Chicagoans will soon be able to run down to New York on business early
one morning and be back home in time for breakfast the next day, if
the plans for dirigible service between the two cities carry through.
A number of prominent Americans are members of a corporation that is
building several huge, helium-filled balloons in the Schutte-Lanz
Company’s plant in Germany, according to Benedict Crowell, former
secretary of war, who is the president of the new corporation. The
airships will carry passengers and freight, it was announced.
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