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

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screws to mention aviator. aviation, monoplane,
bplane and other words now in daily in the
newspapers.
Regulating the Traffic
A LREADY league has been formed in France for
the regulation of atroplane traffic giving as the
for its existence Acroplanes will destroy the
crops in the fields which they aight. They will
terrify the birds Aeropanes will destroy everything
they encounter, windows, telegraph wires, and
chimneys. Aeropanes will cause great increase in
crime With their aid burglars will enter houses at
night through the upper windows, secure the valua-
bles. and leave they came
While the French papers treating this new
league joke it is the less certain that before
many years rules for aerial traffic will have to be de-
vsed All kinds of plans forming for air travel
An aeronaut is trying to finance company OF sight
seeing dirigibes group of capitalists has it's plans
made for air line between New York and Boston.
Count Zeppelin has already been figuring on arsh1p
lines to carry passengers Germany, asserting
that a commercial undertaking it is perfectly prac
teal.
Zeppen's Remarkable Forecast
ASSUME" says Count Zeppelin for instance
the foundation of arship communication be-
tween Berlin and Copenhagen. The capital needed
for airshp, main station at Berlin, and a land
ing station at Copenhagen, would be about two hum
bred and fifty thousand dollars. The revenue allow
ing for hundred flights to Copenhagen and back
Berlin each year (the time of the trip onehalf that
of the present System), with an average of twenty
five travellers each paying twelve dollars and fifty
cents would amount to sxty-two thousand five hun
dred dollars year For insurance, depreciation, and
cost of running, the outlay would be thirty seven
thousand five hundred. This would leave profit
of twenty-five thousand dollars, ten per cent.
the capital.
Better still, can imagine line from Stuttgart
to Lucerne, passing over the monuments OF Ger
manys former greatness, the ruins Of the Hohen
stauen and Hapsburg imperial seats, and the newly
restored Hohenzolern burg, with its proud towers
rising in the sky, the symbol of Germanys majestic
renaissance and glorious future; over the song
famous poetical Lichtenstein and thence into
Natures miracle chamber Switzerland, with it's
lakes and mountains. Such service at low esti
nation ought to be doubly profitable, as it would
need only main station at Stuttgart las at Lucerne
the lake itself could be used for descent with inter-
mediate stations, perhaps on the lakes of Constance
and Zurich. For the international public, which
wishes to travel in luxury no fares would be too high
In specially chosen unfavorable conditions my
airship would cover at least eleven hundred and
thirty miles in four days, and still have consider
able reserve of fuel. could therefore, in the
worst time of year. travel from Berlin to ST. Peters
burg, Moscow or Constantinople in the case of the
last two cities, in approximately four days. With
forty hours and under favorable conditions only
thirty hours much less than the best railroad
time. My newest airship will be able to the
distance in from fty-five to twenty two hours
according to wind
From Office to Home
OCCURRING the travel of the future when we shall
all fly, when arships are as common as auto
mobiles, Captain Thomas Baldwin Scott who has
made three hundred trips in his drigible bal
looms, says:
We airship developers believe that method
has vast advantages over any other means of travel
vet conceived There will be no necessity for con-
gestion of traffic in the air. no matter how heavy the
travel may be or how numerous the craft ahoat The
atmosphere is navigable for all practical purposes
to height of four even much five miles
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