Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1890 — AIR SHIP SOON TO FLY. [ARTICLE]

AIR SHIP SOON TO FLY.

The Mt, Carmel People Expect to Boas About the Country in Three Weeks, 1 f “Within three weeks we will sail ink? Chicago in the first of our air ships,” declared E. J. Pennington at the Grand Pas cific Hotel, Chicago, on the 10th. Mr. Pennington, who is the chief inventor of the jair ship soon to be tried for the first time, had come to the city to attend the meeting 'of the stockholders of the Mt. Carmel Aeronautic Navigation Company, which {Convened at the hotel this afternoon. It ia virtually the first meeting of the stockholders of this corporation, which, itia als leged, has already a paid up capital of $20,(000,000. ft is proposed to invest this great bum in the manufacture of ships ,'for traveling in the air. ; Mr. Pennington, a neatly dressed, intelligent and studiousslooking man of about [thirty years of age, explained that the first pi the ships was nearing completion, and {that the plans for atrial trip over the country had already been completed. This trial will ocour in about three weeks. The ship, he ssid, v ill start from the plaoe of its manufacture at Mount Carmel and ,travel to St. Louis, a distance of 185 miles. From there it will sail up to Chicago, and from here to New York. Mr. Pennington and bis associate, Mr. R. H. Butler, propose to make this trip, taking with them a half dozen newspaper representatives and any of the stockholders who wish to accompany them. The vessel with which the first trial trip is to be made will be two hundred feet in length. The cabin will be made of aluminium. | In coal mining,as everywhere else, machinery is gradually supplanting the old methods of manual labor, or pick mining. First came compressed air machines, then, a year ago, electrical machinery. The two methods are in successful operation in blook and bituminous mines. The output,' of course, is larger, while the number of men is grestly reduced. A single Instance of successful operation comes from Linton, in Green county. William Willie, a machine man, one day recently cut fifty-three tons and Charles Ringo fifty-five tons of lump coaL As these men get 10 cento a ton for cutting, their wages amounted to SIO.BO. In tho same mine, and on the same, day, 150 men, of whom bat fifteen are pick men, loaded 500 tone of tamp ooal and 800, tons of nut and pea coal, which ia the big-, gest day’s work ever performed at the mine. The average eArninge of the men! employed was >3. Will Lacey, of Fountain City, found A number of his companions in a drug store tasting what the clerk told him was Flow-' er’a extract of arsenio. Thinking the Clerk was Joking, Lacey swallowed the contents, of the glass, and narrowly escaped death