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Show BALLOONING ACROSS ATLANTIC Walter Wellman and Party of Five Attempt Pioneer Voyage In Strange Craft. Now York City. Tho first attempt to mako a flight over tho Atlantic ocean from continent to continent began be-gan at 8 o'clock Saturday morning, when tho huge dirigible balloon America Amer-ica started from Atlantic City with Walter Wellman, Journalist, explorer and nnvlgator, In command, a party of live mon, ono of whom Is also a navigator, navi-gator, ono nn expert wireless telegraph tele-graph operator and the others engineers. engi-neers. Wellman, bend of the expedition, snld he hoped to cross tho Atlantic ocean in eight or ten days. At fifteen knots nn hour he Is making tho speed of a slow liner. Ho carries gasoline sufficient to work tho motor fifty days, and tho Amorlca Is fitted with a device de-vice by which tho navigator, expects to bo ahlo to consorvo tho gas In tho huge bag almost Indefinitely. |