Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-09-13
ADVANTAGES OF AIR TRAVEL.
Annoyance and Dangers Of Railroads
That Airships Will Be Free From.


That Airships Will Be Free From.
Chicago to New York by air The
ITwenty- Century Limited over the
new Chicago New York Air Route, now
lis ready. From the lake front (Grant
lPark) to Broadway in nine hours.
No dust, no rails, no noise, no smoke.
Nothing but fresh air and scenery.
Make your reservations early i'm or
ldcr not to be disappointed. Cars de-
lpart daily from the lake front at 3
"a. m: arrive New York p. m. east
lern time."-Adv
Chicago may not be surprised If
lin the near future it finds itself face
to face with the foregoing advertise
an ad is being worked up. While the
press of the country has been con-
sdering the startling proposition Of
a $4,000 prize race between New
York and Chicago, and while the world
has been gasping at the idea of Yep
pelin's passenger flight of 800 miles in
nine hours, a few Chicago men have
been planning quietly to put in opera
make the advertisement above-or
something like it-distinctly apropos.
They are promoting an airship, invent
ed by a Chicago lOcksmith, Herman
Leinweber, which is expected to prove
a serviceable passenger carrier and
which, it is claimed, will carry fifty
passengers and make the flight of over
900 miles in nine hours.
Compared to the plans of the Chica-
goans who have taken up arshipping
as a purely business proposition the
sensational flights of exhibitors like
the Wrghts, Curtiss and Paulhan be-
come little more than ordinary. The
mere feat of flying is the least of the
things that these men consider in their
plans. Right now in this day when
most of the world still gasps a little
at the notion of one single man flying
! fifty-fOur miles an hour these men
establish an airship passenger line,
composed Of ships with cars carrying
| fifty passengers, which will run reg
ularly between Chicago and Now York
and make the trip in n little over nine
| hours-Without stop on the way!
Beside these plans the flight of the
Deutschland, Count Zeppelin's man.
moth dirigible, from FreidriChshafen to
| Dusseldorf becomes ordinary, indeed.
| The Deutschland's flight will he re-
| toop hn fire
service in the world, but the distance
| travelled and the nature of the craft
| failed to make the feat startling to
aerial artists of experience. In the
| first place. the enormous gas bag of
the Zeppelin is declared to make it too
unwieldy for practical carrying pur-
poses. The speed it maintained for 300
miles was something over thirty miles
an hour While this is fair arcommu
dation railroad train speed it is moth
ing to what has been proved possible
| i'm the air.
| Now that the Wrghts, Curtisses,
Paulhans. Ieppelins and Hamiltons
have shown what may be done in SEN
sational aerial exhibitions, calculating
and level-headed business men-and
| Chicago business men, at that-have
| invaded the air as a new and fertile
| field of business. The dream of a Ger
man inventor has appeared to them as
practical proposition. They have
| looked it over, have patented it and
are planning to make money through
| its sensational use.
| Instead of considering the airship in
the experimental stage this group has
| decided that the day of mere expert
ments and exhibitions is over. 1t is
| time-they think-to begin to handle
the airship in practical fashion There
fore they propose:
First, to make q practical airship.
| They have secured patents covering an
entirely new principle in air naviga-
| ton.
Second. to make a ship capable Of
carrying fifty passengers, carrying fuel
| enough to run 5000 miles without a
stop and to which accidents, such as
| falling, are all hut impossible.
Third, to start a regular passenger
| line between Chicago and New York
| and educate the travelling public up to
| the notion of travelling.
Fourth. to do real business" with the
| airslip instead Of continuing the eXhi
bitions of the present.
The great and important difference
| between the proposed acroplane race
| and the proposed programme of the
Chicago company is that the former
makes the first exhibition flight be-
tween the two cities named, while the
latter marks an epOCh-thc considera-
ton of the airship as a practical car
rier in America.
| Chicago" says Mr.. Craft w. Hig-
gins. editor of the Golfers Magazine,
and secretary of the Chicago company,
| has been the most backward city in
the country on the airship proposition.
While every other city of importance
has been more or less wrought up over
the demonstrated possibilities of me-
chanical flying. Chicago has been con-
tent to sit back and read Of what 9TH
ers have been doing. We have done
little or nothing here up to now. But
now there is coming an era Of the air.
ship in Chicago, and once Chicago be-
gins it is likely to take the lead in this
as in other things.
| Other localities have been expert
mentng and exhibiting for a long time.
Chicago, when it takes hold. takes
hold practically and the result is going
to he nothing less than a line Of pas
sengcr airships capable Of flying to
| New York in a triflc over nine hours.
| This is no dream. We hav" the ship.
1t is something new altogether i'm fly
ing. a new principle and yet an old
one. The government has allowed us
all the patents we have asked for.
This is proof that the Chicago ship IS
| something new. While the ship is not
| built it is all worked out The draw
| ings are all made. There is no doubt