The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30
1T ISN'T A DREAM
Col. III. d. Booge Says He Has
Solved Air Problem.
His Invention VIII Make Aerial
Navigation Easy.
SILENT ON DETAILS.
Refuses to Tell Where Machine
Is Being Built.
Take Judge Dana and Senator
Curtis on First Trip.
SILENT ON DETAILS.

Set the compass, regulate the gauges.
turn the speedometer at 1,SOO miles,
turn on the air. press the button
whiz-z-z-z-z= you are in New York
city That's Col. H. D. Rooge's "King
of the Air utilizing the material God
made most plentiful-air-and revoIu-
tionizing the worlds idea of rapid
transit.
You see it's all so very simple, such
a little thing that man has held al
most in his grasp since time began.
It's such a trivial little contrivance,
that Col Booge refuses to give the de-
tails of Just how he did it. But Booge
says it's a sure thing. And there you
are Right now the Topeka man is
preparing a list of the 100 guests who
will make the initial trip; and the
crowned heads of the world have been
reminded that Col. Booge will pay
them q visit in his new air craft at
q very early date
Imagine yourself seated in a cUsh-
NiOned cigar shaped car with SO of your
friends flying through space at the
rate of 100 miles a minute. That's
NJ nat Col. BOoge. the Topeka real es-
tate and matrimonial promoter, prom
ises in his new cOntrivance. You may
thiuk it's all just a nice little joke
when you read about BoOge's proposed
revolution of traffic, but to ROoge, at
least, it's serious and real and just so
seonle bright afternoon bids goodby to
Topeka and sails away for a little
jaunt around the globe, you will Won
der how you lived in this vale of tears
for many years and never thought of
the plan yourself.
Out on the southwest corner Of Sixth
avenue and Buchanan street is to be
''unicn station" There, where today
are only the ruins of a once modern
hsnhouse, and patches of dying weeds
ard twisted wire and rugged trees, is
to be located the scene of activities
that Booge says will take some of the
wonders of the world out of the re-
vised copies OF modern history.
1t was q month ago when BOoge be-
gan to herald the advent Of the flying
machine that is to put the Wrights
and Curtiss and Johnson and Atwood
in the sickening discard Attorney Gen
eral Wickershaul, Postmaster General
Hitchcock, members Of the cabinet
and the crowned heads of Europe re-
eeiVed the same notices Many of these
people are unfortunate in that they
II may be necessary for BoOge to make
q mere Whistling post of Washington
rs he goes sailing over the Atlantic on
his initial trips. Then the men of the
serve ard Col. Booge will receive the
recognition to which he is entitled.
Colonel BoOge Is Reticent.
Out on the front porch of his Sixth
avenue home, Col. Booge sat nervous
" in a wicker rocker and pulled at
the stubby grey whiskers, dragged
hard on the old brier pipe and hemmed
and haWed lest he divulge some of the
secrets of the new air craft. In the
cool night air, Col. BOoge dribbled out
bits of stray profanity-nOt intended |
as such, mind you-but only to make |
more impressive aud important the |
cnange in the business affairs OF the |
world It requires strong and eloquent |
= @1-- y
Bocge has in store for the public and /
sometimes there was hitch in Booge'S |
that called forth extreme
punctuation.
Just as long as the air that God |
gave US holds out declared BoOge, |
the thing viii go. You start her and /
you stop her with air; and the little |
valves and push buttons regulate the |
speed and the altitude of the whole |
thing. All you have to do. is just sit !
IN a nice easy seat and watch the |
world go by By gosh. young man, you
can run a hundred miles an hour if
YOU want to; or you can go one mile an I
hour. It's all up to the pilot and he
sits there and operates the thing to his
own notion"
Then Booge was asked about how
high the machine would go. and If stop
ping quick to let a passenger off at
Chicago, wouldn't jar the people in the
bit.
why, boy. you can go just as
blank high as you want to,
just as long as the air holds out. I
don't know just how high up that is,
but If there's enough air, there isn't
the least reason under the sun why
YOU shouldn't go to Mats just as easy
as sailing along over the state house.
Then to think of your insinuating
some one might get hurt when the ma
chine stops quick. That's where you
show ignorance. have learned that
the same thing that will start thing
viii stop it. Anyway, that's what some
mighty wise men tell me The same
lever that turns on the air, shuts it
car and you wouldn't notice the stop
as much as you would the stopping Of