The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-20
DUMONYs PREDICTION
WITHIN TEN YEARS I'LL FLY
 ACROSS ATLANTIC"
Daring Young Inventor Says He Will Live to See Whole Fleets of Air Ships-New York Will Be
 Greatest "Air Port"
New York World.

New York World.
 within my lifetime I shall see fleet ef giant airships between New York and Paris I hope to see New York the great rSship port of the New World. hope within ten years to cross the Atlantic In my own airship.n Santos Dumont to a World reporter.
 his exceedingly pra stical trips around the EiffeI Tower in Paris and over the sea at Monaco, one would take Alberto Santos-Dumout for an impractical dream CT. He arrived in this city yesterday morning on the steamship Deutschland, and amazed the score of interIiewers who met him by his careless. off-hand way of predicting such marvels as fleets of giant sirships for transatlantic commerce. He also declared that within ten years he will cross the ocean in an airship. It all seemed the romance of a vision ary until one recalled that the young Brazilian has actually sailed many miles through the air fin machine that he can send up or down. backward or for ward. to the right or the let at will. All he needs now is more money. he says-a great deal more money-and he will help to realize his great prophecies. He talk cd about the great things he has done and offers to do as calmly as a farmer talks about sack of potatoes.
 Grizzled and Only Twenty-nine
 M Santos Dumont is not yet twenty nine years old. His eyes are reddish hazel with an expression of great alert ness. They miss nothing. His temples are hoIlowed and his thin thatch of straight brown hair is slightly grizzled. When one remembers the collisions and falls he has survived in his arshps the only surprise is that his hair is not white. The air navigator has nose of medium length. trif1a bowed. and-marvellous in a man of his pluck and persistence-a chin that distinctly recedes from lip to point.
 There is something birdlike in his build. He is only five feet six inches tall. and his bony structure is of the slightest. He has slender. dainty hands and feet It is doubtful if he weighs 13S pounds in his overcoat. He has quick. staccato. almost explosive, way of talking. He Is going to stay five days at the Waldorf Astoria. then go to St Louis and ar range for the airship races at the Lou isiana Purchase Exposition in May, 1904. Three weeks from now he will sail for London to arrange for the airship races for the Pearson prizes at the coronation. In July he will return to New York and see what can be done.
 Flying is Very Expensive.
 'I shall not attempt any flights on my present visit" said MT. Santos, as he prefers to be called. '',The details are very expensive. For example, the shed alone in which I prepared my macnine for the flight at Monte Carlo the other day cost 10000 francs
 ''I have brought with me. part on this ship and part on La Champagne, tne mechanism of my newest ship, santos Dumont No. z. She is much larger than any of my earlier models-160 feet long, and with motor of 45 horse power. weighing 27O pounds. She will carry two men besides myself. The SIX part oI the ship is stored in France, but l can quickly have it here if any one Will ohef a prize worth flying for.
 Five years ago I spent much time and money building and going up in r9nna balloons to study the air to familiarize myself with the element in which hoped to ma vigate at will. All these experiments and the seven airships l have built hays as I have begun I shah have nothing left. The prize for circling the Eiffel Tower in my ship? The Aero Cup or Paris tried to keep it from me. but l got the 120O00 francs and gave it all to charity.
 New York Great Airport"
 "The airship has already passed be- yond the stage in which it is Of value only as an implement of war to super Sede the balloon I believe my ideas have sound commercial value. The airship has been proved practical. l have been the first to give a. demo lStra- ton of a ship that can be steered IT. the air except in a storm.
 Thus far I have worked alone: Now look to some of the great fnanciers Of New York some of the captains of American industry, to help me carry for ward the design for a great airship. The larger the ship the safer it is. We must get away from the Pintas. Ninas and Santa Marias of the air and build something gigantic of the Deutschland type. There is much enthusiasm over the project in England and in France, but 1t is in this country that enthusiasm is accompanied by respectful backing
 The World reporter pointed out to- Mir. Santos the Brooklyn Bridge and asked him if he would sail his airship over 1t.
 Fine City for Flying.
 Under it and over it and around it." he laughngly exclaimed, 'ff only a prize Is offered big enough to pay for the cost of making the flight. New York presents a fine opportunity for aerial xperimentation-the Hudson and East Rivers afford good spaces to sail above. The tall buildings of New York will offer no obstacle to my ship.
 Other men than myself will improve the airship. Professor Langley has made