Show ballooning ACROSS ATLANTIC I 1 walter wellman and party P of five attempt pioneer voyage in strange craft new york city the first attempt io to make a flight over the atlantic ocean from continent to continent began at 8 saturday morning when the huge dirigible balloon america started from atlantic city with walter wellman journalist explorer and navigator in co command minand a party of five men one of whom is also a navigator one an expert wireless telegraph operator and the others engineers wellman head of the expedition said he e hoped to cross the atlantic cean in eight or ten days at fifteen fifteen knots an hour lie he is making the speed of df a slow liner he carries g 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 indefinite iv |