The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-01
NEW KIND OF A1RsH1P
One to be Completed Next Month
Which is Expected to
Break All
Records.

PARIS, Jan. 31.-The United States
section of the international municipal
ity exposition to open May 1 at Lyons
will be second in comprehensivenes
and general excellence to none on the
grounds, according to Oscar Moser,
the commissioner in charge of the
American exhibits. The 1000 square
yard floor space allotted to American
cities has been practically exhausted.
and not an inch will be left after the
next few days. An extraordinary
amount of space in the palace of fine
ARTS, machinery hall and other build
ings-space not included in the 1000
square yards mentioned-is being tax
en- by American firms and business
houses.
The exposition plans as its central
idea to show the best systems Of
municipal government from every
country in the world Mayor Herriot,
of Lyons, declares it will be the most
complete thing of the kind ever at
tempted. Every conceivable form OF
government will be SHOWN, and the
mayor believes that Lyons will be the
gathering place for city welfare work
ers from every quarter of the globe
during the exposition period The
slow ends November l. Ambassador
Myron T. Herrick is highly pleased
over the showing American cities are
making. New York, Philadelphia,
Cleveland, Detroit, San Francisco are
other cities that have arranged for
big exhibits, showing their forms of
city administration The ambassador
has personally devoted much time
boosting the Lyons exposition, not
Ionly he says, because he thinks great
good will result to American mum
/ icipalities by participation, but also
because France has been among the
Headers in working for the success OF
the San Francisco Panama-Pacific ex-
position. 1t is a sort of Franco,
american entente-cordiale on the eX.
position question which he has foster
ed to the utmost.
In addition to the ambassador
James Hazen Hyde, formerly of New
York; B. J. Shoninger, president OF
the American Chamber of Commerce
in Paris; Captain Frank Mason, consul
general here, and others, are members
Of committee working not only fol
THE success of the exposition but fol
closer relations generally between
France and America, commercially
industrially and Internationally. 1t is
understood here that representatives
of the leading chambers of commerce
throughout the United States have
announced their intention of VISITING
the exposition. Their idea is to ge
as many new ideas as possible OF
city planning, city building and cit.
administration for use back home"
A new airship is being constructed
here by the Astra-Torres people to b'
| completed by February, which thu
! builders declare, will break all exist
ing records for speed for this clas
of air craft. 1t is to be built aloni
| entirely new lines and will be the siz
of respectfully large ocean-goin!
| steamer.
The gas bag, instead Of being
single piece, will be made up of tire
| Globes" placed longitudinally, one
third of the circumference of eacl
| section adhering to the adiacen
| lobe" The designers say the car
can be suspended from the bag b
much fewer ropes and both air resist
| ance and gas leakage is reduced to
minimum
| Two cars will be used. Each on
contains two engines of $50 hors
power each, giving the ship 1000 e
1 fectiye horse power. 1t Will be SO
| feet long and GO feet at its creates
circumference The front car, @
bridge will contain an array of COZ
trolling and registering instrument
| and wireless outfit with radius c
400 miles. The rear cabin wi