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Show 'seadrome,' is now under construction and will be completed for use next year. It will be placed somewhere between be-tween New York and Bermuda and will be put to acid test that will . rU Ir-rroine almost entirely the future (,f the trans-Atlantic airways and air trail. ); ri. Just how significant the -iKfOKs tf this seadrome will be may : bs determined when we consider that ; the greatest hazard and obstacle to trans-oceanic transport has been the i great distance that must be traversed j without refueling, motor inspection, I weather reports, or any of the other services that have made land flying I commonplace and reliable, i "From a world point of view, the establishment of airways over the ! ocean is of supreme importance, for ' it will exercise such a far reaching influence on international trade and the comity of nations, much more far reaching than continental airways in universal effect. The economic need for trans-oceanic airways is a well established "fact, taking into consideration consider-ation the saving of time and money and the increasing air-mindedness of civilized peoples. It is an inevitable step in the development of air travel and because of this fact the best brains of the most progressive nations, na-tions, vast sums of money have been put to a solution of the problem of ocean travel by air. Human life has been sacrificed in the effort to further fur-ther advance aeronautical knowledge. And it is a safe guess that before many years the science will have developed de-veloped amazingly, even to a point of commercial practicability and economic econ-omic soundness. "The floating islands will be anchored an-chored along cables to the ' ocean floor. The cables are similar to those being used in the construction of the Hudson River bridge. The anchors, specially des;gned, will permit the seadrome to pivot in the wind without with-out fouling." WAY STATIONS ON OCEAN NEXT STEP IN AIU TRAVEL. ! The next step in air travel across I the -ocean will be the construction of I way stations or floating islands, on j the bosom of the sea itself. These way stations will be great seadromes with hotels and refueling facilities, and it is thought that they will make trans-Atlantic flying more comfortable comfort-able and far less hazardous. In an interesting in-teresting article about these ocean-I ocean-I way stations in the current issue of ' the National Republic, Lucy Salamanca Salaman-ca says: "When Colonel Lindbergh arrived in Paris after his historic flight, he wrote: 'To my mind, proper metero-i metero-i logical observation and reports about conditions over the Atlantic are the first essentials in any development of trans-Atlantic flying. These 'reports can be obtained only by having regular regu-lar water stations along the ocean route, with full meteorological and other kinds of equipment to give service ser-vice and help to airmen.' The Colonel, commenting later on the possibility of mid-ocean stations said: 'In my opinion, future Atlantic crossings will be made as long runs on railroads are j made today. In other words, there will lie floating islands where planes i may land, reship their mail, cargo and passengers into a fresh plane with a ! new pilot who will take off for the next point.' ! "The first such floating island, or |