The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-08
THREE NEAT INVENTIONS
TwO ER1AL VEHICLES AND A
PNEUMATIC SOCKDOLAGER.

the Continent with the Birds-TO
london and Back in an Afternoon
What's to HINDER
From the Ne'0 York Sttn.
One of the big ocean steamships-it
doesn't matter which one-made the trip
from here to the other side a week or two
ooo in six days, four hours and some
minutes, thereby lowering the record by
several minutes.
Six days! Pshaw! Within few months
rsople will cross the Atlantic on pleasant
afteruoons and return home in time for din
ner.
Won don't believe it3 Ask the Trans
cceanic pneumatic tube company of New
Work. Ask DR.. de Bausset, president of
,ha Transcontinental aerial navigation
company of Chicago. Ask Peter Carnot
Campbell of Brooklyn.
1--WE will put you in luxurious car here
in New York." says the pneumatic tube
company, land blow you through to Lon
don inside of an hour"
"NEell. | don't know about that" saws
Dr. de Bausset slowly, as one who hesitates
10 dispute reasonable proposition. "You
mist concede that your pneumatic tube
scbeme is still merely experimental. Now,
INV aeroplane is no longer an experiment.
Il isa fact. And then you breathe the pure
ozone all the Journey"
And how long will it take you to cross
the ocean, doctor|
Eight to twelve hours. we go up in the
air then-puff! we are away like a bird. u
what say you, Mr.. Campbel"
"The crossing of the ocean is a secondary
matter" replied Mr.. Campbell First, let
MS have rapid transit at home. My new
novelty air ship will take you from the
CITY Hall park to Harlem and back in five
minutes How's thatl To Chicago in an
hour. How does that strike youl'
Il should be clearly understood that the
Transoceanic pneumatic tube company of
New York. the Iranscontinenta aerial
transformation company of Chicago, and
the Peter Carnot Campbell novelty airship
company of Brooklyn are earnest rivals of
one another. Each recognizes the fact that
the next great step in the onward march of
scent .tic invention and discovery will be in
the direction of rapid transit-something
that will virtually overcome time and space
in the transmission of material bodies, Just
as time and space have been overcome by
the use of the electric current in the trans
mission of speech, whether spoken or writ
ten. And each claims to be the pion eer
in that great onward step. Each will be
ready to take you and your belongings from
here to anywhere in a wink--as soon as the
apparatus is ready and the patents com
pieted Meanwhile. each has little stock
for sale.
When one considers and compares the
methods proposed there seems no good
reason why all three should not be equally
successful They seem equally feasible.
Nth 10 oV,1inot,x- Ia l.
altogether" says DIR. de BauSseG Of the
Transcontinental aerial navigation COM
pany. my aeroplane Is an immense air
tight cylinder with conical ends, all made
of thin steel plates riveted together and
solidly braced. The plates win be only
LA of an inch in thickness l shall have
a steering apparatus and an electric
motor ~
How do you get your ascensional
powern
by the creation of a vacuum. pump
the air out of the cylinder and up she
goes"
That certainly seems feasible. The mo
tive power will be supplied from an cleo
trio plant of storage batteries, with system
Of fans, pneumatic pumps, and atmospheric
screws
Our system, " says the Transoceanic peo-
pie, 7'iS simply a scientific application of the
principles Of the pneumatic tube, combined
with the ordinary diving apparatus. We
shall glrdle the earth with large pneumatic
tubes-say 80 feet in diameter-wh lch will
conform to the surface in a general way,
but never at a greater angle than As Our
tubes will run under and across the ocean.
No passenger will know or care whether he
Is sea or on land. The traveller simply
drops into feathery nest, the curtains Is
closed down, and he goes where he wants to
with the speed of n cannon ball The vel DC
lty may he anywhere from 100 to 1000
miles a minute. There will not be the
slightest jar; the traveller will float as ON
wings of wind"
This also seems feasible. And then fell
low can scoot over to Lunnon of an aft
ahnoon to get fitted in a cwavat or. buy
some bloomin' duds, doncheknow, and get
back in time fob whatevah's goin' on heah,
old chapfie. 1t won't be such a beastly
Doah, doncheknOw.
But Mr.. Peter Carnot Campbell's bcheme
Is perhaps the most feasible of the three.
he proposes to have an air ship made of
WOOD and silk and fans and electric appa-
fatuS and few other things, and his aim
%iu De chiefly to cater to the worl ing peo-
pie and handle the traffic in big cities For
example, with a fleet of these SHIPS he can
carry 100000 people to Coney Island, Allan
| ~ AIll'tdSl pIld, Ut any OIueT nedlIQy
suburb IN the space of ten minutes, at cost
ol cent a mead. And at that price, he
says, there's millions in it.
he ships will cost about 81 500 each,
says Mr. Campbell. "Tll bet within a year
W TWO you'll see thousands of them floating
over The houserops. People will own their
own ar ships as they now own their own
VI course it is feasible. They are all
.ag5aSlipile-pneumatic tube, aeroplane, and
~ snip. Why not have all threel Why
'uouu all three not be successful9 People
a ~ laugh. People always laugh in cases
VI uns KIND. Their very laughter is the
strongest proof of the feasibility and value
these Inventions A great many people
s uUm HVlng can remember when the idea of
euuiLig messages over wire was laughed
hen Stevenson proposed his steam
ITTg n.y. he was Knocked at and derided.
s %Igh fqlton proposed his steamboat, how it
SS9Iapeu 1he lunny newspaper fellows When
tLplso proposed his system of telegraphy,
uaV good joke everybody thought it
vas And when Bell or Gray, or Draw
oolgn' or whoever in thunder it was pro-
Rgsel ms telephone, how everybody laughed.
a.e ilea OF talking hundred mileS-what
ab ~ alsSurdlty! And you will find people to
te a' Jay even hero in New York who will
~3n you that you can't talk by telephone
g. su people over in Brooklyn, and that
,So! he hanged if anybody can. And
@ r5e people own telephones, too; that's the
ana so, X everybody lauphed at the great