New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-19

no walking between your home and Your station.
You will simply 90 up on the root OF Your office
building. enter arship. and be landed safely on
the roof OF your home in far quicker time than
Is possible by any means to-day.
Front Doors on the Roof
MYTH the sky full of airships architecture viii
have 10 undergo great changes The roofs OF
our houses and public buildings Will he the front
doors. characterization hitherto given street
fronts Will then have its place the tops of build
ingS. one two hotels IN America have already
provided aIrShip stations their roofs In France
the Aero Club IS arranging 10 have huge Coloret signs
and lights placed on tops of public buildings that Skv
sailors may know their whereabouts either bv dav
or night. Overhead wires will have 10 come down
too for those wireless telegraphv structures by
which II Will be possible for the business of
aerial cruise 10 keep close touch with his affairs
sooner or later too, We be going To Europe by air
ship, and NAL lie Incr VIII he a thing OF the past An
airshp 10 Europe Will be quicker. safer, and prob
ably no more expensive than trip liner to-day.
At recent aeronautIc dinner the statement
made with conviction. Within twenty wears Wen
be crossing the Atlantic IN airShipS. and no one
thought of diSputing It.
There is hardly a direction in which YOU turn where
the influence OF the airship Will not be felt in
copper mining Tor instance, The head of of the
biggest copper companies in the country Is inter-
ested in aerial navigation because he believes that
by the aid OF airships many hitherto inaccessible
copper lodes viii be located.
When the North Pole Is discovered the chances
are that airship a balloon viii do it. Professor
II. HergeScl of the University of StraShurg viii
leave Germany next summer in Il Zeppelin airShip
reaching spit bergen VIA Norway. The head luslr-
tiers of the expedition will he At Cross Bay ON the
west coast of SPitzbe.gen 1t is not certain whether
the voyage % the pole viii he undertaken in 1910
This will depend uuon the results of the preliminary
voyages. And Walter We,lman, notwithstanding
his unfortunate accidents has not given up his plans
TO make the pole with his gigantic balloon.
Easy to Avoid the Tariff
THE laws OF all lands viii have 10 be changed soon
too What viii I've the use of irving To collect
customs when anybody can buy a dirgiblc or an
thousand dollars oN err he
border with fifty thousand dollars worth of lace or
diamonds, The common law also provides that
whoever the land owns the air above il. SO
legally AT least the who flies Your back yard
is a trespaSSer.
The closing of the air is unthinkable and the pro-
hibluon OF international aerial travel impossible
so Count Zeppelin suggests the regulation of aerial
trathc 10y international treaty Treaties will have 10
be made fixing the points from which airShipS bound
they must land. Air navigators before starting will
Obtain from conSulS regular ships papers giving the
number OF passengers carried and the quantity of
mail matter and merchandise
In Germany book on the subject has already
been published Gruenwald's The Arship in Civil
and Commercial Juristic Relations"
he next war II there have To- Ice any more wars
VIII probably see troops lying ON their backs engaged
III target practice airshipS There will he swift
aeroplanes scouting the movements of the enemy
here will be huge drigihleS carrying soldiers and
distributing infantry ammunition Possibly too
these huge arShIpS Will be engaged in dropping eX
ploSIves with deadly effect forts and cities some
say they can and some say they can't; hut a high
oticer IN the United States army is credited with
saying One dirigible like ours could destroy New
York in half an hour"