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it | faut, after his most succe | Btevens, but by all who saw it. | country, The speed was reckoned about 9 Bas riding in a hand STEVENS W NE ) CIRCLE Worl DOME onaut Dives First to Sail a Dirigible Balloon in United States, Will Fly| Over City. LLS OF SUCCESSFUL TRIP. | His Machine Worked Perfectly in Fight and Inventor Says| | Air Voyages Will Soon Be Popular. © “T fully believe that in less than five| gears airship driving will replace auto- ‘oblles and be the popular mode.of light | @onveyance.” {This opinion of Leo Stevens, the aero ful Might tn Manhattan | (Drawn by L. Bledermar his irigible balloon at to the aerodrome 1 wired Mr. Corbla | the sitk alone 5m, It being the Beach, may be even more prophetic than| of my succ though 1 know he will Mf Jape product, Welghing | gry that 1 didnt walt for him to oui ler el ee AY fs generally believed. Although it naa) BA AATy tau d dynes lm Y0}) bi iA! ¥ Svat wan unfortunate ending, his trip was pro- ,Mounced a certain success, not only by nese silk gas bag ts $i fee & et through the mil The Pally six miles were covered tn the alr| ~~ ~~~ = | oF WARCONL Genoa Inventor’s Wire- less Telegraphy Sys-| tem Impresses Offi- cialsofWesternUnion Seven miles with the Meht wind, and about four against it. The ship's dis- tance from earth during the sail varied from 400 feet to more than a mile and a quarter. Stevens himself is elated over his} achievement, The flight was made most ‘Unexpectedly, and Stevens was not fully prepared. Yet his rivalry with the own- ers of the Santos-Dumont No. 6 led him to cast off his anchor ropes while he ‘was yet experimenting at a holght of 200 feet and essay his fight in sheer Pique. AGH HOLDAP WAS BIG JOKE. Bold Highwaymen Who “Wild-Wested” Wis- Beat His Rival.” Hei declares that he not only out- Bpeeded, out-controlled and out-salled the Dumont craft, but that his balloon ybassesses many superiorities In the line “ot safely that No. 6 has not Stevens says he will wager that Mr. Boice feared for his personal safety on his trip, this being the reason for his alighting from the Dumont In a lot two Were Three Friends. LOOT WILL BE RETURNED. GREAT GAIN IN SPEED. (special (Mbne Evening World.) Guiseppe Musso, of Genoa, GOSHEN, N. Y. Oct. 1.—Fverybody earnest young man who belleves that he Italy, an 2 in Oronge C " gtaay, miles from Brighton Beach, where heli. invented a aystem of wireless |! Oronee County tx taking to-day ‘went up. C foe ov about the practical Joke perpetrated y olan venting World reporter thia|telesraphy superior to the Marconly) oy the three young morning Stevens gave a description of| method, to-day conferred with the pene y 8 soctety men of Warwick, who turned bandits and held up the “Ploneer is craft and an outline of his plans for the future. ofMctals of the Western Union Telegrapn 73 Company, and upon the seventh floor Mr. Austin Corbin, fr.. ts backing my | ult No. 195} Coach on its trip from Goshen to Wer experiments,” he sald, “and from the|of the corporation build Sues ne siiccess of yesterday I feel that he| Broadway, gave an outline of what his| Vick: , will no longer hesitate to have made | apparatus will accomplish The “cat Is out of the dag to-day, for me the steel balloon that will dem- and It 1s known that these three “bold, Signor Musso will require a working model to fully demonstrate the poss!- bilities of his invention. He says that onstrate fully the feasibility of my Idea: bad men" wera Wilbur Lawrence, L. J. Campbell and Amos Campbell, ir. Corbin is an enthusiast on air- ships and he has already spent more|the construction of the model will re-] 8¢veral occasions during the sumer have than $15,000 on my eepeleale in the] autre an expenditure of $15,000 m been guests on the Pioneer, Masked, eee ceccauen Retreee eon sah The Company Pleased. armed to the teeth and mounted on 99,000. His advances wero well received by| fine steeds, this trio dashed from the “T do not expect to fly the ship again| the offictals of the company and he was| heavy underbrush alongside the road in invited to make arrangements for tests} front of the coaching party yesterday quntil the latter part of the month, un- fess 1 go to Washington and give a *@emonstration of Its efficiency as a war when {t had reached a se- cluded spot, two miles from Warwick: i coach consisted of to be made tn the near future. ‘To an Evening World reporter Sig ‘vessel while the Grand Army encamp-| Musso gave the first statement concern- y on the j ment {s on next week. Ing his invention, His remarks on the] Mrs ck Webster and Mrs. Haw- “We will have good ballooning days|subJect of his own accomplishment ley Webster, residents of Brooklyn, who ) eponding the summer at War- Hart and Mrs, James Dr, P. A. Gideon, accompanied the In- were translated by an American, who this month, and after making one or two minor changes in the speed mech- anism I shall arrange to fly over the| Yerter to this country Johnson, of ‘eity of New York. It will be easy. I] “I first Interested myself in the sub- y, Whose sum- ave no fear in/the air, and have con-|Ject of wireless telegraphy several} mer home ts at ; Clinton W fidence in my machine, It will fly, and] ¥*4rs ago, and upon reflecting that the] Wisner, Ma Warwiek, and the before the month !s out the thrée and]! method of transmitting and re-] guard, Edw ving messages was much too slow,’ @ half millions in Greater New York| © Conchers Never Suspected. ‘Will have a ohance to see tt, he sald. “I especially noted that two] 44. yyysner was the whip yesterday, ‘One more thing I am sure’ of after | Ves**'s separating from cach o and when the dlghwaymen rushed from my trip of yesterday. It 1s that the alr- the distance! ‘constantly: grows, oottng « fusillade of bullets ehip must be a dirigible balloon, No|steate, required a means of commu-[“2VC% SHOOUNE MUS Aeroplanes wil! ever fy with human|Mecating tho greatest amount of matte eee ea end sey Onre frelght. They talk about birds being|'" the le ssible time Fate iecmndtocear aad’ gldites 06 Aeroplanes, but I am not so sure that| “Pheret have ‘@ plan wherepy| 9nd they besan to rear and pile le more shots were add terror to the ser Dirds are not dirigible balloons. 1 be- | every’ foal impulse sent vestaters 6 0 deve it will be found tiat thelr exces-| 4 leaible character letter of reds athenwnnen ee eNen of sive consumption of hydrogen !s what | *#!Phabet—and does not saitate four} them, Mra. Hart, tari as NRA HN Blyes them their great buoyancy. or five distinct Impulses, a# in the Holdup your hands Ere life,” shouted one of the bandits, Wisner cracked his whip in an effort to start his leaders and get away from the pot Two of the “highwaymen'’ held the coach teams while the other mounted and compelled the party to gie up thelr money and Jewels. Resistance was uxe- passed over everything In facuums are no good. Aluminum cannot be used safely. The airship of athe ‘fituresthe future of five wears will bo a sheet-sterl envelope filled with |“ pure hydrogen supporting a steel fram work, with a gasoline motor of 50 or 76 horse-power to turn the propellers.”" To show the people of the city gaally I can stcor, my ante. stance of th Me A Printed Telegram, ording to my method the telegram {s receled printed upon a page and by a single operation. By this 1 mean that the message Is received In typewritten characters on a page ready for delivery as @ telegram. TI ectrical tmpulse how Lean steer my ship. I shall de- neircle the dome of Balint Building. equalling Dumont's trip around the Eiffel Tower. or wave is reprod instantly and in. At the point of a re- First to Fly Here. automatically jn a legivle character. ree gly ered tiene ce There was considerable ill-tecling to-| “Another feuture of my system Is the ‘atthe Ad od fOr between Stevens and Boice over day eas of claim as to which was iret tO navigate the air of the ates. was the first,” hy, for hours was in the air. It was Ione. before Bole thought of trs fois no aeronaut, and fro drome at Brighto ae possibility of transmitting and r ing simultaneously on one and the aa nstrument, which of jise!f Is the gr est noevity of my Invention. from greut le ig the season's bills stations along the route uring: the valuables asesved the bandits agaln sd their horses and giving a pa: of Shots eped away to n hiths, hy the sound of the r horses’ hoofs had died away Mr. r got Ids coach again in motion all declares veri eloclty at-| 4 fs about way to Warwick at top MMy ball 8 tetlegraphy is { alann yan quickly given y balloon was captive in the air all |! ng tho station with Ws of the hold-up spread ike Gin atternoon and Bolce got his meena | desires to communi he los ive were notifed, out. I was surprised ta sce him sai | ages Ww nt oshen and “away, and in the heat of the moment 1 |¥ patatus can ju- |in every ditection to Intercept the high- terfere with of my messages 1 further calm for my Invention an |f advantage ln the capacity of the oper- ator working with my appa celve mess. waymen. ahoutedto my men to cast off. i twas "The drag rope was too short Se, and Thad to wait untit th a piece to make the drag 1.000 fe Mong, ‘The knot In it {8 what Let ‘my. only trouble. Pa The wind was carrying Boice from|two stations provide the shore. I went higher than he was | ’pparatus @4nd to my delight. though not surprise, | nterte ihe found T was sailing in the air, going where I pleased. It Rrand. Tt was re geome of the main AS much different fre Bola ballooning’ e of my Invention a rom an - hy. All operath Ung, but | & tits en ' fs y beyond It sin f [think ‘he Kot seared and omen, jergency valve. ing and send sie reached Warwick, ran high. whole thing was that the nd tha ft was learned t Intended trators ables for were Kc take with In no wl i » with the work o instrumentt, the } the latter the operator hing party clared. ‘Tha alone explains my pres- t After concluding negouations 1 The inventor ts University of Genoa a ve He was odu With Dr Murray Hl Hot Much Hope Cor Masse, ectriclan Willian 1A ther Union 7 yh Petroled about the ‘ frpck and saw Ty as back. turning as 1 pleased.» “i cou for home. T had cov Unter stiles and isfrom 200 to 4.000 feet ato ted position ngenahe apHaratus is also applicable ta stem of telegraphy with wires AEE Vane ee ran latter ean acd ny with omy io electric Nahe “wires P RUDOERRIORT URED i method of wi A Une: orton me was @olng fine H artes eolna fine enmine | ae, course, the moto: m1 Re ltoanaged to meer ts | tren net of wires so as not to Vado, BARES ey covery. countries been is van z man and | was h 0 chief. elec ad im- him. At my sug: his dix ge the Inventor wil dratt an out- tents in the various line of his system together with plans lurope and that rights ant specifications for, presentation to , appyed for In the United Col. ©, Barclay, President of the ane s| RIP oppor tink the Peipph bac 4 ven runt ‘healed stn" We de: es ie counygy.” ye Salva Maat afterward co no, gountry, in the | world gToater_adva: than the INSURED FORDEBT ; ner Party on Pioneer| who on! nok last evening when the | ILL FLY FROM BRIGHTON TO Ww MOIR: AND CIRCLE " THE WORLD DOME. r a but in front, thus| 2 uiling the} ¥' are not at the rear, sorewing into the alr and slp along rather than pushing |t sits on a little seat Just in fr a ‘ot the engine. “He has three things | s! to do besides watching the wind and r-pound lic as weight but Stevens declares that with a si envelope he will be able to use the ship for six months without refilling. Parisian aeronaut ginning wit to tend the engine, adjust the| eleven that | thirty. uns ona little track from one nd to. steer, Tt costs about $900 to fill the gas bag, The greatest danger in the sailing. the aeronaut declares, is In the ship's wurn- ing turtle, That Is why the long drag 6 must be used to maintain the Equilibrium, With a silk bag there is somo gas leakage, and the ascent mus be gradual or there will be an explosion when the gasoline engine suddenly pops This ts ip in the escaping hydrogen Ki the hat caused the death of Severo, ade nearly 2,000 asccn. kinds of balloons, be- steailng a ride, when only He is ‘now about Stevens los in val years old. COUNTESS’ LIFE. Lady of Castellane Or-}: dered to Take Out Policy in Favor of|} | Tradesmen. a MUST PAY $8,000 MONTH}, Asher Wertheimer's Suit}* Against Former Anna Gould and Her Husband Is Settled by Agreement. Countess de Castellane, who was Anna ‘ould, Js to have her Ife in- sured for 2,900,000 ‘francs in favor of a tradesman, This actian on the part of one of the leaders of the French nobility ts not from sentiment or affection, Dut on yaccount of a cruel order of the courts. Application will be made to Judge La- combe in the United States Cireult Court this week to havo the order of the French courts accepted in this country. It haa all come about through the sult of Asher Werthelmer against Count Bont and Countess Anna to re- cover $400,000 due for bric-a-brac bought from hls art store in London, ‘The suit has been a1 for many months. ccording to Samuel Untermeyer, his | sel, the suit 1s now to be settled, ays the main points of the arges- applled on Werthelmer's claim shall be deducted. ——$—— REVIEWED BY MILE SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 1.— the Pre: he trgops at Mo have been reviewed by Gen The display was witnessed by isands of spectators ORIGINAL DESIGNS FROM T of the World's Fat this morning. closed, months. pital, where the physicians sald there JAMES McCREERY & CO. EF Double “S * Women’s Boot Dep’t wt Autumn and Winter Footwear THE NEWEST CREATIONS IN WALKING & RIDING BOOTS, ENATOR’S: ‘SON TRIES GAS. Founa Hotel. oung Thurston Apphyxi- ated in St. Loo ST. LOUIS, Oct. 1 former United States Sena‘o: Clarence Thurstor son of hurston. of Nebraska, and an attac! ofMces In St. Loui 8 from asphyxia at a hotel earl ‘as found noon: on in his apartments The door of his room was tight the Key-hoiw plugged, the wir ‘ows bolted and the gas fets oper, 1 Jcating that an attempt had been mad» t eulelde. Thurston Is twenty-two years old a as been in St. Lows about th He was taken to the City Ho. possibility he may not re BLANKET DEP’T. 4th Floor. On Thursday, October 2nd, Sale of California Blankets, ine Quality, — Manufac- tured for James McCreery & Co, Santa Clara”’ Single bed size, 4.50 Bey pain ment ta settle are: ay) That Wertchlmer'a claim te admitted | DOUble 550 In full, with Interest at 4 pe Ree cf) be pald monthly In instal 8.00! Silverado until the whole ts settle that the ‘: Vy “ “a can de Castellane Is to have her| SHgle bed size, 5.50, nsured in Wertheilmer's favor fof) i) at 7s St iM full amount of the claim. in it Double 6.75 he may he protected 1 case ©) . r death before “San Benito” the ‘payments “to relimer ; balls have pres lence over al other ered-| S). i > ‘ Nave, Bo“that when the Gould esters | Single bed size, 7.co makes a payment. the amount to be “ o« 8.50 Twenty-third Street. Stern Brothers are showing on Second Floor AN EXTENSIVE IMPORTATION OF Paris [Model Hats & Toques For Autumn and Winter ALSO HEIR OWN WORKROOMS Main Floor Annex LOW CUT SHOES & SLIPPERS FOR EVENING WEAR. Combining a beautiful contour, perfect comfort and elegance, Rang ing from $3.50 to 50.00 (On 3d Floor) a véry choice collection of REAL BRONZE BUSTS AND STATUES, CLOCKS, PORCELAINS, CURIO CABINETS & FANCY TABLES 100 Clock Sets, Rich Gilt and Dining Room Clocks, Mahogany and Oak, 14 hour chimes, West Twenty: Porcelain Clocks, with 5 light candelabra, Tcemorrow, at Special Prices Value $23,00 $ 1 6. 75 $33.00 third Street. nd of the thirty-four-foat frame to the other to tilt the ship to ascend or descend, As Rothenber?<o WNEW 600.8 Pasies: \ a WE st Toney’ Promptly Refunded, Reasons Why We Lead in Garpet Selling. wi ue Rothenberg store is the very hub of activity in this line. We are making great gains over all previous records’ hy use we never let our showing become depleted. Because we try to make each yeir pitta the one before in Scope of beauty and display, Because we persistently undersell all competition. 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