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Show ship would be sent to the Bt. Louis exposition. lie expects every airship inventor of note to -enter the J2o,C00 contest. ; : In. Germany, France, England, Austria and Russia experts are perfecting airships for the World's fair race. American ingenuity will be pitted against the brains of every foreign inventor inven-tor of prominence, but it is a safe wager that an American will win the $25,000 prize. ' . ' , " . American Ingenuity vs. Foreign Brains. Every day develops fresh proof that the aerial icontest arranged for the St, Louis fair will be one !nf the most interesting and 4 novel exhibitions in !lhe history of the'world.- - Every great airship inventor in-ventor will be present and make an effort to win Ihe $25,000 prize." The problem of aerial navigation 'has already been solved and these experts will Itackle the one factor which stands between the aerial navigator and success, the question of gen-erating gen-erating power suflteient for the propulsion of air- : chips. Men on two continents are now experimenting. experiment-ing. Capt. Debureux, French army engineer, and Count St Victor, aeronaut, have just arrived in Tunis to make preparations for flying over the Sahara In a monster airship! They, expect to start from Gabes, a small port one hundred miles to the sonth. The paraphernalia has gone ahead, and as soon as all arrangements are; completed they will legin their journey with the first favorable wind, making an effort not to land until the Senegal, West Africa, is reached. Capt" Debureux explained hi.s plans "and expectations: "This is not a sportlike sport-like undertaking. We will try to survey the territory terri-tory for the railway that some day must cross the Fahara. We expect to be gone six' or seven days. On the seventh or eighthday we ought to strike some settlement on the Senegal. The average velo- itv of the wind in the Sahara is about twenty-two miles per hour. This is the basis of our calculations. calcula-tions. We are in constant communication with the weather bureaus along the African coast and in Europe, so as to be fully informed before we start While-we are gone we-will keep up communication - lib Tunis and Algiers by carrier pigeons. The 1 ' have been perfectly trained, and we antici-i! antici-i! 1 :t results from that mode of news dis-.'' dis-.'' Cj.it. Dvljureux also said that his air- |