Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1923, Page 18

Giant Airships Landing Atop Skyscrapers Seen in Few Years ZR-1 Builders and Officers Say Crafl’s Success Will Make Extraordinary Feats Commonplace Soon. glrl:lll Dispateh to The Star. i PHILADELPHIA, October 1.--Stories fof great ships' of the |air land- |7 - ng atop the highest skyscrapers of | tries of the merican cities, which only a short |airships will ago were considered fiights of |, -1t Wil wildest imagination, soon may be rded as commonplace accounts jof modern’ transportation. H { This is the word of Commander ID. Weyerbacher, builder, and earth in great rigid type not be unusual. ¥'s great airship, the ZR-1. They farc qualified to speak, through their :Pprrlanl‘!. of the possibilities of a c .means of travel that challenges the | ship would simply foat megmulion as greatly as does the ::lln-uglol’op’:l;lr :‘)‘;"“’;‘[hout g {calm announcement of Admiral Wil- aclou fuam A. Moffett, chief of the naval | tme)to think, and his failure to do wo {air service, that soon, probably next | the ZR-1 ¢hi ivear, the ZR-1 will set out for a trip u $to the north pole and back. THE EVENING - trip of the great silver ship over New York and Philadelphia September 11 showed that it has a factor of safety under the most adverse weath as | Washington were on every mmander Weyerbacher, and it was verse woather conditions would be cyolonie. Made by Experts, ST o explained that most ad- | ti operation at the naval alrcraft fac. tory. Eagle eyes of Admiral Moftett and other high naval officers in move made during the entire year of conatrycs | With the ship depe on its m‘:'tm r "fl:‘:‘u{ roogh the on Not a rivet was driven in the giant | i bridge-like structure of the ship until t the man who. was to drive it had tha: qualified in & school created by Com- mander Weyerbacher to teach every feature of the work. Not a cable was spliced or fastened until a 100 per |’ who was to per- f metal, nearly | 30 ssyere n given an atrcraft motor. They were oblis to run continuously 300 hours without part The six motors chosen for the ship were designed and bullt by the Pack- | ard Motor Car Company. Each has 0 h new metal made | te d manganese, | to R-1. was dono_at naval a tory, In Philadelphia, an: ticle which went hurst by motor. truck Lieut. R, G. May into the making |at h- | 0f the ship was transported to Lake- ¢ | Commander al | them to run 1,000 overhauled. 680 feet long, 78 feet | ETe dlameter and 90 feot | h inclu elium cubio feet an pougds with all her eq d | her nine officers a ry petty officers. Mother no longer worries % “Safe, comfortable and swift tia: (portation in lighter-than-air lin faltering and without any wear of §|° any of the % . WASHINGTON, D. O, MONDAY, ‘GOTOBER. 1, 19%3. NN s " Telephone Main 7200 i, uy, “THE BUSY CORNER” Sons Co. Penna. Ave., 8th & D Strects over sKkin trouble SHE has been through © prevent accident.” thas arrived in America,” sald Com- H Navy Officer Confident. imander Weyerbacher. “The ZR-1, ; iwhile,a war craft of the.air and not| This confidence of the builder and ia passenger-currying ship, has dem- | test Pilot of the ZR-1 is felt also by | ionstrated aiready that a new era in | C3Pt. Frank McCrary, commander of fworld travel has arrived. The Navy's| the Lakehurst naval air station, the inew airship is safer than any other | NOme of the giant Navy ship, and the fvehicle of transportation, including| ™&R Who probably will be in com- irailroad trains and steamers, and cer- | mand of the ship when she salls for itainly it {8 & vastly more comfortable | the north pole. : thing In which to ride, There is| Because of accidents which hap- oy, only the wiilingness on | pe Ereat capital to besin | lighter-than-a airtady mads And T e ",,B‘ built in Italy for ‘new’ means of transportation. This| Eovernment. ;also is well under way now.” | Engla Sees Early Success. of 1if ! Capt, Helnep, who has flown untold | word and pledged th: o ithousands of miles in German Zeppelins, | United States that the ZR-1 would be iand as pllot has carried 10,000 pas- | so safe no accident could occur. Test with nover an accid fiights, N officers have agreed, | &ood these pledges. | historic | it so many times before that she never hesitates now. When anyone in the family comes to her with a spot of eczema oran itchigg rash, she gets out & jar of Resinol Olntment and gives prompt re- lief. Used with Resino! Soap it cannot be surpassed as i rlr a soothing, healin the United States BabyliooT and ‘the R-38, bullt in Ty treatmant for the skin disorders of " Ointment It stops itching iustantly, and quickly allays Jaaleo an excel- lent healing dressing for ‘burns, chafing, stubborn sores, ete. 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