The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-04-11
REGULAR Lines
OF AIRSh|PS.
Santos -Oumsnl Believes They
VIII Be in Operation
DURING HIS OWN Lifetime.
Genes Here 10 Arrange for Aerial Ric,s at
ST. Louis Exposition : VIII GO 10 Lon
im 10 Witness Coronation.
DURING HIS OWN LIFETIME.

New York. April 11.-'I expect within
my lifetime" said, Alberto santos-Du-
mont. the young Brazilian airship inven-
tor, as he stood on the deck OF the incom-
ing Deutschland yesterday. ito see regu-
lar lines OF transatlantic airships sailing
between New York and Paris. and I hope
that New York will be the great air port
of the New World"
Mr.. Santos-Dumont. who, by the way,
says he prefers TO be called plain Alberto
Santos. has come TO this country at the
invitation of the st. Louis exhibition
commissioners To arrange for the aerial
races that are down as a part OF the ex-
hibition's program. lie will remain In
New York for week or ten days and
then will go to st. Louis.
lie goes back to Europe i'm three weeks
going 10 London TO arrange for the coro-
nation week airship prize contests.
He brought with him on the Deutsch-
land the shaft and motor OF his airship
No. THAT Is, the seventh and largest
airship that he has built The next OF the
aerial craft, which is Of the same type
as that with which Mr.. Santos circied the
Einel Tower in Paris and sailed out over
the Mediterranean at the Riviera, Is
coming on the French line steamer La
IF sufficient prize Is offered" said
the young aeronaut. II will contest for
II with my airship during my present stay
here. i do not care 10 mention any sum.
i have conducted my experiments thus
far alone and at my own expense. II cost
me I'm France 10000 francs merely TO build
the shed for the airship. and here I sup
pose II win cost stilI more.
The airship / am bringing over is 100
feet over all. and Is capable of carrying
two or three persons With what has
been already demonstrated TO be practi-
cable IL Is certain that IL only needs de-
velopment to result I'm the building OF an
airship capable OF carrying a number OF
passengers, say is or 20, with entire safe
ty The airship which have constructed
Is useful now only In war. But 1t will
soon pass beyond that stage and come in
10 commercial use. What I have done is
10 demonstrate that an aerial vehicle can
be steered at will in its flight with or
against the wind.
1T cannot now be navigated in a storm
but with the evolution OF the principle
and the construction of larger craft will
come greater power and greater safety.
regard the navigation OF the air for COM
mercial purposes as a certainty within
comparatively few years"
Mr. Santos has as travelling companion
Emmanuel Aim of Paris, secretary OF the
French Aero club. lie declared 10 the
custom house officers $1,000 worth of air.
ship material and was told that there
would be no duty on the property provid-
ed IL was the intention to take II out OF
the country within six months.
The young Brazilian is a small. swarthy
man. with the peculiar sallow tint OF
complexion incident to life I'm the tropics.
his movements are quick and alert and
there is a suggestion OF particularly
dogged, persistent form OF resolution In
the firm set OF his jaw.
He speaks modestly, but I'm a very con-
WINGED way of his achievements. He has
been In New York several times before,
and he speaks very good English. He
went from the steamship landing direct
to the Waldorf-Astoria.