The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-08

A preliminaries toward organizing an overhead transport company. was capitalized at S125.000, and proposeu running an airship line connecting Ser lin. London Paris. Vienna, St. retefs-
 burg. Copenhagen and Stockhoim. The faith of the organlzationn n 70 pinned on the success that Count Lep- neIin ma AZ On the first of July when ! he sailed over Switzerland at an aISl- tude of 25O0 feet in his dlrlslple' eighty live horse-power balloon. re carried with him on that trip a crew of fourteen, the total weight oL nts outfit was 1s.0o0 pounds, ana m tne thirty-four hours that he was out ne travelled 400 miles. The wrecking or Zeppeli1,s ship may dampen the arao, .o, af the Nompany. though Its hnahcIa, packers are said to be the krupps anu reputable bankers. .,, How many othor companies VIII s early into So novel a field. remains .1 be seem An aerohaut of internauonaI renutation recently declared that the airship of the aeroplane type woulo never amount to anything more than thing for amusement, that IL Woutu never reach the realm or real us | fulness. Yet he keeps on experiment | ing and improving on his own sueS Ns .,so fuI machine. A goodly portion or the world does not hold the same opinion. It looks to a, future that will III tne heayens with pilots of the purpie twilight. dropping down with costly bales" .or fancy a thrilling picture u1 | "the nations air navies grappilns ,n | the central blue" The nrst WeeH n July siRnalized the conquest Of the ar, | and the ten weeks that Followed brought further victories one nun dred a nd five years ago the first. balloon 1 ascension in America was made py Blanchard at Philadelphia: Two wears later that came intrepid fellow travele1 hv balloon across the English Channei' The world wondered then-it won ders still. The century since Montgoi- aer's discovery Is a century In wnicn l there have been many things to marVei at Invention has been busy anu America has given the world the sew | ing machine. the reaper the electIc
 light. the trolley. the teIes.spn, @ non ore | telephone, the typewriter and the pnoh- | oRraph. Patriotic enthusiasts believe | it will be an American who will give | the world its successful airship. Ine | same ingenuity that borrowed the pau die wheel from a ducks foot, the | screw propeller from a fish's tall me diving bell from a water spiders wen, and the parachute from thistle down. | will some day discover from a Dlrd the secret of perfect balancing in the air. .,.,
 Then will come the sky-fiyer with schedules that apparently absorb dist
 ance as a blotter does ink. The SKY Pilot. the Comet, the Shooting Star | fine Meteor, and the Star Dust will have their names emblazoned on bulletin boards above sky-scrapers, and super sede the Sunset Limited, the Dixie Fly CT, the Twentieth Century Limned' | and the Cannonball of mundane worth | that will creep and crawl. tied by gray | itv to the iron rails far. far below. The | Swallow. the Eagle, and the King fisher swinging nearer earth. and ma king closer stops to deliver passen- gers or packages with impartial dis elimination. will take the place or the Lonesomehurst Accommodation and the i Twin-cities Ferry. The Sea Gull and the Albatross. lifted far above thc angry currents of the near-earth air, on inter continental voyages, will look with pity on the MauretaHia ana other
 ocean greyhounds that plunge and gasp l through the seas.
 1rbe Wandering PIeiad will divorce itself from the system of aerial lines, as did it's namesake among the con stellations cons ago, and become a glo- | rious wanderer in upper air, tramp, | vagabond. that will know no law but the will of its pleasure-lovtng mas | ters and travel as reeklessIy as any | tramp schooner at sea, any trans-con- tinental automobile party on earth, or any phantom aerial canoe of Canadian folk lore Mastery of the air for slow moving craft will draw its first
 patron from the Seeing -the-Country Airship Company. With map on knee and glass f1oored boat between him and the world. several hundred-or, maybe a thousand-feet below, the tourist with glassesi1 i1l hand can watch | the country unroll below him, hill by
 hill. valley by valley. stream by
 stream city by city, in fashion of which the good fairy tales could never dream. The famous glass-bottomed boats at Catalina Island could never 1 offer so wonderful a view as this. Spe- | ciaI observation cars fitted for longer
 and swifter flights will take the tour
 ist of the year 2000 for long cross
 country trips.
 l A wondev world lies up there in the
 clouds. Those who have gone up by | balloon report picture of their. craft | thrown on the clouds in prismatic col-- ors. with the perfect circle of the rain
 bow about 1t. and tell of the marvels l of rain and of snow crystal that the | mortal tied to earth has never known. About a year ago the Countess Grace | de Campello della Spina went by bal 1 loon with her husband on moonlight 1 excursion from Rome. across the | Apennines, into a far farm region. She | has told of the rush of the wind in their faces as they started. of the city | l til 1t became a mystery of blinking l light below, of the clouds that drifted l between them and earth, of the calm l of the moonlight above them, and of l the music of streams as they slipped 1 over the mountain crests in the still ness of the night.
 This suggests other excursions, and 1 the inventor of the airship and bal | loon will take outings and excursions | from the province of river steamer and 1 trolley car into that of the ship of the l skies. It will open a wonderland that | the eXcursionist never knew existed. | Cars that will rise high above the 1 city's noise and dust and glare into | the coolness above will lift the toilers | of the earth into a new world of hap 1 piness and rest.
 l The Skyfiyer will offer many novel | possibilities to future theatre patrons. | When a play is making hundred
 nights run in New York and family
 in Buffalo, or even Chicago, is anxious
 10 see it and do not want to wait until l the company Is ready to swing around
 the circle. it can board the train, and see the show in New York. On a spe-
 cialy prepared track, the Burlington
 once made a speed test of the highest
 | type of railway engines and found
 1 that it could approximate 140 miles
 | an hour. The airship of the new era
 l must make as much, if not more. It
 | places San Francisco SO near New
 York that the very thought is dizzy
 ing.
 Those nvsterious lands that lie