Tokyo, June 7.
The Trans-Pacific Airway Com-Pany is the latest project just announced by " number of influential local businessmen in Tokyo. A meeting of promoters was held yesterday at the Engineering Club.
The proposed company is to he capitalized at 120,000,000 yen and its business is to. maintain a regular aerial service across the Pacific Ocean from Tokyo to San Francisco with three Zeppelin airships. The contract for the purchase of the Zeppelin airships of 128 type is now being negotiated between the Berlin branch of the Mitsubishi firm and the Zeppelin Company.
It is said that the promoters, in cluding Messrs. Seki Hoshino, Iwasaburo Nakahara, Maruki Yama: weki and other noted businessmen, have already selected a wide tract of Iand near the Murayama Rein a suburb of Tokyo, whi another suitable place will be seles ed near San Francisco for a terminus.
According to the present plan of] the promoters, six monthly journeys will be made'on the route and 40 passengers will be accommodated each journey, It is said that if everything goes well, the plan will materialize some time in July or, August next year—Rengo.
Seattle, Wadi,, June Prosposts of actually carrying. Jout the much-di Tokyo-to-Seattle aeroplane jer toxday when John Allen admitted that thes: were! sailing for the Orient on the Presiident Taft, on June 28, in an attempt to achieve this feat.
They will seek to win a G.825,000 prize offered in Seattle for the! successful completion of such a ight, and they said to-day that they understood a similar prize had been offered in Toky Reports several days ago, in arrival here of passenger monoplane, said that the ship was being Tokyo by H.C. Miller, 8 Jeapitalist, who had engazed Smith Allen to be pilots.
smith was formerly a flier with) the Aleutian Patrol off the tip of Alaska, so he hax intimate per sonal experience of some of the most dificult portions of the proposed Might. He served as a lying, instructor durir the World United Prose,
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