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[[?]] is it a fact that the loco- [[?]] at the rear of the train?" [[madam?]] the conductor answered. [[?]] a locomotive at each end. It [[?]] to push and one to pull to get [[?]] grade.
[[?]] dear, what shall I do?" moaned the [[?]] "I'm always train-sick if I ride [[?]] back to the locomotive."
[[?]] 6 [[?]] 1907
Royal Takes Up Aeronautics
(Copyright 1907 , by W.R. Hearst.)
Vienna, Jan. 5 - Archduke Salvatore is going to furnish the funds for the construction of a new-fangled airship, made on entirely new lines, by an engineer named Loibl.  The archduke is the only member of a royal family that occasionally flies through the air. Some little time ago the emperor forbade him to take his family on these excursions.

Post Denver Col. 6 Jan 1907
LILLIAN RUSSELL ENTERS BALLOON FOR CUP RACE [[?]]
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 5.-Lillian Russell has entered a balloon in the balloon race in St. Louis next October for the Gordon Bennett cup. Lee Stevens will superintend the construction of the car. Miss Russell has also offered $15,000 for the first practicable airship to be put on the market. Roy Knabenshue is working on a car for the prize. 

Leader Cleveland
6 Jan. 1907
AIRSHIP DRIVERS' MISHAPS INSURED
London Firm Makes Good Damages Inflicted by Balloonists.
[Special Cable to the Cleveland Leader.]
LONDON, January 5.-A new form of insurance has come into being in London. The Horse, Carriage and General Insurance Company, of Victoria street, is issuing insurance policies which insure aeronauts against damage caused by their balloons.
   "Several balloonists are on our books," said one of the officials of this particular company.  "We find the accidents are few and slight, but of course if the air becomes crowded with airships we may have collisions and 'running down' cases. When that happens our premiums, which are small now, may rise-like the balloons."
   And it is being discovered also that the era of the "Air Hog" is at hand. The Stepney Guardians are endeavoring to trace the owners of a mysterious balloon which suddenly descended from the skies at Stifford, an Essex hamlet near Grays, damaged the roofs and the windows of the Stepney Children's Home there and then floated away without leaving any address to which the bill for damages might be sent.

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[[?]] 6 Jan 1907
POLICEMAN HALTS WIND-WAGON TRIP OF DR. THOMAS.
Helicopetre's Experiment Draws Too Great a Crowd of People on West Seventy-second Street.
SAIL MACHINE HAD JUST CIRCUMNAVIGATED PARK.
Scientist Sadly Stops Tests, but Cheerfully Poses Before Cameras.
   Dr. Julian P. Thomas, of West Seventy-second street and the Aero and Auto Clubs, yesterday afternoon attempted to prove that his helicopetre, or wind-wagon, which had successfully circumnavigated Central Park from East Seventy-ninth street, was capable of going to the North Pole under its own head of gasoline, but at the moment of least resistance a mounted policeman prevented a continuance of the experiment.
   Shortly after 2 o'clock a small army of newsgatherers was encamped on the front stoop of Dr. Thomas's residence. They were informed that he had left his house just after tiffin [[?]] and was now somewhere in the purlieus of East Seventy-ninth street and going strong.
   "So wait, all of you," said the physician's pretty secretary.  "I am sure the doctor would be very much displeased if you went away." 
   Presently Dr. Thomas's forty-horsepower, four-cylinder red touring car came across Seventy-second street out of the East, with his fifteen-year-old son in the driver's seat and the wind-wagon bumping behind at the end of a stout piece of hemp.
   The doctor tripped lightly up his front steps and gave an account of himself to the bosom of his family. He was attired in a nobby snuff colored riding suit, unimpeachable except for a wide grease spot between his shoulder blades in the interest of science.
   "Now, then," said Dr. Thomas, coming down the steps and glancing right and left under his Aero Club cap, "where are the newspaper men? Ah, come, all of you, over to the corner by the St. Andrew's The demonstration will be there.  You must be careful and watch every point."
Wind-Wagon's Batteries Balk.
   Whereupon without further waste of speech Dr. Thomas hied himself to the St. Andrew's corner whither the wind-wagon had been towed, and sat himself in the hear of the works.
   Grr-r-r-r-phfwitt-ftt-t; nothing doing apparently. The two mechanics on the job began to rave and babble, but the doctor besought them to be calm. In the hear of the works the doctor wore an expression not unlike that of a setting hen. Finally he extricated himself and hurried back to his house. En route he explained that the wind-wagon batteries had been jolted out of place all on the road from East Seventy-ninth street, and that it would be necessary to replace them with a set from the touring car.
   "Then," he said, "you will see a convincing demonstration. The machine in moltion [[?]] shows a displacement of 65,000 cubic feet of air per minute and a pull of 75 pounds to the square inch. It can be made to prove the dirigibility [[?]] of aeroplanes and gas bags and potentially can accomplish the dash to the Pole. If this test is a success I shall go to the North Pole wich it (make a note of that), and if it isn't I will throw it away. Come ahead."
   And so Dr. Thomas got himself back in the works again, dismissed his two [[?]] with a hand wave and was off.
   As far as West End avenue, where the machine halted again, to get going presently after all and come back to Amsterdam avenue, whence it betook itself away back to West End avenue and sat down. Somebody gave it a shove and it whirred itself once more to Seventy-second street and Broadway. Then there was the man on horseback.
Man on Horseback Butts In.
   He was young and Irish-American and bore brass buttons. He said he had no right to stop the doctor so long as he stayed within the privileges of his motor vehicle license, but that Seventy-second Street West was a parkway and there could be no demonstrations had on a parkway. And, besides, "the gent was drawing a crowd." 
   Sadly Dr. Thomas gave in.
   "All right." he said, speaking ex-cathedra, "the experiment has been a success, anyway. I'll call it off for the day." and he got out.
   On the front stoop of his house he again sounded the call: 
   "Where are the newspaper men?"
   "Here, here!"
   "Good. As you probably noticed, the latest feature of the wind-wagon is the guying of the sails with piano wires. The first time we experimented without them the arms buckled and the tremendous pressure blew the sails over the roof of an adjacent building. I forget how high the building was, but the next experiment I make will be in the country where there are no speed rules. I will let you know in plenty of time. If there are any photographers present that want to take me, I will go up to Seventy-third street and Amsterdam avenue and sit in the machine and they can snap me there." 
   Such of the photographers as went reported when they came back that man and wind-wagon were both doing 

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