Weekly Visitor. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. [10], Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1899 Page: 2 of 8
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cylinder is to be 774 feet in length
from cone to cone, and 144 feet in di-
ameter.
The means of propulsion are inde-
pendent of the ascensional power. It
is obtained by 32 turbines of 42 inches
in diameter, located under and ad-
hesive to the cylinder. The rudders
for steering the airship in any desired
direction consist of eight helical pro-
pellers at the front aird at the rear of
the car. ”L'ese are to be rigidly fas-
tened unde: the cylinder and to be
pivoted upon an axis at a required an-
gle. Liquefied air and carbonic gas en-
gines of 300 horse power—6 of 60
horse power each—are to be used to
work six dynamos for the transmis-
sion of electric power to the twenty-
four motors communicating with the
turbines, and forty helical propeller
rudders. It is expected that an aver-
age velocity of one. hundred miles per
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.-in Enornjus Sum Spent in j,B||
and Ke-equlpping- the b. & ()Kh
The receivership of the B®
and Ohio railroad, which has j®
to a close, was remarkable J9
ways. Messrs. Cowen and M®
not follow precedent, but we®
and placed the property in ®
shape, instead of attempting®
tain it in the condition that t®
it. Of course the receivers®
held by a majority of the secu®
ers and the court, but the JH
and Ohio receivership marked Kl
in such affairs that will be hist®
The vast sums expended were pu®
in ’96 and ’97, when trade was at a^B
ebb and megiey scarce. During the®
administration the receivers purchased^!
15,350 box cars, 6,751 wooden gondola ^B
cars, 6.000 pressed steel cars, 310 mis-
cellaneous freight cars, postal, express
and dining car equipment, at a total
cost of $17,000,000. The 216 locomotives
cost nearly two and one-half millions.
The steel rail purchased amounted to
123,010 tons, costing $2,142,152, and
there were bought over 3,000,000 cross
ties, costing $1,200,000, and 750,000
cubic yards of ballast amounting to
$525,000. The new steel bridges aggre-
gate in value $750,000, and fully as
much more was spent in improving the
several terminals, erecting new build-
ings, reducing grades and changing the
alignment. The maintenance of way
payrolls, or the amount paid directly
to men employed in making improve-
ments on the tracks, etc., in three
years was nearly twelve millions of
dollars. The total amounts to about
$35,000,000, of -which about $15,000,000
were secured by Cue issuance of receiv-
ers’ certificates and the balance
through car trusts, earnings from the
property and from the reorganization
managers. Most of the purchases of
equipment and rail were made when
material was low in price and manu-
facturing concerns were in great need
of orders to keep their plants in op-
eration. Steel rails are worth now from
$8 to $9 a ton more than when the re-
ceivers made their purchases, and lo-
comotives have advanced from $2,000
to $30,000 in price. The equipment
alone, if purchased today, would cost’
. $5,000,000 more and the other improve-
ments $1,000,000 more. President Cow-
en is authority for the statement that
the new company intends spending
$10,000,000 more in improvements in
the next year or two.
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PLAN OF THE MONSTER AIRSHIP TO BE BUILT IN NEW YORK.
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passengers merchandise
ing from 60 to 70 tons.
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“You’ve had a quarrel with your sweetheart, haven’t yot’ Rosa?
Only think, the fellow wanted to marry me just bef?re t^ie carn^*
Worthy the Office.
Mrs. Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes)
intends to offer herself for election to
the London school board when a suit-
able opportunity offers.’ She is a con-
stant attendant upon its meetings and
personally is known to most of -the
members of the board, in whose wort
she takes a deep interest.
“Yes! C •
vail.”—Jugend.
strong enough and light enough to re-
sist the enermous pressure of the at-
mosphere when exhausted of the air
within. It is claimed that an aero-
plane constructed on this principle,
when exhausted of the air from within
the cylinder, will float into the at-
mosphere and marry with it a load of
a weigh-
The vacuum
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The only system of aerial navigation
that has been successful so far is that
of inflation by hydrogen gas. This in
all its nature was not practicable as
a business proposition. The balloon is
not dirigible to begin with. It goes
with the currents of the atmosphere,
and is incapable of direction. It is in-
adequate in gifting power and in the
power of resistance under atmospheric
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the thermometer close to the cent’r-v‘
mark, Salt Lake City and its en
were being visited -with a frost vere
enough to kill nearly all the gvc'viuS’
vegetable crop.
Special Rates.
August 23rd and 24th. round trip
tickets will be on sale from all points
r-n the Houston and Texas Central
tsilroad to Houston at rates as fol-
lows: From points within seventy-
six miles of Houston, rate of one and
cme-third fares. From points seventy-
six to 100 miles of Houston, rate of
$3.00. From points over 100 miles
from Houston, one fare, not to ex-
seed $5.00.
Tickets limited to leave Houston not
later than August 2Sth,
r otu uilci « lu rOuiid T.Hjj'
tickets will be on sale from all promi-
nent points on Houston and Texas Cen-
tral railroad to Denver at rate of one
fare plus $2.00. Tickets limited to
September 30 for return. Elegant
through sleepers via the Houston ami
Texas Central.
For further information, address M-
M. Robbins, general passenger anti
ticket agent, Houston, Texas.
inessarfer
keKtoi-Qr,
lnd treatise,
tdelpliia, pa.
8100 Reward 8100.
The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been abl* to cure
in all its stages, and that is Catarrh.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure known to the medical fraternity.
Catarrh being a constitutional disease, re-
quires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, actii g
directly upon the blood and mucous sur-
faces of the system, thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing
Its work. The proprietors have so much,
faith in its curative powers. that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for anv case
that it fails to cure. Send for list of
testimonials.
Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
. r. Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Hall’s Family Fills are the best.
It is claimed notv that strawberries
as a beautifying tonic can not be
equaled. Skin specialists advocate
their use invariably. A dish of them
for breakfast every morning and an-
other at luncheon are the directions.
They contain mure iron than any
other fruit, and are particularly good
for any one suffering from nervous
ness.
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None of His Business.
A story illustrating the retireiice c
the. Scc^ii regarding their jrivOJ.- af-
fqi. - was told by iai-i ^jp-^ren when in
Bostob.. A train w-as at a railroad sta-
tion, wfipn •-> poytoi put his head into
a car and called out: “Any one in this
car for Doun? Change for Doun? Any
one for Doun?” No one moved, and in
a few minutes the train was speeding
along, not to stop again for nearly an
hour. then an old. Scotchwoman
turned to a lady sitting near her, aiiu
said: ‘Tm for Doun, but I’d no tell
that man so.”—-Youth’s Companion.
matter of recorc that Congress, not
ro very long ayu, considered a bill for
•the construction of this particular air-
ship. The committee to which it was
referred recommended the appropria-
tion of $50,000, but because a workable
machine could not be built for less
1 than $150,000, the inventor withdrew"
his proposition. Since that time the
original. ^J^f the airship has endeavor-
ks-/ interest men of means. A com-
pany has btgn incorporated at last, of
which the following are the directors:
Colonel A. C. Fisk, president of the
^Federal Supply Company; S. B. Reed,
architect; A. De Bausset, inventor;
Charles L. Pierce, life and fire insur-
ance broker; Thos. F. Donohue, build-
er and contractor; Ernest L. Squire,
secretary Inter-State Law Associa-
tion; Ambrose Sweeney, contractor.
When young Josepu was at
the high tide of wheat speculation u~
became interested in the airship pro-
ject and started East to complete ar-
rangements for beginning ’work at
once. While on the wray he received
a telegram telling him of the reaction
just that moment begun and by the
time he reached New York Mr. Leiter
had other uses for his money" than to
experiment in airships. The principle
of the De Bausset airship is absolute-
ly new, easily understood and appeals
at once to the imagination. It can be
best understood by stating a well-
known fact concerning airships. Make
a ship of iron six inches long and it
will sink in ■water. Make one sixty
feet Ions and it will float, because it
dipplaces more water than the boat
itself weighs. Take a small, hollow,
airtight cylinder, exhaust the air from
within, and it will not rise. Make a
steel cylinder eight hundred feet long,
at lease one hundred and fifty feet in
diameter, pump the air out, and,
strange as it may seem, the weight of
the air taken out is greater tb*o the
weight of ttne cylinder itself, ^or that
reason the cylinder ‘J'£ iloa^ in the
air just th" a steel ship floats
xn cneVater. Really the only problem
is to so brace the sides of the cylinder
that the pressure of the air outside
will not cause it to collapse like an
eggshell under a bootheel. Engineers
who know about such things, how-
ever, say that the inventor has over-
come that difficulty.
Many persons, no doubt, will pro-
claim the projected aeroplanes imprac-
ticable. There is no reason to be in-
credulous on this account. When the
idea of a steamship was under discus-
sion, just as the projected aeroplane
is now, many of the scientific men of
the time pronounced the scheme vis-
ionary. Among these was Dr. Diony-
sius Lardner, esteemed in his day as
the greatest scientific authority in
England. Dr. Lardner demonstrated
to his own satisfaction that no vessel
propelled by steam could cross the At-
lantic. He lived long enough to see
steamships taking the place of sailing
Beauty is Blood l)e< -
Not skin deeo-blood deep! Pv '’’'’od
means pure.health} complexion. •>-, -a,AI’
the blood pure ami ite^lthy. I'nigg11 - — „uC.
A fine of $100 may be kily unP°sed
on any boy who seeks 1’;ee a Clrc,is
by crawling under thejte.8’
"nervous,
FITS Permanently < tired. Noflt Nerve
first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s ttle a.
Send for FREE 82.00 tri. rhilac
Db. R. H. Klink, Ltd., 931 Ar__
how
ners.
A treatment highly recommended by
a scientific magazine for poisoning
from ivy is to wet a slice of bread
with water, dust it w.vh common
I/washing soda and apnly 40 the erup-
|C non. Keet-mg > <weau wet from t[,.^
ocusme. Half an hour of tni., ireat-
'inont is said to be a sure cure.
hour will be obtained, thus enabling
the aeroplane to make the journey
from New York to London or Paris in
thirty hours.
Among the consulting and construct-
ing engineers to whom the drawings
and specifications of the proposed aero-
plane have been submitted are many
scientific men of the highest standing.
Commodore George W. Melville writes
that he finds the principle and theory
of the aeroplane correct. W. H. Paine,
the eminent civil engineer of New
York, gave a similar indorsement.
Lieutenant John P. Finley, U. S. A.,
Signal Service Corps, is sententious in
closing his reply: “Mathematically
you are right,” he says. “Practically,
you must now build the ship.”
Of all the answers that of Charles
H. Haswell, city surveyor of New
York, is the most elaborate. He made
careful calculations to verify both the
weight of the structure of the proposed
airship and the capacity of its buoy-
ancy. Its volume he places at 803,017
pounds, its buoyancy at 600,897. The
weight of the structure, with the ap-
Ptnriages, accommodations, etc., ho
PUtS al' ■iT2.'77° poT-Tncla. This WOUld
leave a buoyancy for officers, crew,
' pas^ngers, etc., of 138,127 pounds. It
wil^be allowable to keep any amount
of ‘Air in reserve within the cylinder,
to be pumped out according to the
weight of the freight and passengers
in the cai- below. The ascensional
force or lifting power over all at a
complete vacuum is put by Dr. De
Bausset at 124 tons.
If the project fails it will be set
down as a madman’s freak; if it suc-
ceeds, as it may, for stranger things
have happened, the projector will be
celebrated in history as one »of the
great benefactors of mankind- and one
of the greatest geniuses of the world.
A complete ship is promised by the
time the Paris Exposition opens.
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.up to that time had been
^s of Jcean navigation.
:st amusing literature
^here are the speech-
^esmen against the
^telegraph. It is
vivid flashes of
^jlyze the pow-
navigation
dt problem
k'i was in
have formed a company to build an
airship bigger than any ocean liner
afloat. The directors are men whose
names will be recognized as shrewd,
practical business men—men who have
wealth as well as sagacity. The plans
for the airship and the principle upon
which it will be built, have been ap-
proved by engineers of recognized
standing, as well as by officers of the
United States navy. Indeed, it is a
A number of New York capitalists craft, whichW
the only meaw
Among the m<
to be found any^|
es of eminent stm
practicability of the’
surprising that the
their scorn failed to paf3|
er of electricity. Aerial
does not seem a more difficl^
in 1899 than ocean navigatim|
1839.
pressure. Whether the “■vacuum prin-
ciple,” which is tVe invention of Dr.
De Bausset, is the solution of the
problem of aerial navigation can only
be determined when his aeroplanes are
built and tried.
The lifting power and ascensional
force of the De Bausset airships is to
be obtained by a vacuum within a
cylinder of ^reat capacity. This cylin-
der is to be made of steel of the great-
est tensile strength. It must be
ay Be Built in New York—Bigger Than
■ Anv Ocean Liner.
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Gartrell, L. J. Weekly Visitor. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. [10], Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1899, newspaper, August 11, 1899; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1329954/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.