Show THE AIRSHIPS The World of New York calls attention to the t I fact th that t no July 1 1908 steam locomotives es were banished a from Manhattan island b by city ordinance and from that reasons that inasmuch as a s the first electric motor is less than twenty years ears old h it t is I not safe what will be he done i in n the way of airships in the tho c coming mi g twenty years It is true that the governments go of the earth have taken up rip the question ques ques- tion of the possibility of making an airship by hy which one one nation can call reconnoiter the forces of an enemy at will It is something that has such bearing on thc the future of wars that that nation any nation can cana afford to expend a. a good deal of money to test the fact whether a practical practical airship can be constructed or not Men fen reason that it is not any more wonderful to believe that airships airships air air- air air- ships would be made a success SUCCORS than it would have peen heel fifteen years ago to have predicted that wireless wire wire- less Jess telegraphy was not t pos possible ible At the same time there is a difference Wi Wireless less telegraphy y f Bend Q messages messages through the air a cyclone or hurricane does doe not net interfere because the messages pass with the quickness of thought and nud are indifferent to lo disturbances disturb ances antes in the atmosphere but a balloon or an airship when it leaves the earth is in a substance seven se times less ess dense than than water Moreover er water has no elasticity elas elas- the air is the most elastic o of all nIl earthly ele cle- ments To build a ship to navigate so uncertain an anel el element is tempting providence A At t the same time we da do not predict that it will not he be made a success RUCCe because Because every kind of travel its has risks The stage stagecoach stagecoach stagecoach coach is more fatal to human life than the railroad that is for the passengers carried more are killed or hurt than thun are killed on steamers or cars The safest of all transportation seems to be he the modern steamship hip and that is subject to explosion to fogs and breaker-beaten breaker coasts And so reasoning that an in airship cannot be perfectly safe the question is whether it cannot be made reasonably safe and und if it itcan itcan itcan can it will be patronized especially if it can develop more speed peed than either steam engines or electric motors motors mo motors mo- mo tors because men who are never in a hurr hurry hurry- anywhere else are alwa always s in a hurry when traveling and old curmudgeons who love their dollars more than their own souls fouls will pa pay double fare to cross the Atlantic in n a ship that promises to beat all competitors by a single single- da day |