Show A LINE OF PASSENGER AIRSHIPS A company has been formed in Berlin with a preliminary capital of to establish a line of passenger airships between Berlin London Paris Vienna St. St Petersburg Copenhagen and Stockholm and the dispatch says sars that Krupps and a number of bankers are interested interest d in the project Prof mann writes a laudatory article to the Kreus Zei- Zei tung hailing Count airship as something so perfect as to possess great political as well as scientific interest and contends that Germany leads the way in applying aviation to warfare the airships she already possesses being perfected weapons of war Other newspapers insist upon the necessity of Germany owning a supreme aerial fleet Count Henri De Do the French aviator admits that thattie he tie keenly deplores that Germany will o outstrip France in the matter of military airships He says Count has outdistanced everything and holds a still more marvelous surprise in store which will ill be still more humiliating to French pride and he adds France not only made a mistake in confining h herself rs lf to a single type of airship but al allowed allowed allowed al- al lowed herself to be hypnotized by the idea that she was in aeronautics and that other nations nations nations na na- na- na could not compete with her They are already talking in an about a l line ne of airships to cross the Atlantic tind nd take from the Lucitania and l their honors We presume presume presume pre pre- sume however that the perfection of airships is not notto notto notto I to come until the wireless is under better control and even eyen th then n there will vill be a good l than many timid people who will prefer a steamship p to an airship because steamships are so perfected that now when properly built and kept in perfect order they arc are able to outride outride outride out out- ride any storm at sea Indeed nearly all the terrors of the ocean have been taken away except the fog and a breaker beaten coast in case the ship approaches approaches ap ap- ap- ap it with disabled machinery |