Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-12-02
STATUE.0F M'KINLEY
A Plan for q Life.Si1e Figure of the
President In Gold.
an AERIAL Line TO The KLoyDIKE.
A Big Airshlp Being Constructed to Garry
Passengers to the Gold Country-A
Novel Campaign scheme u
Use Graph0phOnes.

New York, Nov. 20. Ada Rehan In
silver Is to be outshone by William
Mckinley in gold. The added fame
which th( actress acquired by posing
for the Montana statue OF solid silver,
exhibited at the worlds fair, Is to be
approached, II not eclipsed, by the
president of the United States, who
will furnish the figure for life-size
statue Of solid gold. This will be the
most costly lump Of precious metal
the people Of the modern world have
ever seen. 80 says +. D. Highly, Of Chi
cago, who has been retained by vest
ern millionaires to furnish such q
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 Nj. Highly,
that ! designed and built the Montana
statue at the worlds fair, for which
Miss Rehan posed. suppose 1t was
because Of my experience that | have
been retained to build this statue,
which, with the base, will contain
bullion to the value Of $l,05O.O0O.
While 1t 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 1t 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 design is COM
pleted."
AN AERIAL LINE TO THE KL0NDTKE.
SAN Francisco, Nov 28.-IIiram 8.
Maxim. superintendent Of construction
Of the Atlantic & Pacific Aerial Navi-
cation company, announces that the
company now has in course Of construc-
ton an arship in which 1t is expected
TO make the trip to the Klondike. He
said: when everything necessary is on
board. the ship will weigh 5000 pounds,
and we shall take on board about one
ton Of passengers and provisions. The
dimensions Of the vessel will be: Cylin-
der, SS feet inches in diameter and 30
feet in length; length Of forward cone,
30 feet; length Of after cone, As feet; to-
tai length, 1853 feet. The space occupied
will be 100000 cubic feet The pro-
polling power will be l6-horse power
naphtha engine, which will be made
out OF aluminium as far as that metal
can be used and will weigh, complete,
900 pounds. The gasoline will be
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 speed Of 100 miles an hour
without straining our vessel.' When
finished it is estimated that the ship
will cost $4,000.
A NOVEL CAMPAIGN SCHEME.
WICHITA, Kan, Nov. 26.-The repub-
lican county central committee has de-
cided to purchase Is 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
expects to spend about s7oo
On the scheme.