Show f i j upon flank which sent the animal forward at a fast clip he strode toward his captors hands in the air he timed his approach splendidly and just as he was crossing a turn in the road which separated h from the confederate detachment his horse tal ing the longer route shot toward him his hands were in the air and they served to grip the saddle as it sped in hi direction he did not raise himself to the horse s back however for that would give the enem a LV Vf ac ff chance to pick him off he clung to the hoi be s side his body covered by the animal and in this perilous post alon dashed out of view towards the union camp too dumbfounded to fire at the animal the southern soldiers saw the count pass out of sight in the trees and nave a good by as he pulled himself into the saddle in those days the union bos knew their cavalry lieu tenant as count zep one bright april morning after the privates had fin fahed their before breakfast routine aleut zeppelin was called into gen schurz headquarters where he found a number of brother officers assembled 1 want three officers to volunteer to go up in a cap alve balloon reconnoiter recon the confederate position and spend halt an hour up there with the glasses said the general half a dozen hands flashed to a salute in an instant and zeppelin standing near gen schurz was made one jf the trio because of his fearlessness the move was a success despite the fact that the confederates did all in then power to puncture the big gas bag with shells and rifle bullets so successful vas the maneuver that zeppelin became the brigade s balloun expert and he was placed in corn mand of other air expeditions until he became fully versed in the art before resigning his officer s post when his period of enlistment ran out he made numerous ex peri mental trips and he became possessed of many ideas some of which are found in his airship the scene then shifts from the year 1864 to 1908 thousands of upturned faces along the rhine emit cheer after cheer as the count sails by in his air declared the most successful machine of its kind ever invented it tool count zeppelin many years to perfect the de tails of the dirigible which was destroyed by a bolt of lightning recently and as he looked back when working them his memory was filled with visions of his days as balloon expert in which capacity the fundamental principles of the ideas now gilt edged came to him count zeppelin Is a poor man he has exhausted his private means in attempting to ghe the world an instrument ot war and peace which will be a gibat aid in every way the airship which was destroyed cost the count and at that imperial aid was given his enterprise the entire nation contributed to the new machine and the emperor of germany himself made a contribution of five figures photographic views of count zeppelin s new crea tion cannot do it justice because of the immense size of its construction the vessel is feet in length or longer than an average city block it is 43 feet in diameter ind on the ground ou could stand on the top of the gasbag nd look into the fourth story window of a big city building jt Is a monster the biggest machine of its kind ever built it possesses the strength of horses having three motors As to speed the latest machine can cut through ether at a rate of 60 miles an hour this being a terrific rate of speed for an airship count n claims that when the trial trip Is made he will show that he can sail 3 miles without stopping and that he can carry the weight of tour men that distance the count is ca years of age and he hopes to live to see his wonderful machine the success that he has dreamed it is now his only object of living and every ciare moment is put into it santos dumont of whom we heard much a few years ago has dropped out of sight in an aerial way but here in america the scene of aeronautic enterprise was at its height during the lull in activities on the con occasion ed by the destruction of the zeppelin machine and the b of another ith hermin farman getting into action in the eastern i ai t of the united states with the wright broth ers working hard at aeronautics in france with capt baldwin of arrow tame also hard at work the summer months were well sprinkled with aerial maneuvers which drew the attention of america and the rest of the world as well then the announcement that the walter wellman aerial arctic expedition in search of the north pole will make another start next ear furnishes persons with a fascination for air traveling with plenty of gossip capt baldwin aeronaut his latest ship Is just one twentieth the size of that constructed by zeppelin the eddies of the air and counter currents hae so effect upon the machine while capt baldwin must needs put forth some method for counteracting this difficulty capt baldwin Is 54 u old and showed great energy in overcoming obstacles in his path the gov stipulations provided that his ship must be such that there would be no necessity for shifting the weight of the operator in order to maintain equilibrium so the in bentoi designed a hea sandbag apparatus wh ch was made to shift when an avei keel must be kept VI alter wellman s all ship Is second in size in the world he declares that it can easily sail from new york to buffalo detroit or even as far as chicago II 11 necessary it Is known as the america and according to mr wellman it has greater fuel carrying capacity and a larger radius of than that the count invented the total lifting capacity la 19 pounds in talking of the efficiency of his machine mr well man said of course in this country where guide roping is impracticable and tl ere are greater variations of the tern pera ture my machine would not be ot so much use as it is in the it was built for just that work and for that reason Is not adapted to other climates it the air ship is the discoverer of the north pole it will not be long before the machine becomes of practical use to the american people walter wellman s airship is far larger than capt baldwin s the latter being a little over 90 feet in length midway between the ends 0 the gas bag Is a which is 25 feet long and into which air can be pumped to counterbalance in bulk due to changes in atmospheric pressure pies sure the machine which the wryght brothers have brought out and about which wag so much secrecy when they made flights in thi country Is essentially an aero plane it consists of a tailboard which acts as a rud der and which Is manipulated by the operator lying flat and steering with his body then there is a wing aw lan are not stared at nearly so much af for merly when encountered on tho of big cities that the airship Is to be the doom ot the warship Is the absolute conviction 0 every who ever went up in a balloon or whoever saw an airship sail I 1 ast his backyard and the aeronauts themselves are so sure about it that there can be no argument with them there Is hardly a big power of the world which has not made its otter known intentions in the airship line germany the land as to its it I 1 could con contracted to pay count zeppelin P would stay in the air 24 hours a dirigible diri bible which and move around enough to keep up i breeze the united states in its contract with capt bald win signed to pay him 6 50 for a successful machine and if it el all expectations the captain was scheduled to receive a little over france has a bounty up also and nearly every country has its band of airship tara wl would snatch the purses the big nations of the world right now are engaged in an airship race which will never be equaled in war nor peace and the contest Is being waged by dipping into the national budgets heavily more money la contina ally needed to carry on the work of attempting sue acs ful flights and it Is forthcoming congress at the last session turned down a plan to put more money into the game but the scientists back 0 the experiments hope to have more success at the next meeting the activity of the french government in promoting airship tests with a view towards using the device should war break out between france and its bister pow ers gave rise to the same move in other parts of the world and today germany Is perhaps most active in the attempt to produce a serviceable dirigible the ted states then took up the quest with fair success having contracted with capt baldwin for an airship but this government it Is declared by aeronauts has not put enough cash into the project to make a high the results of capt ity of success possible upon baldwin s tests rested the fate ot other plans to secure congressional appropriations this aeronautic authorities have before them the proposition of constructing motors of steering apparatus api aratus which will stand the rigorous use given them in the air ship and when this plane la reached it is declared that the airship will become of practical use |