May 18, 1917. 
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* MANCHESTER MEN WIN ATTENTION 
BY CREATION OF DEATH-DEAL- 
ING DEVICES. 
At least two Manchester men have 
been doing their mite for the “good 
of humanity” and “for the country of 
their adoption” by the exercise of 
their inventive genius. Paul P. Mail- 
lard, a native of Belgium, who is 
gardener and caretaker at Mrs. C. S. 
Hanks’ estate, West Manchester, has 
been working on a bomb-dropping de- 
vice for aeroplanes. Arthur E. Eric- 
son, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Eric- 
son of the Caner estate, Summer st., 
has been allowed an U. 8S. patent on 
a radio controlled torpedo. 
Mr. Maillard has had his device 
one of the greatest difficulties of drop- 
ping bombs from aeroplanes has been 
the impossibility of proper sighting, 
so that the bomb can be dropped 
on the object to be destroyed at 
the psychological moment. Mr. Mail- 
lard’s invention consists of a flexible 
joint tube, which is attached to the 
aeroplane in such a way that it always 
hangs perpendicular. The telescope 
sight also hangs perpendicular. The 
operator is thus able to sight his ob- 
ject and at the proper instant release 
the bomb from the tube with a cer- 
tainty that it will drop on its mark— 
something which is now impossible in 
a swaying machine gliding through 
space. Bombs are now dropped more 
or less by guess work, as far as is 
known. 
Mr. Maillard has had his device 
patented. He has offered his inven- 
tion to the U. S. government, offering 
it with no remuneration in view, but 
the office of ordance wrote saying that 
the government would not take an in- 
vention of any kind and develop it at 
the government’s expense. He is now 
in correspondence with a firm, looking 
toward the development of the device. 
Arthur E. Ericson, who is now 
electrician in charge of the U. S. N. 
Radio station at Bath, Me., has been 
working on a “radio controlled tor- 
pedo” the last two years, and it is 
with much pleasure that his friends 
here will learn that his patent has 
been granted. Mr. Ericson has al- 
ways been interested in wireless and 
was an operator on one of the coast- 
wise ships both before and again after 
the opening of the European war. 
He went to Europe just after the time 
the war started and it will be recalled 
that he was one of those imprisoned 
by the Germans for six days and even 
sentenced to death. This happened 
two years ago in February. 
#In the development of his torpedo ° 
Mr. Ericson is being financed by a 
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The station at Bath, of which Mr. 
Ericson is in charge, is one of the 
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R. H. Hersey of Salem Willows and 
F. J. Carlton of Charlestown. There 
are several students in both wireless 
and land line. Mrs. Ericson joined 
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Go_p Cup Opens Up Goop Bopy oF 
ORE. 
The Gold Cup Mining Company, 
operating the Buckeye group of 
claims in Quartz Valley district, Col- 
orado, have recently opened up a big 
body of ore on the east 165-foot level, 
assay of which shows values of about 
$100 per ton. This is welcome news 
to the Manchester people who are 
stockholders in the company. The 
drift is in about 60 feet from the 
shaft, the last twenty feet being in 
this ore body and the face of the drift 
showing about two feet of crevice, 
which is, heavily mineralized. This 
drift will be pushed ahead several 
hundred feet when stoping will be 
started with 165 feet of virgin ground 
above. The west 85. foot levels is 
also being extended, now being in a 
distance of about 20 feet from the 
shaft with a very good streak of lead 
ore showing in. the back and drift. 
The ore taken from both these levels 
is being closely sorted and by the mid- 
dle-of this month a shipment of two 
cars will be made to the smelter. 
Sinking has been suspended on the 
main working shaft due to the large 
amount of surface water coming in, 
but work in pushing this shaft will be 
continued just as soon as this trouble 
is eliminated. The company also in- 
tends active development work on the 
Buckeye No. 1, and the intentions are 
to install a new boiler and _ hoister, 
erect a larger shaft-building over the 
same and sink the shaft a further 
lift of 100 feet, also extend the levels 
both east and west, when it is expect- 
ed to open up the same chute.of ore 
had in the workings above. 
The Gold Cup Mining Company is 
composed of Eastern business men, 
and the way their various claims are 
showing up it looks well for them to 
realize handsonely on their invest- 
ment. Howard L. Winchester of 
Manchester is president of the com- 
pany. H. K. Dean is representing 
the company in Central City, Col- 
orado, and Henry Stahl.is in charge 
of the work at the mine. 
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