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Show ZTpi Great German Airship Inventor Was Inspired ' by the Civil War New York, Nov 7. Count Ferdinand Ferdin-and von Zoppelln. the German air ship-maker. Is planning to visit America Amer-ica some time In the next year or 1wo. according to his cousin, Hugo ven Zeppelin, who Is now In New York with his wife on the first stage of an American pleasure trip. Hugo is atfociated with tho count in his work. 'You know the count bears vivid rrcol lections of bis part In your civil war when he made his first trip In a ballooD. It was with General Carl Schurz's brigade that he had his first opportunity to ascend In a captive brilloon to fako observations of the Confederate troops. His experience !n aeronautics during your civil war brid a pood deal to do to make him develop the dirigible as an instrument instru-ment of war. "Motor troubles seem to be the breatest difficulty with the dirigible balloon, otherwise I believe every dlf-1 dlf-1 lenity has been overcome. The Zep-j Zep-j clln No 7, Is now under construction u.id I believe It will be tho greatest of all this series of dirigibles." Hugo von Zeppelin said that his cousin had no Intention of surprising America by coming across tho Atlantic At-lantic In an airship, although It was hot improbable that be would bring a small dirigible with him. The count, he added, regarded the Well-iron Well-iron attempt to cross tho ocean as an cxtremtdy hazardous undertaking Mhlch was doomed to failure before a Mart was mado. The Idea of a polar expedition by balloon, however, has a firm hold on the aged couDt and he will launch such an expedition next summer with the approval and patronage of Prince Henry of Prussia. Tho count and Prince Henry spent nearly two months rccintly Jn Spitsbergen making preparations prep-arations for the polar trip. They only teturned a few weeks ago, declaring that everything was found satisfactory. satisfac-tory. i |