The Cairo bulletin., 1904-11-04
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"J0hn' Gives His Views on the
Subject to Little Egypt
IMPROVEMENT ON AUTO
PLENTY or ROOM IN THE AIR
PLENTY or ROOM IN THE AIR
MAY SAIL THEM BY ELEc-
TRici1-Y-HoW THE FAR
MERS MAY USE THEM

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81. Lonis, Oct. 31.---ln his quiet and
| thoughtful moments John has been
revolving the airship problem In his
mind Ii Is mostly revolving prob
lem, anyway, for the propeller goe.t
round ana round and so does the
airship. That's the way the Benboy
airship went. | presume that Is what
causes circular insanity" among air
ship inventors. But don't consider
myself competent to discuss the air.
ship problem Ii Is question tina.
takes one IN into the clouds and as
John is the only member of the fami
ly who scars and the only one
who has mechanical eye" Jane and
were meekiy resigned TO the ordeal
OF listening to him expatiate upon 1t.
Improvement Over Automobile.
after looking at the airships that
fly and those that don't fiy.' said John
while we were waiting for our table
de hote dinner. Il have concluded
that they are big improvement on
the automobile. You see there is a
good deal more room in the sky than
there Is In the street and me- so many
chances of collision. If you see yell
low sky-devil with four large green
eyes headed toward you all you have
70 do is to pull lever No. A. which
takes you into higher ethereal wave
and glide over him. II you meet nm
in the barrow roadway in a red gaso. |
line tank Won are liable 20 bump |
right into him. or, II you try TO dodge |
him. you may run into fence or
slide off a bridge or down a steep |
There are no barb
wire fences in the air and no bridges.
only clouds. II you bump INFO wire
less message there is no harm done
and when vou get into a cloud you
can blow che fog-horn until YOU get
out OF II. And SO far as / can see,
he airships use the same motors as
the automobiles. anyway, and the gas
1line smell won't kill any one but the
birds, and | think we nave too many
English sparrows. anyway.
OF course the lime will come when
The airships will run by electricity
taken from the air. and all the sky.
pilot viii have TO do when the power
Is running low is to open valve and |
scoop UP new supply.
For awhile, until the country peo-
pie ges used to them. The airship will
have to fly beyond the reach of the
.h To- /
yets too gay With his gun II win be
IN easy matter to dip down and pick
lp a few of his chickens, COW, or
,Yen a horse, and sail away with
hem, And Ii will be easy TO knock
Iown six acres OF corn or push over
ka farmers windmill. But when the
arner gets to using airships himself
lie won't want to go cunning for them.
With a selfbinding reaper suspended
rom a cigar,shaped balloon he can
kim along the ground and behead a
field of wheat in rev
ours. And when the cows &c. into
he cornfeld no need OF trying TO
rive them out. Just let down a
rappling hook from an airship and
II them one by one into the next /,
ED. And think how easy Il would
e to pull stumps With"
A Fi1hty Man.
Isn't he a Eighty man. thought
aid a woman at table near ours at
ne Inside Out Inn wonder how :
lany cubic Inches OF air he carries"
And just hen we decided II was $
me TO go over 10 the Grand Basin !
nd see the illumination and special
We GO. there just in time. |
ursting bombs and sky.rockets. 81 .
antic splut.ering wheels throwing
n many colored balls Of fire. spark
ng geysers of fire bursting from the
rand basin and fiery swans and ele-
hants waking on the ;iirface OF the
was the spectacle that
let our eyes.
AS we wended our way 20 our
,oms John declared he was going
the big aerodrome. where the air :
hips are housed, all the coming
eek. LITTLE EGYPT" u