. The literary digest. 8() The Literary Digest for March twenty thousand miles. And having con-templated such a ship, I will now let youinto a secret—such a ship is coming. To be known as the ten-million ship,on account of its gas capacity, it is, amongother things, going to provide the idealmeans of getting round the world. It willhave a roof-garden. It will have anelevator to that roof-garden. There willbe dining-rooms, drawing-rooms, smoking-rooms—perhaps even bathrooms. Forsixteen days, non-stop, traveling at anaverage speed of fifty-one miles an hour,passengers will be able to cruise from
. The literary digest. 8() The Literary Digest for March twenty thousand miles. And having con-templated such a ship, I will now let youinto a secret—such a ship is coming. To be known as the ten-million ship,on account of its gas capacity, it is, amongother things, going to provide the idealmeans of getting round the world. It willhave a roof-garden. It will have anelevator to that roof-garden. There willbe dining-rooms, drawing-rooms, smoking-rooms—perhaps even bathrooms. Forsixteen days, non-stop, traveling at anaverage speed of fifty-one miles an hour,passengers will be able to cruise from placeto place in this liner of the air. Truly theprospect is alluring. There are two objections which are oftenurged against air-ships. One is the dangerof fire; the other the fact that hitherto asmall army of men has been needed to landthem safely. To deal with the fire danger first. Theredoes not seem any need for the frequentlydemanded, non-inflammable gas in place ofhydrogen. During the war British air-ships d
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