Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-05

car, or the crossing of the Atlantic
been such lively interest in any
novel method of travel as is now
manifest in aerostatics.
The Baldwin airship is one of the
most marvellous and useful Industrial
inventions ever introduced. Its fu-
ture development promises to make It
as useful to the world as the rail-
road or the steamship. 1t will event.
ually become the accepted means Of
transportation between every country,
every city, town and village.
THE AIRsHIP IN WAR.
The Importance of aerial navigation
in connection with war maneuvers
may not be overestimated. During the
Franco-P Prussian war of 1901 bal
looms were used by the garrison of
Paris to send messages to Gambetta
at Tours.
AS A COAST DEFENSE
AS a means of coast defense 1t is
| far superior to modern Notifications
with their expensive armament of
| floating coast defense vessels. One
man on the Baldwin airship can de-
stroy hostile fleet or coast defense
fortifications of an enemy more quick
ly and surely than any offensive tac-
tics now in vogue. 1t will also be of
| inestimable value in discovering the
location of any hostile fleet. Had the
United States government possessed
such a ship as Mr.. Baldwin has now
perfected, 1t could have discovered
the location of Admiral Cervera's fleet
! in the harbor of Santiago during the
| Spanish American war within an
hours time; also the exact strength
of Notifications, location of batteries,
etc., could have been readily ascer-
tained at Port Arthur and would, per-
haps, have shortened the siege of this
| fortress by many months. Every fort
on our seaboard will have a Baldwin
airship.
A MIGHTY ENGINE OF DESTRUC-
TION
| The terrible destructive power of an
| airship carrying high explosives
which may be dropped into an en-
| emy's camp at an altitude beyond the
range of the enemy's shot and shell,
is matter that will have to be reck-
oned with in all wars of the future.
That this feature of aerial navigation
has come to be regarded as a tangible
factor is emphasized by the fact that
the various governments are now de-
voting great sums of money for ex-
| perimentation and offering large
| prizes for contestants as an incentive
to inventors and scientists to apply
their best brain power in an effort to
construct an airship that Is not only
steerable in ordinary atmospheric
conditions, but one that may be
steered and propelled against Violent
atmospheric disturbances. The Bald
win airship fills all these require
ments.
UNIVERSAL PEACE
AS a factor tending toward univer-
sal peace the Baldwin aairship must
be regarded as of the greatest impor-
tance, for the reason that as a tre-
mendous engine for terrific destruc-
ton, If owned and operated by the ma
tions of the world, tremendous havoc
to cities, resulting in paralysis of
business, and the welfare of countries
would ensue, thus operating as de-
terrent force.
LIFE-SAVING STATIONS
Within the past few months there
have been a number of steamships
and sailing vessels wrecked near the
Long Island coast, where life-savers
were unable to throw their lines to the
distressed vessel .on account of rough
seas; while with the Baldwin airship
line could have been readily dropped
across the vessel and the distressed
sailors saved by the breech buoys.
BALDWIN'S AIRSHIP THE ONLY
SUCCESSFUL ONE
There is but one airship in existence
at this time, the inventor of which
has overcome the conditions that have
until recent months been as an insur-
mountable barrier to successful aerial
navigation, and that is the one in
vented by Capt. Thomas S. Baldwin
of California and now controlled by
the Baldwin Airship company.
RECENT SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS
The recent flights made by Capt.
Baldwin and his chief assistant, Mr..
Knabenshue, not only at the st. Louis
worlds fair, but later on in Los An
geles, Cal, have demonstrated beyond
any doubt whatever that he has mas
tered mechanical contrivance to such
an extent that enables him to move
about in the air with a perfect degree
of certainty and accuracy OF move
ment The commercial value of this
now successful method of navigation
is beyond the possibility of computa-
tion.
TO BE USED BY FOREIGN GOV
ERNMENTS.
Foreign governments are negotiat-
ing with the Baldwin Alrship COM
pany for large number of airships,
and there is no doubt that the United
States government will enter into an
arrangement with the company for a
series Of demonstrations. which. when
satisfactorily performed, will result In
a contract for the construction OF a
very considerable number of machines
to be used not only in time OF war
but in times OF peace In connection
with instructive maneuvers OF the
army and navy.
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