Show ballooning ACROSS ATLANTIC walter wellman and party of five attempt pioneer voyage in strange craft new york city the first attempt to make a flight over the atlantic ocean cean from continent to continent began at 8 saturday morning when the huge dirigible balloon america started from atlantic city with walter wellman journalist explorer and navigator in command a party of five men one of whom la Is also a navigator one an expert wireless telegraph operator and the others engi wellman head 0 of f tho the expedition said lie he hoped to cross the atlantic ocean in eight or ten days at fifteen knots an hour lie he is making the speed of a slow liner lie ile carries gasoline sufficient to work the motor fifty days and the america Is fitted with a device by which the navigator expects to be able to conserve the gas in the huge bag almost indefinitely |