The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 19, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. MONDAY, OCTOBER 19. "1903. ROYAL GUESTS ATTEND REVIEW French Troops March Before Italy's King and Queen. Before Leaving Paris Victor Emmanuel Makes Gifs to the Poor. Oct. 18—XKing Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helene heard mass his morning in the Italian chapel her they drove without escort. clock this morning a start was w. The streets through which assed were not crowded, owing to ur and a drizzling rain which fall intermittently almost Upon arriving at the review € Victor Emmanuel mounted a Helene took her place in < et’s carriage, while M red the richly deco where, before m people. The sun rowds were enth and Quee ft for Italy tion. They were FRENCH PARLIAMENT REOPENS ON TUESDAY Government Has Sufficient Support Resist Adverse Votes The reopening of after a vaca- little atten- Ministry has ngth to-day as the last session, that the Govers Jority to resist features of the and the r carried out wever, adopted n ds ADVERTISEMENTS. 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JORDAN—DISEASES OF MEN Consuitation free and strictly private. Treatment personally or by leiter. A Fou 3 N men) ‘ DR JOREDAN & CO., 1051 Marketst..8. F. et i The Schilling’s Best label is never on anything middling. Your grocer's; everything moneyback. r Vincennes to witness the mill- | 1 1‘ BISHOP'S PILLS | - | ton on the Thirty-fourth-street side Stimulate | 6 for | HARVESTER COMPANIES IN MERGER {Closer Union of the Con-| | cerns Nowin Com- | bine. Reorganized Trust to Have a Capital zation of $120,000,000. —_— | Will Try to Force the Powerful D.; M. Osborne Corporation to | Come Into the Fold. Sl e Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. | DALLAS, Tex., Oct. 18.—An important change is to take place in the affairs of International Harvester Company | harvester trust), on Jan- The changé practically amounts to a domination of the com- bination by the McCormick interests. The present members of the Interna- are the McCormick, | ampion and Milwaukee ve been managed here- the (known as 1, 1904 uar tional Com: ¥lano, Dee companies. ng, tofore as “separate divisions.” The news gt is that a general > cally completed. All of divisions except the Milwaukee are as territory, Dallas be- e headquarters and central point of distribution. January 1 J. M. Johnson, manager MeCormick division, is to be placed of the combined affairs In territory, with headquarters in I with Manager Bell of the Cham- ¥ division & A branch < fet will be located at Houston, with er Ryan of the Deering d harge and Manager Bedell of t division to be his assistant. Simils to be made thrc One of the men who are in close touch the situation said to-night: The D. M. Osberne Company is the harvesting machinery concern It will be coerced into the beginning of the trust before FRIENDS OF MISSING MAN FEAR HE WAS MURDERED No Trace Is Found of Young Phila- | delphia Millionaire Who Dis- | appeared in Virginia. | BRISTOL, Tenn., Oct. 18.—It is now five days since E. L. Wentz, the young Phila- delphia millionaire, so mysteriously dis- appeared in the moun of Wise Coun- ty, Va., and notwithstanding a party of 1000 have been ing the moun- no clew has been ob- tains for five day man’s brother, Daniel ing has reased the reward for the of the young man from $5000 to provided he is returned alive. The the young man should be found r of the missing man is hurry- from Phi‘adelphia. The most plaus- theory is that young Wentz has been dered in the mountain e work for h fr s on the land of the Coal and Iron Company. It is obable, however, that kidnapers g him for ran I e i e 2 e FPORTED LEISE OF THE SHNTA FE Deal Is Said to Have P-en Made by Union | Pacific. om. h Special Dispatch to The Call. OMAHA, Oct. 18.—It is reported here that the Union Paclfic has obtained a lease of the Atchison, Topgka and Santa road. At the Union Pacific general of- | fices the report was neither affirmed nor | denied. The Union Pacific, it is sald, finds the | Santa Fe too strong a competitor for the | business from Chicago to the Paclfic coast. It has been known in Omaha for some time that it is eager to make a com- bination such as James J. Hill tried when | he formed the Northern Securities Com- pany and obtained control of the Bur- lington. ARRESTED Fi ANNOYING | HOTELS’ WOMEN GUESTS | = | Man Claiming to Hail From San | Francisco Tenants a New York Jail Cell. NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Harry Clayton, 28 years old, claiming to hail from San | Francisco, was locked up last night on | complaint of Detective Williams of the | Holland Ho Williams arrested Clay- of the Waldorf and alleges that he was an- noying women patrons of thé hotel by shouting at them through an open win- | dow of the dining-room. | Detective Williams says Clayton ap- | peared at the Holland House several days | ago and annoyed women patrons by | speaking to them, shouting through the | dining-room window and making signs. | He was warned to keep away from the| | hotel. Last evening he appeared at ma]‘ | Holland House, but was quiet. He re- | mained fifteen minutes 2nd then started | | up Fifth avenue. Williams followed him. | | He says Clayton went to the Thirty- | | fourth-street side of the Waldorf, where | | he saw a window open in the dining- | room. Four women were seated at a. table | | near the window. Willlams says that | Clayton started to sing “Won't you come and play with me” and in other ways try to attract their attention. Clayton would | make no statement. r —— Snow Falls in Northern New York. PLATTSBURG, N. Y., Oct. 18.—North- | orh New York had its first soawidll ot| the season to-day. The mountains about | Lake Placid, Loon Lake, Chateaugay | Lake and Lake Titua are white with SNOw. ——————————— PEKING, Oct. 18.—The Marconi system of wireless teiegraphy was instituted to-day be- t the coast. Several Chinese the first mes- | against unnecessary expenditures. SUCCESSFUL UDOYAGE MADE OUVER CITY IN AIRSHIP BY DR. GRETH, INDENTOR —— — s OF THE MARUELOUS AERIAL CRAFT DARI RECOVE NDED. ‘A; NAVIGATOR WHO STEERED THE AIRSHIP IN ITS FLIGHT ACROSS THE CITY JUST BEFORE HE STARTED ON HIS ASCENT, AND PICTURE OF THE MACHINE AS IT APPEARED AFTER IT HAD BEEN RED FROM THE WATER WHERE IT DESCE. s Continued From Page 1, Column 6. hauled back to the starting point at Mar- ket and Eleventh streets. The trial trip, unheralded as it was, was the ‘most remarkable and successful ex- periment in aerial navigation that has ever occurred either in this country or in Europe. It surpassed in many ways the | feats of Santos Dumont and Stanley Spencer demonst ond a doubt that an ac- structed the inventor and navi- gator of this new craft was practicglly an Except to a few énthu- who aided of Greth By name nauts. with his fz at 303 Jones street. n by birth and about 42 years old. - is a graduate of a college in France and also won a degree from the University of California. He is an In manner he is unassuming but terribly | in earnest. For twenty years he has dab- bled in aeronautics and has patents for nine airships granted to him by tbe Unit- ed States. s no dreamer or visionary enthusiast. What he knows of voyaging in the air he has learned by deep study and experience and he is certain that the problem of navigating the atmosphere needs only a little capital for its complete solution. When seen at his home yesterday after the ascent he talked readily and interest- ingly of the trip and his ambitions. He said: I feel splendidly after my trip. I'sufered not the slightest inconvenience except that I got wet to my waist when the ship settled in the bay. The reason I descended there was a question of expense. I could readily have kept on and landed on the Marin County shore or over in Oakland, but the expense of bring- ing back our apparatus from either of those places would have been ten times greater than it was from the Presidlo, PROMOTERS POOR MEN. We are all poor men and we have to guard All we have in the world has been put Into this project and it has been hard scraping for all of us to get funds to go as far as we have. The ascent in a large sense was successful. 1t demonstrated beyond a doubt the practica- bility of my plans for an airship. Defects in the motor and crude appliances in the balloon caused the descent to be somewhat disastrous and in an undesirable place, but those are matters that a little money will remedy. I never enjoyed anything in my life as I aid the trip across the city. One cannot imagine the feeling of exuberance and freedom enjoyed when one feels that he can sall through the air at any altitude desired and pllot his craft as he wiils. For the greater part of the time that I was in the air the balloon was entirely under my control. It would have been entirely so ex- cept for two factors. In the first place my motor failed me, as it has done before. It is a gasoline motor, weighing 500 pounds, and nominally of ten horse-power. As a matter of fact it develops only six horse-power. Under pressure it stopped working yesterday when 1 was at an altitude of 2000 feet, The other factor was in the balloon itself, which lacks automatic expansion valves, such as Santos Dumont’s balloons are equipped with. At an altitude of 2000 feet the gas in the envelope expanded rapidly under the hot rays of the sun and the breakdown in the motor rendered the propellers powerless to drive me down to the earth. Under these cir- cumstances 1 was compelled to let gas out of the balloon in order to avoid reaching too great a height. This was a tedious process, as I had fo unlash the mouth of the balloon and after a sufficient volume of gas had es- caped, lash it up again. Before I did this the balloon was tense with expanded gas and I was afrald that in the higher altitudes the added pressure might burst the envelope. MOTOR REFUSES TO WORK. After the release of the gas I tried to get the motor working again, but could mot. I had picked out a spot in the Presidio where I | intended landing, but was caught in a cur- rent of wind and carried out over the straits. Had my motor been working I could have Janded handily on the very spot I had chosen. ‘While I was in the air I could see far out on the ocean and to the foothills In the east. I watched the people below me, mere specks on the earth, and was much amused at their gestures of wonder at my appearance. The journey and what it has demonstrated made me the happiest man in the world. As soon as I cn get a proper motor I am going to give the people of San Francisco an exhibition of aerial navigation that will sur- prise them. A motor such as I want will cost 1 $1000, and with that I will demonstrate con- clusively that I can sall an airship at will at a speed of thirty miles an hour in a perfect calm. In favoring currents my speed will be increased by just the velocity of the wind. The ship can be sailed at any altitude desired and thus advantage can be taken of the dif- ferent currents in the atmosphere. What I am telling you Is not the dream of a visionary. I am intensely practical in this matter, and I make it & point to underestimate rather than overstate all that is possible with my craft. This present machine is a make- shift and falls far short of what my plans contemplate. The most Important feature lack- ing !s a prover motor. Santps Dumont has a 30-horsepower motor weighing 300 pounds. If I had that motor [ could go where I please through the air. He also has automatic ex- pansion controllers and has no need to worry about his ‘balloon. The pressure will remain the same at évery altitude and through every change of temperature. Owing to my lack of motlve power I was compelled to do with two propellers and at- tach these to the sides of the car. My plans call for four propellers, two at each end of the frame, These can be worked together or separately and at any desired angle, so that the ship can be turned in any direction and held there even against a strong wind. SAILS AGAINST WIND. Even with my poor motor I held my machine yesterday against a strong current of wind, although I drifted considerably. The propellers my plans call for are all to be run by one motor in the body of the car. The French have succeeded best In making high-power mo- tors of light welght, but th are cheaper ones made in the United States that will an- swer the purpose in these tests. For $3000 [ can buifld a machine that will be capable of defending the harbor of San Francisco from the attack of the combined fleets of the world. It could sail over the ships at a helght beyond the range of thelr guns and drop high-power explosives down on them that would send them to the bottom in short order. The spirit of the age demands the solution of the aerial navization problem. The needs of travel call for something better than rail- ways and steamships. As the Puliman sur- passes the prairie schooner so will airships surpass rallroads. Many brilliant' men have set themselves to mastering this _mode of transportation and thelr combined efforts must prevail. My experiment shows how near we are to the solution. Within a short space of time airships will be as common and as dirigible as automobiles are now. I have studied this subject serlously for twenty years and I have come to the conclu- sion that the only practicable airship is one that gains its support from some gas lighter Flying machines that are ex- pected to sustain themselves by their own wer 1 do mot cxpect to see. The impossi- bility of securing sufficlent sustaining power in this line of airships without increasing the weight in proportion seems to be an insuper- able obstacle, The only hope for the gasles: airship seems to lie in the aiscovery of some new force greater than steam, electricity or compressed air. But a dirigible airship buoyed up by a balloon is not a theory any longer. My ma- chine will answer all requirements it prop- erly equipped, and I expect to attain high rates of speed and the ability to go through the alr under all kinds of atmospheric conditions in any direction please. HISTORY' OF AIRSHIPS. Successful Flights Have Been Made by Several Inventors. Experiments with flying machines and airships have been in progress for at least seventy years, though the practice proba- bly dates back even further. Hundreds of aeronauts and inventors have striven to solve the vital question, yet not until recent years have the much talked of air craft been navigated with any degree of success. M. Santos-Dumont, the daring Brazil- jan aeronaut, is perhaps the most suc- cessful inventor and manipulator of fly- ing machines that ever lived. Next to Dumont rank Stanley Spencer of London, Lebaudy, the noted French aeronaut; Herr Schwartz of Germany, Professor Langley of the Smithsonian Institution and Carl E. Myers, the balloon builder of Frankfort, N. Y. Each one of these men has come before the gaze of the public within the last ten years and each has met with more or less success in operating his own particular style of machine. The theorles of each inventor differed widely and their ma- ‘chines were all patterned and operated on different lines. Santos-Dumont made his first ascension in Paris in September, 1898. The initial trial was not altogether a success, but the young inventor did not lack the energy and staying qualities, so ten days later he again experimented with his machine and this time he successfully sailed about n i s the suburbs of Paris for many miles, though the machine finally gave out. These two trials gave Santos-Dumont much experience and soon after he bullt the Santos-Dumont No. 2. This machine was much more successful than the first and he made many ascensions in it and the eyes of the scientific world were soon turned on Paris and the brilliant youn South American. S NAVIGATES SUCCESSFULLY. He continued to build alrships from that time on and completed several more, all of them being successful. The last one, in which he flew around the Eiffel tower last year, is considered the best that has yet been constructed. With this machine Santos-Dumont has successfully demon- strated that a flying machine can be eas- ily navigated and can battle against the various wind currents. Professor Langley's machine has not been so much of a success as that of the Brazilian's, but the Smithsonian man has confidence in his ability to perfect his ap- paratus and according to his own state- ment when he remedies a few lesser de- fects it will fly successfully. Langley's machine is a novel one and constructed on entirely different lines from that of Santos-Dumont. It is a huge kite-like affair,shaving no gas bag to sus- tain it, with four immense wings or sails, and is operated by motor power, supplied by a small engine. It cost a small for- tune. to equip the machine and the ex- penditure may be doubled before it is brought to a degree of perfection. The airship built and designed by the late Herr Schwartz was the most ponder- ous ever completed. It was constructed of aluminum and weighed 5700 pounds. It was 135 feet long and forty-five feet in diameter, and its inventor spent many years In constructing it, but died befor: his hopes of sailing the air were realized. Schwartz was a noted Prussian inventor and his machine attracted widespread at- tention. He died in 1896, a year before his machine was given a trial, that resulted disastrously. AFTER SCHWARTZ'S PLANS. The machine made its ascent in Septem- ber, 1597, in the presence of a number of prominent officers of the Prussian army. It arose without a hitch, but the steering gear became entangled before the machine made much progress and the engine also failed to work, so the ship.fell to the ground and was totally destroyed. Had Schwartz lived there is no doubt but that his machine would have been a success. No one knew of his plans, and when he died before the machine was fully completed several of the army of- ficers undertook to work out theories of their own. They undid much of the work that Schwartz had spent years at, and therefore the machine was finished on en- tirely different lines, and its failure was expected by many who had made the question a study. The - Stanley-Spencer machine has at- tracted much attention lately and its in- ventor has made many successful trips in 1t. Spencer’s airship is constructed much after the lines of Santos-Dumont’'s. The principal difficulty its inventor expe- rlenced in navigating it was steering and turning around. He made numerous at- tempts to circle about towers, but most of them were unsuccessful, as the steer- Ing gear of the machine failed to work at the critical moraent. Carl Myers, proprietor of the noted “'b: lecon farm’ at Frankfort, N. Y., is the In- ventor of a novel balloon machine, egg- shaped, that is propelled by means of pedals, like a bicycle. Myers has made several successful trips in his machine and has always been able to command it with ease. As far back as 1822 James Bennett, a Philadelphia man, invented a flying ma- chine, but he never perfected it so that it could be operated with any degree of safety. He appllied to Congress for the exclusive right to make and sell flying machines, clalming to be the only man that ever brought a flying machine be- fore the public. Congress refused to grant the rights and soon after that Bennett and his machine dropped out of sight. Bennett is credited with making several ascents in his machine, but he died before it was perfected. SUSPECTED DYNAMITER la GAUGHT Trailed After Tampering With Northern Pa- cific Tracks. Proves to Beé the Ex-Convict Seen at a Cache of Explosives. Montana Officials Confident That | They Have the Ringleader in the Recent Outrages. — HELENA, Mont, Oct. 18.—Isaac Gra- | velle was brought here to-night by a | posse of Northern Pacific detectives and {lodged in jall on the charge of having | been connected with the dynamite out- | rages on the Northern Pacific. | Last.night, while a watchman was pa- | trolling the track about fifteen miles west of Helena, he ran across a man digging j @ hole under the rafls. The man ran and | the watchman fired at him twice, but | missed. This morning at 7 o'clock Cap- | taln Keowan and tWo others took the trail ‘of the man frem the railroad track and | followed it twenty miles into the moun- | tains, finally capturing him at his cabin. | | He was armed with a rifle and a revolver. | | He sald his name was Plummer, but the men knew him to -be Isaac Gravelle, an | ex-convict, released from the penitentiary | !in July. He is the man the detectives ! have been hunting for three weeks, his | | picture having been identified as that of | ! the man who was found at a haystack | near Townsend, where fifty pounds of | “dynnmlle was hidden in the haystack. | | _Superintendent Boyle and Detective | | McFetridge, who have charge of the | ! work of running down the dynamiters, | are positive Gravelle is the ringleader in | the outrages. PASSENGER TRAIN NEARLY DROPS INTO THE POTOMAC Section of Bridge Gives Way and Tender and Baggage Car Go Into the River. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—The Chesa- peake and Ohio passenger train which left | here at 11:22 o'clock to-night for Cinein- nati met with a serious accident on the long bridge which spans the Potomac | | River and connects with the Virginia | shore. About one-third of a mile from | | the Washington énd of the bridge Is a | draw 150 feet in length. To-night as the | train was passing over this draw the| northern half of it gave way and precipi- | tated the tender and a dead baggage car | immediately following it Into the water. A huge girder which formed part of the | draw fortunately jAmmed up against the mail car and helped to keep it and the remaining cars of the train from going into the river. No one was killed, but Fireman John Woods of Charlotte, N. C., recelved a severe gash in the face. | Nielsen | to-day from Liverpool. ENGINE DASHES THAOUGH GARS Five Railroad Employes on a Work Train Injured. Open Switch Causes Night Disaster in the High Sierra. CRP T EpSC A Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENJO, Oct. 18.—Three white men and two Chinese employed on a con- struction train in the Slerra Nevada Mountains are suffering from Injuries re- cefved In a wreck between Cascade and Tamarack station, in the high Sierra, at 11 o’clock last night. They are J. Long, carpenter, ribs broken; C. W. Schrader, carpenter, burned about the face and body with carbolic acid and otherwise bruised: F. Ackerman, carpenter, slight injury from shock of collislon and abrasion of right leg; Ah King, walter, lmerm?il scalp and braip Injury, may die; Ab Loule, cook, contusions over the body, seriously hurt. The men were asleep on a work train located on & new siding near Tamarack when their car was crashed Into by a freight train, which came apon the side- track through an open switch. Three of the work cars were demolished. The lo- comotive plunged on through the wreck and striking the snowshed toppled over an embankment, carrying about 100 feet of the snowshed with it. The engineer and fireman miraculously escaped injury The freight train was westbound and known as No. 213. meager reports were received of the wreck because of the isolated poir where it occurred and the was broadcast that a large number had been killed. It is said sev ral men asleep In a cabin near the snowshed had a very close call from death by falling timber. As the main track was not blocked the delay to traffic covered only an hour. All the trains are Z;BIH I"'l:; e wreckers are at work to-nig R track and the engine upon the clearing away the debris. . e—o———— TRANS-ATLANTIC STEAMER SAVES STARVING MARINERS PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18 — Captain of the British Trans-Atlantic hip Haverford, which arrived here reports having fallen in with the coasting schooner Rubis arid Bessle, with all on board in a weak- ened condition from lack of food. The schooner was sighted 100 miles east of Cape Henlopen. Some of her salls wers gone and she appeared to be in trouble. A boat with some of the }!averfor‘d s of- ficers was sent to the vessel. Captain Marshall of the schooner said he sa-flm: from Georgetown, 8. C., on September 17 for Patchogue. R. L Besides his crew he had with him his wife, four children and a passenger. 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