Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19
Is. 1862

When airshp travel comes there will be
crossing ferries no climbing INTO crowded cars
walking between your home and your station.
building, enter airshp and be landed safely
the roof of your own home in far quicker time than
is possible by any means to-day.
Front Doors the Roof
WITH the sky full of airships architecture will
w have to undergo great changes. The roofs of
houses and our public buildings will be the front
doors. Characterization hitherto given to 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 arranging to have huge cOOred signs
and lights placed on tops of public buildings that sky
sailors may know their whereabouts either by day
night. Overhead wires will have to down,
too for those wireless biography structures by
which it will be possible for the business man off
Sooner later too we'll be going to Europe by air
ship and NAL de will be thing of the past. An
airship to Europe will be quicker safer, and prob
ably expensive than a trip a liner to-day.
made with conviction, Within twenty years we'll
be crossing the Atlantic in airships, and
thought of disputing it.
There is hardly direction in which you turn where
the influence of the arship will not be felt; in
copper mining, for instance The head of one 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 will be located
are that airship balloon will do it. Professor
H. Hergesell, of the University of Strasburg, will
leave Germany next summer in Zeppelin airsh1p,
reaching Sptzbergen, via Norway. The headquar-
tiers of the expedition will be at Cross Bay the
west coast of Sptzbergen. 1t is not certain whether
the voyage to the pole will be undertaken in 1910
This will depend upon the results of the preliminary
voyages And Walter Weman, 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 will have to be changed soon
too. What will be the of trying to collect
customs when anybody can buy dirigibe or an
aeroplane for two thousand dollars and fly over the
border with fifty thousand dollars worth of lace
diamonds? The common law also provides that
whoever the land the air above it;
legally at least the who flies your back yard
is a treSpaSSer.
The closing of the air is unthnkable and the pro-
hibtion of international aerial travel impossible.
So Count Zeppelin suggests the regulation of aerial
traffic by international treaty. Treaties will have to
be made fixing the points from which airships bound
for foreign countries must start, and those where
they must land Air nav gators before starting will
obtain from consus regular ships papers, giving the
number of passengers carried and the quantity of
mail matter and merchandise.
In Germany book on the sub ect has already
been published, Gruenwalds The Airshp in Civil
and Commercial Jurstic Relat "
The next war, if there have to be any more wars,
will probably troops lying their backs engaged
in target practice airships. There will be swift
aeroplanes scouting the movements of the enemy.
There will be huge dirgibles carrying soldiers and
distributing infantry ammunition. Possibly, too,
these huge arships will be engaged in dropping
plosives with deadly effect on forts and cities Some
say they can and some say they can't; but high
officer in the United States army is credited with
saying, "One dirigible like could destroy New
York in half an hour"
Yes, Harold had better start to flying school.