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city, and they will tell you--Knabenshue, the airship man. 
The man who sailed over New York- downtown and back again- two successful flights on different days.
New York likes a genuine novelty, and Knabenshue is all of that.
He did something no other man before him ever did here- something extremely startling and daring. 
Last Sunday he sailed the Toledo No. 2 from sixty- second street and Central Park West down to Longacre Square and back again to the point where he started.
Last Wednesday he created his flight, going 5,000 feet aloft and running to Twenty-third street and back without a hitch, while hundreds of thousands looked on. Street traffic was blocked and work all over the city stopped.
A few weeks ago Knabenchue wrote an interesting article for The World about air navigation. Yesterday upon the World's request, he told what the airship of today has done and what must be done in the future to make it a commercial factor.
Quoting A. Roy Knabenshue, 'I think I may safely say, after what experience I have had, that the airship has absolutely no commercial value at the present time. Now can we expect that, as at present constructed, it will have any commercial value in the near future. Not that I set myself up as a judge who cannot err, frankly, I admit that I haven't had enough experience to give a final opinion on such a subject. But under the conditions at which we work today, the only commercial value of an