Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-27

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tirely feasible to use them on
steady going liner, whereas on a ten
pest tossed ocean greyhound the eel
tainty OF speedy breakage would b
prohibitory.
Varied Recreations.
There is 40 conservatory aboar,
1.-THE Deutschland, no passenger seleyat
loTs, no gymnasium and swimming
pool and no live COWS to be MIXED
But many OF ti.s other comforts an6
lreereations of today's ocean voyage
can be enjoyed, minus some discom
forts. There is, for example. no sea
sickness in store for the tourist sky
flyer.
Card playing, checkers, chess, cam
era snapshots. guessing at the ships
run from port to port and looking up
ones Baedeker will while away the
time, provided always the sightseers
wearies OF the varied panorama that
is passing in swift review above and
below him as he breathes the exhil-
arsting upper air.
Rugged mountains, CLASSY lakes
gTeen meadows. silvery rivers and
ancient baronial castles perched on
picturesque coigns of vantage are
seen vertically instead OF horizontally
quite d new point of view Whichever
way the observer looks his eye will
rcTe over sweep of fully twenty-five
miles in any direction. The average
height of the ship above the ground
will be 400 feet,
At night the clustered lights of the
cities and towns will engage the at
tention and also the aerial beacons
that identify them. These are bril-
liantly illuminated names, letters or
numbers, or combinations thereof. as
! the case may be. They are inscribed
on the tops of church towers, gaso-
meters and other high structures,
clearly defining the ships location as
she sweeps along all aglow with light,
looking like monster FREELY to the
wondering watchers on the stagnant
earth. These Distinguishing symbols,
each differing from the other, are de-
rived from the national aero code and
are being installed throughout the
German empire. For daylight reading
the characters consist of red or black
letters on white background.
Aerial NAVIGATING and Tactics.
If a passenger stands well with the
navigating officer he may perhaps get
la peep at that functionary's quarters
and see MANY Of the curious instru.
ments that guide the ships rising and
falling and its driving course Natur-
ally, the time nonored mariners com
pass is among thea'. but more than
twenty other strange anu peculiar in
|struments that have been devised to
meet the necessities of the new art
of boring through cloudland. The
statoscope will show how the eleva-
ton changes, and from the readings
OF its variations the commanders sig
nails are transmitted to the helmsmen
of the three sets Of horizontal rudders
telling them when and how far to
elevate or depress their planes to
maintain the Deutschland's cruising
level of 400 feet, g. height sufficiently
above the first zone of discontinuity
and frealzsh earth winds to insure
evenness of cir movements and equal.
ly convenient for keeping the gas
supply as nearly intact as possible.
Latitude and longitude are taken by
day or night, regardless Of weather
oonditions.Tf the weather is clear the.
air bubble quadrant can be used. an
instrument that establishes its own
horizon, there being none observable
from an airship The azimuth is de-
termaned as in marine observations.
But if fog prevails the indispensable
thermometer is brought into plav
This novel instrument, by the dip of
the magnetic needle, gives the air.
ships latitude and longitude unfail-
ing,y. with only a possible variation
of three miles.
The Paragraph, with its self-regis
tering pencil and roll of paper, notes
the changes in the atmospheric press.
ure and the coming of storms; the
self-registeriDg thermometer records
the temperature and the invaluable
indicator shows when
the metal parts of the ship are
charged with static electricity. That
is, however, easily thrown off by at
mospheric dispersion. And not the
least ingenious of these contrivsnces
is the combined thermometer and
speedometer of Count Zeppelin's ownl
invention, that takes the place Of the |
modern mariners self-registering log,
its three arms showing not only the |
ships speed, but the direction and
force of the wind.
AS a matter of course, the Deutsch- |
land is provided with a wireless
equipment, and its legible radius is |
three hundred and fay miles. Its |
chief use is to keep in touch with the
Astrological stations and obtain the
latest bulletins of winds and weather
that may affect the ships course. BY
this means the approach of storms a |
thousand miles distant may be antic |
ipated and forestalled.
Fares and Commercial Aspects.
1t is not on the cards just now to
cover the long journey of the Gea,
man airsbip lines on an arbitrary
schedule Thai viii come when the
sister ship is put in
commission on the Rhine route next
month. In the meantime short trips
10 Stuttgart, Mannheim, Cologne and
Frankfort viii be the rule.--or would
have been but for the mishap to the