Show iVELLA t TRAVEL OVER S SEA A Airship r America t Is Making Malting Good Time on Its Aerial Voyage to Europe DRAMATIC SCENE AT I BEGINNING OF VOYAGE Virless Messages Being Sent by Adventurers Being Picked Up by Steamers ATLANTIC TIC CITY N No T J Oct 15 16 Sailing into a n thick fog that thal Lung hung over oer the Atlantic ocean a few mina les tes Cs after S this morning Walter Waller Wollman with a crew of five no THOU men Is tonight believed to be he on an voyage oage to lO Europe In ht Inthe Inthe the hugo huge airship I America Numerous wireless less messages were wert I received during the tho day da and the latest I indicated that Wellman is tonight sail sailing ing through the thc darkness off the NewYork New York YOlk coast The men making makinI the tho flight Hight are arc Wal Yal Walter ter tor Vellman Mevlin chief engineer and next in m command F r Murray Simons navigator ator J J 1 K IC Ir h Irwin Irwin win wireless operator John Aubert and Albert Louis Loud Loul assistant en engineers engineers I Dramatic Beginning of Trip The Thc start of oC the balloon America was one of the most dramatic events ever over here Roundly crill criticized by h people who did not believe vo that thal he would ewer ever undertake what was thought to be a foolhardy wen ven venture n tune ture startled the lite whole Is Island Island island land by hy bringing the America out of the shed and without ceremony going into lute tho the air nil It was w s about aboul d 1 da 1 a m ut today that tho final derision decision to go up tip was made by h Chief Chin Engineer All night nl hl he lie watched matched w at al althe atthe the weather bureau hureau raid and as dawn broke he decided Rousing the crew who slept in n tine Iho car called Wellman Vellman on the tho telephone at the tho ho hotel hodel del tel Chalfont and an him that the th Ui i o start s had arrived d GoodByes to Wives and Sweethearts Wellman Vollman soon was on his way wa to the Ote Inlet In ht an automobile with every even ting tin ready read for the word ord let go and the crew climbed Into tho the car hang haug hanging hanging ing from fron the balloon The final Onal goodbyes were to lo wives re relatives r lathea and friends and the last word to the ground Around was wal given ten tenOn On the board want wall and beach was assembled a crowd estimated at nt about GOO The crowd stood in awe as the airship began bc to rise and sailed forth Then cheer after a tN cheer followed fol followed lowed when tho the craft hogan began to ills dis disappear appear In ht the mist Within five minu annu minutes minutes tes the tho ship shin was out ont of sight Robert Miller lIler the wireless opera operator operator tor stationed here kept calling the tho th America but bat it was wat not until a m in that lint there was as any rep reply Then out of he thc alt air came this message the first over ever sent from an airship at nl sea Message From Airship Headed northeast all Il well on onboard onboard board Machinery working fine Good byc e J T IrwIn After this messages cams cam frequent frequently ly I and anti all reported good progress The he last message e received from YVO Wellman V late lato today toda said the course had been boen laid for the North Passage from New and that speed had been heen cut to fifteen knots Imo s an hour to save saC the gasoline Enough h gasoline Is being carried to keep the tho Americas cn going for at least fifty days das under ih th new speed pressure Ready Redy for Emergency I The Is equipped with pro provisions provisions visions for thirty days clays and a life boat Is carried If It the ship gets ets Into Inlo difficulty in the tho way away wa of or motor trouble to the two sixty horse power engines and aud a n donkey engine which Is s carried the wireless H will 11 be lie do der upon to summon ships Should tho the whole woold structure col collapse collapse lapse lapso the crew will take to the life lifeboat boat and being In hi the track of or steam steamers ers elS expect to he be picked up without drifting long lon In the ocean If Ii all is I well tonight ht it Is believed the thc America through her hel wireless Is In communication with ships and these in turn are passing tho rho word along alon to ocean liners further east Cast I |