New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1917, Page 3

' SPRING . CRETONNES and SILKOLINES Are Here in Grand Variety. i ‘; The designs and colorings @re beautiful. ' Come in and “Jook them over. i _ These are Puritan Mill Goods 34 and 36 iriches wide. | . Price Range is from 22c 2 ;&oficayml._ “..We are _also showing ex- ceptional values ‘in Mar- quisette and Etamine Cur- #ains, white and Arabian,’ . $1.25 to $3.00 a pair. mnastery;of 'the alr. Spir Grashed by Pie of Air ship As \V_Igr Macliine London, March 9.~—~Count' Ferdi- nand von Zeppelin, inventor of the| slant German airships which have! made London a city of dukmqli streets and silent nights, died mi day at Charlo urg, near Berlin, of inflammation jof the lungs; according ' to a Berlin despatch transmitted by the cofrespondent of Reuter's Telegram . company, The,| spatch sent ' from ' Geneya through Paris, which, however, states that the | Count’s death was due to pneumonia. Fallufe Speeds Death, The failure of his airships to terrorize England and bring the war to a speedy end, and their appargnt abandonment by thé German general ' staff in the consideration of military measures, is believed to havé been a contributing factor in the death,.of . ‘Count von Zeppelin. For several 5 ‘as Zeppelin ' ralds sgalust England have become less snd less frequent the British aviatofs HNave braught down | more airships ° every attack, reports have flitered through from Germany that Count von “Zéppelin’s. health was -falling through disappointment.’ Within the ‘|1ast month, following thé disastrous raid over the 'midlang. ‘counties of England, in whiclf twé aizships were brought dawn in flames, the German ‘government +has pragtically ,admitted that the Zeppelin has been a failuve, and reports have come from Berlin that the giant airships are no longer regarded as having military value. ' Not .more than three weeks ago a well authenticated = despatch from Geneva said the Zeppelin works at Friedrichehafen ~were being = dats- 4 mantled and deserted and. that Ger- many, so far as the use of the army or navy was goneerned, hn.dbullt*r; last Zeppelih L % Despatches fram ~Germany have pictured ' Count von ' Zeppelin ' as crushed’with: disappointment over the action of the Kaiser in sending his | invention to the scrapheap and with | /hearing the dominating motive of his jlife branded as a failure. For forty years Count von Zeppelin labored, driven by the.bellef that he was des- tined ta build an engine of destruc- tion” that would nullify the great Englith battle fleét and lead' the Ger- o the world through elevatéd from the position of hpb el “etank in' the srip 'of « vision o 7 thef top rafk of the roll of German | - héroes; they. have seen him petted by | history and theory of flying. -| the kalser, a court favorite, and char- discovered the " lessly by while the military Cascara Quinine .......... 18¢ B/99, famous for rheumsa- i trail sime .. Tablets, dos. 18c, 100, $1.18 acterized by the monarch. as greatest German,” and they have seen him an old, old man standing help- lords branded : his life work as a fallure. Ferdinand von. Zeppelin was born ‘n 1838, the son of a:small Wurttem- erg court official in Constance ~.on after he was married and deep # military affairs Zeppelin continued 2 “the | .tudy of the theoretical problems and :two depending cars fore made various.models of dirigible bal- YOU CAN * ‘No wonder our— H SEMI-ANNU; OLL 82-88 ASYLUM STREET, HARTFORD IF YOU SEE THESE 'SAVINGS ON-MEN'S, CL LAST CALL Eveun in loons that never saw the light out- side of his workshop. Because he found his hobby ex- pensive and the trips - to. London, Paris and other citles where balloon- ists were experimenting were 'not ‘Success had come. with his glant machine under perfeét’ control during the entire time. He carried twelve persons with him and aft. It kept on com: ing. For almost two years the count continued experimenting with his latest airship, constantly making im- provements and in virtue of these constantly longer flights. The Ger- man government then agreéd to pur< he shore of the lake of that name, | within the means of an army officer | chase the count’s ship for $500,000 if . vhere all of his experiments Were | Count Zeppelin began to sell gome of | he could make a continuous * later" carried out. He came of a|phis estates to aratify his great am- | twenty-four hours. i lineage ‘of fighting Mecklenburg knights; the junior branch of his fam- ily had been reeiding in German ter- ritory for more than 500 years. When a youth Zeppelin followed the onmly calling open to a man of his station in life. "He received a military. train- ing and -he entered the army of his sovereign printe as a lieutenant of tuvalry at the age of 22. ©/n ‘1863 he was detached from the ‘Wurttemberg service as a military ob- server to follow the armies of the | American Union in the civil wi He, bition many years before any prac- tical. results of his experiments showed. More and more ‘of his lands went, until just about the time that success began to come to htm he was threatened with absolite ury, It was not until 1892 that he began to devote his whole attention to the problem of aerial navigation. At that time he announced in phrases that startled the military authorities just what he hoped to do in the line of a practical dirigible. “My balloon must be able came to this country, proceeded di- to travel several days without re- Tectly to the Army of the Mississippt and was attached to the brigade com- manded by Gen. Carl Schurz. The young man, so it was afterward re- corded by Gen. Schurz, often allowed his zeal for combat to overcome his purely neutral position as a scientific observer of warfare and on many oc- casions orderlies had to ride in where the fighting wa#é thickest to remind the officer from Wurttemberg that his place was in the rear. Once, at the battle of Fredericksburg, only a sud- den dash on horseback saved Zeppe- lin from being captured by the Con- federates. First Balloon’ in U. 8, It was while he was:with the Union armies that the young German ofi- cers inborn taste for aeronautics first found opportunity. His first ascent in a balloon occurred when he recetved Permission to go up in the basket of an observation balloon that reconnoitered the Confederate posi- tion before a battle, Zeppelin returned to Germany in 1866 just In time to serve- with the German armies in the short and sharp campaign against Austria, but it was at. the outbreak of the Franco-Prus- sian war that the mad youngster from Wrfl,flumberl' first distinguished him- seilf. In 1887 he abandoned military life for a brief period to represent his principality in the federal council at/ Berlin, but in 1890 he was back ixn harness again as commander of a fortress at Saarburg. In 1891 )ui was retired with the full rank of general of cavalry. - Count Zeppelin began to study the problem of aerial navigation when he was a boy of eighteen. Then rail- roads were in their i ', Stesm- | ships were a novelty d the tele- | Ssraph was only just bekinning to be used, yet thé boy, whom every one touched, quite serious- xvln‘ provisions,” he sald. “It ust carry at the eame time adequate su] be able to travel quickly enough to reach a certain goal in a given num- ber of days. It must possess sufficient rigidity and non-inflammability to as- cend, travel and descend under or- dinary conditions.” The first Zeppelin airship was com- pleted tn 1900 and the trial trip seemed to be satisfactory, but on the second trial there was an accident, and in other subsequent attempts, to navigate the initial ship behaved so badly that its uselessness in any kind, of a wind was demonstrated. Although the count bravely ‘an- nounced that during the course of the ensuing winter: he. would; make changes which would. make the ship practical, after all his tinkering the ship soared in.the heavens and re- fused to work.. Its inventor was heartbroken. He: broke ;up._ this. first ship of his and stored away its ma- terial for use in possible future ex- periments, but his money was again all gone. \ Just at the darkest hour help came from - unexpected sources. The loyal friends of the inventor solicited aid from several wealthy men . of Ger- many and enough money came in to warrant a resumption of the costly experiments. The succeeding years down to 1906 seemed filled with the same old succession of high hopes and I crushing failures. It was not -until June of 1906 that the count com- pleted an entirely new airship which gave promise of doing real things. Success at Last. This eraft was 603 feet in length and of about 45 feet diameter and it had & lifting capacity of sixteen tons. Aluminum was the material with ‘which the skeleton of the great cigar shaped bag was made. The new mo- tor was capable of developing 140 horse-power. On the first flight of the nmew contrivance the count re- the { mained in the air about twg ‘Dours conservative German | les of gas and fuel and must | fiight of With this substantial encourage- ment Zeppelin began to make longer and longer ventures in the heavens. In June, 1908, he stayed up six and three-quarter hours, and in the fol- lowing August he attempted a trip from Constance to Frankfort, but here again sudden ' disaster over- whelmed him. His balloon took fire in a thunderstorm near Stuttgart and was completely destroyed. This time, however, the count was not to suffer. ‘The whole of the Ger- man nation, its heart touched and its imagination fired by the indomitable will of the old inventor, rallied to his help. The government made him a special grant of $125,000, and by pri- vate subscription a free gift of $40! 000 was made to him. Count Zeppelin started immediately upon the con- struction of his Zeppelin II. It was in May, 1909, that Zeppelin won his final triumph with his new ship. He flew for 900 miles, and all of Berlin, including the enthusiastic kaiser, awaited to see him land in the parade grounds thers, but the invent- or disappointed Berlin, and his ‘ship was slightly damaged on the voyage home by coming in contact with a small treé in landing at Goeppingen to escape a storm. The count and his crew of nine men repaired the dam- ages-on the spot and brought the hig sky_craft back safely to its shed in Friedrichshafen, . The Victoria Luise was the first Zeppelin ever to fly over tlie sea, when on June 27, 1912, it took twelve pas- sengers from Hamburg.over Helgo- land and Norderney and back to Wilhelmshaven, the great German naval base. Soon afterward, however, the Schwaben, on which Count Zeppe- lin took his royal party, was wrecked by a gas explosion and thirty-four soldiers were injured. First Military Oruiser. Count Zeppelin made ‘of the Zeppe- lin 1IL the first of those military cruisers of the air which were to drop hombs on London when the great war brought to the old Count “der tag” for which he had been preparing as| earnestly as had the German army and navy. The ship was fitted with bomb throwing tubes and an observa- tion turret on top of the frame for a machine gun, which was especially constructed for a minimum recoil. Another Zeppelin, the Hansa, visited Copenhagen unexpectedly and hovered aver the British warships of the first cruiser squadron while many v ‘OF SUITS AND OVERCOATS 750 ANDERS’ . THE DAYLIGHT STORE ginning of the war. Queen Alexan- dra_of Hmgland and Empress Marie of Russia took photographs of the her pilot, as the ship passed over their | Hanss and of Caunt Zeppelin, royal ‘yachts. At that time German newspapers pointed out how much easier would be the voyage to Emng- lond, and the Lokal Anseiger wrote: “Many an officer of the British cruiser squadron at Copenhagen may well be filled with such thoughts,” Very soon after that the people of Sheerness heard for the first time a sound that later was to send them in terror to their cellars—the throb of a Zeppelin engine, ‘It was officially denied that the L-1, which was mak- ing her trial trip that night of November 18, 1812, passed over any part of the English coast, but no other airship ever could be found to have been up that night, and in England| at least there was no doubt that the trial trip had been made a voyage of observation, another peep into the future for the old Count,’ who was thinking of “der tag.” Again with the long looked for day in mind Count Zeppelin began expori- ments in firing guns from a Zeppelin, and in March, 1913, fired 500 rounds of ball cartridges from a machine gun on the upper deck of the LZ-16 in a forty-five mile an hour gale. Again the mercyrial quality of the alrship’s development was shown, for only a few days later the Z:1 was wrecked in trying to land. Wanted to Safl to Americs. When the war broke out and the Count saw the approach of “der tag,” when his airships would strike terror into the hearts of the tight little island, hé requested that he be re- instated in the aerial service of the German army, from which he had re- tired because of his age. He made a air raids on England, first on Yar- mouth, King’s Lynn, Blyth and other outlying towns, later on the suburbs and finally on the wery heart of Lon- don The first rald was on January 19, 1915, and the total in killed and injured has been probably nearly a thousand. . Count Zeppelin was not satisfled, however. In April, 1915, he gathered all his engineers and airship cap- tajns. He complained that longer raids were not made aud criticised the pllots for lack of hardihood in not venturing forth in blustery weather and for retreating sometimes ‘from hostile airmen. Just before that the redoubtable Count gave an interview indicating that evidently he had changed his mind about the practicability of a| transatlantic fight. ‘I have always hoped to be the first to pilot an airship across the Atlantic,” he said. “I have believed that to do so would be the crowning effort of my career. No, not to bom- bard 'Washington and New York, not to throw bombs on people who have been .80 Kind to me I want to sail % m‘ul miesibn . when. I go to #tiadRl e Special for Thls G0, AND [IBE 'SELLING AT AT "In the new and larger Suit and Cloak section, second floor, seen & notable display of smart.spring apparel, including all faghionable styles, colors and fabrics. 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