The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-15
AIRSHIp TO FLY TO EUROPE
EFFORTS TO CROSS ATLANTIC
TO BE MADE THIS YEAR.
German Dirigibles May Carry PassenI
gers. Terrific Speed of Pro-
posed Aerial Leviathans.

German DirigibleS May Carry PaSsenE
gers. Terrific Speed of Pro-
posed Aerial Leviathans.
Thirty-six hours to cross the At
7antic! That is the prediction in the
scientific world that has to do with
the building of aeroplanes and dirigi-
bles. Evidently the day of the ocean
liner is passing as certainly as did
that of the old clipper-built sailing
vessels that once spread their sails
in the seas of every Cline The new
Dower-driven hulls of the great Ger
man dirigibles are to take over the
worlds passenger business within
the next five years, if the predictions
and hopes of aeronautical authori-
ties come true.
Speed has become the universal
human craze, and these great alumni
nun and kryptOn-hulled liners of the
upper air levels are swifter than
racing clouds. The business man
who wishes to drop over from New
York to London or Berlin can do so
in little more than a day If he
wishes to cross the continent of
America from Boston or New York
TO San Francisco 26 hours only will
be all the time necessary for the
trip.
Sometime this summer two or
three of the new German leviathans
of the air are to try the experiment
of crossing the Atlantic. In his ar
ticle in the current number of The
Century T. R. McMechan gives a
graphic description of the future
transatlantic liner. The great pas
senger steamer of today will become
fit subjects for the maritime scrap
heap if German daring and skill are
not overdrawn.
Will Make 12O Miles an Hour.
The Teuton, thorough in all things,
has mapped the surface of the globe
in an entirely new and characteristic
manner. He has prowled about in
his balloon and dirigibles until he has
searched out the air lanes of the
planet. The great streams of air
that circle the globe are never at
rest, and many of them move with
extreme and uniform velocity. The
air liner of the future will fly in these
trade winds that sweep in regular
and charted lanes. The wind riv-
ers" of the earth is the name that
has been given these racing currents
of atmosphere by the new order of
navigators. 1t is on the eastward
trip across the Atlantic that the
liners of the air are expected to make
the fastest time.
Over the American continent, set
ting steadily toward the polar re-
gions, a steady rush of air sweeps
toward the northwest. In a general
way it follows the direction of the
Gulf stream, and is to the aerialist
what that warm current is to the
seaman. Nearly fifty miles an hour
is the calculated speed of this drift,
and even the dirigibles of the pres
ent are capable of covering 70 miles
an hour in a calm With the added
impetus of the northwest trades the
terrific speed of 100 miles an hour,
or a mile in 20 seconds, will be at
tanned.
Passenger Accommodations.
The aerialists will be keeping
even, step for step, with Father Time
himself. He will rise from his hold
ing clips in the aerial stations along
the western coast of Europe as the
sun comes up over the horizon and
with his powerful speeder of the air
hold the sun AT his back until his
voyage is finished.
The airship of the future makes
real the tales of the Magic Carpet of
eastern folklore. 1t will be a far
different machine from the bags of
air sent up so many years ago by
Montgolfier. 1t is an evolution of
type, and will combine the essen
tial feature of the aeroplane and the
dirigible as the public knows them.
The stream liners, gigantic as they
are, will be small when compared to
them. Airships are being planned
and builded now with a length Of
over 1000 feet and a breadth Of
nearly 60 feet.
The latest type of the German pas
Senger dirigible will accommodate
from 20 to 25 passengers, and it is
planned to carry a much greater
number. They will have comfortable
staterooms, as large as those of the
Atlantic liner of the present. The
bulls Of the newer vessels will be
rigid, as the sheathing will be of
aluminium, or the lighter, stronger
metal, krypton. The engines will be
distributed along the keel of the
craft, from bow to stern, SO that the
weight may be equally balanced.
Back i'll the stern of the craft will be