Show CROSSING THE ATLANTIC IN BALLOON Und Under r the inspiration of Princess Princes Henry Herr Joseph Brucker will when the thc season gets gels a little farther arther r along make moke the attempt to cross the Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic antie in his dirigible balloon tie the It wis christ christened ned the other day in Berlin A bottle of liquid air was broken over its bow how His plan is to put out from from- Cadiz Spain and make first for the Cape Verde islands then direct to Porto Porte Rico or orsome sonic some adjacent island then on over to Havana then New Orleans then turning back try to make Washington and then New York lie wants to 11 o rake lake as nearly as possible the route that Columbus sailed over only he lie will navigate the time air while Columbus Columbus Co Co- lumbus plowed his wa way r through kindly seas A A. model of one of Columbus' Columbus ships was at the Chicago worlds world's s 's fair full sized and and if we had to cross the ocean in one omme of those ships or some unexplored unexplored unexplored land in iii a dirigible le balloon we do not know which we would select But if the change that has come collie to shipping since Columbus sailed should come comet comel cometo t l to the ships that arc to navigate the air ships and railroads would go out of fashion for foi passenger travel because the time difference between one of Columbus Columbus' Columbus Columbus' Co Co- Co- Co lumbus' lumbus little ships and anh the Lusitania is something so wonderful that even to imagine such a change in inthe time the craft that sail the air ail is to think of the differ- differ encee between a humming bird and md a bald headed full grown American en eagle gi e. e And in passing we might say that if the wind vind which has been blowing here for the last three or four days started from somewhere on the European coast to blow cast east had Herr Brucker had his ballon balloon bal hal loon on ready rendy to take advantage of it he could have hav crossed cas easy enough that enough that is unless ss his ears cars froze on the journey journer The meteorologists of Germany and Austria en encourage en- en courage Herr Brucker in the belief that he lie will have on that voyage orage only favorable and gentle winds Then a fleet of yachts will try t to 1 convoy the airship Some Sonic will start a day or two ahead of the air airship hip from froni T Tenerife Others will sail eastward cast cast- ward froni from St. St Thomas Barbados or 01 Trinidad So every reasonable precaution will wiil have been taken by the time tim he lie i it is ready to start and anti he will have with him the time good wishes o oj othe the people of two con con- |