Show EDISON AND AIRSHIP AIRSHIPS I It will be remembered that Mr Edison was here last week and in an interview said that not one of I th the aeroplanes now no in use is quite on the right principle and still the New York Sun quotes him as assaying assaying assaying saying Within five years airships will be carrying carrying carry- carry ing passengers across the ocean in eighteen hours at t. t miles an lour bour Aerial flight will be e commercialized commercialized commercialized commer commer- in that time an and l the thO north pole will be reached in hi forty eight ho hours i rs n Putting this and that together it gives one the impression that Mr Edison is is' himself studying upon an invention of an airship and that he is doing what h he has done with many another r proposition he is sure that his his' ide ideas s are right that within five J years j years ears the they will materialize in practical form Mr l Edison has made more pr predictions of that kind in inthe the ilie last ve 1 twenty Fd th than Y years rS any other man We Wo remember remember remember re re- re- re member that away back when the worlds world's fair was held in Chicago Mr Edison predicted that within a year car or two it would be quite possible for 01 the families faini faini- lies of 01 a to remain at home on opera night anc and yet enjoy all ull- the music of the opera it being de delivered de I livered to private houses as ice cream and milk are arenow arenow I now delivered and the tho people in every house con con- coni i with th the tho theater would hear all nIl the music in inthe inthe inthe the theater and arid have all nIl tho the enjoyment of f the occasion occasion occasion oc oc- oc- oc casion except of course the lights the chorus girls and the audience That is Mr i Edison does docs not always always al al- al ways fulfill his prophecies It may be just as he says says his his word proved true on the phonograph proved true when ho he went vent to reducing iron ore ore ore- but a great man many things he has predicted have never neverseen neverseen seen the light Perhaps sometime people may cross crossI I the Atlantic in a balloon or an airship but we wedo do donot donot not believe anyone lD one will rill in the next five years and that that-if they do it will be the result of some invention which is not yet clear even eyen in Mr l Edison's Edison a brain But his words add to the cheerfulness of the world For Fora a seasick passenger to think that some sometime time ime passengers can make that vo voyage age without mowing knowing the craft is in motion and without realizing I that hat they are above the earth is a hopeful vision Ifor for or men to cherish but one shudders when ho thinks of an airship being caught in such a cyclone as that I which the Deutschland described on its arrival in 1 New York last week The air ail is an intangible element ele de cle- cle ment and tho the very wisest do not realize the difference differ differ- ence cuce between air and water and cannot make any estimate of oE the time when the air nir will be bo navigated far more swiftly than the water ever eyer has hag been |