The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-03
STATUE OF M'KINLEY
A Plan for Life-Size Figure Of the
President in Gold.
an AERIAL LINE TO THE KLONDIKE.
A Big AirshIp Being Constructed to Garry
Passengers to the Gold Country-A
Novel Campaign Scheme to
Use GraphophOneS.

New YORK, Nov 26.-Ada 2ehan in
silver is to be outshone by William
Mckinley in gold. The added fame
which the actress acquired by posing
for the Montana statue of solid silver,
exhibited at the worlds fair, is to be
approached, if not eclipsed, by the
president of the United States. who
will furnish the figure for hfe-size
statue of solid gold. This will be the
most costly lump of precious metal
the people of the modern world have
ever seen. So says Z. ID. Highly. of Chi
cago, who has been retained by west
ern millionaires to furnish such
statue for exhibition at the Paris ex-
position in 1900. Mr.. Highly was in
the city yesterday on his way to
Washington to get the consent of
President Mckinley to pose for the
figure. You know" said Mr.. Highly,
that designed and built the Montana
statue at the worlds fair, for which
Miss Rehan posed. / suppose it was
because of my experience that have
been retained to build this statue,
which, with the base, will contain
BuAAAOh W Vic NaAuC Va SAsOOOsOOOs
While it was designed primarily to
first exhibit the statue at Paris in
1900, the directors of the Pan-Ameri-
can exposition. to be held in Cayuga
island, in the Niagara river in 1899. are
anxious to have it completed in time
to exhibit there first. 1t is likely that
this arrangement will be made. l
cannot divulge as yet who the capital
lists are who are back of this project,
but there are half dozen of them, and
everything is ready to begin work on
the statue as soon as a design is COM
pleted."
AN AERIAL LINE TO THE KLONDIKE.
SAN Francisco, Nov. 26.-Hiram S.
Maxim, superintendent of construction
of the Atlantic & Pacific Aerial Navi-
CATION company, announces that the
company now has in course of construc-
tion an airship in which it is expected
to make the trip to the Klondike. He
said: when every thing necessary is on
board. the ship will weigh 5000 pounds,
and we shall take on board about ore
ton of passengers and provisions. The
dimensions of the vessel will be: Cylin-
der, SIS feet inches in diameter and 80
feet in length; length of forward cone,
so feet; length of after cone, IS feet; to-
tai length, 15S feet. The space occupied
will be 100, 900 cubic feet. The pro-
pelling power will be a 16-horse power
naphtha engine, which will be made
out of aluminium as far as that metal
can be used and will weigh, complete,
r,ny,F,Hc Tho Gasoline will he
stored in tanks in the cones, which
will contain sufficient quantity to
drive the vessel around the earth with
out replenishing the tanks. The skin
of the ship will be double and the in
termediate space will be filed with
hydrogen gas. This gas will be con-
fined in separate compartments and
will be in the upper part of the cylin-
der and in the cones We expect to
attain a speed of 100 miles an hour
without straining our vessel" When
finished it is estimated that the ship
will cost SIS, 900.
NOVEL. CAMPAIGN SCHEME.
WICHITA, Kan, Nov. 26.-The repub-
lican county central committee has de-
cided to purchase 10 graphophones
which will be placed in public places
throughout the county and this city
for campaign purposes The testimony
of ex-Gov. Lewelling and Senator Titus
before the senate investigating COM
mittee last winter will be reproduced
on the graphophones. The central
committee expects to spend about 800
OF the scheme.