The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-03-02

AN having mastered tne ART VI
M flying the suggestion that 1t
Is possible to cross the AT
lantic ocean in an airship Is
being taken up with the utmost seri-
BUSINESS and confidence. The failure
of Walter wellman and Melvin Vani-
man to accomplish the feat has In no
wise deferred others from planning Tor
such a conquest. Even Vaniman HIM
self Is hopeful that the honor will fall
to him.
Meteorological authorities ave been
impressed with the outline of plans
published by DR.. Paul F. Cans OF
Munich, Germany, who has
that he will set out ON his spectacular
sea fight in March of this year In his
dirigible balloon, the Suchard. He
thinks he can make the trip across In
five days. He proposes to end the
fight at Barbados If necessary, but to
continue to the coast Of Florida IL pos
sible.
DIR. Cans says the main obstacle to
overcome will be atmospheric dis
turbances that might divert the air
ship from its course and the ability to
remain aloft the necessary length OF
time. He thinks he has solved both
difficulties. The first he thinks has
been eliminated in the selection of his
route.
He has figured that his airship will
lose weight from the instant Of its
start, due to the consumption of food
and drink and Of oil and fuel, and pro-
poses to add to the weight OF the SUI
chard by taking on sea water as bal
last. This will be accomplished by the
use Of fish shaped buckets let down
by a steel cable operated by a motor.
A committee of the Royal Aero club
of London took charge of James v.
Martins proposal to attempt a trans
atlantic fight from Newfoundland to
Ireland next August. Mr.. Martin for
merly was manager of the Harvard
Aeronautical society, and the scientific
arrangements for his contemplated
Journey were referred to Harvard pro-
fessors. He plans to rise from the sea
and keep in the track of Atlantic
steamers as closely as possible.
THE BRITISH NAVY
Great Britain's twenty-eighth Dread
nought, which will be one of five new
armored vessels provided for in the
program of 1911-12, will be completed
in 1914. The ship will be the largest
battleship hitherto constructed in Eng
land, displacing between $4,000 and
10000 tons.
Although Dreadnought cruisers of
the Lion class are much longer, the
new vessel will be slightly heavier,
besides throwing heavier shells. A
number of improvements have been in
PRODUCED in the arrangement of the in
ternal subdivisions, intended to mini
mize the danger of a torpedo attack,
while the vessels anti-torpedo battery
will consist Of sixteen six-inch guns,
whereas her predecessors have been
armed with only fouB inch guns for the
purposes Of encountering torpedo
boats.
is EXECUTION RIGHT
The urging of Colonel Joseph f.
Scott, superintendent of New York
prisons, that capital punishment be
abolished in hat state has received
the approval of Governor Dix. II am
in sympathy with Colonel Scott's
views ON the subject" said Governor
Dix. 81 think it would be the right
thing to do"
Governor johnson of California de-
clared not long ago that his opposition
to capital punishment would impel him
to insist upon special legislation doing
away with the extreme penalty for
crime in California. Other prominent
men are fully in accord with the two
governors views on this subject.
On the other hand, the theory that
the state has q right to take a life for