Show FLYING FL YING ACROSS THE OCEAN Walter Wellman in his airship America which is patterned somewhat after the Zeppelin dirigibles left Atlantic City yesterday in an attempt to cross the Atlantic ocean following the course of the transAtlantic liners l The venture is somewhat hazardous and ami will fail unless the thc conditions con COll conditions are arc extremely favorable but eventually airships airs in a more perfected stage will accomplish that dream of the ages Zeppelin has demonstrated that under favorable conditions an airship can make a distance of or miles but that every added mile brings uncertainties Sudden air currents have not been mastered and a Q gust g st of wind can bring the mighty craft down with witha a crash J 1 t But it is possible for Wellman to be exceptionally favored and for him to succeed and if he does we will all applaud as one more morein victory in another new field of endeavor will be added to the many 11 c achievements of Americans We Ve do not know what Columbus would have said had the inhabitants inhabitants inhabitants of the West Vest Indies possessed enough ingenuity ty and daring to have intercepted the bold navigator with a dirigible but it is a Q certainty certainty certainty that his crew would have viewed the Indian asa as a monster from the underworld and they would have scanned the western horizon for signs of the end ond of things terrestrial f f t |