BOTTLE-SHAPED SHIP.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1876, 9 October 1913, Page 7

BOTTLE-SHAPED SHIP.

TO CKOSS ATLANTIC AT 100 MILES AN HOUR. From Paris to New York in a bottlesuch (according to the "Daily News/' of London) is the latost sensation. Under ono of tho archways of the Pont St. Michel, on the Seine, says the Paris correspondent of that journal, two men are working in tho greatest mystery, on tho construction of a cylindrical, bottleliko craft which is to take thorn across tho Atlantic. Tho craft is of.wood and tarred cardboard, with 6trong hoops of iron. It is about 30ft. long by 7Jft. across. There'is a manhole at each end. The master of this curious craft is turned seventy, and wears a blue suit with no shirt undorncath, and no on his feet. His long curls have evidently known no barber's shears for nianv a long year, for they reach to his shouldors and minglo with liis patriarchal beard of snow white. Tho old wan is a Greek, Con statu! ne Panejotti by name. His father was a business man, find left a comfortable little fortune, which the eon devotes to alleviating the sufferings of his lessfavoured compatriots. M. Panejotti s wants are few. He lives on crusts, dried vegetables, and boiled water, with no saft or butter. Ho spends most of his spare moments in prayer. His only assistant in his work on the Seme is a young workman. "Tho craft now 'in the slip, M. Panojottl remarked to a representative of the "Petit Pnrisien," "is only a model. Later oil I propose to build another, measuring 325 ft. and driven by three 15 li.p. motors, which will develop a speed of 100 miles an hour. _ , "Tho secret of my invention lies in tho aotion. of the propellers,, which will enable my bottle to revolve on its own axis at a dizzy rate. The persons insido will bo on a floor fitted with rollers, which will remain completely stable. My pupil and I intend to go from Paris to Havre, and tlienco to New' York." "My boat," he added, "has no keel. If bv a shock or any other cause a le/tk is sprung, a stroke of the propellers causes it to turn upside down, and a leak can bo repaired without tho least danger.