The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-08

o0HE country folk In the environs OF
the army's new signal corps post
at Fort Myer, opposite Washington.
ID. c.. will suffer CONSERVATION when
Uncle Sam let's loose his new war
dragon this summer This yellow NON
stsr has arrived at the post. whittier It
was recently imported from abroad. and
pent up In "a storage shed, II awaits the
erection OF domicile large enough to
accommodate Its huge dimensions.
Uncle Sans war dragon is creature OF
artifce rather than of nature. II II the
Invention OF Lieut.. Won siegsfeli. a
prussian. from whom II was lately our
chased through our military attache at
Berlin II II an airship. embodying trim
cipies distinctly new to the American
school OF war aeronautics. In which Il IL
exoected TO eject a revolution.
The body OF the dragon--for such II It's
name-consists primarily OF an elongated
ballon cylinder with hemispherical en- Ia,
adorned In the rear with an inflated rid-
der curling upward after the fashion of n
squirrels tail. The body proper. seventy
h,- feet Tong by twenty-five feet In diam
etcr. " n ract OF cotton cloth doubled.
treated with rubber and dyed brish, yet
low. Thit coloring best insures protst-
tion agairst the chemical rays az the sun
During night tho balton envelope Is poiaei
AZ the angle maintained by the ordinary
lte2o degrees to the horizontal. Such on
obl,due position results from tho weight OF
car with ita occupants upon tho roar
wnd the pull OF governing cable upon
the forward end, The unique vehicle thus
combines the principles OF both kite aud
balloon. The swift upper currents ot air
striking Its long. slanting under surfaac
aid the buayant gas within to elevate the
aeronauts directly toward the seuith
This new aerial warship Is possessed OF
an ingenious respiratory system, whereby
II Is enaplcd 20 automatically inhale and
exhale quantities of mir demanded 10y its
intended mechanism. A Ia too well kucwn
BY the acrunaut. halian gas expands and
contracts during various degrees ~ rs
cent and descent. and such uncomfortable
fluctuations ~ its volume neccsaitate his
piying the atmospheric currents part ,
while beneath loose ana hahbY envelope
To offset such a difficulty. the balloon SNl-
lnaer az the new alrship is given an IN
tcrinr partition separating " Into two
compartr nents, the upper alied With ouro
hydrogen gas and the lower with ordinary
atmospheric afr The latter much the
smaller IL confined very nearly within
the rurl Of the HuuiFrel.ltke TAFT NJ rud-
der and serves as the yellow monster e
,unxp. although placed thus. below It's
diaphragm Ia roaJrad,rtincti IN ~ che Az
ranseFneht ~ tho human iatcrtor From
BENEATH the latter compartment projects a
fuunei.iikc mouth into which the vinA,
s,0natantlv pouring against Is en-
trapped ~ needed and retained by a waive
t@sSing immediately Into the wrg c,V&O
aforesaid and swelling It's wallis, the AR
shus iuh lied exeFtS SIS pressure against
shc gas CT Impairment above until thr en-
,,re outer coVvrlur ~ tht frpg 80 s.
elongated body rpec tense AMI rtr'a
Ia thr forward emil ~ the curling ru3trr
A sgrilar flnuel mouth deV"lr~ snf'icient
"a the passing ssiea 60 kecp That ap-
rrnaaee constantly iuHttet With ar alone.
NJ asa ~ asa interior safety valve sur
,,l,ta air may pass between thu lower
commandment ems this tail before 'mnNrt-
tnv sufficient strain So haret any % he
thv,.,- receptacle. Thus not only tb' 'eos-
ability of tho nYirg monsters overs i'-
tins but the danger - his Offering in'
,,.,4rA r,=lsgance ~ the wind as o. W.
,uit ~ cavities fcrmios 1n any rA't "t
hia ttshtig stretched skin oe'0nes r'-
duced So minimum
AnrOrauts know Is thgir sorrow that tho
moss ihtllties - rlcyating the ordinary cap
ttte pear. shaped balloon ard - maintain
me us stcnAlnes~ diminish aF the
strength of ire Whd iuerrafes. Actual
trials rllar in Gvvnsry have proven itAt
~. prasrn viii t5lT uo such aip, even
tn r,Ne.z ntlputt sale but that 20 WILL
On the c1ltvar, f.Nt the ktiv progen.
sitv Il mounting h.ghsv la the heavens
NJ thV paSs'sE Ntr rurunts grow sNitter
Lateral oscillations which tR she pear
shared haiioon iutrtasr With the strength
of the wtnd. are overcome in rhe sFew
craft. whose sN-ca'led ru1dvr presents a
stir vertical surface ~ can siderable ~
tcnt As "A further AGENCY FOR steadlnfs 81,
there MAY be- hous Co. this vlddrr bob
tail II sn'aN paraehutes sat from the bal
l0ts4 81 th
lr spltC ~ It's srpt rlnr size. tire Dragon
requires tnr ton IMITATION only 22oaa cnSl,
feet VI ny dFos en-.yss than the capacity =.