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Show PLAN OF SANTOS -M10NT ; If "Santo Iumont is not dreaming and" plans come 'to fruition, serial yaxljtins; may come to- be the rummer j fad 'itblt year, replacing- automobMng ' and aguatlc sports. Here Is what fca .' bag ta say: , - . , ,. "My aerial yacht will soon start on its first cruise, Beneath the egg-shaped j balloon, altghtly less elongated than . tny No. t, will be seen hanging what looks like a little house with a balcony window running half its length on each side. The balcony will be the observa-! observa-! tlon-room of the floating boose, and in it the motor, will be placed. Behind It is a closed sleeping room, while in front you see an open platform holding" the ateam-producing boiler. Steam can also be led by means of a pipe to the bpen room for cooking and theTclpse room for heating purposes.' "As the floating house is designed to remain for days at a time in the air, protection from cold may become Important, Im-portant, therefore the -closed room can be made uite tight and retain the heat. It Is like a whole car comoosed of a framework of pine, aluminum and piano wire tightly covered with Tarnished Tar-nished balloon . silk of - many thlcJc-nesses. thlcJc-nesses. It will contain two cot beds, in which my guests may remain at ease, while I sleep. . . . "The aerial yacht can for hours at a time ' float gently on a favorable air current. My guests will be limited, with common sense opening and closing clos-ing of a faucet as the balloon obviously falls and rises, there will be no darting up into frigid solitudes above the clouds, no falling into dark mists. after the fashion of balloonist. The proper handling of the faucets will secure us the level altitude we desire. "We shall . float on. watching the great max of Europe unroll beneath us; we shall din and watch stars rise, hanging between the constellation anf the earth. As day succeeds -day., we shall pass frontiers. ' fow we are over Russia; let us make a loop and return by way of Hungary and Austria. Here is Vienna: perhaps we shall fall in with a current that will take us to Belgrade, and now that it is morning again, let us ride on this breese as far as Constantinople. Con-stantinople. We shall have time and shall find means to return to Paris." All of which reads well. But recollections recol-lections trtng-UD the "fact that Santos after all his interviews and the Srtng. ing of his airships to the World's fair in St. Louis, didnl even fly as far as the s East St. Louie stock yards. -8U11 perseverance or a good press agent Is a good thing. , |