Popular Science Monthly 

 Commuting by Airplane from the 

 Suburbs to New York 



879 



The proposed club house of the New York Flying Yacht Club 

 and its string of hangars in which the hydroplanes will rest 



IN April, 19 1 6, the New York Flying 

 Yacht Club, the only club of its kind 

 in the coun- 

 try today, 

 wasorganized 

 for the pur- 

 pose of estab- 

 lishing on the 

 Hudson 

 River a sta- 

 tion where 

 aviators and 

 owners of hy- 

 droplanes 

 could "house" 

 their ma- 

 chines after 

 making fly- 

 ing trips to 

 Manhattan 

 Island. The 



day is coming when "commuting" by air- 

 craft will be a common thing. It has been 

 done already by a few wealthy men whose 

 homes are on the water front several miles 

 from New York city. These air travelers 

 will find it necessary to have "garages" for 

 their machines while they sojourn in the 

 city. The hangars will be erected near the 

 club house which will soon be erected 

 at One hundred and Twenty-ninth Street 

 and Riverside Drive on the Hudson. 



The club building 

 will be two stories in 

 height, with a spacious 

 roof garden. A cater- 

 ing room and a ban- 

 quet hall will be found 

 on the lower floor. The 

 trophy and club rooms 

 will occupy the second 

 floor. A balcony will 

 surround each floor and 

 the structure will have 

 verandas on all sides 

 where members and 

 visitors can sit and 

 watch the machines in 

 their flight over the 

 land and river. 



A gangway will lead 

 from the south side of 

 the structure to the 

 river, and this walk 

 will be used by all per- 

 sons leaving and board- 



ing their machines. On the roof of the 

 structure will be two observation cupolas 

 which will be used chiefly by officials for 

 timing the races. The roof will also have a 

 powerful .searchlight that will be a guide to 

 the aviators 

 who fly in the 

 night. The 

 searchlight 

 will cast a 

 bright per- 

 pendicular 

 beam heaven- 

 ward contin- 

 ually every 

 night and this 

 will be a bea- 

 con to the men 

 coming home 

 to roost. 



A string of 

 hangars will 

 be built on 

 the water's 

 edge close to the club house. These will be 

 so constructed that an aviator can pull in 

 or take out his flying machine with the 

 greatest ease. The hangars will be big 

 enough to hold the very largest ' types of 

 hydroplanes. 



The hot air rising from the furnace heats the 

 oven and circulates around the contents 



Using the Heat from the Hot-Air 

 Furnace for Cooking Purposes 



IF you have a hot-air furnace you can do 

 your baking by its heat. Here is how it 

 may be done. A sheet-iron oven can be 

 built into the hot-air conduit, as shown in 

 the illustration, and the 

 heated air can be made 

 to flow around the 

 sides and the back of 

 the oven. By this heat 

 the contents of the 

 oven will be thoroughly 

 baked and none of the 

 disagreeable gases in 

 the hot air will be 

 allowed to touch them. 

 Apparently, here is a. 

 practical device which 

 can save many a dol- 

 lar on your coal and 

 gas bills. That at 

 least is what Albert 

 Caro, of Illinois, who 

 is the originator of the 

 idea and inventor of 

 the oven, believes. 



