Evening journal., 1900-01-20
DIR. Dc AUSSET ARSH|P1
He Says 1t VIII Take a Trip
to Paris Soon.
1T MAY NOT WORK WELL
viii Float steel Cylinder by Means
Of a Vacuum Four and one-Half
Miles Up in the Air--He Has Also a
Company 70 Float.

Who wants to go 10 the Paris Expo
sition by air-line2 Any person pos
sessing the requisite courage TO disport
himself at an altitude OF four and one
half miles and the requisite cash TO pay
fare Of nearly ten times the cost OF
massage by water may have the op-
portunity to cleave the upper air az the
rate OF 100 miles an hour and make
Paris In thirty hours from this city.
ravs the New York Sun. according 20
he plans and specifications OF an
aeronautical engineer who has been
stirring about in the fiying-machine
market. He is DR.. A. De Banssot and
that he means business Of one sort
or another Is shown by the fact that he
las organized a stock company to float
lis airship-financially, that Is, for he
avs that it will float itself otherwise
and, announcing his capital at 500 Co.,
100 offers one million shares at 500
s. share. His airship IS TO be the big
rest thing in the balloon line ever
.hought of; it is to ascend by the va
cuum principle, and it win have a ca
racity Of 1000 passengers.
| Theoretically, DR.. De Baussets idea
If vacuum airship Is an excellent
one, to all appearances. He has been
,tudying on it for nearly twenty years,
ne says, and he Is not only sure Of his
figures and plans but ne has the tes-
imony OF competent engineers as TO
The correctness Of his CONSTITUTIONAL
mathematics. Here are the principal
characteristics Of the craft as set forth
by the inventor:
The ascenuonal force of overcoming
fravitation Is TO be obtained by pump
ng abr out from within the cy inler
/ nd causing it TO raise its own weight
II $50 tons, including the car fastened
4 under it, which contains all the APP
! neratus for pi0pelling and steering the
terial vessel.
The maximum altitude contemplated
to be reached for interoceanic travels
is four and one-half miles
Tho apparatus VIII consist OF forty
cxhausting screw propellers, each eap-
{ lble Of eShausting $4,000 cubic feet OF
ir per minute. Eight of these propel-
; FRS are to be used as steering APP
/, laratus, forcing the air so exhausted
d at any angle desired for obtaining the
| direction wanted. The other thirty
wo propellers are to be located directly
Under the cylinder-vacuum and are C
Dc rieidly bolted at the lo rail OF
: he cylinder, their base resting upor
z he hurricane deck Of the car, which
rar itself is TO be rigidly fastened e
r The cylinder. in order 10 render the
} whole construction so solid that NJ
/ Waying can take place.
{ The mechanical horse power is talSei
Ut maximum of $4,000 pounds.
e The power required to propel a Graf
O of this type at sea level viii becom
a three times more effective IN navigat
ng the sky at four and one half mile
4 altitude. owing to the decrease Of bar
a ometric pressure, and the speed viii b
proportionatcly increased.
Were almost ready to begin wor
on it," says the inventor. "A site wa
offered us in New Jersey, but we hav
picked out place on Long Island an
4 hall probably commence the buildin
= NJ once. Capital has come in bot
from this country and from Europ
md ! think we shall have enough {
start on at once"
How long viii it take TO build tn
: ship2-
I'VE want and intend 10 build twent
ships at once" replied the inventor. rs
q rs to have fleet ready to go all owe
II he world, and that would take a veal
I
The Paris Exposition and hurry it II
$ rs fast as possible. By working da
J. and night we expect to get it complete
8 n time for the Exposition.
e Don't you expect 10 find difficulty i
+ Getting any one to try the trip"
NO, indeed" said the inventor en-
phatically. II have already had appl
cations from people in this country an
in Europe who are eager to go an
willing 10 pay the $1,000 passage 60 ca
nerience the novelty OF flying throug
! he air and escaping the miseries {
sen sickness.
-IIow much will II cost TO build on
a OF these ships?" asked the reporter.
Of About half q million dollars, accorC
al ing to my most careful estimate" an
T. swered DR.. De Bausset. You see a
ne navigation will not be as expensive 3
m sea navigation in the first instanc
,e The reason for the high passage rate
a g that we can carry no freight to spea
"a II. Besides we don't expect much con
n petition in our line and It win be wort
of he price to travel so swiftly and con
~ fortably between here and the 9th
I'M continents Of the world. We shall m
- limit ourselves to Transatlantic tray
but shall 90 all over the universe VIII,
A., We get our fleet built. Also we sh1
- discover the North Pole and the Sou
Pole"
= The great problem of aeronautics HI
~ always been to build an airship viii,
hould be dirigible. Many expeI
j., mentors have constructed so-called
nc rigible balloons but balloons ha
no either failed TO steer occarding to pl'
on nd specification or the inventors ha
es' JAILED TO reckon successfully with 4
ne wandering winds OF heaven. A case
ns point is that Of a Brooklyn man nam
m Campbell, who, about twenty-five yea
We go set out from this city for Euro
cd IN a "dirieible' airship. Mr.. Campo
Nn has not been heard Of since, and it
confidently predicted by students
es. aerial navigation and other perso
j. that he never will be.
he
1t would appear that soldiers are
"a.