Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-07-13


bona fide, down to date airship, an'
the management of the Twenty Nintl
annual New Mexico fair is to be con
graduated on securing an attraction
for the carnival here next October
which in itself will assure the sue
cess of the big event. Secretary
John B. McManus of the fair las
night signed a contract with w. r
Lester special representative of the
Charles j. Strobe1 airships for foui
ascents daily from october 8 to 16 in
elusive with the very latest product
of the genius of Charles j. Strobe
winner of prizes at a dozen eXposi-
tons and man whose name is
among the leaders in the science OF
aviation in the world today. The
Strobe airship. which Is a cigar
shaped dirigible balloon, has thrilled
thousands of spectators at practi-
cally every national exposition in this
country for the past decade and has
achieved spectacular successes all
over Canada, in Cuba and in old
Mexico. The very name Strobel is
familiar to millions and he has
brought the dirigible balloon, so far
the safest and most pra4 4icaple
means of aerial travel to a 2igkr-
development than any other heH
enthusiast of the upper air. :
The Strobel people now have half
a dozen airships in the field and Al
buquerque is the first small city to
secure one of them. Furthermore
the machine v tnch viii MAKE the as
cents here is The very latest achieve
ment of Strobel, embodying all the
Improvements which the inventor is
continually adding to his craft, The
balloon is an immense spindle shaped
bag OF japanese silk, inflated with
hydrogen gas, seventy-five feet long
and eighteen feet in diameter. 1t
supports a spider-like framework of
Oregon spruce, trussed with piano
wire, carrying a gasoline engine, four
cylinders, weighing 142 pounds, and
capable with its 32-horse power of
sending the airship along through the
air at thirtytive miles an hour. The
engine, the result of years of study
by the inventor combines the ulti-
mate minimum of weight with the
maximum of horse power, being con-
structed largely of aluminium.
The Strobel airship won first and
second prizes at the st. Louis interna-
tional contests in 1907, doing one and
one-half miles against a 5 miles wind
in four minutes and forty seconds. 1t
won the first prize at the Florida Mid
winter exposition in 1908; first prize
at the st. Louis exposition in 1904,
first prize at the Portland exposition
IN 1904 and the jamestown eXposi-
uon in 1907 1t was 0pplauded by
thousands as it maneuvercd in the air
IN Havana Cuba, in 1907. Three win 4
ters il filled six month engagements
In Mexico City. and for nine eeks IN
save day and night flights at Brighton
Pea n, n Y
The Strobel all ship has given eXhi
bltlons at practically every state faIrI
in the United States. said Mr.. Lester
at the Alvarado last night. Mr.. Lester
arrived from the east yesterday and
while here concluded the arrangements
for the fair engagement with Mr.. Nc
Manus. He leaves this morning for the
south. Mr.. Lester makes his head
quarters at Toledo, O.. but owing tol
the extreme popularity of his inVen-
uon is kept travelling at a pretty fairl
rate of speed most of the time.
You can tell the people of Albuqu-
erque said Mr.. Lester. that they are
lucky to be the very first community
TO book the latest improved machine
OF Mr.. Strobel You are lucky tol
make the date at all for the demand
I,tg he'll futr
ment is greater than it has ever been. |
lhere is nothing on earth that. has
'he vital interest for the ordinary man |
mat the airship or the aerial craft Of
any kind possesses. In my opinion the |
development of aerial navigation has
occupied more space i'm the magazines !
ana newspapers and in the mind of the
uollc during the past ten years than
'h| other phase of the progress of sol
e"ee ANA invention. An airshlp th' /,
VIII fly. as ours does is by far the
greatest attraction. the attraction with |
'he widest appeal that you could pos
S'nly get Our contract is always made |
80 mat TO make good financially we
"lNaSs nave to make good with the /
Hshlp- 1t is quite unnecessary, how |
.e'' To state that the Strobel airship
mes And Mr. Lester pulled forth
d S'tlng Of the leading newspapers OF
sne country. dozens of them from New
oIk 10 san Francisco with whole
ii"n' pages devoted entirely to the
! snip and its performances with Law
'Sh Illustrations of the creature of the
ar hovering over lofty buildings an1
r'ies' one gigantic photograph show
ls uhe Strobel machine delivering a
- 50 ge at the top of the woven steel
~. mast % the L. :. s Idaho.
"e aVfators who take up the Strobell