The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26
ID BREAK RECORD FOR STEAMSHIPS Will Try to Cross Ocean and Back in Twelve Days AN INVISIBLE AIRSHIP Will Be Same Color as Sky and Can- not Be Seen-Crabs Are
 Home Loving
 Animals
AN INVISIBLE AIRSHIP
By PAUL LAMBETH

| be beaten again next month if the sched
 ule arranged for the Christmas trips of the big flyers, Mauretania and Lusitania, l is carried out.
 | It will be recalled that the Mauretania set new figure for the round trip across
 the Atlantic last Christmas. when she | completed the outward bound and home passage in just trifle more than F days.
 The new schedule will cut under the 12
 day mark If all goes well.
 | The Mauretania will leave Liverpool at | 5 D. m. on Saturday, December g.. and should reach New York late on Thursday, December IA, even if she encounters very rough weather, as she did last Christmas. | Her time for turning around" d"-which in- volved shipping 600 tons of coal, unloading 800 tons and loading 1000 tons of cargo,
 getting provisions, and taking on board
 5000 passengers. and their luggage. be-
 sides $500 sacks of mals--was last year fl hours.
 l Nothing like it had ever been done be- | fore; but next month, unless she makes
 a faster outward trip. She will have to
 turn around in g hours, for she is sched-
 uled to leave New York at a. m. on I Saturday, December 16 As this is nine houre earlier than her sailing time last year, she should land her passengers at Fishguard about noon on Thursday, December 21, so that passengers for the continent may cross the channel that
 same night and be home for Christmas even if they live in Russia or Turkey. l They can reach Berlin early on the Fri
 day evening, St. Petersburg on the Sun- | day morning, or rConstautinople on the morning of Christmas day.
 | Midway across the Atlantic the Maure-
 tania will meet her sister ship the Lusi 1 tania, which is also to start from Lv- 1 erpool on December 16, and will land her American passengers in time to reach any l part of the eastern or middle states by | Christmas day.
 | For passengers wishing to spend Christ
 mas day on the other side there are the l Canadian Pacific steamer Empress of
 Britain, leaving Liverpool December IS; | the Canadian Northern steamer Royal Edward leaving Bristol December 13, | both for Canadian ports; the White Star liner Laurentic, leaving Liverpool Decefn- | Der IA for New York, and the American liner Philadelphia, leaving Southhamp-
 ton December 13, also for New York. The l Olympic's passengers who leave South | spend their Christmas on board, as they are not due in New York till the follow | ing Tuesday night or Wednesday morn l ing
 Baron Roenne, the well known airshp
 and naval engineer has invented an in-
 visible airship and it is,Snot impossible
 that his invention may be applied to l Washington and made also practically in- visible at any considerable distance. | Baron Roenne has submitted his idea to | the officials at the Greenwich Royal ob- servatory, and they declare that it is
 based on scientific principles, and most
 certainly practicable. The way this re-
 markable airship is made. invisible is as l follows:
 Take white wall and paste a. white
 sheet of paper on it. At a distance of a
 few feet you may be able to detect where
 the paper leaves off and the wall begins. At 100 yards the wall looks all wall you would never suspect the paper of being
 there If you did not know already. This
 is Baron Roenne's idea.
 The outside covering Of his airship is
 made of chromium, metal the compo- l sition of which is a secret. It is almost
 as strong as steel, yet it only weighs one
 fourth as much. No hydrogen can leak | from vessel made of it, so the danger of
 an airship exploding from that cause dis
 appears.
 l It is due to the discovery of chromium. | In fact, that the invisible airship is pps-
 sible The most important thing about
 the metal as far as Baron Roenne is con-
 ecrned, Is that it possesses very highly polished surface.
 | This surface is covered over with thin coating of transparent varnish The whole
 surface of the dirigible, in fact, acts as | a mirror, and reflects the same color as | It's surroundings. If the sky is duIl so | Is the airship. If the sky is blue, so is
 the airship. The sides of the keel of this l new airship are also re1ecting mirrors
 and by an ingenious arrangement of them. the darker shade reflected from the | earth is made lighter. The keel will taper to point, and thus there will be no
 shadow on the bottom of the airship In fact. it will be like the chameleon and always like the color of it's surroundings.
 In other words, it will be invisible. Baron Roenne's new terror of the skies will be as large as the Olympic The Olympic If it could float in the skies. would easily be detected at a height of four or five miles, yet Roenne's dirigible will be absolutely invisible, even to tele-
 scopes, at distance of less than mile It Is designed to carry 400 passengers or their equivalent in cargo. and it win be fitted with 15 motors developing nearly 2000 horsepower
 What this new skyscraper'' will mean in time of war can hardly be realized. It will carry enough ammunition to Utterly
 wreck any city, or blow the worlds big gest navy to pieces. What is the terri ble part about it, the enemy couldn't retaliate, for they would be unable to de- tect the airship The only thing would be to fire into the air at random, aspretty weak defense, to say. the least of it. 
 A sidelight on the greater care bestowed
 oil game than on men was thrown at
 Hereford, where an underkeeper of Sir
 James Rankin, member of parliament, successfully sued the baronet for
 months wages in lieu of notice Having worked 15 hour day the keeper refused to go on night duty and was dismissed. He stated In court he knew when he took the job he would have to put in one night in three watching the young birds, but the
 night in question was stormy and there was no shelter provided The baronet's
 agent said 36 hours duty at a stretch was
 reasonable, and the magistrate decided
 the request was mot unreasonable, talk
 ing into consideration the peculiar nature
 of the gamekeeper's duties.
 That edible crabs are, a home loving
 community was brought to the notice of
 the eastern sea fisheries committed at
 their half yearly meeting at Kings Lynn. year ago some 2000 crabs were labelled
 and returned to the water along the east coast, and rewards were offered fo, the