To Offer Air Cruiser.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 29, 1912:
Germany Not Being Encouraging, Inventor Is Going to England.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    PARIS. Dec. 28.— Further interesting details of the aerial cruiser which is intended to carry passengers across the Atlantic, as cabled to The New York Times, and which is about to be built by a German firm, have been brought to The New York Times correspondent's notice by the inventor himself, A. Boerner, a Brussels engineer.
    M. Boerner, to whom any aid, except vague moral support, has been refused by the German War Office, is going to England to offer the airship to British capital.
    "As in the case of the Zeppelin balloon," he told the correspondent, "the German War Office wants us to go to all the expense, promising to buy the completed airships from us just as it buys from the Zeppelin makers at present.
    "But in the case of the aerial cruiser, matters are somewhat different. When it is considered that the latter can develop a speed of thirty-five yards a second, that its radius of action extends 3,000 miles, and that it can carry about forty tons of ammunition, it is easily seen that it is of supreme importance in warfare.
    "Having, however, met only with all sorts of evasive replies from the German Government, we have decided to go to England, where two important groups of financiers are already keenly interested in the aerial cruiser.
    "I am going in a few days to London. To me there is no doubt that if the English Government adopts the airship it will make its coast defenses absolutely impregnable, while, with a sufficient number of airships, a transatlantic passenger service can be brought to a point where it would net more than $2,500,000 clear profit.
    "Once more Germany proves herself backward when it comes to big developments in aerial flight. Whether any Government comes to our assistance or not, however, air travel across oceans is assured, and the construction of the first giant hangar for aerial cruisers will be started in the very near future,"