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Show I GERMANY BUILDING: SUPER - ZEPPELINS i "FOR FLIGHTS TO I AMERICA! i i V JK SlPPO Germany is building super-Zep-pelins for trans-Atlantic flight. " On a record long-distance flight, in November, 1917, a .Zeppelin flew from Jamboli, in Bulgaria, to Khartoum, in Egypt, and return, a distance of 1030 miles, in 96 hours. This machine had a gas space ' Ql G7.000 cubic meters (87.G34 cubic yards). The now super-Zeppelin which i now bulldlpg has a gas capacity of l 00.000 cubic meters. it will have nine engines and eteht'propellers It will bo more than S00 feet in length. This super-Zeppelin will cost nearly $1,000,000. It will have n carrying capacity of J00 passengers and 45 tons of mail and baggage and 30 tons of Petrol, oil and water and provisions. provi-sions. I The first machine for the trans- : Atlant.c service is to be completed I In July. Hotel Men's Exposition in Madison Square Garden. Among the devices shown at the exposition were a waiterloss table, an automatic oven .and potato frying fry-ing machine, iceless ico cream freozer, a soup clarifier, a vacuum ash remover, a dish washer grease salvager antl an automatic "button" "but-ton" service. oo |