THE AIR SHIP AGAIN
Lady and Gentleman See It at Different Localities and Describe It Minutely
Denton, Denton Co., Tex., April 14.- That Denton is not to be behind the other
towns and cities in north Texas is shown by the fact that the mysterious airship,
of which so much has been said and written in the past few days, has been seen
here by at least two credible persons, one a gentleman, the other a lady, whose
reputation for truthfulness can not be assailed.
The gentleman who saw the ship says he was standing in his yard watching
with the aid of a pair of powerful marine glasses, the stars, when a shadow
fell athwart the moon, obscuring it for the moment.
The sky being cloudless, he looked up to examine the cause. "I at first thought
it was a meteor," said he, "but upon closer I examination discovered the unknown
object to be almost stationary I and focusing my glasses on it, discovered
that it was moving slowly in a southeasterly direction. At this slow rate of
speed the ship continued its courses for a few minutes and then, With almost
a jump started off at a terrific rate and. disappeared in the southeast,
remaining in the range of my vision about twenty minutes."
"When I first ascertained the character of the object it floated
about half a mile above the earth and seemed to be about fifty feet
long, of a cigar shape with two great mugs thrust out from each side;
a broad tail or steering sail behind and a long beak or blade resembling
a cut water on a ship in front. At the point where the beak joined the
main body a powerful searchlight threw its rays far into the night
ahead beside which even the luminosity of the moon paled. A row of
windows along the side gave out smaller lights the source of which
must have been stored electricity as there was no smoke, as well as
I could see very plainly, coming from the ship, not was there even
a sign of a smoke stack. I do not doubt that it was an airship."
The lady above mentioned is a member of the Ariel Society, is one of the
most widely read of all the ladies in town and is not one upon whom credulity
anything of a hoax-like nature could be imposed. Her description, although
much less explicit than the gentleman's as she was unaided by any glasses,
tallies almost exactly with the account. When she saw it, the ship was
bounding along through space like a balloon.
These two descriptions are better than any of their predecessors, as one
of them was with the aid of powerful glasses and both of them are from
people widely read and much of their readings, too of a scientific nature.
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