The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 25, 1896, Page 2

2 THE N FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1896. [ here, Saturday night. The Alcatraz was, loading iumber for San Francisco. 'A storm signal having come up the coast in the evening, the captain dropped his lines and put out to sea for safety. - He did not lay very far.off shore, and a short time after midnight, he says, the San Benito passed close to him and between him and the shore. The captain remarked to his mate at the time that if the San Benito was off her course, or if she did not change it, whether she was off it ornot, .she would strike inside Point Arena. Captain Walvig said he first thought of signaling the San Benito, but finally con- cluded that she knew her business. ~Chief Ofticer Zolling, 1n_a statement made here to-night, said Captamn Smith was in- clined to blame Captain Walvig for not telling him where he was. There are conflicting accounts here as to the condition of the weather for a half hour before and at the time the San Benito struck. There are several survi- vors who have said that the weather was misty, but that it was not raining as thick as sheets, but all say they didn’t see the Point Arena light. On the other hand, there are in the little town of Point Arena, perched high in the hills above ihe wreck, & half dozen men and young ladies who say that about 10¢’clock Sun- day morning ‘it stopped raining, cleared up and there was hght from a full moon, though the moon was not visible. This was before the San Benito struck. A well- known rancher who lived on a hill five miles from town and back of where the ship struck, said that he heard the San Benito’s first whistle of distress, and look- ing out of a window saw not only the ship’s lights but the Point Arena light. There was a rehearsal that nizhtin town for a Thank:giving jubilee, and though young couples star-gazing late in the evening may have a very clear recollection of the weather, the factremains that while it may have been clear on the hill it may have been thick down where the wind | blew and over the water, and that squalls at sea have been known to blow away in five minutes and feave the sea and sky as | smiling as a wedding morn. There. is only one change in the San Benito’s crew from the iist already pub- lished n THE CArn. T. E. Foster shipped in place of C. Bianberg, and Foster was the quartermaster at the wheel when that beart-chilling cry, *Rreakers anead! came with the command, **Hard over with her!” but too late. The wrecker Whitelay, Captain T. P. H. ‘Whatelaw, owner, and Captain Leland, appeared at the wreck out of a mist to sea- ward about 11 o'clock Monday mornin Her small boats went to the wreck, re- { moving the easy portables from each piece of the eck, such as binnacles, compasses, charts, clocks, a chronometer which was still ticking merrily along, un- mindful of wreck or water; canned goods | and meats, cushiors, tooichests, hawsers | and a lot of other miscelianeous stuff, | worth about $1000. It was risky business | boarding the wreck, even on the leeward | side, with the seus breaking over her; but | it was done, and without a single mishap. | In fact, the Wnitelaw’s able seamen chased | each other across the forward deck to th- | forecastle between seas that hid the wreck | irom sizht, ail but her pilot-house, spar | and stack. The water leaped up the | shrouds and streamed back over the rail | and down on deck. | At 4 p. M. the Whitelaw put back around the point, intending to run 1nto the small | bay at Point Arena before dark. A heavy | sou'easter came up with a heavy sea before she made it, ana the Whitelaw stood out to sea all night long for safety. Cap- tain Whitelaw said to-night before leav- ing for San Francisco: *‘We cannot save anything more in this weather, and aftcr this northwester blowe over it is doubiful if there will be any- | - thingin sight to save. Unless she works down into the sand we might, with mod- erate weather, save her engines. I never saw a wreck like that before; I never saw a ship that was broken in two so sharp, straight and clear. The seas that struck her must bave been terrible.” The San Benito bas been left to her fate, and the list of the dead needs no revision, | A careful recount and comparison shows the drowned to be, as announced yester- | day: First Assistant Engineer 0. W./| Scott, Second Assis.ant Encgineer C. Con- don. Coal-passer C. Brown, Coal-passer N. Fitzgeraid, Messboy J. Sheeran and J. ‘W. Wilson. They were all in the first and second starboard boats, and were unable to cling to tnem when they rolled over or 1o swim ashore. There is little left to teil beyond the deeds of beroism, and the occasion was not lacking in examples of that true bravery which seems to be bred on the sea. The experience of Chief Cook Wilson isanotable example. On Sunday after- noon he was seen to rise up in the for- ! ward rigging and swing his hat in the air. | The hundreds of exciied peopble who thronged the country” around heard him ! shout, but they could not distinguish what he said above the roar of the win¢, | wave and surf. Some of these people had | been on tueir knees in prayer. Women wrung their hands and became hysterical | at the sight. Children wept, and, for that matter, so did strong men. Wilson climbed down the ladder to the rail and swung his hat again. Then he leaped into the sea. He bad a smail line in his mouth and caught with bis hands a piece of wood, for which he had ap-| parently jumped. He climbed up and sat astride of it. He paddled first as he sat upright and then on his stomach. For every foot he propelled the plank towara shore a cruel wave would tbrow him back three. He gave it up, climbed bick on the ship and up the starboard ladder of the foremast again. He sat there three or! four minutes, then he was seen to jump up again_and swing his hat and then danced. He crawled till he Tesched the forecastle and there jumped into tbe sea again. He had (vidently concluded that it was certain death to remain on the mast while there was a chance for life in the raging sea between him and shore. Wilson paused one long moment more, gazed.cagerly shoreward again, swung his hat and leaped into the sea. A huge wave receding from the shore caught him as he came to the surface, lifted him upand banged bis head against an anchor chain, and that was the las: of poor Wilson, who nirst tried to save his shipmates with a line and then tosave himseif. He was stunned mird went down with both hands in the air. { H. Fehn, a somewhat aged seaman, now being cared for at the house of Thom: Kenney, near the wreck, was struck by a mountainons sea and washed from the rigging. The witer from shore caught him and hurled him back against the ship with great violence. He was badly bruised and nearly stunned. The waves carried him very near the shore several times, only to car him back again. He was nearly dead from exhaustion and cold when his feet struck the sand. The exhausted sea- man fell forward on his tace, dug his fingers and toes into the sand, clinging with what feeble strength he had left, The light surf carried bim oat com- letely, several times, when Frank A. utis and anotbher man whose name is not known rusbed into the surf at the risk of their own lives dragged the exhausted Fehn to terra firma. He was saying softly, “'Please, God, stay with me; stay with me, God.” When he found bimseif high { rian Sea like a shotted duck, SOARING BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH Twenty Centuries of Effort to Fly Like the Birds. From the Classic Man of Crete to the Mystic Man of Oroville. Flights of the Airship Toward the “Ceuntral Blue"—A Bird- Bicycle. Ever since €6 B. C. man has been trying to follow the birds in their wanderings through the air. He has tramped every- where on the earth’s crust and in many places under it and is pluming himself for flights over it. It is understood from an account—more or less vague, it must be admitted—tLata flyer named Demdalvs and bis son Iearus had an occasicn to leave the Isle of Crete 2 years ago without their passports. They took to themselves wings one early morning before the detective force was astir and fluttered away. They got off all right and while the officers were chasing up a clew headed straight for Greece, like | two noming pigeons bound for the cote of their birth, Dsedalus skimmed along the tsurface of the Mediterranean and kept himself cool, but the boy was a high-flyer and canght a sunstroke. The wax by which his wings were stuck to his clavicles was melted and he dropped into the Ica- It is sup- posed that the father alighted safely ona | shore that had no extradition treaty with Crete. Almost twenty centuries have gone by between the times the man from Crete and the man from Oroville— or somewhere — took a fiyer. It is said, however, that during the fourth century B. C. Archytas of Tarentum made a pigeon of wood that flew quite well by means of & mechanical contrivanée, but the patent office contains no accounts of his machine. In the year 65 A. D.one Simon did some experimental flymnzat Rome, and was considered by the early Curistians to be doing business with the devil. This is probably why Nero, who was in the imperial office at the time, let Lim finish s flight unmolested, which Simon did till he fell and broke hisneck one day in the Forum. In the latter part of the fifteenth cen- tury one Dante—not the poet, whose flights were only those of fancy—had arti- ficial wings with which he flew over the y of Perugia until he bent one of his pinions, and falling on the roof of the | Church of the Virgin, broke his thigh. The first Englishman to go into the fly- ing business was a learned Benedictine, Oliver of Malmesbury, who took the idea of Deedaius as descrived by Ovid and did considerable traveling around among the skylarks until be fell and Rroke his legs. He said tbe trouble was he had neglected to provide himself with a tail. Shoruy afterward Cyrano of Bergerar advanced four different means of flying through the air. First, phials filled with dew, which would mount toward the sun; second, a great bird of wood, the wings of which should be kept in motion; third, rockets, which going off successively would drive up the budy by force of projection; fourth, by an octahedron of glass neated by the sun, of which the lower part should be al- lowed to penetrate the dense cold air, which pressing up against the rarefied hot air would raise the whole affair. He probably died while trying to get his theo- ries patented. Francis Lana in 1670 constructed the first flying inachine, which is here shown. The specific lichtness of hot air and hy- drogen gas being unknown to Mr. Lana and his contemporaries he tried to make his machine rise by taking the air out of the globes. They collapsed, of course, which frightened the inventor out of aerostatics for all time, Finally Montgolfier got heated air into his valloon, and aerial navigation took a long forwgrd and upward stride—or flight, Man could lift himseli, but he was ever at i the mercy of thé wind, which hurled him around in the depths of space of its own free will. Tuis was a condition to be over- come, so he went back to the birds—back over the centuries to Dsdaius and his wings. Howdo the feathered things navi- gate the atmosphere? was the query. Just one hundred years ago George Cayley con- structed a smail machine consisting of two screws made of quill feathers set like the sails of a windmill in two corks. By giv- | ing this a whirling motion with a stringed bow the thing was made to float grace- fully in the air. 1n 1863 aeration received another impulse by Landelle's idea of a machine with two superposed screws pro- pelied by an engine, the steam of which was generated in an aluminum boiler. As it could only lift a third of its own weight it did no flying, and the patent was never infringed upon. Penaud in 1872 took the bat for a model and made an aeroplane with elastic wings, the posterior margins of which in aa- dition to being elastic were free to move around the anterior margins as around axes. These wings because of the re- sistance of the air twisted and untwisted and formed reciprocating screws. When liberated 1n the air this artificial bat dropped about two feet, then flew for some aistance, gradually rising durinz its flight. Professor Lilienthal two years ago made a number of successful flichts near Berlin with a pair of anificial wings. By shift- ing his center of gravity relatively to the center of resistance he gave the wing- surface any inclination, and was able to control his movements to a certain ex- tent. However the professor limited his experiments to Jow and short flights and has escapea the fate of Icarus. Professor Wellner, a few years ago, patented a rotary sail for flying-machines. The wheel or drum worked on a fixed ec- centric, and the airblades attached to the spokes had an oscillating as well as a rotary motion. In the turning, the air would be drawn into this canvas-covered drum, between the movable biades, and as a result of this rotatory-oscillating mo- tion the machinemoved Tapidly forward, The inventor calculated that a 1600-pound weignt machine, with a 25-horsepower en- gine would drive it one and a balf miles and dry the seaman said ferventy, “Thank God,"” and became unconscious. At midnight the sky is bright and the wind and sea are going down. et 84W A VISION OF THE WEECK. Presentiment of a Mcther Whose Son Perished at Point Arena. ALAMEDA, Caxr., Nov. 24.—Mrs. Frank Dean of 1916 Pacific avenue, is the mother of the messboy, Frank Dean Jr. of the ill- fated San Benito. Sunday night her sleep was disturbed by a presentiment that her son Frank was in a wreck upon the ocean. So strong was this that she related it to her husband, who attempted to laugh it off asa dream.’ As soon as he dressed in the morning he secured his per from the doorand then learned that is son had been drowned. “I dreamed of a shipwreck,” said the “mother, *and Isaw Frankin it, Iam not superstitious, but it was so real that I couid not shake it off. A mother knows what the feeling is better than I can tell it.” i ver minute, Last year a catamaran airship was pro- posed for the United States coast defense, 400 feet iong and about 50 feet in beam, and having two cigar-shaped hulls, 1t would be lifted by hydrogen gas and pro- vided with 200-horsepower engines ap- vlied to two vertical propellers. 1t would carry a crew of eight men, with provis- ions, dynamite bombs for the aquatic ships of an enemy, coal and water for the engines, the whole to weigh 68,700 pounds when ready for safling—or rather flying. Its estimated speed would be 35 knots an bour. When the Government accepts the plans, Mr. Scott ot the Union Works may get one of those atmospheric cruisers, The great flying machine of the eminent gun_inventor, Hiram Maxim, is probably the most promising contrivance yet known in the realms of aerostatics. ~Complete with water, naphtha fuel and a crew of three men it weighs 8000 nounds, and running at forty miles an hour with a pressure of 275”pounds per square inch, the engines develop 360 horsepower; the thrast, of the screws is 2000 poundsand the lifting effect of the aeroplanes and wings, 4000 feet in area, is 10,000 pounds. The inventor eschews the gasbag of bal- loons and tie use of vertical screws for securing levitation, and relies entirely on the upward thrust on the aeroplane and wings, mounting at a slope of about one in eight, due to the currents of air rushing past them. The method of launching this wonder- ful affair in space, as has been described, is from a railroad track, along which the machine runs to attain the veiociy neces- sary to raise it in the air. To make a start it is tied up to the indicator-po-tin its rear and the propellers set in motion. They are soon driving a living gale of wind in their wake. When the pull of the rope has reached a definite amount, say pounds, a hook is released and the machine moves along the track. Present- ly it lifts itself bodily and sailsaway among the clouds. When tae machine is verfected Mr. Maxim claims that no raits will be necessary, as a short run over moderately level ground will be sufficient. About the latest invention in aerial navi- #ation is that of Rudolpn Koseh. The apparatus consists of two pairs of wings, ®ach rotating in a horizontal plane, butin different directions, so that turning the upper pair to the left will cause the lower pair to turn to tne right. Both pairs of wings can be flapped down simultaneously while being turned, and then they appear in a combined rotary motion. The wings can also be set in reiation to the shait in such a way that the iront edge of each wing is raised to any suitableangle around a pinion of the shalt, so that the two pairs of wings will appear and work like two propeller-screws, one right ands the other left handed. ‘Lhe blades can be moved up and down while being turned. The motor of this apparatus is operated by a man who sits in the saddle and turns the crank-shaft by means of common bi- cycle pedals, causing the wings to rotate while they are beiag flappea up and down by the handles. So when the wingsare set like screwblades they will perform a wave- like mot:on similar to the wWing motion of a forward-flying bird, the oniy difference being that the bira’s wing traveis up and down and forward while these move up and down and around one center. Kosch estimates that his bicycle-bird wiil scotch along through the clouds easily at the rate of 100 miles an hour, and a not very vivid imagination may picture the bloomer girl chasing the eagle to his eerie in the sun at no distant day. When man gets the wings of a dove the angelic age will be upon creation. In the mean- time the world watches for the man from Oroville—or somewhere—to lift the worid into space. MISSION OF THE AERIAL SHP Continued from First Page. shoot “into the air from the corner of O’Farrell and Market streets are posiive that they discerned the picture of *“Faker Billy” on the allezed aerial ship, which caused many people to crane their necks and cry, “‘Oh, there she goes!” ‘The balloon swept along rapidly and at- tained a height of "at least half a mile before it struck a new current, when it changed it3 course and slowly drifted in the direction of the Alameda marshes, where in all probability the remnants of it will be discovered by some duck-hunter to-morrow. OAKLAND, CAL., Nov. 24.—One of the funniest stories in connection with the airship was that told by a so-called detective-reporter, who came over here last night from San Francisco to create some imaginary men playing with an imaginary airship on Inspiration Point. This individua) came over about 10 o’clock and boarded & Predmont car. He asked the conductor for his name and number, and requested the carman to take s good look at him so that he could prove he had really been to Blair’s Park. The detective must have been of a very amateurish dis- position, for before he reached Piedmont the conductor knew what his mission was, and that he was connected with the American Detective Agency, and that he was working for the Examiner. The conductor referred to is No. 13 and his name is Crist. The man who claimed to be an Examiner reporter was a large man with a black mustache. On coming in from Inspiration Point he went straight to the Examiner branch office, on Broad- way, and left for San Francisco on the 11:20 broad-gayge train. His plan, asout- lined to a friend, is this: He was to tell a story of having gone to Inspiration Point, where he saw two men who were working with a machine like a balloon piaced lengthwise, to which was attached a light and some arms and an apparalus like a kite. When the detective- reporter approached the two men were to run away and pack their traps with them. The detective-reporter further stated that he had been perfecting his plaus for sev- eral days, so as to up=et THE CALL'S story. Conductor Crist said to-night: I was accosted by an individual last night who wanted my pame and number. I gave him the latter when Le told me he was an Examiner reporter. After promjsing me faithfully not to use my name and saying be wanted it to prove that he had been out to Blair Park I gave it. He came ont on the 9:38 car and reached the park at 10. He wanted to know what car he could take back in order to catch the 11:22 local, I told him to get the 10:53, and 1 presume hedid. He could have reached Inspira. tion Point and returned if he hurried, but as it was so wet and slippery I doubtif he ever saw the point,” The Examiner amused Oaklanders this morning by publishing the following: Alexander D. McAvoy of.the American and International Detective Agency, whose office 1siu the Mills building in this City, last even- ing discovered the source of at least some of the mysterious lights, perhaps all of them. By quiet investigation he learned that Blair Park, in the northern suburbs of Oskland, is the place of operation of two men who have been hoaxing tne people of Oakland and this City. He stationed himself in the park and watched for what he might see. Atexactly twenty-eight minutes after 10 o’clock be saw rising from Inspiration Point, & high shelf on the Piedmont hills, about 500 yards fror his place of observation, an object kite-shaped, about ten feet in length, with wheels like little windmills. On the sides of the structure were lights, and from 1t hung a Japanese lan- tern, red in color, and about one foot in diam- eter. It moved slowly before the wind. He vlainly saw twomen on the point, and ac- costed them as they descended the path. They to!d him that they were sending up ob- jects such as he had seen to mystify the people and to give them material for newspaper articles. The absurdity of the above can be appre- ciated when 1t is stated that at exactly 10:28 o’clock last night, and for hours be- fore and for hours after, the rain fell in torrents, and a “Japanese lantern red 1n color and about one foot in diameter’’ would have lived about half a second. De- tective McEvov said he saw the apparatus 500 yards trom his point of observation.” A man who could see through 500 yards of last night’s storm on inspiration Point would make a fortune in a dime museum, A HIGH-SPEED WORM. W. J. Kenney Furnished One for an Alrship, He Thinks. There is no one among the watchers for the mysterious moving light in the sky who scans the skies with ‘more interest than does William J. Kenney of Kenney & Payton, model-makers and bicycle deal- ers, 519 Valencia street. The raason for Mr. Kenney’s interest is that he believes he is the maker of some part of the aerial wonder, Mr. Kenney’s skill is responsible for a contrivance known as a ‘ball- bearing worm.” ‘A man about 45 years of aze, wearing a gray mustache and appearing tobea professional man, called on me about three or four weeks ago,”” said Mr. Kenney last evening, “and laid before me his plans for an unusuaily large and high-speed ‘worm.” I immediately concluded that be was intent on making an improvement on the cyclometer, a bicycle run by a small gasoline motor, and proceeded to hll his order. **He explained that he wished the worm and gear to be practically frictionless, and Isuggested that the journals of the piece of mechanism be fitted with batl bearings. He acquiesced and gave me the measure- ments, and we went to work. For two weeks we labored on the worm and finally completed it. s “The party who gave us the order failed to give us his name, but appeared to have plenty of money and paid one bill, $143, without a question, He was very anxious to have the piece of machinery completed, and when it was finally done he took it and left the store in a hurry. **We have not seen him since, and until all this talk of an airship thought nothing more of the matter. “‘When the aerial wanderer was finally seen, however, it dawned upon me that the man who bought the worm was inter- ested in this airship and tbat my produc- tion was a part of it. “To strengthen my belief I had many mechanical problems beiore me. First, the gear of the arm was too high for a cyclometer and it was just the thing to compress air or run a small dynamo. “In view of the terrific speed it would produce it was worthless for any other use. Lastly, the peculiar actious of the man who ordered the worm have con- vinced me beyond s doubt that the ma- chine is now being used on this airship.” e EVOLUTIONS IN MIDAIR. Pecul'lar Performance of the Aerlal Visitor Above Oakland. OAKLAND, CiL, Nov. 24.—Oakiand was beside itself to-night with excitement. For over two hours a large light attached to something was seen cruising over the city toward San Francisco and back again. About 7 o'clock the report was sfarted that the airship was to be seen, and peo- ple at once began to congregate in the streets and gaze at the heavens. The excitement commenced when the 6:30 train from San Francisco arrived'at Broadway. While crossing the bay the passengers had observed the strange thing in the sky, and the interest in- creased with the number of beholders. They watched the movable lizht, which alternated between remaining stationary and taking flights in the sky. Of course many were skeptical and de- ciared it was a brilliant star or possibly a planet, but when they received visible proof that it did not remain many minutes in any one particular constellation they joined the majority and agreed that they were looking at a veritable airship. Soon after the arrival of the train the strange thing was seen over Oakland, south of Sixth street, and as it passed across Broadway the street was crowded. One of the most noticeable features of it was the frequency with which the light was put out and made to shine again. This was afterward explained by one of the spectators who watched it with a powerful ilass and stated that he could see the machine performing evolutions which caused the light to shine in differ- ent directions. It did not appear to move rapidly, but it was at a great height above the earth and was somewhat unsteady in iis motion, which somewhat resembled | that of a ship in a seaway. As it passed over the city thousands of people saw it and were anxicus toadd their testimony that it was a genuine air vessel. Among them were Colonel Gar- rity, City Electrician Carleton, George Hatton, managing editor of the Tribune; Melvin Holmes, ex-deputy Superintend- ent of Streets, and scores of otners. The mystery of the skies was watched every foot of its course by curious thou- sands. The aerial rover appeared to cross the bay and hover over San Francisco for a time and-then return. While passing over the city the light disappeared tor a time and when it was again visible the machine was over East Oakland. As soon asit crossed Thirteenth avenue Deputy Constable Robinson announced its ap- proach and as it went by fully 5000 people turned out to see it. “Iam willing to make an affidavit that Isaw the airship,” said Deputy Robinson to-night. “There wasno fake about it and we could plainiy see that it had a motion like a ship. It wheeled around over Alemeda and then seemed to cross over San Leandro toward Piedmont.”” By the time it was headed for Piedmont the excitement was intense. Proprietors and clerks came to the shop doors; bartenders left their beer pumps; ladies stopped walking and directed their attention beavenward: cable and electric cars slacked up xo that passengers might peep at the wondrous light. At the Galindo Hotel the windows were thrown open and guests appeared with all manner of spyglassss and looked at the traveling light. Sometimes they declared that there were several smaller lights visible and that they could see a dark object, but it was too high in the air for apy of them to detect the nature of its wings or tail, if it had any. At Fourteenth and Broadwsy a large crowd gathered and grew excited as the remarkable light cruised around and occa- sionaliy disappeared. The play of lights caused many to think that the party who was directing the thing of the night was signaling to some one the earth. Everybody agreed that mo tricks with kites or balloons couid account for what they saw, for the light was so brilliant and powerful that to produce it a dynamo of no mean capacity must be carried. Melvin Holmes, ex-Deputy Saperintend- ent of Streets and a man well known in Oakland, leveled a glass at it and deciared itis an air traveler of some desciiption. George Carleton, the City Electrician, who is better known than almost any man in this city, knows the name of the in- ventor. Carleton was taken into con- fidence by a friend of the inventor, and be vouches for the honesty of his in- formant, Anybody who will doubt George Carleton when he says a thing istrue does not know the man. Carleton toid his story this morning, but he kept all names to himself. *I was pledged not to divulige them, and I'd saw my leg off first,” he replied to all questions touching identity. *I heard the story last night from a friend of mine, who isalso a member of my lodge of Masons. It was be who talked with the man who saw the machine, and I was toid the name of the inventor by my friend. As Iunder- stand it, the ship was made near Oroville, The inventor made an ascension of several hundred feet, flew off four or five miles, circled around a few times and landed as nicely as could be. This my friend’s friend saw. Both men are reliable, and neither of them have figured in the matter before.” oot Fred Gattee of 858 Broadway, as soon as he heard that the machine was over Oak- land, rushed for his telescope and declares that he distinctly saw the machine per- form some evolutions in the air. While he could not see the details he is-positive that he saw it maneuvering. Manager Jesse Halsted of the Oakland Theater watched the machine cross over Oakland, and with a pair of opera-glasses satished himself that he saw an airship. The mystericus light of the heavens was | also seen last evening by Mrs. E. H. Craw- ford and Miss Kate N. Bassett, a teacher at the Harrison-street School. The ladies after some hesitation told their experi- ences. “I went to my south window about last evening,’* said Mrs. Crawford, e if it was raining. I noticed a light off in the south, and watched it because it was the only Light visible. In a few mo- ments it disappearea, and later came to view again. It looked like the search- lights I have seen at the World’s Fair and in New York City. Icalled Miss Bassett, and we both watched it for fully fifteen minutes and until it finaliy disappeared. *‘When first seen it appeared to be moving away from us and gradnally sank until out of our sight. Miss Bassett said it must ve an electric licht with a tree waving in front of it, but this was not the case, as it was too hizh, and then I looked this morning, but there was no tree any- where near where we saw the light. | Neither of us saw an airship, but we did | see lights that we do not understand, and shall take much interest in watching this | evening and for some time to come to see whether the lignt is to be seen any more, “Before I went to bed, about 11:15, I again went to the window and the light | had refurned and was moving eastward | slowly, but steadily. I could not tell how far away the light was or anything about | it, but having read the account in the papers concluded that the light must be the same as seen by others in this vicinity.” Dr. J. H. Buteau was another who stood amazed as he viewed the strange visitor passing through the heavens. ‘1 was at Seventh and Market streets this evening,” said he, ‘‘when I noticed a.very lu%nz clear light down near the horizon, moving along in the face of the wind. The movement was very steady, and it made good time, although we watched it for fully ten minutes. As it receded it ap- peared to go lpwer, but that would be natural if it was moving on a level. Iam ata loss to account for the display, as 1 am increduloas regarding the talk that it is an airship. It might be a light at- tached to a balloon moving in an upper stratum of air. We could see it go behind buildings and emerge later on the other side as we watched its movements.” The mysterious machine finally disap- peared over toward Contra Costa County, and before midnight all Oakland was satisfied that it had seen the airship. —_— FAITH IN SONOMA. B. Loser Saw a Mysterious Rapldly Moving Brilllant Light, SEBASTOPOL, Car., Nov. 24.—The re- port that an airship bas been observed floating around in various sections of the State has created widespread interest in Sonoma County, and it now transpires that several citizens whose integrity is unquestionable have noticed the mys- terious craft flying through the air at night with a headlight as brilliant as an electric Hlash. J. B. Loser, proprietor of the Analy Hotel at this place, gives a graphic description of the vessel, and his story is corroborated by the testimony of numerous citizens both here and at Santa Rosa. He says that while driving to the county seat a few evenings ago he observed what appeared to be a brilliant light in the heavens. A few moments later the dszzling object seemed to be less than a mile away and then it gradually wended its way in an eastern direction and finally disappeared. Mr. Loser says that it wasa phenomenon such as he had never ueonl before, and be thinks that the strange ob- ject was nothing more nor less than the mysterious craft that has been seen in other sections, as it tallies exactly with the description given in the papers. R S A SIGHTED TRIPLE LIGHTS. A Rapid Aerlal Traveler Observed in Placer County. BOWMAN, Pracer 'Cousry, Cal., Nov. 24.—The articles published in THE CaLn and other papers in reference to the ob- served mystical aerial traveler have aroused great interest here. Several per- sons in this locality have been favored | with a view of the strange visitor. C. T. Musso, a fruit rancher, and sev- eral members of his family affirm that about four weeks ago and shortly after dark they saw a singular sight, wkich they are now convinced could have been noth- ing else than the much-discussed airship. Mr. Musso says he saw “the prettiest sight that his eyes ever viewed.”” It appeared J. | Santa Rosa, and the presence of a bright L\Vest that was said to have been entirely | horizontally and easterly at a rate ol. per= baps 100 miles an hour. A. H. Thompson, a vainter, states that at about the same time he ‘saw a similar sight, which he describes as being three very bright and large lights appearing about eight feet apart, and the forward one as being larger and brignter than the rest, and moving horizontally eastward rapidly and gracefully. Professor S. D. Musso states that about two weeks ago he and his wife saw a simi- lar sight moving in the same direction and with about the same velocity, He feels quite confident that it was not a meteor, as there were three lights appear- g about seven feet from each other in a direct line, the forward one being larger than the other two. The light, he states, was different from meteoric light, the velocity was too slow for a meteor, and it was traveling horizontally as long as it was seen, which was for several minutes. it R SANTA ROSA EXCITED. People Willing to Swear the Light Huad Huge Wings. SANTA ROSA, CaL., Nov. 24¢.—The ex- citement over the airs| has reached light in the heayens to night at 7:30 set hundreds of people star-gazing. The light | appeared to be moving in an easterly di- rection, occasionally disappearing entirely [ from view with a dult red glow, only to reabpear more radiant after a few sec- onds. It was impossible to see anything beyond the light, owing to the distance, but when it finally disappeared there were many people willing to swear that the ob- ject bevond the licht had buge wings. This light to-night revived *he rumors | of an airship invented by a man at Mark uccessfal as far as the npward and on- ward direction was concerned, bat it per- sisted in going off at an angle without warning. On Saturday night, just before midnight, several reputable gentlemen of this city reported seeing a bright light moving in a southwesterly direction. It was first observed about two miles southeast of town, just above Taylor Mountain, and seemed to come from toward ihe Sacra- mento Valley. 1t moved quite swiftiy and disappeared in the direction of Alameda County. This is vouched for by Charles Winters, a well-known merchant; and William Rohrer of the firm of Rohrer, Eintorne & Co. John Stump of Orr & Stump, a would-be wag, and several otuers sent up a small balloon with a lantern attached this even- ing, but the presence of the big light in the east made his fake fade into insignifi- cance. ‘While it is just possible that the light seen to-night was the work of some bold aeronaut there was nothing visible te show a balloon, and there are hundreds who believe it to be the famous airship that startled Sacramento. s e SAN JOSE STARTLED. Several Persons Claim They Saw the Alirship Traveling in That Vicinity. SAN JOSE, Cat, Nov. 24.—People in this city were startled to-night about 11 o'clock, on benolding a bright light mov- ing rapidly in the heavens, and they are convinced that they beheld the famous airship. It was seen moving in, the direc- tion of Gilroy, as was testified by Eugene | Barre, Dan Manning and Jerre Sullivan, who are employes of the Sunset Telephone Company. The light was of such a char- acter that the parties are convinced that it was none of the ordinary lights in the sky. About one hour afterward others saw the same mysterious light moving northeasterly very rapidly, as if it were returning from the direction of Gilroy. These parties, James Stanley and M. J. O’Brien, are also positive that they beheld ! the rapidly moving light of the airship. DEATH OF rDWAKD EDDY. Was One of the Best Known Millionaire Mining Men of Colorado. DENVER, Coro., Nov. 24. — Edward Eddy, millionaire, aied this evening. He was one of the best known mining men in the United States who made millions as an ore-buyer and mill-owner, though be never was directly interested in mines. He was born in Cornwall, Encland, 51? years 2go and removed to the United States, locating in the early days at G orgetown, where the foundation of his fortune was laid. He was greatly inter- | ested in Western raiiroads and smelters. 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