Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-15 | Page 1 | Zeppelin Airship is Big Success

ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP ! 15 inures Creates Weird Impression as Ihigc .Balloon Rises in (lie Air. FORTY-FIVB THOUSAND PEOPLE SEE ASCENSION Side Steering Breaks and Aeronauts Aero-nauts Arc Koreed to Return Re-turn Again. 1 . IT.IEDRICHSriAFKN. July H. The Zeppelin airship made a successful departure de-parture from Ita shed on Lake Constance at 2:22 o'clock this afternoon 0:1 its much-heralded twenty-four-hour trip through tlio air. It starlod in the direction direc-tion of Constance and sailed majestically away on Its lone Journey. When tho Klnt; and Queen of Wurtem-hurt? Wurtem-hurt? reached the vicinity of the floating shed on board the royal motor boat at 2 o'clock enthusiastic cheering for their majesties and the airship sounded o'or tho lnku. The airship emerged from hor Iloailny house stern foremost. She slowly slow-ly reached the open lako and wns clear of her shed, and with her keel even with the surface of the wator. She burn; in tho air luce a giant sua-golng JLevlaihan forced by some mysterious power of the elements, which should be Its home. The supporting: pontoons were rapidly withdrawn with-drawn by a numerous detachment of the balloon corps and then umid roars of applause from the boats on tho lake tho crew and passengers, tlfleen men all told, stepped on board the famous airship for the moat remarkable voyage in the history his-tory of aviation. When all was ready the structure which pavo such an Idea of solidity and Immensity Im-mensity that It seemed impossible for It ever to leavo tho spot where it hung over the water, slowly raised its bows. Under Perfect Control. Tlio rear platform skimmed over tho water at a great speed for two hundred yards and then the whole ship rose Into -the air. This croated a weird Impression; Impres-sion; it was as though a large steamer was (lulttlng Its natural element. Count Zeppelin was at the helm and lie soon turned the bjws of the ship In the direction of Constance. It Is estimated the airship started out at the rate of 3 miles an hour. It easily outdistanced the speedy motor boats which attompled to follow It on the lake and the slower excursion steamers were left far behind. The airship was competed to come back because of a breakage of the side steering steer-ing gear. This was repaired temporarily in midair, but it was . deemed advisable not to continue, so she was brought back to her moorings on the lake. She reentered re-entered her shed and the passengers disembarked. dis-embarked. Another start will be made tomorrow. The occupants of the car were Count Zeppelin, his nephew. Count Ferdinand Zeppelin; Professor Hergesell. representing represent-ing tho nilnstry of the interior; Captain Mlschke. of tho navy; Majors Ilessc, of the general staff; Lehman, of tlio war ministry, and Speerllng. of tho balloon regiment of the army engineers and mechanics.