The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-06
WILL LOOK LIKE
4 FLYING FISH
In Five Years Airships Will
Travel Seyenty-Five Miles
All Hour.
FIGHT DAYS FOR
TRIP AROUND WORLD
Here Are Details of What
Few Years Ago Seemed
a Dream.

From the standard of present devel-
opment the airship of 1915 may be
conceived as having hull of rigid
construction, 1000 feet long and eighty
feet bear, with accommodations for
125 passengers, and a crew of forty
swo men, is found in n story in the
Century Magazine, entitled cover Sea
by an Airship-'
The new alr liner Will resemble a
submarine, or rather a flying fish. All
its parts will be compactly built into
the hull. It's under body, 500 feet
long, twelve feet wide and nine feet
high, will extend between the elbows
fore and aft, where the hull begins
TO curve toward Its pointed bow and
stern. The under body Will hold seven
passengers and eight operating sections,
after the fashion of compartment
sleeping car. a continuous passageway
Will extend from end to end.
Tho PROV glazed, with artificial mica,
will furnish an aerial observatory. Its
interior VIII be a series OF grill gal.
lerjes. connected by steps, Here will
be the "bridge,' the air liners nerve
center, with signal radiation TO all parts
of the ship, A narrow gallery will
reach the extreme nose wnero a small
exploring gun, swung on Il universal
Joint, can be fired toward most points
in space. On it's several platforms
will be the navigating deck, the helm,
the twireless,' the chart"room and
both meteorological and astronomical
'observatorics. -
Where Captains Cabin Is.
Below the "bridge' Will be hatch
way TO the main passage in the for
ward under-body of the ship, where
there is companion way which is the
ships portal, Abaft of this will be
the captain g cabin To starboard will
begin the main passage and staterooms.
with all doors opening on the pas
sage Next TO the captain S quarters,
in sequence. will be officers and en-
gineers' staterooms. officers wardroom
and mess; the barber shop; the first
motor compartment; the toilet room;
passengers staterooms; passengers iiv-
Ing quarters, central lounging, read
Ing and dining saloon, the width Of the
ship.
The saloons, glazed with openings of
artificial mica, can be transformed into
open deck space, by sliding side ports.
AT the stern will be the steward IS
quarters, where all cooking will be
done by electricity. Meals will be
served in each saloon the pantry serv-
ice being operated by escalator passing
through the 'Ehold," which will be at
lacHeQ TO the alrSnlD s entire under
body. Table service will be delivered
through a trap In the saloon floor.
Telephone and electric annunciators will
connect each section with the steward IS
quarters. As only twenty-five passeng-
ers will be accommodated in each see
tlon, but one steward will be required
there.
Bed Covering Light.
All bed covering will be Of the
Gghtest weights, because clektron heat
ers carrying the hot exhaust of the
motors will keep the temperature auto
matically even, while flying in frigid
attitudes When flying low in the
tropics the airship may be perfectly
cooled by ventilation. Only hand bag
gage will be permitted for the quick
passage, other "baggage' going by
steamer or express airship
The sides of the "hold,r or tunnel.
five feet high and eight feet wide, will
be lined with continuous taking. con-
tanning gasolenc fuel, to be forced up
ward into the engine-rooms, as need"
ed. The outside of the "hold' will
serve as the airship's rounded keel
and will enable the craft TO float on
water; elastic buffers for landing will
be fixed under each engine section.
The eight motor compartments will
each be equipped with one 200-horse-
power motor. transmitting energy by
short steel belts, in flattened tubes,
to one propeller on the same side OF
the hull, and to auxiliary engines opcr-
ating pumps that will control the gas