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Show I AIRSHIPS OVER OGDEN. "Word has been received from Chicago of an aerial passenger line , to operate daily between New York and San Francisco. "What seemed to be a wild dream twenty rears ago is about to be realized. The man who, when Prof. Langley's machine fell inJLo the Potomac river, would have predicted the convejing of passengers passen-gers by airship across the continent would have been looked upon as a dreamer of things absurd and beyond attainment. But aerial navigation no longer is in the realm of fancy. "Within the week Ogden has been visited by a government official of-ficial mapping out an air mail route from ocean to ocean, and now commercial concerns are building airships as the first move in the carrying out of plans to fly with human freight across the plains, over the mountains and down to the ocean side. If, when the pioneers were on that long hike in 1847, they had turned their eyes heavenward in their dailj devotions, and an aeroplane aero-plane had sailed out of the clouds, the sight would have been startling start-ling in the extreme and the appearance attributed to anything but human power. Since 1847, the trail of the pioneers, which was a cloud of dust in the long ago, has been traveled by stage, by passenger train, by automobile, and now the airplane regularly is to fly over the route. - Man no longer is chained to earth. |