Show STEEL AND SHIN dr expects to visit the north pole next summer york run dr arthur decausse Deb ausse it of chicago president of tile transcontinental aerial navigation Corn seel ill the city placing A contract fr to be used in the mammoth airships 3 which lie proposes to built each of these will be feet long ond feet in diameter they ill do cone shaped and made of steel the vesse a will cost 8 00 and it is the intention to build several of them dr debeausset Deba is the inventor of the aeroplane sero plane as he calls it he says it is ajo longer an experiment buta success and that during the present year lie will start on ft e of discovery all balloons constructed here tolore said lie been of silk or acine fabrie fed lis a substitute therefore and inflated with badro gen illuminating gas instead of gas I 1 shall simply use nothing but a vacuum which is 1 abter even than pure hydrogen I 1 fily drogen ii only one fourth the weight of air add coal gas only one half why use cither when by out the air a vacuum will he produced then thre will be no weight to carry the cesiel and its attachments it is the atmosphere pressure pree sure which I 1 have to contend with principally ill this vacuum I 1 shall build my air ship of elect plates so thin as to al ess in the aggregate than the solaced sp laced and yet strong enough to withstand the pre sture without th 2 inventor says fu arther that lie ex acts to develop it breed of nu cs p e r hour the with air ships of tills kind lie think could fleets if the world away from the cost the aerial chipi need only be loaded with dynamite shells which could be dropped oil the enemies vessels |