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Sven J. Anderson Sure He Has Solved Problem of Aerial Navigation. MODEL FLIES 20 FEET IN EXHIBITION TEST Inventor Now Plans to Build Larger Machine to Carry Passengers. With a flying machine which has already made a successful flight of 20 feet on its first attempt, Sven J. Anderson, a Beverly machinist, with an inventive turn of mind, thinks he is in the way of solving the problem of aerial navigation. For 10 years Anderson has been planning for the competition of an airship, and in the little shed in the rear of his home on Mason street, at North Beverly, is a white-winged bird which he thinks he can perfect so that it will fly and at the same time carry a passenger. Anderson is a machinist by trade and years ago, while he worked as an experimenter for a man who was trying to develop a flying machine, he was inoculated with the fever of trying to [[image]] SVEN J. ANDERSON build a flying machine of his own. He woks 10 hours a day at his tra and has put all his spare time for years in making drawings and in perfecting the plans for his own scheme and thinks that he has succeeded. "I have studied and planned machine for years." said Mr. son to a Herald representative. "I make drawings and then I would a small model, but nothing seemed to work our well in practice until I built this machine," and he looked at his own creation with a glance which showed that he felt that his years of toil had in part culminated in success. With wings extended the machine covers a surface 12 by 9 feet. The spread across is in three sections, with two wings of three feet across on each side of the stationary spread. These wings are arranged so that they can be dropped and the outfit when folded looks like a tent. The motive power is furnished by a 1 1/2 horsepower Clement motor cycle engine, and this is connected with a leather belt which revolves the shaft on the propeller, which has a diameter of eight feet. The supports are of pine and the entire outfit weights but 90 pounds, the engine weighing 22 pounds; the boat-shaped shell which holds the batteries and the engine 15 pounds, and the frame and its covering 30 pounds. The frame is covered with starched cotton, and there is a rudder in the rear to steer 2 by 4 feet. There is a surface in the rear 3 by 9 feet which allows the machine to rise or fall. The airship is provided with rollers, which are used in the launching of the craft in its flight. These rollers run along a groove, 14 feet of track being provided in the run. With the engine turning up 800 revolutions a minute, the car was started from the run and flew a distance of 20 feet, came down as light as a bird and was uninjured. So pleased was Mr. Anderson with the trial that he plans to build a larger machine and to install a higher powered engine. "I think that with a 12-horsepower engine and a larger spread of surface the machine will fly successfully for any distance," said Mr. Anderson. "I will make several more trials with the machine as it is as present, and if things turn out as I plan, I will build a larger ship. If my machine will carry its own weight as at present, I think that with the larger engine and a larger spread it will carry a passenger. If this can be done, I will be satisfied with my experiments." Mr. Anderson is a native of Sweden. He came to Beverly from Winchester, and is now employed by the United Shoe Machinery Company at Beverly. His friends call him the "Santos-Dumont" of Beverly, and have confidence in his ability to turn out a real flying machine. [[?]] TO SEEN SCARING WOMEN Joseph Boisvert Shows up in Lewiston and Again Takes Himself off. {Special: Dispatch to the Sunday Herald.] LEWISTON, Me., April 27, 1907. Joseph Boisvert of Lewiston, who escaped from the state insane hospital at Augusta some boys told him a man who had been frightening women was asleep on the rubbish dump. He went there and saw a man on the ground. He is certain it was Boisvert. Boisvert started and ran across the field like a deer and disappeared in the woods. A revolver was lying by his side and this he took with him. His clothes were in tatters and his cheeks sunken as though he had seen much hardship and suffering. Mrs. Samuel Mottram told the police today that last evening she was returning from the Episcopal Church to her come on Pierce Street, when a man grabbed her around the neck and put his teeth into her cheek. He had hold of her head with one hand and his thumb was in her mouth. She bit him and she thinks this caused him to let her go, and she fled into the house. Boisvert is charged with a murderous attack on Mrs. Josephine Roy several weeks ago, and he became insane while in jail. The police are scouring the woods for him. PRESENT DAY QUESTIONS. They Will Be Discussed by Congregationalists at Greensboro. [Special Dispatch to the Sunday Herald.] ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt., April 27, 1907. The spring meeting of the Passumpsic Congregational Club will be held at Greensboro, May 29. The forenoon session will be devoted to a symposium on "Present-day Questions for Present-day Churches." "The position of the Congregational Church with regard to organic union with other bodies," will be discussed by the Rev. Dr. C. H. Merrill of St. Johnsbury. "The position of the church with regard to civic responsibilities" will be elaborated by the Hon. Porter H. Dale of Island Pond, and "The position of the church concerning the stranger within our gates" by H. David M. Camp of Newport. After dinner the speakers will be the Hon. Frederick W. Baldwin of Boston, Editor Arthur F. Stone of St. Johnsbury and ex-Gov Charles J. Bell of Malden.