May Send Zeppelin Here.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 20, 1913:
Count Denies Planning Airship Trip, but May Come Himself.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, June 19.— In reply to a telegraphic inquiry from The New York Times regarding the report that he intended to send a Zeppelin airship across the Atlantic, Count Zeppelin says: "I have at present no such intention."
    It is admitted, however, by officers of the Zeppelin Airship Company, that a visit to America has been and still is under consideration.
    Count Bernstorff, the German Ambassador to Washington, is quoted tonight in a Washington cablegram to The Tageblatt, to the effect that when he was recently in Berlin he suggested to the German Government that it should arrange to send a Zeppelin vessel to the San Francisco Exposition in 1915.

    FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, June 19.— Count Zeppelin to-day declared that he was pledged not to accept any foreign orders for dirigible airships. His company, he said, would construct dirigibles only for the German Government or for use in Germany.
    He denied a report published in Vienna that he had contracted to build six airships for the Austrian Army.