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1907. January 29. Tuesday at Baddeck

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[[Su??]] Philadelphia 
10 Nov. 1906.

Old-World Chitchat,
By Henri Chevalier.

The Kaiser Prize for the Balloon-Automobile Race.
An epoch-making event in the motoring and aeronautic world was the race in Berlin [[last?]] month for which the Kaiser gave a [[magnificent?]] prize, a silver balloon, environed by a [[??]] golden network. Two silver figures, representing the earth and the air, cling [[to the??]] net and fight for the possession of the airship. The base, basket and anchor are all silver.

The event was doubly important because it also marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Berlin Society for Aerial Navigation, an organization which has done perhaps more than any toward solving the problem of steering through the air. Cablegrams gave the details of the exciting contest for speed between the balloons and automobiles. The first prize was won by M. de la Croix, Secretary of the Imperial Automobile Club, who caught up with the balloon of Lieutenant Colonel Schoop in 24 minutes from the starting time. All the other balloons outdistanced the autoists, five of whom, however, received silver medals for being respectively next in speed to the motor of M. de la Croix. The race was of high significance in connection with the experiments in military airships and automobiles which have been conducted of late in the German army.

Count Zeppelin has succeeded in navigating the air over Lake Constance with his new airship, and has earned the admiration of the world in general and of aeronauts in particular by winning a victory over the elements in the face of failure pecuniary and experimental.

Count Zeppelin is to-day the happiest man in Germany and is convinced that the day of practical air navigation is at hand.

"I am satisfied," he said to a Berlin [[Tage??att]] reporter, "that I have but pointed the way and that other and better constructed airships are now sure to come.

"Not so very long a time will elapse," continued the Count enthusiastically, "before travelers of the sky will make the trip from Berlin to London in 22 hours--22 hours of splendid experience and unending excitement."

The success attending this most recent essay was striking. For two hours the Zeppelin airship navigated the air at an average rate of 25 miles an hour, mounting to an altitude of over 1,000 feet and then gliding down until it almost touched the water, circling round in graceful curves and giving every proof that it was under complete control.

The new Zeppelin airship consists of a framework of aluminum subdivided into 16 compartments, each containing a complete gas balloon, made of oiled cotton. The total length of the vast columnal structure is 420 feet and is 88 feet wide, the motive power being supplied by two Daimler motor engines each of 83-horse power, each weighing 800 pounds. All told the airship contains 40,800 cubic feet of gas. The exterior framework is covered with tightly woven hempen cloth.

The father of 33 children obliged to spend his old age in a workhouse. This is the sad story of John George Stratton, as told to the authorities in London. Stratton, who is 99 years of age, and his third wife, who is 67, are inmates of the Selly Oak Poorhouse. His 33 children are scattered all over the world and none is in a position to assist him.

This champion of anti-race suicide was born in Chatham, just a year after the battle of Waterloo. He married in London at the age of 20 and his first child was born two months after Queen Vivtoria ascended the throne. The first of the 33 children was a girl, who is now 69 years of age and lives in London. [[Heratton's??]] youngest child is 24.


American New York
11 Nov. 1906.

"Air Will Be Full of [[Fly??]] in Ten Years," Says [[S??]]

The wonderful airship constructed by M. Henri Deutsch, whose [[prize??]] to Santos-Dumont for a successful flight in an aeroplane.

Winner of the Deutsch Prize Confronted by Monster Rival of the Air.

Paris, Nov. 10. - "Ten years from now the air will be full of people flying about, just as ten years ago the roads were full of people pedaling about on bicycles. Airships will be much cheaper than automobiles, and consequently will be within the reach of more people's purses."

Such is the statement made to an American correspondent by M. Santos-Dumont, in the role of prophet and philosopher.

The Brazillian aeronaut is a very proud and hopeful man since his capture of the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize of $10,000 for a successful flight in a flying machine built on the heavier than air principle.

"I believe my success," he continued, "was due to my having varnished the canvas of the wings. By making the wings impenetrable to the air I can greatly reduce their surface, and I am convinced that when I shall have perfected this machine I can reproduce it in much smaller proportions, so that the day is not far distant when everybody who likes can have [[an??]] flying machine, and it will be no more trouble to stable than an automobile."

This, by the bye, is the second prize won by M. Dumont, he also having won the Deutsch prize for dirigible balloons.

M. Henri Deutsch, the millionaire oil king of Paris, whose prizes have been won by Santos-Dumont, has gone in for building dirigibles himself, and his new balloon Ville de Paris is the queerest looking airship which has ever been seen under French skies.

The Ville de Paris, which has been built according to plans drawn by M. Suroof and the late Colonel Renard, is three times as large as the celebrated Lebaudy Jaune, and measures 186 feet in length and 31 feet maximum diameter, with a capacity of nearly 30,000 cubic feet. The 60-horsepower motor is of German make and extremely heavy.

It bears a series of curious sausage-like proturberances in the forward part, which are intended to give the balloon stability. The criticism is made that they show a tendency to overweigh, with the result that the balloon is likely under certain circumstances to bend in the middle and thus bring the motor in dangerous proximity to the gas chambers.

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