL was in Copenhagen then" he eN-
planned. Il had tested machines in all
J parts of Europe and had settled az
| home working on the plans for the
ocean flier. This government wrote
me and asked me to come and came.
Parrett Aids inventor.
At the time that the future looked
| darkest to Flint, DIR. Arthur Jarrett
of Brooklyn, major in the medical
corps of the Thirteenth regiment, be-
-eame interested in him and talked
| with his step-s son, Harry l.. Seal The
| result was that the Flint Hydro Auto
matte Airship company was formed,
with Seal as financial hacker. Flint
| then went ahead with the work of
assembling the parts OF his flyer
The huge machine as it now stands
is two-thiris finished and is kept in
| a hangar at Ulmer park, Brooklyn.
According To DIR. Jarrett ii is the
most wonderful invention Of its kind.
Il want to go on record as saying
that Flint is an honest old Dane and
his machine the greatest thing so far
in the science of aeronautics,' said
| DR.. Jarrett today.
Bsckers Are Wealthy.
DIR. Jarrett is a member Of the Army
and Navy clubs of New York and
WASHINGTON, the Manhattan club, the
| Hamilton club and the Medical Re-
serve corps Of the army. His stepson,
Seal, is wealthy clubman.
The machine won't he moved to
| Coney Island from Ulmer park until
| the day before the proposed first flight.
where will your course be-" Flint
was asked.
Straight across the Atlantic from
New York to London" he said. None
| OF this 1000 or 1000 mile stuff. My
ship will fly 5000 miles or not at ALL
| From what facts leaked out in the
conversation with him today the craft
will weigh four tons and be of sufii-
cient stability to carry so passengers.
| 1t will not carry this many on the
proposed flight however. "A crew Of
probably eight or ten will so along,
among them Dr. Jarrett. who will act
as ships surgeon.
The total expense of seven years
experimentation and the final plans
total $4,000, he said. When the pres
| ent machine is finished it will cost
| $4,000.
II would not have gone into the
| business Of building a sea going air
ship il | did not know the sea-" said
| Flint. ANY old woman can fly around
| land but it takes a sailor To UNDER
stand the moods Of the ocean. When
say | can cross the Atlantic and
cross it right, which means from New