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 from continent to continent be gan at 8 saturday morning when the huge dirigible balloon amer lea started from atlantic city with walter wellman journalist explore i and navigator in command a party ol 01 five men one ot of whom Is also a navi gator one an expert wireless tele graph operator and the others engl engi wellman head of 0 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 0 a slow liner ile he carries gasoline sufficient to work the motor fifty days and the america Is fitted with a de vice by which the navigator expects tc be able to conserve the gas in the th huge bag almost indefinitely |