The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-31
TWO SUPREME INVENTIONS.

The year 1900 may be chiefly remesn-
bered By the world at large as that
which saw the practical demonstration
OF two Ideas that may either put an end
70 war or radically change its char
acter. The ideas we mean are Those
represented by the submarine torp. 10
boat Holland and the dlrigible alrship
invented by Count Zeppelin.
In the report OF the Admiral c,in.
manding the naval maneuvers at New
port the Holland Is set down as a sure
factor In future naval battles. That Is
to say II Is a success. 1t can be sailed
fntelligentiy under water and may AL
proach an enemy's vessel at night or
lay In walt for II by day. while taxing
but slight risks OF discovery. A sr.ail
notiila OF such boats. or even one Loaf,
would dispense n blockading fleet and
In n seanght between battleship, Il
could easily turn the scales. InTecd
one practical demonstration CT the uscs
for which the Holland was designed
might retire the battleship from he
sea just as rified guns and improved
shells put ships of the Hartford AID
Pensacola cirss out OF commission In
war.
successful airship that may be
navigated against the wind and steersd
wherever the occupants want to 70.
means another danger to the battIeship
and also TO the fort. the fortified city
ana the moving army. The hea.i. st
ironclad would be at the mercy OF n
dynamite laden craft poised In all a
Thousand feet above Il; and no frt
would be safe from the attack of the
aerial foe. Let dirigibie airship ap-
pear above n moving army and a psr,c
ensues. or course. If both sides rad
such powerful allies. the spectacle Ten
nyson foresaw OF "airy navies rr.,p-
ping In the central blue" might tome
TO pass; but we apprehend that he
General or Admiral who asks bis ,,en
to fight In balloons among the cl,.,as
VIII find n mutiny on his hands. n 4.
oad enough to travel In an airship any
Wy without taking II Into a bate a
mile or no above terra frma.
That Count Zeppeiin's airship Ia the
real thing In aeronautics. Is attextcd by
THIS dispatch from London:
NEW YORK, Oct. IA cable Z, the
run s ,,om bondcn saws: a dispatch to
the Standard from Friedrichshalen savs
the airship carried four persons be.ide
Count Zeppelin. When Il rose tho WIND
vas from the northeast, blowing with !
velocity OF three, and ene-haIf yards n sec.
ond- When this airship had attained =
height OF 700 yards n described a circle
and then drove with the wind in A gsrer.
ally circular direction for about six miles
IL then again described circle. afte,
which IL made Roadway against the wind
which was then blowing with inc. ear ed
velocity. Eventually the airship descend
ed with great ease and steadiness into the
lake and was towed to the shed. The ex.
pertinent was most successful. II II gen.
orally agreed that considerable progress
ms been made since the first ascent.
The day when all this happened es W
. marked depreciation in the value of
forts and battlsships.
Another important result Of an eco
nomSc character 20 BE- had from pr
fected submarine boats and airshios-
particularly the latter-is the daniase
they win do to protective tariffs.
smuggiine must he IN easy matter
when harbors may be entered surre?ts-
tiousiy and dutiabie goods CARED
scross frontiers by the air line ana
landed hundreds Of miles behind cas-
tom house.