The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-05-27
in Less Than
A Year.
Airship Will Displace Great
Ocean Liners.
will be Equipped With All Mod
ern Convenientes Of
the Ships.


Development the airship of 1915
may be conceived as having a hull
II rigid construction, one khous-
and feet long and eighty fest
beam. with accommodations for
ore hundred and fifty passengers.
and a crew of fonty-two men.
The new air liner will resemble
a submarine, or rather a flying
fish, says a writer in the Century
Magazine. All it's parts win be
compacly built into the hull. Its
under body, eight hundred feet
long, twelve feet wide and nine
feet high, will extend between the
elbows fore ard aft where the hull
begins to curve toward its point
ed bow and stern. The under-
body will hold seven passengers
ard eight operating seobions. after
the fashion of compartment
sleeping car. A continuous pas
sageway will extend from end to
end
The brow glazed, with artificial
mica, will furnish an aerial OBJ
servatory. Its interior will be
series of grill galleries., 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, where a small exploring gun
swung on a universal Joint, can be
fired toward most points in space
On It's several platforms will be the
navigating deck, the helm, the wire
less" the chart room meteorological
and astronomical "obssrvaaories."
Below the bridge" will be hatch
way to the main passagei In the for
ward underbody of the ship where
there is a companionway which is
the ships portal. Abaft of this will
be the captains cabin. To starboard
of this will begin the main passage
]
ing on the passage. Next to the
captains quarters, in sequence, will
be officers and engineers statero@s;
| officers wardroom and mess; the
barber shop; the first motor com
partment; the toilet room; pas
engers' state rooms; passengers liv-
/ ing quarters, a central lounging.
reading and dining saloon, the width
of the ship.
The saloons, glazed with openings
of artificial mica, can be transform
ed into open deck space, by sliding
side ports. At the s5rn Will be the
stewards quarters, where all cooking
will be by electricity. Meals Will be
served in each saloon, the pantry
service beirg operated by escalabor,
passing through the hold" which
will be attached to the airships
~ntire underbody. Table service will
be delivered through a trap in the
saloon floor. Telephone and electric
annunciators will connect each sec
ton, but one stewart will be reqllir II
there.
ALI bed covering will be of the
highest weights, because elktron
heaters carrying the hct exhaust of
the motors will keep the temperature |
automatically even, while flying at
frigid attitudes. When flying low in |
the tropics the airship may be per
fectly cooled by ventilation. Only |
hand baggage will be permitted for
the quick passage, other baggage"
going by steamer OF express air
ship.
The sides of the "hold," or tun-
nal, five feet high and eight feet |
wide, will he lined win continuous
tanking, containing gasoline fuel, to
be forced upward into the engine
rooms as needed. The outside of the |
hold" will serve as the a.qshsp's
rounded keel, and will enable the
craft to float on water; elastic buff
ers for landing viii be fixed underr
each engine section.
The eight mDtor compartments will
be equipped with one two hundred
horse power motor, transmitting
energy by short s,eel belts, in flatten-
ed tubes, TO one propeller on the
same side of the hull, and to auxil-
liary engines operating pumps will
control the gas chambers, Withdrawing
expanding gas and condenslng it in
to the airship's tubular frame. They
will also drive powerful fans for
ventilating the air spaces of the hull
and the living quarters. The electric
power plants. for lighting, cooking
and operating the escalator, villa be
in the engine departments.
The top of the hull, now the
Zeppelin's observatory, will become
a long Hurricane deck" of thin .lfxht