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After Six Months' Labor and an Expense THE DAILY BRITISH of $11,- 000, Two New York Men Are Completing a 104 Foot Machine, To Be Driven by Most Powerful Bat- tery of Motors Ever Installed in an Airship, in Which They Will Attempt to Cr v ALLEN CANTON Copyright, 1012, by the New York Herald Co, All . rights reserved.) New Your, Saturday. ECLARING tion of crossing thy At- lantie Ocean this year| and risking everything they bave on the ven: | ture, two young men of} this city are now putting | the finishing touches on the largest hydro- aeroplane ever constructed and driven by their juten- lis asuring 70 feet over all, wilif part of the ) " ! ihe attached. They have the; | 2s af sustaining enrves of (he Wright biplane together support weigh which w and what seems a tremendous spread. } Each of wings, which join sat the y - i BL font double mas the centre, is 3214 feet Ti where it i long and 13 feet wide at the centre width extends almost to the ¢ fest t v tapers down scant 11 feet at th It is believed by to 8 tip the builders ths tl i i 10 ese two n suflicient h planes w 11 to be enr-} It | support the who'e of the weig tied <whgines, frame, gasolene, oil and a small quantity of food and elothing Six feet smaller plane, which will give the craft] effi-| . i ahove the ma wings is al added 40 ent! stability ar an supporting ciency, This is feet long feet fifty-five feet from the nose of the craft wide for is es length. and At its central plane, wing shaped, long about 30 feet and 5 feet Wide. the rear is a ing biplane. sil, Both plane surfaces are uphroken, ex- the mast, The double mast of the cept In the exac where there is a small hole, just large is 24 feet te t centre of enough to admit of one of the men elimd- iug through if it is found necessary to make any adjustment or to tighten up View of H the most powerfnl battery of motors yet installed in a craft of similar character, That they are in earnest is borne out by the fact that they are investing in the enterprise nearly every cent of $11,000 they made through their own efforts, and have neither sought, accepted nor bor towed means from any other person. They have worked in all secrecy possible, keep ing thelr own counsel, yet fashioning can- vas, {rimming supporting wires, fitting the framve- and "doing the numerous other things necessary in the sssembling of 'an ale craft. heir craft Is to be called the New York. It is the largest ever built in the world, It measures 104 feet from the for- ward propelle. to the tip of the rudder, and is 70 feet from wing tip te wing tip. The builders, owners and pilots of the big seroplane are John J. Meckler, twen- ty'three years old, who lives at No. 862 Hewitt place, the Bronx, and Alen A. Caator, thirty-five, whose home is a few doors away, at No. 564 Hewitt place. | Both of them have had experience in alr --work and each bas made a study of air| craft for the lust five years. They have] made flights in monoplanes, biplanes and dirigibles. Their observation of the workings of the various types has given them the basis for what they believe will prove a perfect machine when it is in air. They have been engaged in the con. struction of the craft for almost four months, working night and day, and ex- : se0t to have it conypleted and ready for . launching early next month. . ; In every feature the New York is the largest member of the family of aero-| Planes known. Aside from its remark- able length und width, it carries a spread of 2000 square feet of canvas and an _tstimated lifting capacity of 5,000 pounds, two and a half pounds to the square foot of canvas wings. The two main wings, ydro-Aeropl. the wires. The whole aeroplane is con- structed of special steel tubing seven- sixteenths of an inch thick. It is of a soft steel, remarkable for its resiliency and flexibility, The wires used are or dinar: aeropl: wires and, running from various' points, look like a big cob- web in the sui. The machine itself is built in truss form, the central section being 'of steel ;ublng three-quarters of an inch thick. One curious thing that attracts atten [2 and 10] About j kee 0Ss Ocean. fold hy origina] 1 made up tw } an arrangement; is an scheme of the in| It abreast ventors is double compensating) i r either side of the engine! ante-! np! which is desigoed to offset matically sny. sudden dip down er tand also to prevent a sudden sweory ing of the machine when going at a high rate f if the engines on either side speed, of t y should commi 1 These, and a! £9 on. planes are five alf feet long 3 rate of themselves or ean be so adiusted! to the pil n manpipu | late them as he wishes | In just exactly the same way differential gear. which "brains" of the antomobile, 1 wide and five he left to ope- 8 chair that he « that the is we unevenness of the pull on the driving compensating anes are these to aid plane in| he hydr gan even keel. The lence that they signers de i care with cont have used, them on sma i est arroplanes with perfect bey will work in exactly 0 in the larger eraft. They I either side of the power! eysten; becomes disabled through a denly developed flaw in cemstruction, | shortage of fuel or failure of the ignition] system, the aeroplane will glide aloag] without deviating from course for aj quarter of a mile or more } The battery of engines in the New York! is perhaps the most wonderful yet con-| ceived by an aviator. | the ame t Lelleve sud The engine hiuse is} G6 feet 3 inches high, € feet wide and | 22 feet long. The framg is made of aluminum channel rail, three inches by! two, and capable of sustaining a weight of 15,000 pounds or more. On! all sides it will be covered with a fine! wire screen. Over this, to a height of about fifty inches, will be a permanent] Is '| waterproof canvas to protect the engines | and carburetors. The top will have a permanent canvas roof, while the sides! {for a space of about two feet at the top, | will be so arranged that the canvas can be put in in stormy weather or kept down f Ample portholes are provided, precaution! being taken that the operator's view will not be obstructed. There will be five powerful motors. | Four are of the six cylinder type, with| an estimated rating of 125 horse power. | One will be at the forward starboard side of the engine room and another at} the forward port side. In the rear of the! house will be a rear port engine and a rear starboard. Each of these will be | connected separately to a large propeller Fwithout any attempt to synchronize. The! no inventors believe that as synchronizing of double propellfrs on a steamship de- iis will give the sir tracts from the power, so it will in the ,ioment air. Each of the main battery engines lependently ge the of six ines. rse power, is "Engine Room land Compensating Planes tion at once is the unusually small size! of the rodder which is to guide thié huge spread of canvas. lt measures only four feet by three and haplly looks equal to the task of manipulating the aeroplane | But the apparent loss of control bere Is, ittern than t wctly aerial motors. r atl ind weath e othe mn jot casion I'h od of sma e larger 1.400 revol lop a engine wipment ey will Le a speed of from engine up full capaci T red Lin they ha attemp twenty-two gasolene Hons ¢ ter tank o ir uning wh' of the | ndred gallons of g ut to get al sixty gallons of y Tabri a dnlene ton sireet véighs: twenty-two valves, | iropped into the wat can suppart } ©o0-; These are so they nough Th by a F tanks I 5 will drive a fourteen f i" oot propeller with 1,9 a three foot piteh. A 6th engine, with a { | : t | i | rating of G3-horse power, will be set' in the rear of the engine house nected 10 a propeller directly back and te 1 second 't the front of the aydroplane ! Tlis engic can be coupled to either the orm the pontoo Aside from the 1 WHFIG, {forward or rear, both working synchro- usly, or can be ran with either of them tropellers and The fifth engine, with the lower] more the oth a i reiving on this for emergeney dn all sorts (he gasole tors have ah approximate ta as high an hour with all five of them [0 carry the great quantity of fuel that pach » carried, "There will be two t ali of the engines will not them across the A ate the engines mhnwla ten pwn withogt connected to the frame tha ng carried empty' for that PUarpose buoyancy provided by THURSDAY, Mey ade Er dy ne AY Hi | termination to make such a bold attempt As crossing the Atlantic, Mr, Meckles said "We have been fnterested" in aviation for four or five years avd have done a good deal of flying, 'and we know that Some one is going to cross the ocegn not far in the future. There 4% a dozen or more machines being built in this country and abroad for the particulas purpose of making a flight across the Atlantic. Sone {of them will do it. It may be an Ameri 'ean, or it may be a Frenchman or Ger man. The crossing of the English Chan. {nel was onl, a step in the direction of the | Atlantic Ocean. If a machine can keep | up long enough to cross the Euglish Chas- (nel, where there are Uways conflicting jand dangerous air currents, it looked to 10s as if it was only a queltion of size jand ability to stay fn the alr. That ability was to be found in the quaniiy {of fuel a machifie eould carry 1nd the {endurance of the men, "Wo. came to the : conclusion last i winter that we might make a trial. This year is the only chance we ave. Some rone wili be making it nest summer, or if they do mot get all the Way Acros they will accompligh half the distance, or a quarter, wher ill be one of the great. | est achievements of the century, We started to build the-ceaft and have not asked a single vent from any one. We are using our own money, which we worked hard to get. We realize that if we can accomplish the eatire distance. or ue tanks, the bottom of the craft! that if they succeed in accomplishing be enclosed in thin sheet metal, #0 what they are se tting out to do, or milf of thet iv Will form practically a boat bot: it, or even one-quarter of it, they will be This will be toward the forward making history and that the future will wl will ueted and rein. be able to take care of itself. it is found necessiry to rl count on having their aeroplane to the waler, in the ready for lannch ng within the vext two It wil ther _be run out of the fason Point," where it is being I will live several hard tests Sound. 1f the engines are work: I ad everything is properly keyed, PUbLE announcement they tv spin to Sandy Hook, both en ud ou a stormy dey, to ob ' avior of ir craft under diff « If their trip to the Hook proves all they hope for it, to! they Hl then pack up their suit cases, be forced take abourd the gallons oy of the of gasolenw, the eighty gallons of oil and a few cans of Tord and stat The ir demand may arise. | craft a driving com-| five en- the automobile dis on rs. which are The inventors are contingencies vhen 1 be able to weet the tow. » 80 CO and t when this a minute, With estimate the New lie aeroplane that of varia ot weeks York en miles an hour on event winds dangecons the craft will be the brant of the blow gales, this part able yard 4 take rest finishe the toward the back ling we and save the tank as seveuly of The emupty gasolene lend t r buoyancy without ke of the machine. pay I'he inve erase the ho Ti i speed and endeavor ' Ly. utors believe that & a 2. ha ak 681s ia gun as the: 7 Irs oF th 1 ve y are determined had constructed tanks with a capa Seven hundred rent eonditions ' a the surface do have w seven hundred each They t nifty gallons young the in- Ioey t youd » being made by men are b modest about JOHN J. MECKLER 3 ve re {ime w. dars' trip nt although I q sangaine, They been at work on the eraft ' * since the first of June, when the first °"7 two or three hundred miles before plece 'Bf Tptfie thar forms part of the W© tumble into the water, we will Lave laid. her bave been busy done something worth while, with assistance of two 'We have several things in the equi They are loath to talk about ment that are not found om other air saying theg ships. We have a searchlight of 10000 Aetermined (0 prefer to wait no JAhey start off candle power; we have elestric lights sli irely. Both of the ydling wen ate electrical over the engine room, 8 telephone be- be the last thought, They engineers aud have studied acroplanes ja tween the two operators, 8 wireless equip working clothes, packing ia tl mood. They bave flown ju ment which, hy wmivg a series of power extra clothing te' several the leading American and ful magnetos conpected the engige, er get to the other kide. French machines, making fights in Trey, car send a méssnge 1,000 Miles, and an with any thought Milwaukee and Chi When asked fustrument for detecting the presence of They frankly believe low they happened to arrive at the de- vessels on the ocesn." , aud that A amonnt of f hav win solemn . or to everythi e everythipg bn failn cylinder yibhipg on fa small anned frame was mger of ever since, Iey dther men disaster thelr hazardous undertaling, Quan ¥ risk the the " : will not the were bhailt espedially turer, Fach ouhds with fttings constructed thay er as a life buoy | k k any} many exnmples ravse and bis danger will wicking very Hr every ' oniy on of as, balf of them by mit on if they es | They of a ballding rm trip. ut rety 'REAR ADMIRAL HUGO OSTER HEN Rear Admiral Hugo Oster baus, commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet, was a commander he called ove day on the President at the! Ave you may relation to my old ffiend General Peter Joseph Osterhaus?' be "1 am his won." indeed! 1 win delighted to bear that.) And sre you by any chance a relative of Lientenan: Osiechaus, who is en my a soldier is given in dJdetwil by General, William T. Sterman in his "Personal! Memoirs." : : { "i remembér goiag (0 the arsenal on the Oth of May," he writes, "taking my children with 'me, Within the arsenal walls were drawn up four regiments of the Home Guards, and the activity there showed me very plainly that they were preparing for trooble. The next morn ing 1 went up fo the railroad office in Bremen, as usual, and heard at every corner of the street that the 'Dutch' were movitg on Camp Jackson. People were barricading their houses and wen wert ~ ¥ Jackson was nominally a State camp of instruction. but in reality bad be Guards were regiments composed almost ome a sort of headyguarters for Con |druoken k29wn| federate sympathizers. The Home HAUS 4 these regi- was al the bead of oue of ments. ¢ "I turded in the direction of Camp Jack. wn" General Shrman 20es oa ic say. 'my boy Willie With ae still At (he bead of (iver street, ahreast of Lindells Grove, 1 feand: Frank Blair's regimen: in the street with maks oped and the Fore Jackson privonses inside. A crowd of reople was gathered around calling to tie prisoners by name. some bgroabing Fer Jel Davls and" others encouraging the troops. 1 passell along tiff 1 found wy self fnide the grove. where I me: Charles ; "Ewing avd John Hunter, and we stood | Titting {ooking at the troops in the void beading] It # nol recorded feward the city." ed Al thiy peinr General Sherman sos a 0 wan started to make trouble and Naval £ Se I piiched Lim over an embank | "Dricky™ ent. "By ihe time he had picked hin: mates vall ip. The man had § his which he fired tie ball stroek tho'leg stiff. the régiment st nomen wainsion, taut ret Lhwads iy ¥ oy 32 grove." wo bs add fey HAR weir nasder ao ile Aosdemy in entirely of Ge Hel "Duteh." General Osterhaus, who had had znin 4 sell up," writes General Suerwan. "and! § "Dimiehy™ taus" regiment of Hote Guards had come ent rimmenced Bring over o I GMtiough several persons were Lied! ¥ in this affajr. General Oster foiv conde BW rote sind pling {of Major "Gerers! Pertr J, Osterbaus! {called him. Bw Bi son came ont of the Ostorbans, which bis class band official reise Bins to bis face and others! wen seit wie bath. Aud bis grandsdn was! hat is as there wu Otetha 58 in te a1 Lie hauls PO : A WERFUL 5 Lidge Si Sand a It, the of Rear Admirs! Bier, @ahmander in smn : . : sa deni then aud Tohetird tha ¥ a way they have st Aniapolia, Jost Academy the then Lientensng Osterhaus| ohyief of the North Atlagtic fleet. 'Dor . ig jan midshipmen of . <i} > oi EBtered the room of a midshipms ow i 3 of one of Osiorbaus'| shipmen of a rériain surname ape *¥ iu o idshipman toward Ing the war hé served ob fhe criiser sways called "Bpeds™ and of another are! Whom be was especially friendly in aly, i \ oppod; thers was a wher +1 Personal sense. 'He apencd the wards be | F Tirle More fleet manosuy and bat u . i » © op n oe € as "Mike their Pen: PM itle drills were donducted ihbn thu st any time wotil the ervise of the buitle when the soldiors Syer Arann even i . & we 3 . § i ' t > i : SHO ristian names are Chariemagne sad | oor, reported him for sertain violations ship fleet around the world, ding whic {Captain Osterbans commanded the Baz Sam vel and regulations, sluts; snd passed out. | The Midshipman Osterhans of 186513 moment fater the midshipman heard a ship Connecticut. ened when Hose Ad. imiral Osterhauns in due frason hoisted the begivning of tlw end of the grea: | Knnek on thy door. Liestenant Oster. il war fleet. He served on many shige W018 entered, smiling. . jar] many statioss and frequently at the! "By the war," le remarked, "Mrs. Os- bjs two starred bive flag over the most n {Naval Aéndewsy. where be was 3 great! erhans and 1 would like very mach to{powerfnl American fleet #0 far organized [Cees as a discipline officer aud an in| BEvE you come to dinner to-night" ihe had had the benefit of much of the liged to) mancenvring experience of the service is duties during the preceding Bite gears. He Among others! Lieutenant Osterhans was obi eis respotisible for sotue of the young! ¥esve Jisver carly to discharge kt thitige in the (2% a disciplive officer. The midabipman ragks high as a "sailor men" Members service today. Always there was & THOg to bis quarters passed Mim. of the class of 1896 recall with sdwips- 1865 knows as!sharp distioetion between Lis persons Lientensut Ostorbyos' keen eye swept tion the way be basidied the old Mousy- ons with the widsitip {ove the youngster's uniform snd detected | gabels in Lous (Haven These upos whom be "speoned"™= [the absence of an overcost bution. Thels Naval Acad sotie . is Aeagerey lags, these whem Le | offence way promptly reported. His German ancestry makes Hear Ad. oxi gure le receive desaerirs| Just before the Spanish-American War mira! Osterbans a stickier for detail gag ; began be was Sug lieviensht om the tall a master of it - [sevice he will he calied "Duteby." Making Lis inspection rounds at + iaw tod iteell fn a sol wile. They were Tasiomed to acte {strictor in sexmanship, what the inthmates |) officers whe are doing big Oaterhans iv 1900. | ikeit~ OIF