Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-03 | Page 13 | He Rivals Zeppelin Yet Few Know Professor

HE 1 RIVALS RIVALS' RI VA LS Z ZEPPEliN YET FEW FE KNOW PROFESSOR Producer of Giant Airships Was Backed in Ideas by byRich byRich byRich Rich Young Friend By KARL H. H VON WIEGAND Correspondent of the World Special Cable to lo Tho The m MANNHEIM l Germany Dec 2 Privy Councillor professor proCessor of technology in the Danzig technical high school is Germanys Germany's one In fact the worlds world's only competitor of Count Zeppelin in building gigantic airships Count Zeppelin might be as the Investor on the o other oilier her hand handas as the scientific constructing en en- en As compared with Zeppelin he is little little lit little lit lit- tle known popularly speaking even in his own country Nevertheless he is the designer and builder of or airships which it is declared red have shown themselves themselves themselves them them- selves to be equal to the Zeppelins Without popular subscriptions unsupported unsupported un un- supported by the government as was un j Zeppelin backed by Dr K Karl Lanz a young millionaire manufacturer manufacturer 1 of agricultural Implements in Mannheim l and I by Privy Councillor August a prominent steel and iron man has worked quietly modestly modestly mod mod- estly but none the less Energetically mOd mOd-I and successfully in the interests of his fatherland and the fame of German science by building developing and adding many of or the best aerial cruisers to Germanys Germany's rapidly growing fleet Cleet of super of the air Had Faith in His Friend Young Toung Lanz an enthusiastic friend of had faith in the professor I and staked a fund of half halt a million dols dollars dollars dol dol- lars s on on the latter's idea He won a ashare ashare share therefore in the hyphenated name of the rival airships to those of Zeppelin Working Working privately privately has not sought the limelight and neither Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many nor world the the world has heard much of him or his wor work His airship is declared declared declared de de- by enthusiastic friends and scientific engineers to be in some re respects respects respects re- re even superior tg to the Zeppelin but his cruisers have passed and p pass ss even among the German people as Zeppelins has not worried about that but h has s worked to make his craft still better When I expressed surprise that so little is known of his his- work the professor remarked remarked- In working for the fatherland at present I can can wait I for fox r recognition of the results of my work We Ve in Germany cannot shine of ourselves we have but one idea and that is to preserve t the e fatherland The popular impression is that there I may be one or two Lanz airships airships' airships air air- ships ships' ih Germanys Germany's fleet Outside the admiral and general staff few really know how large or how small Germ Ger- Ger I I m many's a aerial rial dread naught fleet is 1 Still less do they know ho how w much of I i it is made up of the Lanz type Accords Zeppelin Credit i frankly says says that if the tenacious mind of Zeppelin had not stuck to his c conceived Idea and brought it to realization there might not be a Lanz craft today was building before Zeppelin succeeded in making a flight The disaster to the first Zeppelin in 1908 shortly after atter completion showed that he was not working alone the most promising promising promising prom prom- ising lin lines s. s Zeppelins Zeppelin's first wreck gave him the idea of the system which has developed so s successfully I Although only made a flight with his first airship in December 1912 hi his second the following year I with a gas volume much lar larger er than Zeppelins Zeppelin's proved a alii big suc success e a. a s s' s In Yn Inless less than five years he oyer overtook took Zeppelin lin and some say even passed him at least t i the prland pa pa and newness of design Since then and andIn andin andin in the friendliest rivalry jt U 11 working neck and neck deve c respective craft first one a ani am other forging ahe ahead Un Under Under of the war the Zeppelins and Lan profiting by one another's another e and ana less n as gathered b bj try to t Of f war and placed at th theli l each has been phenomenal