Evening star., 1923-09-15

| Count Zeppelin, inventor OF the
! dirigibIe airship of which America
magnificent ZR-1 is the finest type
| ever launched did not design 1t ex-
clusively for war Twelve or fifteen
years before Zeppelin perfected a
practical airship. he thus epitomized
! his dreams:
"I intend to build a vessel which
/ will be able to travel to places which
cannot be approached-or only with
! great difIicuIty--by other means of
! transportation; to undiscovered coasts
or interiors; IN straight line
across land and water where ships
are to be sought for; from one naval
station or army base to another,
carrying persons or dispatches; for
the observation OF the movements of
/ hostile fleets or troops, not for active
participation in warfare My dirigible
! balloon must be able to travel several
days without renewing provisions,
gas or fuel. 1t must travel quickly
enough to reach a certain goal In 4
given number Of hours or days, and
| must possess sufficient rigidity and
n-infiammability to ascend, travel
| and descend under ordinary eondt-
! tons"
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Herman H. Kohlsaat, friend of all
Presidents of the United States
since Rutherford B. Hayes and inti-
mate of many Of them, beginning
with William Mckinley, was recently
a guest of President Coolidge at the
White House. He narrated to Mr..
and Mrs. Coolidge that he has been
calling at the Executive Mansion, off
and on, for forty-six years. Ny
visits had q romantic beginning" Mr..
| Kohlsaat explained. for was smit-
ten on a niece Of Mrs. Hayes, q
young lady from Ohio, who used
to spend each winter season at
the White House." The veteran
! Chicago publisher has been offered
from cabinet office to foreign am
bassadorships, by half dozen Presi-
dents. He has always preferred the
role of "brutaIly candid friend" and
more than one President has clothed
him with that dignity.
When Col. Harvey resumes COM
mand of the American embassy in
London next week he'll find It
adorned with a newly made oil por-
trait of himself. 1t Is the work OF
Howard Chandler Christy. who paint
ed about the same time the full
length canvas of President Harding
which hangs in the social hall of the
S. S. Leviathan. The Harvey picture
will be hung among those of other
American ambassadors to Great Brit
ain It was exhibited at q private
view recently given by Mrs. Post
Wheeler, wife of the counselor of the
\ ~. fa,kw -
Harvey in his most characteristic
pose, pipe
y 4. X II
Mai. Oliver p. Newman, who was
appointed a District of Columbia
Commissioner by Woodrow Wilson
and now garners shekels for the DEM
ocratic party, is afflicted with wan
derlust, and ascribes it to a strange
psychic cause. Somebody came back
from the league of nations the other
day and told Maj. Newman his name
was under consideration last spring
for the post of financial adviser to
| the Albanian government. Geneva
had heard of Newnans adminfstra-
tive record in the District govern
man to put Albania's checkered
finances in order. Ever since he
heard how narrowly he escaped being
| sentenced to Durazzo Newman has
pined and longed to go abroad. The
| last time he was overseas he was on
the fighting line of the American ex-
peditionary force.
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| Cyrus z. Woods of Pennsylvania
mad been American ambassador to Japan
\ barely five weeks when earthquake,
1 flame and tidal wave laid Toxic and
4 Yokohanna waste. No other envoy
L of the United States in history ever