Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-08
POuT|CS|N MARYLAND A|RSH|P GOING SOME
Division of Strength Between At Least Perry Bve Prom
Taft and Cannon. ses That It WILL
DEMOCRACY FOR BRYAN FORTY HOURS TO LONDON
Movement His Behalf by Old Line Contempates Going the North
Leaders Pole Well
CR0THERS THE STICK ROUND TRIP IN TWO DAYS
Some Surprise Is Says Already $780,
Stirring Things Up at
At Least Perry Blivens Prom
iSeS That It Will.
FORTY HOURS TO LONDON
Contemplates Going to the North
Pole as Well.
ROUND TRIP IN TWO DAYS
Says He Has Already Refused $3.50,
Coast Defense Problem.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. March Forty hours, by
air line from New York to London.
That is what Alonzo Perry Bliven in
ventor Of a non-capsizable boat and host
of other ingenious mechanical contriv-
ances. promises to New Workers.
Mr.. Bliven claims to have invented
something new in the airship line. He
says he secured patents in fourteen coun-
tries, and will begin work on his aerial
craft at once. His model has proven
so successful that he says he has refused
an offer of $3.50 600 for his patents from
a Wall street syndicate. The Biiven
craft. he says. combines the principle of
heavier than air vessels with those
lighter than air" and can be propelled
at speed of seventy-five miles an hour
1t will carry eight men. $40 pounds of
stores. besides a ton of water ballast.
II have hit on an entirely new theory
of aerial navigation said Mr. Bliven
To-Day MY craft is not an aeroplane nor
yet Is 1t balloon. Instead of weighing it
down with fuel l use Illuminating gas in
the engine. adding to its buoyancy''
Is a Boat, Too.
With craft like the Yankee Bird. as
the inventor calls his invention. the north
pole will be easy of access. I'VE can go
there in a couple of days from northern
Canada" he said today at his home. 1919
Bergen avenue Brooklyn.
my new ship. No. 4. as ] call it. will
be 1SJ feet long and it's total weight
fO.410 pounds 1t will contain hydrogen
with lifting power of more than 11.WO
pounds. insuring height of 10000 feet.
1t is driven by four propellers. operated
by a 1OO-horsepower engine, which will
send it through the air at the rate of
seventy miles an hour.
Its ascent and descent will be regulated
by altering the angle of the propeller
shafts. The basket will be a boat so
that it can go on the water as we'll as in
the air.
''The bag which is cigar-shaped point
ed at either end. is built of aluminium. On
either side and. extending a third of its
entire length are aluminium wings curving
downward that act as parachutes Should
an enemy's project.le pierce the bag the
car would settle easily to the earth.
Makes Fleets Obsolete.
THE engine. which 1 designed specially
myself is made of aluminium. 1t weighs
but SIG pounds and develops 100 horse
power.
My airship can be driven over the sur
face of the water. and when it is desired
to make a fight by discharging a certain
amount of water ballast it will immedi-
ately arise. 1t can be handled in the air
as easily as a steam yacht on the water.
Ten of these airships. each having
800 pounds of the most powerful eX-
plosives and stationed along the Atlantic
coast. from Maine to Mexico, or along the
Pacific coast. from Alaska to the mouth
of the proposed Panama canal, could put
to rout the largest and strongest fleet of
battleships, armored cruisers, torpedo
boats and submarines any nation or ma
lions could assemble