The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-10

an ocean journey forgets some in- portnat matter until the last final directions. greetings and farewells. That New York within the next few years may witness a great review of fighting airships is a prophecy which scientists are now willing to endorse. Hudson Maxim. the, inventor. went on record at the Balloon Night' dinner of one of the city clubs few evenings ago as predicting that we shall soon have aerial battleships cruisers, torpedo boats and torpedo boat des- troyers. ss.s,- ., fl.ss.s treading rather closely on the heels of the novelist for it is only. . short time since Roy Norton's story The Vanishing Fleets" pictured the sweep ing of Japan's war vessels from the sea by fleet of American airships and | the ending of international warfare by the demonstration of the over whelming serial power of the United States.
 Mir. Maxim asserts that there is not hing overdrown or inherently im- possible in this up-to-date rendition of Jules verns and in fact, as he points out, it is easy for the reader to be- lieve that he is perusing an account of something that actually has taken place instead of an imagined event that conceivably may occur in the future. Cautiously enough the claims of both the scientist and the novelist have received partial verification by the reports of the success of the ex- periments with flying machines which the War Department is conducting in South Carolina.
 The only important difference is that Mir. Norton located his wonder workers A little further South, on one of the Florida Keys.
 At last the woman's club has arrived at mans estate. in New York at least. The number of these organizations has multiplied rapidly in the past few years and 1t is estimated that there are nearly thousand of them In the city. Most of them of course simply hold meetings once a month or oftener for soclai ious questions. The new style woman's club. however, is a very different af- fair.
 It is modelled on the same lines as those followed in the exclusive male organizations, with its own quarters. including restaurants, library iounging room, and, So 1t Is whispered, among -those who disapprove the new idea smoking and card rooms as we'll. The BIAEL III LH0 uIE0CIlVH OL SGtADtleuIhk women's clubs or the masculine model was made q year ago when the Col ony Club, enclosed vely for women, opened it's handsome new building with membership that includes many women of the .4e0''
 Now the Eiectic Club, another fash- ionable womens organizations, has gone the Colony one better by leasing quarters in the Waldorf Astoria at e YAA aAA Iaa that it will provids sleeping quarters for It's members so that they need not go home at night if they feel otherwise inclined.
 This last step was taken only after a bitter fight for the husbands of some of the members objected stren- uously to the prospect of sitting up till the small hours of the. morning waiting to hear wiley fumbling with the Iatchkey. but the objections of mere men were promptly voted down.
 Another woEnanss club that has It's own house Is the Three Arts, ~ cofn- posed of young women who are study ing art music in New York.
 Altogether the city seems in q fair way to be as well supplied with wo- mems clubs of the latest model as bands have the club habit will be in position fo retaliate in kind.
 While there have always been per- sons who contented that the interior of the earth was hollow. New York for the first time has undertaken to ex- ploit this theory as a commercial pro- position.
 company. has been organized here to explore the interior which 1t Is proposed ito reach through the holes which the hollow-glob theorists believe to exist at the place where the Poles are generally supposed to be. Presuma bly, the plan is to stake out claims to take the vast mineral or or other wealth in the interior of the