Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-14

carpenter shop: a machine shop We can
furnish eXperimenters with essence and al
conOI. Ihere can also be casemated
workshop. for the trying of motors-with-
out the danger of blowing the expert
mentors head on
Anything else?"
"A station of electric power for charging
accumulators: telephone connections; an
small hospital Installation .
Good idear'
Then. for the public" continued the in
genious architect. there will be grand
stands and tribuneS, automobile and bicy-
Gle wheel rooms, restaurants and bars
Bound to Come.
Il see II ALL 1 said And / do see It,
saw it when talked with Santos Dumont
The thing is bound to come. and there Is
every indication that it will be with us In
the coming summer season. There is no
lack of airship experimentors in Paris
though they belong to two great classes:
~ Inose who have already constructed
Iuli-sized airships. These have either
tnelr own well or ill-equipped balloon houses
or else as Severe and Bradsky did count
on making their starts from the balloon
constructors establishment. CD Those whose
plans are still on paper and those who have
got as far as the small model stage. These
are more numerous. and they are those to
whom the new airship depots will offer the
most advantages; nevertheless it is likely
be the first to profit by them.
Santos Dumont has already invited the
Lebaudys to race. These two well-known
millionaire sugar refiners Paul and JAG
ques, making themselves the financial back
ers of two engineers with aerial ideas.
MesSrs. Julliot and Surcouf have built and
even navigated (at the end of a rope) an
airship called The yellow One"
A Promising Affair.
'"The Yellow One" according to those
who have seen 1t, is very promising air
ship. Therefore Santos Dumont deposited
$1,000 francs forfeit money with the Aero
Club and challenged the Lebaudys to a
race for 100000 francs a side.
1--WE did not build The Yellow One for
speed they replied but for stability"
An elephant has stability" said Santos.
Nevertheless the races are bound to come
as soon as the experimenters perfect their
airships to the point of making a few frs
flights each. At the present moment there
are more than dozen full-sized airships
in and about Paris. fully equipped and
ready to mount into the air.
Equipped and Ready.
The three dirigibles Of M. Santos-Dumont
his No T." swift and powerful and
pable Of carrying two persons: his new
buggy airship, for practice in aerial nav
igation. small and with but three and one
half horse power, and his new passenger
airship
The Lebaudy dirigible, capable of carry
ing three people.
The Rose "pIano-aerostat," which has
been completed for two years past, the
most enormous of all these contrivances
with more stability than navigability.
The Deutsch airship. La Vile de Paris
built by the engineer Tatin. 1t can scarce
ly be distinguished from one Of the Santos
Dumont airships
The Firmin Bousson "bottle-shaped" air.
ship.
1.-The General Tour" invented and built
by M. Tour, son of the general.
The dirigible Of the aeronaut Mary.
The Moreau mattress-shaped dirigble
aeroplane. And mysterious construction
The National called The Secret OF
Meudon." supposed to be already more than
half.finished by the celebrated Renard
Chalais-Meudon military balloon park.
This military aerostat will make it's FIRST
flight. it is promised, in the spring. 1t is
to be propelled by an electric motor wnich
will give 1t twice the speed OF the
France airship built by the RenarG
brothers in 1SS4-5.
To Carry Passengers.
Meanwhile Santos-Dumont Is making
ready to take up twelve passengers ut a
time. The immense balloon envelope Is al
most completed at the Lachambre works.
l myself have seen the keel with it's four
great wickerwork baskets. each to hold
three passengers.
l asked Santos If he had any doubt
about sufficient number of passengers
Offering themselves.
Il have list of hundred volunteers al
ready" he answered For the first trip L
am really embarrassed. They all want to
make the first trip-personal friends and
absolute strangers! l have letters from
Englishmen. Americans. Frenchmen, Ger
mans and Russians offering to pay even
for the privilege, any price
And Santos laughed gayly.
STERLING HELLO
Zurich has its streets paved with paper.