DIET AND
HEALTH
By DR. J. T. ALLEN
Foot! Specialist
Author of "Eating for a
Turposc," "The JVetv
Gospel of Health."
Etc.
"77 DIET CURE."
(Conllnuci!.)
You cntmot go (o ohurcli or tlio
opera, especially In the winter, when
less nlr and light arc admitted, with
out admitting Into your air passages,
enough genua of consumption or of
pneumonia or other germ diHoaso, to
Bend yon to tho grave, If the vitality
of the blood In ho low um to allow
thoiio disease germs to multiply ho fur
an to develop the dlsonso In vlrulont
form.
Many of uh have had coiiHUinptlon
ho far Htnrted, without knowing It,
that pout mortem uxnrnlnntlon of our
lungs would show that smtill colonies
of the tuberculosis germ had Htnrted
their work of destroying tho lung tls
Hue hut had been overcome by the
natural derenslvo powers of the Bys
teni And thin nppllcH to nearly every
other disease How often we read of
death from thu Hcrntch of a pin or a
nail, becatiHC tho blood wub In bad
condition, tho defentum weakened!
Some modern medical pblloHophorH
hold that tho vitality 1h In tho uervoH,
thnt, therefore, tho Hocret of health
Hcr In keeping tho uervoim HyHtem in
order, and that, consequently, euro
depends upon toning tho nervous ays
tern, which thoy aim to do by soothing
rlrllirtl In- tnntitnl ftifinmtntt nlnn.
trlclty, by change of nceno or by rest,
or nil of thcBo.
It Ih true thnt all tho physical func
tion!! nro controlled by tho mind, with
tho nerves uh conductors of Bonsntlon
carrying Impressions from every pnrt
of tho body to tho spinal column uud
tho brain, and carrying messages from
tho brain and spinal column to ovory
cell In tho body, with tho sympathetic
nerve system directly controlling tho
vital processes digestion, pulsation,
etc., subject to suggestion from tho
objective mind, which is constantly
going on while wo nro awake every
thought, ovory mental picture lnlluonc
ing tho body, sometimes so poworfully,
as In fright, ns to cuubo death; but
tho nerves are as poworless to act, of
themselves, as are tho wires from n
battery to produce n current. -Thoy
must bo chnrged from tho dynamo, tho
brain, and thnt requires a galvanic but
tery, with tho blood uh Its liquid; and
tho quality of tho current must de
pend, largely, upon the qunllty of tho
liquid, thu blood. UhIobs tho neccs'
sary olemonts nro supplied to thu
blood and tho waste romoved doatli
must, in time, ensuo. Poisoned blood
will no more support Ufa than will
worn out liquid supply life to a bat
tery. It is importnnt, Indeed, to treat tho
nervous system, and profound knowledge-
of physiology and of psychology
aro necessary to do this wisely, but
tho material vital supply must eoinu
from tho food, Proper feeding is tho
prime condition of a sound norvoua
system. Let u child bo 1)1 nourished,
pre-natal, or post-natal, and you
liuvo a weak, "nervous" child,
but feed n child well (avoid
ing tho nlmost utiiversnl orror, loo
much food) nnrt It Is vlgorotm in every
way.
"Cold" in n form of congestion, ns,
Indeed, ovory dlsouso In, in a sense,
congestion; resulting, primarily, from
bad feeding, Including dofcctlvo elim
ination, Diligent searchers after (IIsouho
germs have nt length discovered a
germ to go with pneumonia, tho grip
and, as was to bo expected, with each
kind of "cold," a great variety. Now
germs play a very Important part In
tho causation of disease, a part as im
portant, at least, as tho common house
fly plays in tho cnusatlon of tilth, It
Is worthy of nolo, that tho typhus
fovor germ hns almost disappeared,
becuuBo tho degree of tilth necessary
to entertain that festive bug has been
relegated to a soml barbarous ago.
Tho blood is circulated through
every tissue by tho vital Impulse of
tho norvoun system, which controls
tho expansion uud contraction or tho
heart and the arteries, us it controls
ovory other vital function. If tho torn
peraturo of tho body- bo suddenly low
ered, contraction or tho minute blood
vessels at tho Hurfuco or tho body re
sults, driving tho blood inward and
away from tho extremities.
Now If tho circulation Is free and
easy through all tho tissues, if the
system Is not clogged by tho wusto
from Imperfoctly digested food, and if
tho norvouB energy Is high, uud not
abnormally sensitive, tho balance or
tho circulation and norvo supply aro
easily restored, but If tho circulation
Is sluggish and vitality low, a more or
less permanent congestion results; wo
have a Blight or u sovoro "cold," show
ing chlofly lu tho heud, tho lungs, thu
throat or congesting tho kidneys and
precipitating rheumatism, If tho sys
tem Is predisposed to rheumatism by
improper food and sluggish circulation
or, if the vitality is very low, as in
tho aged or tho inobrlnto, pnoumonln
may result, evon without any record
of a distinct chill, or, If there is an
hereditary predisposition to consump
tion, that dread disease may galu a
foothold,
The blood thus leaving tho surface
of tho body, tho pores or tho skin arc
moro or less closed, .ind tho work or
the skin, which is to throw ofT a largo
part of tho wasto of tho body, Is im
posed upon tho lungs and tho kidneys.
Tho functioning of tho nervous system
is also unbalanced, which contributes
to the same result. The action of the
interior akin, thnt Is, the mucous lin
ing of the nlr cavities, and of the ali
mentary tract, Is disturbed, on account
of sympathy with the outer skin; it is
congested. The lining of tho interior
of the body Is but a continuation of
tho outer skin. It Is for those reasons
thnt there Is nn extraordinary dis
charge of mucus, often goneral, when
one Is Buffering from cold, and, with
the extraordinary congestion, closing
tho pores of tho skin, to n largo ox
lent and tho IncronHod waste of tissue,
duo to rover, the urine contains more
waste.
The purpose or tho rever In to burn
up the wnsto matter In the systom; it
Is n natural curative process, and to
"cure" the rover except by doing tho
same thing that nature Ih doing by
the fever and thus render the fever
unnecessary to stop or lower tho
fever by quelling It with nnti-fobrllo
drugs is always to combat the cure,
and Ih Homotlmes extremely danger
ous, ns In pneumonia In a vigorous,
full-blooded mnn. Wood-lotting, a
therapeutic agent now relegated to a
barbarous age, though ofton "Indi
cated," Is far more scientific thnn that
but Inck of spaco forbids an Interest
ing explanation here.
To stop a cough by drugging Ih
cquully Irrational, as a rule. Tho
cough Is a curative measure.
If the fire bell were to sound on u
cold night in a hotel where ovory
guest knew that a quick run down n
long, cold hall, would bring him to a
sure place not warm, but Bnro row
or none would "tako cold" by making
the run and back immediately, bare
root and protected only by n night
robe, (oven though thoy might en
counter millions of Inlluonzu and pneu
monia germs on the way), but let a
dozen of the Hiinio people discover on
awakening quietly, that thoy must
walk through that snmo long hall,
barefoot, anil protected only by a night
robo and many or thorn will contract
cold, one tonsllltls, another Influenza
and perhaps one (a senile Inebriate)
oven pneumonia. Almost every reader
must have seen tho proor of this, so I
shall pass at onco to tho conclusion:
Don't fear that ovory drart will glvo
you cold; set your mind against taking
cold, but don't chooso to sit In u drart.
Koop moving when you nro exposed to
an unusual degree or cold; tenso mind
and muscles, wulk fast. Thu atmos
phero In lll-ventllnted rooms Ih poi
soned and tho system Is far moro like
ly to bo overpowered thon by oven n
slight draft than It would bo In cold
but pure nlr lu tho opou. No poison,
no "cold," no pneumonia, oven at 20
bolow zero, with the ears and lingers
freezing. Grip, or common Influenza
Is "catching" In a poisoned, "closo"
ntmosphero, and where It Simla lodging
in n body laden with poisonous matter
from unexcrctcd waste or suporlluous
rood, It may become firmly established
and lead to serious conscquonccs. Tho
gurmH or Influenza, consumption, or
pnoumonla aro always nt hand, like
vermin, rendy to porrorm their ofllco.
Thoso who hold to tho theory that
thu gorm Ih the prime cuuso of cold,
say that a draft or wot feet or a
drenching cold ruin, may bo Ignored,
H wo can only avoid tho germs, but it
Is a physiological fact that extreme
bout und cold affect every living or
ganism, oven when conditions nro
otherwise normal. I formerly BiilTored
much from tonsllltls, but not slnco I
understood and applied tho theory of
osteopathy, that disease Is duo to In
terference with rrco circulation of tho
norvo energy and thw euro, "tako off
tho pressure," that is, relievo tho con
gestion a theory that Simla usorul ap
plication often, even though It Is only
part or tho truth. Osteopathic treat
ment Is especially Indicated In pneu
monia ovou where there aro no "bones
to set" and nsldo rrom massage, which
In also benellclul, but It is no more
wise to treat pnoumonla by osteopathy
alone than to tront it by drugs alono
or by "science" alono.
An old phyHlclan says that ho Iuih
noticed, ror many years, thnt pneu
monia sets lu more frequently at tho
beginning of tho week, than nt tho
end. This Is undoubtedly because peo
ple as a rulu eat moro heavily on Sun
day, so that tho vitality Is moro ab
sorbed In eliminating wasto matter,
leaving less to resist tho attacks of
dlseaso ami also because, In winter
and spring, peoplo aro more indoors
on Sunday.
Somo authorities name among tho
predisposing onuses of pneumonia, un-dor-roodlng.
Mnnirestly tho prime
cause Is dereetlve nutrition, with ex
posure as tho existing cause and thu
germ as thu Incidental or secondary
cause. Improper feeding, most fre
quently eating too much or outing tho
wrong food, Ih usually tho prime fuc
tor In the mal nutrition predisposing
to pneumonia or "cold." Tho statistics
show also that pneumonia, which Is
second lu death-dealing power only to
consumption, becomes gradually moro
rroquont toward the closo or winter
and spring when people oat most
heavy rood and least fruit nnd aro
most Indoors and subject to sudden
changes of temperature, (March, April
and May, when tho weather Is most
changeable, showing tho largost bar
vest of death), and that tho fewest
deaths occur lu July and August when
tho weather is least changeable, when
most fruit and least muut are eaten
and peoplo are most lu tho open nlr.
Iiccause 1 have not spaco enough to
glvo tho natural treatment for pnou
moula, and bucausu it Is advisable til
ways to have a physlcluu, in serious
cases, whoso Instructions should be
followed Implicitly, 1 shall glvo only
(lie treatment which will apply to any
form of cold, and to tho initial stago
of pneumonia,
This treatment Is clearly Indicated
by a proper understanding of tho truo
causes of cold or congcstlvo chill, In
cluding pnoumonla, and by a proper
understanding of tho effects or such
chill and the means by which naturo
can be assisted in restoring tho nor
mal condition thnt Is, tho condition
in which all tho powers of nutrition
nre performing their rospccllvo rune-
tloim naturally, tho condition of health.
The essential primary factor in tho
causation of common cold, consump
tlrn and pnoumonln, Ih dorectlvo feed
ing and It must follow that tho natural
diet, simple hut nourishing, is tho
most important means of prevention,
I know a mnn who enn brenk tho Ico
in the river In winter, and tako a
plungo bath and bo none the worno tho
ncx day. If tho average healthy man
were to fall off a city brldgo and break
through the Ico, tho danger would be
not pneumonia but tho result of the
mental nnd physical shock, if ho were
quickly landed without physlcnl Injury,
and immediately run to nn ndjrtccnt
hotel nnd have a brisk rubbing with
a Turkish towel, and then dress nt
once, and fcol that ho was nono tho
worse, tho effect would probably bo
tho snmo as In tho case or tho man
who voluntarily can tako n rlvor buth
In January, but lu no enso Is this ad
visable. It lndleiitcs, however, like tho
exumplo of tho hotel guests, an Im
portant means of proventlon, which
everybody should follow In vnrylng de
grco according to ago and strength, In
winter, it also indicates tho serious
mlstukc of preparing for a cold, grip,
or pneumonia, by hugging tho stove
continually or remaining closely In an
Ill-ventilated, dark, Btenm-heated, car
peted room. Tho temperaturo of tho
looping room should not bo abovo 50.
It is best to breathe out-door air,
whethor ono Is In average health or
Buffering from pneumonia.
Tho farmer's boy who CO years ago
saw the Htars shining through tho root
when he nwokc In tho morning after a
sovoro storm In Fobruary, with a
blanket of Bnow around him, was not
nddlctcd to catching cold as much an
wo who think wo must henr tho steam
hlSBlng beroro wo vonturo to expose
our hands or root.
On awakening In a temperaturo or
30, wo can nt lonst bo sure that al
though tho noso and enrH may reel
cold, there Ib no danger of catching
cold. Tho Indian, naked why ho did
not catch cold Uko tho whito mnn,
Bald, "Mo nil face." If wo can extend
this Immunity to tho nrniB, then to tho
bj?s and then to tho entlro body, and
mnlntnlti It, wo shall have a permanent
defense ngainst tho exciting cause of
"colds" including pnoumonla.
Rub the arms, alternately extended,
uncovered, vigorously, ror flvo min
utes, thon neck and chest. When a
glow luiB boon induced in tho upper
pnrt or tho body, jump from bed and
begin to rub tho legs, vigorously, alter
nately, with tho hands, till a glow has
been secured, all tho time breathing
dcop and fast. Next begin to rub
briskly tho trunk In ovory part that
cun bo reached, going to tho extremi
ties when a tendency Ib folt to chill,
thus keeping tho circulation equal
ized. Follow ten minutes of this
exorcise with movements exorcis
ing ovory musclo In tho body,
Hushing tho Bmnll arterloB in ovory
tissue. Then bogln with a wot
towel, rubbing vigorously tho extremi
ties nnd thon tho trunk, llnally removing
the robo and ending with a dry Turk
ish towel rub. This may tako 30 min
utes, but It will bo tho most prolltablo
Investment of tho day. It muy requlro
weeks' or months' gradual approach In
a mild tomporaturo before this full
program can bo carried out in a freez
ing tomporaturo but tho effort will bo
repaid many times. With a wnlk of
live miles dally, this will supply Ideal
physical exercise and bo an lusurnnco.
against disease, It tho proper food is
eaton and tho mentnl conditions right.
Hut If these provontlvo measures
aro neglected, tho nutrition Ib bad and
a sovoro chill takos place, threatening
perhaps pneumonia: Fresh air llrst,
the colder it is tho quicker it will
bum off tho waste, rellovo congestion
and glvo ltfo to tho blood by furnishing
oxygon. Kmpty tho nllmontary canal
as quickly and completely ns possible,
by emetic, (If a meal hns been eaten
within two hours) cnemnand rhubarb;
Btop eating till you aro sure that nor
mal conditions have returned, resum
ing with acid fruit, fresh if possible,
after ono or two days or longer In
sorlous cases. Sit with tho leot In hot
wator up to tho knees for half an hour,
adding hot water as tho bath cools.
When tho stomach sottlcs, drink as
much lemonade (no augur) as possible.
While sitting with tho feet In bath or
reclining have a cold puck about tho
head and neck. Have thorough mas
sage and osteopathic treatment nnd a
vapor bath nnd, In ordinary cases, no
cold or pneumonia will dovclop.
Don't yield to the Inclination to eat
ravenously; the appetite Is not natural,
There Is a rapid burning up or wasto
matter, but that should go on without
Interruption, whorons n heavy meal
will Interfere with the cure. "Feed u
cold and you'll starve a fovor" t later),
tho popular maxim should read.
Fovor Is a bonollclal process; It Is
nnturo's house cleaning, To stop It
by depressing the action or tho heart
Is always wrong, ofton fatal.
Tho high tomporaturo, as lu pneu
monia Ib prolonged by tho poisonous
matter gonorated In tho blood by tho
pucumo coccus pneumoniae, the spe
clllo germ of lung rover, degonoratod
blood being rapidly poured lu upon tho
heart, but to refrain rrom adding rroBh
poison by eating when tho stomach
cannot digest and to keep the ali
mentary cuunl clean and clear and to
furnish plenty pure nlr at tho lowest
temperature to burn off thu wasto in
the blood and vivify It with oxygon
this is simple but effective, ulwuya.
NEBRASKA. NEWS AND NOTES.
Itemo of Interest Taken From Here
and There Over the State.
Sheriff Dauman of Dodgo county, re
ceived a telogram from tho sheriff
at Rochester, N. Y., to hold Rainbodt,
alias Davis, tor forgery.
Mrs. Anna Jenkins, or Clearwater,
waB beroro tho board of Insnnity In
Antelope county, and committed to the
Norfolk asylum.
An electric light franchlsu was
granted by tho town council of Scotta
Bluff to Clnronco J. Morley of Denver
and James C. Calno of Salidn, Colo.
Tho now Christian church at Fair
field was dedicated last Sunday. It
takeB ho place of tho building de
stroyed by cyclone in Juno last. Tho
Htructtiro cost $25,000.
Tho Stato Railway commission is
sued nn order permitting tho Auburn
Tolophono compnny to charge $1.25
for Individual Bcrvice, tho rormer rato
being $1 for Individual service at first.
A. Benjamin of Arapahoe, had a pub
lic sale of a car of mules lu Humboldt
which averaged bettor than $405 por
Bpan, tho highest price pnld for ono
span was $500.
Tho grain growers' association of
Ncbraskn, Kansas and Oklahoma havu
chosen Hastings as tho headquarters
for tho organization and have opened
their rooms there.
It is reported thnt a proposition Ib
being considered by tho Union Pacific
whorcby another motor is to bo udded
for tho mn between Beatrice nnd Lin
coln. An express car on tho west bound
Burlington train caught fire while tho
train was between tho towns of Chalco
and .Gretna and burned, with practical
ly all its contents.
Tho Hygienic dnlry at Falrbury was
broken into by burglnrs, but tho bur
glars found themselves locked in the
rofrlgcrator artcr gaining Ingress to
tho building nnd were unable to go
rurthor.
A telegram wns received In Nebras
ka City telling or tho death of Miss
Anna McMoachen at Kansas City,
whero sho has been 111 for some time.
Tho docenacd was ono of the pioneer
Bottlers of Otoo county.
At tho front door of tho court house
In Plntlsmouth Attorney C. A. Rawls
sol dnt reroreo's salo 101 acres of
land ndjolnlng tho town of Union be
longing to tho Joshua Lynn estnto for
$12,300, or a llttlo over $104 per acre.
Two boys, aged 13 and 15, who ran
away from tho orphans' homo nt At
chison, Kiib., havo been In charge of
City Marshal Vaughn of Fort Calhoun
for somo time. Mr. Rokes of Atchi
son arrived and took them homo.
Churches, lodges, schools, clubs,
places of amusement and all other
public gatherings of adults or children
In Gothenburg havo been placed under
a ban by a proclamation iBsucd by tho
Board of Health In an jftort to stop
tho ravages of scarlet fever.
Tho Young Men's ChrlBtlnn associa
tion In state convention at Hastings
unanimously re-elected tho following
officers: W. J. Hill, Lincoln, chairman;
W. O. Henry, Omaha, vice chairman;
B. C. Babcock, Omaha, sccrotary; M.
C. Steele, Omaha, treasurer.
Senntor Alex Lavcrty of Saunders
county received Information from
Colonel Gardner of Fort Crook that
tho. govornment would lease a tract
of land throe miles north of Ashland
for tho purposes of a rlllo range. This
Is tho range usud by tho state troops.
Word waB just received in Blooming
ton that "Happy" Nolson, a young
farmer living with his older brother
four mllcB onst of Center, wns killed in
a runaway. Young Nolson had taken
his brother to Crelghton to catch a
train or Wahoo. On his way homo
his team became iinmnnngcnblo uud
rnn away.
Mrs. Mary R. Stokes, widow of lid
ward D. Stokes, who waB found dead
on tho Sclssou farm, north of Alns
worth, Jnnuary 1G, with a wngon box
across his neck, hns begun suit ngainst
Bon II. Ablo nnd Josso D. Blrdsall,
two snloonkepers and tho Lion Bond
ing and Surety company and tho
Bankers Surety company for $20,000.
Tho body of Elinor Charf, nged 28
who had boon missing Blnco Fobrunry
8, wbb found Tuesday under a drift
near Ponca creek within fifty foot of
tho main Btroot of tho town of Lynch.
Ho had lost his way and perished in
tho sovoro blizzard of two weeks
n;o.
A dispatch was rocclvcd In Hastings
stating thnt tho Mrs. Thomas Cooper
who waB murdored In her homo In
Chlcngo recently four days after her
wedding, was a Miss Ida Cress, form
erly of HnstlngB. Inquiry develops
tho fact that tho murdered womnn did
llvo in thnt city and that sho married
a mnn nnmod Cnrl Miller in 1905. Ho
was a carpenter by trndo and later
movod to Paulino.
Acting titular tho direction of tho
board of trustees of tho Child Saving
Institute of Omaha, tho building com
mittee, of which Rome Miller Is chair
man, has opened headquarters at the
Hotol Rome, room 30. parlor Iloor,
whero tho actlvo campaign work will
bo conducted for tho raising of tho
$75,000 building fund for tho proposed
now Child Saving Institute. A. W.
Clark, tho founder und superintendent
of tho lnstltuto, roportB tho receipt of
sovoral liberal subscriptions.
O. A. Cooper & Son, Humboldt mill
ers, hnvo recolved nows of tho deci
sion of tho Iutorstato Commerce com
mission on their enso against tho Bur
lington railway, in which was Involved
tho freight rato on grain shipments to
tho western part of this stale and
Kansas.
Blooniflold peoplo aro rojolclng over
the recent nppolntmont of tho Bloom
Held Musical association baud as tho
llrst regimental band or tho stato.
Govornor Shnllonborgor has liindo tho
nppolntmont and It Is undorstod tho
nppolntmont has boon ratified by the
adjutant general.
AIR L
SHOTS
K0PELLER6 OR "JZLlCOPTtks"
Fact Is stranger than fiction. A two
million dollar airship Is being built ror
travel between Now York city nnd St.
Louis. Ib tho present year to sou a
realization or practical Slight over long
distances? Men with tho money bo
llovo bo nnd havo contracted with
Louis Nixon, the ship builder, for n
monster craft which Is intended to
sail on the air, not on tho water.
This original nr liner will sail, ac
cording to present plant, between Now
York nnd St. Louis. Becnuso or tho
frequency of travel between tho two
cities it is probable that tho route will
run by Chicago. By tho air route tho
tlmo between tho two largest cities or
tho country will bo reduced to much
less than tho presont brier tlmo or the
limited trains of tho two most promin
ent railway thoroughfares. Thoro will
bo a saving of time because tho routo
will bo moro direct, all tho meander
lngs necessitated by rivers, lakes and
mountains bolng eliminated In tho un
trnmmoled nlr.
In addition to this It la predicted
thnt tho Bpeed of tho airship will bo
much grontor, ordlnnrlly, than has yet
been attained by steam or electric en
gines'. Railway officials claim that a 11
hour run between Chicago and New
York Is porfectly feasible. Their claims
havo boon substantiated In actual run
ning. Fancy, thon, reducing this record
by rour or moro hours! That Is tho
claim sot forth by tho Invontor nnd
the capitalist backers and tho bulldor
of tho lovlathan which Ib going to plow
tho air, just ns the wondorful, swirt
oconn liners push their wny through
tho water.
This prognostication is not an Idle
dream of a novelist. Actual work has
already boon started on nn airship to
havo a carrying capacity of 1,000 pas
sengers, and which, If tho experiment
proves successful, will somo tlmo dur
ing tho enrly summer bo launched with
Imposing coremonlos and undortako Its
mnldo.i trip from New York to Chica
go and St. Louis.
The material for this air-going ship
Is now being forged and collected In
tho shipyard of Lewis Nixon, on Stat
en lslnnd, N. Y. It Is to coat roundly
$2,000,000. and tho capital has been
furnlBhed by a number of wealthy
mon who havo faith In tho futuro of
aorlnl travel ns a profitable Invest
mont. Among those mon, located In various
parts or tho United Stntos and elso
whoro, aro Oscar B. Borgstrom, n Now
York bankor; Arthur Lewis or tho
Stnndiird Oil Company; James H. Rob
orty, ex-comptrollor or tho stnto , or
Now York; Waltor G. Allison, a Phila
delphia capitalist; 11. W. Denlsou or
tho Allla-Chnlmors Company; Georgo
A. Taylor, a banker; John Chlsninn
and Clnronco II. Dennett, capitalists,
or Now York; T. R. White, n real es
tate ownor and bulldor; George Ken
nedy, a Boston capitalist; Arthur
Scoflohl or Now York; Frank Damron,
president or tho Bridgeport Realty nnd
Trust Company, or Bridgeport, Ala.;
Georgo Howard of Washington, D. C;
J. H. Underwood, a civil, onglneor of
Buenos Ayros, nnd J. Lamalr, presi
dent of tho Lemnlr Construction Com
pany. Thurlow Wood Bnmas of Now York
la credited with tho gottlng togothor
f r 'I'Ai -. 7 - - . IM,i'l
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or this galaxy of moneyed men who
nro willing to tako a substantial risk
In furtherance of coinmorclnllzlng air
truvel. The plans or tho now vessel
havo been worked out through a num
ber or experimental years by Fdwnrd
J. Pennington. As much as 15 years
ano Pennington attracted a great deal
of attention by his airship Inventions.
This new airship that Mr. Nixon has
undertaken to build la the result of
17 t ars' study on the part of Mr. Pon
nlrglon, the Inventor. Ho Is generous
In acknowledging his Indebtedness to
Count Zeppelin, whoso exploits with
his dirigible bnlloons last year were
one of tho spectacular devolopinents of
aorlnl navigation In a wonder-working
yenr. Penulngton believes, however,
that his own Iden of discarding silken
bags In favor of what he calls a "buoy
ancy chamber" made of stool will, with
his other improvements, render his
craft inimuno from the dangers which
aro sure to beset tho present day
dirigible balloon.
"The great advantage of our ship."
says Mr. Ponnlngton, "is that wo shall
never need to bring her to tho ground
to renew her gas. Pure hydrogen gas
as a lifting force will bo used In tho
buoyancy chamber, and this gas, prop
erly confined, will last for years with
out deteriorating, or need of renewal.
"That Is tho real solution of tho
whole problem, and once our ship 1b
In the air sho will float there, out of
harm's way, until tho wear ou her ma
chinery renders her useless."
Tho plans for this wondorful air lin
er contemplate a steel vessol 1,000 feet
long over all. Tho cigar-shaped buoy
ancy chamber will mousuro 700 root
from tip to tip and eight feet at Us
greatest diameter.
Tho princlplo upon which tho levia
than of tho nlr Is operated Is that
upon which all the later dirigibles, In
cluding Count Zeppelin's, are construct
ed. This Is tho princlplo of tho anni
hilation or gravity.
In other words, tho ship is given n
buoyancy just sufllclent to counteract
its weight. That Is to say, Mr. Pen
nington's airship, with Its buoyancy
chamber Silled with hydrogen, will, for
nil its 1,000 feet of stool, weigh nlmost
nothing. A child could lift It with ono
finger or toss It nloft llko a rubber
ball.
Tho ship will bo cqulped with 11
propellers, llvo on each side and a
Inrger ono, as shown In the picture, In
front. Tho side propellers rovolvo on
n horizontal plane when It Is desired
to raise or lower tho craft, acting. In
tho parlance of aeronautics, as 'hell
copters." When, however, the Kill n lino
reached a proper altitude and It Is
desired to drive her ahead, tho "heli
copters." which work on swivel Joints
nro adjusted to tho vertical piano ami
propel the ship on hor chosen course
Or, similarly, they may bo reversed to
drive her astorn. Two or more or all
of thoso propellers may be used at any
time night propellers will drive tl;3
ship nt an average speed of 30 mlNU
nn hour; 11 propellers will send hei
through tho iir at a 40 mile clip.
It is not necessary to uso all tho
propollora at tho snmo tlmo when go
ing with the wind, and tho big craft
can partly "coast" in these circurn
stnncos, just ns nn automobile or rail
way locomotive does when descending
a grado.
The buoyancy chamber, as before
stated, Is to bo constructed of steol,
and will have many compartments to
Insure safety in case or puncture.
"Porhapa." said Mr. Ponnlngton "I
am proudest of tho automatic ruddora
which I havo devised for our airship.
By means of those two, ono horizontal
and ono vortical, and the mechanism
which governs them, the ship will
maintain her altitude and direction au
tomatically. Acting In combination
with tho baromotor. which makes and
breaks nn electric circuit controlling
tho motor which handles tho altitude
or horizontal rudder, the latter Is
forced to act so as to compel the aerial
craft automatically to conronu to tho
curvaturo or the earth, lln VniHnnl
rudder, which govorns tho direction or
tho ship, also nets automatically
through an oloctrlc motor, whoso cir
cuit is made or broken by a connection
with tho compasB.
"For oxumplo, should tho vessol bo
traveling west and tho wind blowing
from tho north, sho would automatic
ally bo polntod northwost; but sho
would truvol, in fact, straight to bur
dostinntlon. In short, ir wo want to
go .to a certain place Wo simply Eot
our direction gango ror that place, an.
will roach there without rurthor steer