Show I NEARBY AND YONDER t s Off aa the Beaten Path to Un Unusual Unusual usual Places and Things 4 It Dy By 0 T T. T T. MAXEY t l. l tt Ii Our Giant Airship BarnO BarnON Barn Ba O ON OS V TUB THE prairie near Mar hIle ill above 8 the valley 1 of the m i PI 11 l river miles east of fit St loul Is Scott lott field Tills This Is I. Uncle Cache Sams Sam's I Army air base blue and air pilot school 8 It Here re on one is Introduced to what un nn questionably must b be the tile worlds world's record rec rec- ord ord lI bars barn This giant hangar hangars hangarIs Is s feet teet long ICO IC feet wide and feet cot high Its Hit ponderous steel forced and counterbalanced concrete di door or together with their electrically electrically- 1 control controlled lI and nOlI i tracks are said to weigh tons tOilS per pair there U Is one pair at either cither end Hid and require six sir minutes to open Tho Thu catwalk In hi this barn hurn for tor airships airship's U Is shout I O H feet o the flout u u m man inch II sw swaying 11 on oo It II nome somewhat hat resembling a 8 spider lu Iu a 0 web eb Hero lIere one also tees secs many II II sorts of ot aircraft neri aeroplanes dirigible and semi dirigible airships as well an as supplies sad and repair purls parts lu In abundance mind variety Nearby r Is a n group of ot warehouses vs In hl which are stow stocks of stir lr materials ready ready for tor UlI any emergency le which might pen pea along alous unexpectedly To 10 this great central air base many of Uncle Sn Sams Sam's ins in's air pilots ore are sent font for tor training It ln hating ing pained gained the rt reputation lion tion of ot being leing the hardest au and 1 most h all air school in the world Tho Thu barrack lu storehouses l gas tanks era hous houses housos 4 and cover u a quarter of If a n sec lIec lion tion Headquarters Headquarters' staff faculty and I students I II commissioned 1 officers und and enlisted men ar are nil u l under er the command com cont mand of a u high of ot tha lee ther service |