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1907 June 13. Thursday at Baddeck [STRIKETHROUGH]49[/STRIKETHROUGH] 110 Journal Charleroi 25-Ap-1907 ETATS-UNIS UN NOUVEAU DIRIGEABLE Le <> a reçu une dépêche de Toledo, dans l'Etat d'Ohio, disant que M. A. Roy Knabenshne, un des premiers pionniers des Etats-Unis pour la navigation aérienne, vient de construire un moteur à gaz perfectionné pour son nouveau ballon. L'appareil revêt une forme très originale et ne pèse que 25 kilos. Sa force varie de 12 à 16 chevaux. Il fait cent tours aa1 la minute et est dépourvu de valves. Il de valves. Il suffit d'une demi-rotation pour le mettre en mouvement. Tout le moteur fonctionne à l'aide de carburateurs. M. Roy Knabenshne a déjà fait de nombreuses expériences avec les ballons dirigeables, notamment à New-York et à Toledo. C'est lui aussi qui a contourné le dôme du capitole à Washington. Times Troy N.Y. 25 Apr - 1907 All in the Air. The year is speeding away, and if the prediction that 1907 would see the problem of aerial navigation solved is to be fulfilled, the inventors must improve their time, and that seems to be just what many aspiring mortals are doing. Interest in the matter was never before so great, and it is safe to say, the number of persons engaged in experiments surpasses the record of any preceding period. England has awakened to an extraordinary degree. Inventors there have been stimulated by the offer of 10,000 pounds, nearly equal to 50,000 in American money, made by the proprietors of a London newspaper for the first aeroplane that shall fly from London to Manchester. Persistent effort is directed to securing that prize and to winning the added glory of perfecting a flying machine that will really fly. The chief obstacle, at least in the estimation of the inventors, seems to be the lack of a motor that shall be both light enough and sufficiently powerful to accomplish the work. Manufacturers are overrun with orders for such machines one concern in London alone reporting a hundred on its books. Some of these orders are from inventors who assert that their machines have made successful flights, and that extended trips are only matters of arranging certain details. All over England the craze for testing airships seems to prevail, and out of the extraordinary effort put forth there should be something conclusive as to the possibility of sustained passage through the ether by mechanical means. Nevertheless the fact remains that no one has yet claimed that $50,000 reward. On the other hand, there is growing belief in the great possibilities in that direction. Recent accounts have told of the experiments by German army officers with artillery used in firing at balloons. British army- [CUT OFF] the situation and Herald New York 25 - Apr 1907 CHURCH TURNED INTO BALLOON HOSPITAL -- And Dr. Thomas Advertises for "Experienced Balloon Seamstresses" as Nurses. -- NEEDLES WORK FURIOUSLY ON SPRING AERIAL STYLES. -- Old Washington Heights Church Rented as Repair Shop for Balloonist's Gas Bags. -- WANTED— Experienced balloon seamstresses: steady work and good pay to the right parties. Inquire within. This sign glued on the front of the old Washington Heights Presbyterian Church, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street and Amsterdam avenue, was the magnet that attracted every disengaged dressmaker in that neighborhood yesterday morning. A great many of them wanted work, but the majority were curious to know the duties of a gas-bag modiste. Here was something that wasn't in the fashion papers, and they wanted to get in right. The dressmakers learned that Dr. Julian P. Thomas, New York's leading cloud-chaser, had rented the church as a home for Nirvana, his pet balloon, and that he desired the assistance of some skilled needlewomen to sew up the rents in the bag caused by contact with the church steeples and other obstructions. Several of the stitchers qualified and were immediately put to work. All were busy when a reported for The World dropped in. If the "Help Wanted" sign on the front of the old office was incongruous, the interior of the former house of worship was doubly so. Suspended from the ceiling, abont half-inflated, the balloon looked like a huge punching-bag. The whirr of the needle drawn through the oiled silk was the only sound that broke the stillness. Spring Styles In Balloons. The forewoman had a position of vantage on the platform from which mans an earnest request for tardy pew rent had been delivered. "Do you like this better than regular dressmaking?" the reporter ventured/ "A great deal better," was the reply. "I'd sooner dress ten balloons than one woman." "Has Dr. Thomas tried on his balloon yet?" "We gave him a fitting an hour ago," said the forewoman."It was too tight across the chest. We had to let it out." "Has the style in balloons changed much from last season?" "They're wearing them a great deal higher." was the pat response. "Do you think Dr. Thomas will be able to fly this year?" the reporter continued. "I think we'll all fly if you don't get out of here and let us do our work." was the rejoinder, and the interview was closed. Busy in Basement, Too. In the basement of the church two colored men were working on the steering apparatus for Dr. Thomas's new airship, which will be 125 feet in length. The Washington Heights Pressbyterian Church was abandoned two years ago and its congregation now shares with the North Presbyterian congregation the magnificent edifice built by both churches just below the old structure in One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street. Dr. Thomas has rented the building for an indefinite period and will store his aerial apparatus there. [The following is partially cut off] PICT SHOW IN IS NG USED [image] ROSTRUM NOT THE WORK TABLE OF DR THOMAS' NEW BALLOON SHED
