Show edson ed son and the airship judging from mr edison s recent birthday manifesto his friends should labor with him earnestly on the subject of airships to those who have faith in the unimpaired powers of the modern wizard and take no stock in the notion that he has shot his bolt as a worker of marvels it would appear that all that is needed to insure the speedy advent of the long dream ed of eia of aerial travel is to con vince mr edison of the utility of starting it mr ed son was 60 years old recently in the course of some occasional remarks on his own career and his plans for the future he inci dentally expressed his belief that in time we shall have airships sailing 50 feet or so above ground along the lines of our roads avoiding conflicts in the air in this waa if added the inventor am enter musingly I 1 could convince myself that the airship would mould prove useful I 1 would have a try at it my self mr edison who we trust has not yet struck 12 as an inventor should have a try at it there should hould be no doubt whatever of the varied utility of the arrival of the d risible airship as a fashionable and practical mr maans aris of pleasure dl loco motion for instance suggests the milwaukee sentinel the advent of a real airship craze must at onca once allm binate hom to the great advantage of the sport the trade and the innocent bystanders that danger ous class of scorchers and feather brains generally who would eagerly betake themselves to the new fad as something particularly novel excle sive and spectacular by transfer ring their breakneck operations fr from om the public highways to the ambient air a great source of vexation and peril would be removed let mr edison go ahead and make some amend amends for or the musical phonograph |