Show ballooning ACROSS ATLANTIC walter wellman and party parly of five I 1 attempt pioneer voyage vo age in strange craft new york cly abe first attempt to make a flight over the th atlantic ocean fram continent to continent began ata at 8 saturday morning when the huge dirigible balloon america started from atlantic city with walter wellman journalist explorer and navigator in command a baity part of five fire men one ot of whom is also a nayl gator one an expert wireless telegraph operator and the others engineers wellman head ot of the expedition said he hoped to cross the atlantic ocean in eight or ten days at fifteen knots an hour he Is making the speed of a slow liner lie he 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 |