AN AERIAL MONSTER.

Western Star, Issue 1540, 28 February 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN AERIAL MONSTER.

Charles G. Loeber, of Boston, has prepared the nlan for an immense airship, which be proposses to construct, and is now trying to rais? a syndicate to take bold of the enterprise. The ship is designed as a means of communication between the United States and Europe. He also claims to be ihe discoverer of a new force which he calls anthesis, and which, he declares, assures the success of bis ship. Tho ship, as planned, resembles more than anything else a monster barrel laid on its side, with all its staves running to a point at one end, and with an immense spread of wings on the sides. It is designed to be constructed solely of steel, witt a length of 147 feet and a breadth of beam of 27 feet. The wings, each of which is to fce 75 feet long and 27 feet broad, are movably attached to the sides of the vessel and extend inward, where they are adjusted to a steam driven engine. The weight of the ship, machinery and equipments is estimated at 800 tons, and her net tonnage at 1000 tons. With her full compliment of 300 passengers, mail and freight, she would represent a dead weight of 1800 tons. This great load, Mr. Loeber says, can be floated upon the air more easily than a like weight is carried upon the water.