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1907. June 3 Monday - at Baddeck 43 Herald New York 24 Mar 1907. THIS NEW AIRSHIP TO CARRY PASSENGERS ---- A. Roy Knabenshue has at last accomplished his long cherished desire of building an airship capable of carrying passengers. The parts of the ship are all completed, and all that is now necessary is their assembling, the inflation of the enormous gas bag and--the passengers to ride. That the ship is a success is assured by Mr. Knabenshue, who says his new airship will carry at least two persons, and probably three. All that was really necessary to accomplish this end was the invention of by far the most remarkable gas engine ever built. It was easy enough to increase the size of the frame and to increase the gas bag capacity, but when it is remembered that the weight of gas engines increases in four to five and six times the proportion that their horse power does, it was not so easy to increase the gas engine capacity. This new marvel which Mr. Knabenshue has invented is a 12-horse power gas engine which weighs, complete, with fly wheel, only fifty-four pounds, or less than the average 1-horse power engine. Two of these engines developing 24-horse power, will be used for the propulsion of the new air ship and the two weigh little more than the one, half as large, which he used last year. This ship, with the five others which the aeronaut is building, will comprise the fleet with which he will tour the United States this summer. — American New York 24 Mar - 1907 KAISER TO RULE THE WORLD WITH AERIAL NAVY. ---- German Prophet Predicts Great and Decisive Battle in the Upper Skies. ---- ARMED AIRSHIPS IN COMBAT ---- Rudolf Martin's Book, Fiction Though It Is, Has Made All Europe Uneasy. ---- [cut off] much knowledge of international affairs and government. Herr Martin also has put into it a great deal of scientific knowledge, and impresses the reader with a sense of the high probability of what he foretells. Here is a summary of the great events prophesied in this remarkable book: On New Year's Day, 1910, the German Emperor makes a speech to the generals and admirals assembled in Berlin. The monarch proves conclusively that the flying machine is the peculiar privilege of Germany; that "the future of Germany lies in the air." But the speaker has counted without Japan. On October 2, 1912, Japan declares war against Russia. The Czar flies. The new of his flight reaches the Duma at 5 o'clock in the afternoon of March 15, 1913, and a motion is carried unanimously by which the house of Romanoff-Holstein-Gottorp is formally deposed and Russia declared a republic. Throughout Russia anarchy breaks out. Men of strong personality come to the front in the general confusion, the chief of them, one Nicholas Sacharoff, of Moscow, assuming the position of dictator of Russia, and in his train carries upward one General Suwaroff-adventurer and military genius in airships. Michael Suwaroff is president of the Baku Aero Club, established there because of the presence of the petroleum wells. Through the Zeppelin factories he has obtained a fleet of aeroplanes, made of aluminum. With these he plans to the invasion of China. No sooner are these plans complete-for Suwaroff traveling through the air has reconnoitred as far as Pekin-when everything is upset again by Germany's declaration of war on the Russian Republic, made on April 19, 1916. Suwaroff learns the news by wireless telegraphy [cut off] momentous afternoon [cut off] Like an [cut off] World New York 24 Mar 1907. AIRSHIP AT A FANCY BALL. ---- American Girl "Drove" It and She and Her Compatriots Were the Life of a Marquise's Party. ---- (Copyright 1907 by the Press Publishing Co., New York World) (Special Cable Despatch to The World.) Paris, March 23-It was American sprightliness and vivacity that made the Marquise de Bailleul's recent fancy dress ball the most amusing, original and elaborate entertainment of the season. The ball was given at the Washington Palace. After the more sedate guests had seated themselves the younger entered the ballroom, singly or in groups, each individual or party going through a brief, brisk character pantomime. First came Miss Baudry as a woman cab driver, earnestly inviting "fares". Then Miss Edith Harrison, Mrs. Gabriel Harrison's daughter, as the Genius of Submarines, her costume covered with these boats in tiny miniature. Much applause and laughter greeted Miss Drake, who appeared in a cigar-shaped vehicle, an airship, which instead of flying, crept feebly over the floor, propelled by a noisy motor. Miss Griffith was "Sis Hopkins" to the life and Miss Nash, as a wood sprite, gained the company's admiration. Then the orchestra played the Marseillaise and Miss Clarke, Mrs. J.B. Clarke's daughter, superbly gowned as the Empress Josephine-with "Tony" Carette, a young Frenchman, as Napoleon-made an impressive entry, surrounded by a glittering throng of ladies-in-waiting and courtiers. After a stately march before the guests, the imperial visitors vanished. They were followed immediately by a rollicking circus company. Mr. Gibson, the ring master, put the clowns through their tricks and proved that the intelligence of the savage bears, lions and hyenas was quite as human as the beings under their shaggy coats. The final performance was by a quartet of Americans, who, in Louis XV. costumes, trod a minuet in which Washington Lopp, an American dancing master, had trained them After supper everybody danced a very jolly cotillion. Mrs. George Law is busy preparing a spring wardrobe for her young sister, Miss Lucy Smith, whom she will take to England to be presented at court. Miss Smith passed the winter between this city and London, where she has relatives She never made a formal debut in New York society and goes out but little here, being in mourning. Miss Smith devotes much time to studying singing under De Reszke. George Tyler, of New York, and Harry Leon Wilson, the novelist, have gone on a three weeks' automobile trip through Italy. Mr. Tyler has bought a comedy by Wilson and Booth Tarkington called "The Guardian," which they write while at Capri. The scene is in Italy, the characters are American. The play, which contains some love songs, composed by Mrs. Tarkington, will be produced in New York next fall. — M’g Telegraph - New York 24 Mar - 1907 BIGGEST BALLOON SAILS O’ER JERSEY ---- Allan R. Hawley, of New York, and A.N. Chandler, of Philadelphia, the Voyagers. ---- LANDING NEAR ATLANTIC CITY ---- Ascension and Trip From Philadelphia One of the Most Successful Ever Made. ---- (Special Dispatch to The Morning Telegraph.) PHILADELPHIA, March 23. Allan R. Hawley of the New York Aero Club and A.N. Chandler, president of the Philadelphia Aero Club, this afternoon made one of the most successful balloon ascensions ever witnessed in this city. The landing was made safely
