Grand Forks herald., 1919-07-03

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to complete the journey to New York in three
route.
The Rs4 is the first dirgibe OF modern type to at
tempt this She is the her
in existence being over 500 feet in length Her
s125ooo0 She has already given good account OF her
self in actual service, occasion she made
journey approxmatng upon which she has recent
started, having sailed from the English over
the Baltic and return without landing and with
fuel remaining for hours further flight The
fuel which This trip is not stated this
being of naval she has
capacity for fuel make trip Allan
tic and return without stop This
occasion, the calls stay days at
or near New York. with the return trip following.
The dirgibe has point of superiority the air.
plane in that it does depend it's engines for sup
port So long the containers the craft
will float indefinitely regardless engines and land
ing be effected with al engines Of commission
One of its defects is its proportion
weight and the consequent difficulty of management in
fitfu winds. One illustration in the
dent in which the dirigible which New
foundand blown from moorings and lost at sea-
Another illustration noted in case
of the explosion of the Cs Baltimore Tuesday DUE
it is believed, the sudden contained
gas under unusual heat.
The dirgibe is the direct the balloon in
which Montgolfier made the first ascent
made by Their adventure was preceded
by experimental flight in which sheep,
duck the presence Of the king
and of France these involuntary passengers
sent alof from Versailles reaching an altitude
of 14oo feet and floating distance they came to
earth in a nearby wood. by means of which
their balloon foaed having cooled the sheep was
found calmly grazing while the rooster Justify
1t is not recorded whether not the duck quacked.
The New York Times furnishes the following sum
mary of progress in balloonhg since that time
"Ballooning in the early part nineteenth cen
tury had become trying to invent
of steering the great bags sailing boat might
be controlled. There long distance as time
went The Great Balloon of Nassau, with Robert Ho-
land, Charles Green Mason on board started
from London for anywhere" Nov. t. 1886, and
reached Weilburg in the Duchy Nassau after VOYAGE
of 500 miles hours Paris Exposition in 1873
Henri Giffards balloon the largest ever
constructed-450oOo cubic feet-took up passengers
at time Balooning had become about safe as sit
ting in church Two notable drifts years
that of (1soo) from vincennes to Kor
ostiche Russia, 1,1s3 miles hours and the
ience of A. R. Hawley and Augustus spherical
balloon America, who St Louis on Oct T.
1910 and finished in the wilderness Peribonka River
al days. The bold adventure of Walter wellman who
planned Atlantic motor balloon began
in the same year on Oct 5 Atlantic City being
departure. He sailed point miles northeast of
Nantucket where unfavorable wind charge and
carried him toward Bermuda. Rescued by a welcome
Weman travelled about 1000 miles His
was failure without merit.
High on the roll of daring inventors who planned
drigible balloons stands the ofhenr Giffard His
dirigble could not make headway in the
teeth OF wind but responded rudder
torily in her tests Afterward designed ship 1000
feet in length with capacity cubic feet to
be driven by two-boler steam engne but losing his
eyesght the distinguished engineer was prey
despair and committed chloroform The early
years of the twentieth century rapid development
of the dirgbe balloon France the Lebaudy brothers
Colonel Renard Louis GODDARD and the Society,"
in Germany Major Parseval and Count Ferdinand Won
Zeppelin designed and built great craft that swept
through the air with much the facility ships
Neptunes realm traverse the The Zeppelins
known by their numbers the title of King
of the Air. but has said. rivals have taken
his pattern and improved upon soon airshps will
able keep aoat many days and to cross
THE largest and most serviceable arshp in the
world today is the British Rs4 the American
pie will soon have opportunity of seeing Built at
of s1,25ooo0 $40 feet in length with canac
ity of 2oo 900 cubic feet Equipped with five motors
her speed is 81 miles hour the Atlantic
flight she will of 2s soldier Major
G. H. Scott Of the Royal Air Force, will command her
With favorable weather Rs4 should have no
difficulty in crossing the Atlantic in 50 hours"
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
We have in this state as in others provision for
pulsory education The laws enforcement
is in many defeeve the principle is
that it is the business to see that
children do not grow in ignorance. Where compul-
education laws exist the authority the state
recognized superior that parents in this