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Show J j- - i Only One Day from America to Europe in CapronTs ' 8 Propellers, 18 'X servation Parlors. TWO jnn . . J ( To-da- hydro-aeroplan- e, trans-Atlanti- h skin-covere- ses-goln- fellow-pioneer- V J ...And, i t r '0 7- y - r :: r d Ilnee.. tons and carrying more than a hundred people. And not only carrying them but caring for their creature comforts es luxuriously as If they were on land. The voyage across the Atlantic will be accomhours a day and a night plished In twenty-fou- r What the price of a New York to London or Paris ticket will be has not yet been determined. It requires a very small crew to operate an aeroplane while the labor cost of running a steamship is enormous and the fuel expenses are great Furthermore, It requires about three weeks for an ocean steamship to make one round trip while an should make two or more round trips every week. A trip to Europe by airship may prove considerably cheaper than the rates the steamship lines charge-HM- d there will te no seasickness.' weighing-twenty-fo- A 4 w t ur air-lin- er J . fleet of transoceanic liners operated from the United Statea to some European point not yet selected. The ship of the sea is the result of a long evolution. The little Phoenician galley of two thousand and mors years sgo was s great step forward from the savages, hoops of tbs first and the great clipper ship of the last century, with its hundreds of ropes and spars, was more than 2.009 years in reaching Its perfection. Tat it la less s than a generation tines Langley and bis startled the world with the first attempt at a hesvler-than-al- r flying machine, and just two years since Alcock and Brown mads tbs first transoceanic flight without atopplng. -- Mi trans-Atlanti- air-Ilner-a. Hujc Wings, Beds, ICitchens and Ob- Giant Triplane. and Lieutenant ago Captain Alcock flew across the ocean from America to Europe In It hours and 12 minutes more than 120 miles an hoar for the 1,860 miles. Their machine had two engines and two propellers, weighed only 13,000 pounds and had a wing spread of 67 feet, and provided only the simplest, most meagre accommodations and comforts. It was a test, flight to see whether man had arrived at a time In his mechanical career when he could spaa the ' ocean upon wings. on Lake Maggtore In Northern Italy, rides at anchor a gigantic flying machine built do carry 100 passengers In luxurious comfort. It is the great tripUna, tha. first and experimental model ill. c what Is expected to be a flotilla of huge Indeed, this ocean which is shown on this page, is not c air last word in the he expected to. travel, but only the beginning. Already the distinguished .Inventor, Gianni Caproni, has the blueoceangoing print plans perfected tor a air liner. The colossal mechanical bird, plctnred above, baa. a wing span of nearly a hundred feet half a city block. Unlike any other flying machine In the world It haa eighteen wings six sets of three wings each. It Is pushed through the air by eight propellers, driven by eight separate engines of 400 horse-powetch, which will give It a speed of about 100 miles. The Interior arrangements for the comfort of passengers are extremely interesting. Of course, any y -- N " v- - X In the Observation Salon of an Ocean N Air-Line- r. vehicle designed for a sustained trip of twenty-fou- r vale of about six feet arm-lik- e arrangements interhours or more must carry comforts and convensect the seats, and these, when It Is desired to make iences. Thera must be In this fly big' leviathan the partitions cutting up the berths, form combination of&ll that a sleeping car and a dining off the berth from the other seats. It is .highly deear afford, and this Mr. Capront has taken care of. sirable to provide sleeping accommodations that may Indeed, comfort and sire have been the Italian debe quickly made ready, and especially those of a signer's chief aims ever since he began construc'lng type that will not interfere with the rest of the pasaeroplanes, it being hi; contention that until air sengers, for travelling at high altitudes produces a vehicles are big enough to provide comforts comdrowsiness and a desire for sleep that la likely to overtake the most hardened aviator unexpectedly. parable with sea or land journeylngs, travel through n the air will not tin popular epough to prove a comthere are In addition tolfie (Joorway at . mercial success trap doors In the floor of the passenger salon, and , these provide recesses wherein may be stored lu Now eight engines of four hundred horse-powe- r gage eveh of the size of steamer trunks. Further each are not the most pleasant things In the world to storage space for fuel, food, and extra luggage Is hours at a time. So Mr. live with for twenty-fou- r on the upper deck between the engines. Caproni has swung two decks or cabins .from his ' located matter of heat Is a very Important one In The the the upper containing huge triplane, ponderous is equipped and the Caproni air travel, any meseveral and the the working space for engines tw-Is an electric sysOne with systems. beating chanics. tem, which will be used only In emergencies. Below this hangs the passenger cabin, fully en- The; other: generates het primarily -by means of wind-proof tram a door near the closed and entered the exhaust from the gas engines, and- this heat Is winstern, The cabin contains a great number of to the cabins through the medium of a transferred dows and Is designed to enable the passengers to much like that common in modern Observe the scenery passing beneath them with ease. . water system Further equipment include, tanks of apartments. cabin i somewhkt more than seven feet in oxygen with which to revive any passenger who may At the forward ample head-roofrom the thinness of the air at high altiend, to cmeside. Is the toilet apparatus, as complete suffer as the triplane is not designed to as that of any Pullman car,' and on the other side tudesfor although, altitude records it is not likely that the try Is a compact galley much like that of the club or oxygen tanks will be often put to use. grill- cars operatedem the railroads of the United huge triplane received lts first test on March States. From the bulkhead forming the forward wall 2 The of this year, and travelled for more than a mile of the passenger salon Xcompanlonway opena onto f tons of ballast lake with one and the compartment in the nose of the lower cabin, over the under the command of Captain Colombo. which is the chart and operating room for the three aboard, No sustained flight was attempted. If further tests pilots who with the mechanics compose the navigatsuccessful, Mr. Caproni expects to begin tite prove crew of the ing actual construction of a larger machine of the same In the passenger salon proper the'Weats are artype, which will accommodatjpns for three ranged lengthwise, and are heavily cushioned. PullInterior Fittings of an Engl.nd-to-Franco Passenger Aaroplano Which man hundred passengers and which will be the first of A type bertha are folded into the walls. At interMake Regular Daily Trips. lauroaUeul Ural BtlUla Elsbtt im head-and-fo- -- yyyw the-ster- ,r 7 'yPiH yfZK g-- - r m 'll1 i1 - ii' iAAl-- t i V- , alr-Hn- o t;! !:!b.v iX helghC'-providin- alr-llne- r. - nr I -- g one-hal- j- i.V! IMi, laitas amn Jv I?, V Jl t C T HUH ftp? V r y ' w. $ f frX' S'W Front View of the Giant Caproni Machine, Showing the PropeHers. X S W Threw-.JFonn- . |