DR ANDREW'S FLYING SHIP IN NEW YORK.

Southland Times, Issue 575, 8 October 1866, Page 3

DR ANDREW'S FLYING SHIP IN NEW YORK.

(From the New York Herald.) About five p.m. yesterday the prouaenaders on Broadway were astonished at the appearance of apparently a large fish sailing in the air about fifteen hundred feet over th.b heads. The commotion along that p-*;at thoroughfare was tremendous. The usual calm, sedate frequenters, with heads, thrown back, were

eagerly gazing skywards, and in consequence many collisions occurred. The fair sex seemed to become oblivious of the presence of fashionable swells, and in their abstraction, ran their sunshades into their eyes ; while the gentlemen, equally absent-minded, played sad havoc with the hoops and other various appendages of the perambulating milliners' frames. Even Dundreary, jun., took his eyeglass from his eye to have a good look at <6c ßyfore you know, that fellah up there, you know." And while the fish continued floating over the city, it was nearly impossible to find a person who was not intently watching its movement ; some even attempting to keep one eye on it and the other on the ground. All this commotion was caused by the second successful ascent of Dr Andrews's Aereon or flying ship, from the corner of Greene and Houston streets, yesterday, at 5 p.m. At that hour, the Doctor, accompanied by C. M. Plump, Secretary of the Aerial Navigation Company, started on an experimental trip suggested in the rudder and the rigging. About one hundred persons only were present in the enclosure, but quite a mob was gathered outside. Four hundred and fifty pounds of ballast being taken on board, and all being in readiness, guided by a single rope, the Aereon began gradually to ascend until it cleared the houses around the area, when it moved before the wind in the direction of Canal-street. After throwing out some ballast there, Dr Andrews turned the machine, aud with a graceful motion, alternately rising and falling, came back against the wind, apparently having the machine under perfect control, and having passed nearly over the place from which he started, moved oif in the direction of Long Island. When last seen he was in the neighborhood of Jamaica, L.1., and it is supposed made a descent there. About a quarter to six o'clock the flying ship was right over Brooklyn, proceeding with slow motion, and numbers of persons, both on the ferryboats, and both sides of the river, were attracted by the curious appearance of this car, which sometimes descended and again rapidly rose to a high elevation, but then disappeared out of sight and proceeded as we have heretofore stated.