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Show used In tho motors, thus gradually lessening the weight to be carried. Not Surprising. The enulllbrator was one of the chief problems of the venture, and It Is not surprising that it should make trouble In the manner descried by Mr. Wellman. When tho tall of the rnullibrator dragging over the tops of the waves at a speed of 23 miles an hour, it would not be safe to run the engines of the airship nud. thus increase its "jerking" The unsatisfactory conduct of the erpiilibrator is probably what he le- ' fcrs to in saying that "the outlook Is ni so favorable." Tf Wellman Is still In the air. he has alreadv won for himself a world s record by outdoing all previous feats with dliiplbles so far as tine In the air is concerned, ai lOO. 'o clock I last night he equated tft mark of 37 hours of continuous fliifit in a dirlg- Ihle, which was set by Count Z"p- , pcliu and has not heretofore been ap- I proached by any others, I Quarter of Distance Covered. I i At sunrise Wellman had already covered about a fourth of the distance j to Ireland, according tf) computations i of probabilities as figured by balloon j experts, here They figure that the j balloon had made 4m'i miles at 1 p. in yesterday and that the continuing j strong west wind would drive it for the next sixteen hours, at tho rate of. from In to 23 miles an hour, by 3 o'clock this morning, then it must have been nearly 700 mUes from At- 1 ' lantlc Cit or approximately one- : fourth of the way across the Atlantic ! From Atlantic Clfy to the nearest j point on the coast of Ireland is about , 2.SO0 miles. ifollTEII No Message Since VVell-man VVell-man Reported His Craft in Trouble New York, Oct. 10. Swept onward by a stnrdr westerly breeze, Walter W'ellman's creii dirigible balloon America, Am-erica, first of air craft to hazard trans-Atlantic trans-Atlantic passage, was following the steamship lanes up the Atlantic c.mst at midnight tonight, out of wireless j range from shore points but presumably presum-ably continuing her unbroken course with all well on board. The gluut craft had passed Nantucket Nantuck-et Island early In the afternoon with propeller idle and had held brief communication with the wireless sta- ti.n at Slaseonsett . In all the other I messages there was no hint, of the air-! air-! ship's location, but a signalled good- bye indicated that Wellman. whose j dream is to be the Columbus of the l nlr, on passing Nantucket turned the I noie of his craft In a more northerly direction, with the British Isles as hln goal. A wireless message, amplifying those of the day, was relayed to Sias-consctt Sias-consctt tonight, theuce to Sagaponack, L. I. It was faint and hard to decipher de-cipher but, as patched together, was as follows: "All well. Macnlnery working well. Have turned more northerly to reach trans-Atlantic steamer track. Exact position not sure; somewhere between 300 and SO0 miles off shore None of the messages received spoke despairingly, though one communication com-munication received by the New York Times referred to the outlook as "not favorable." In the same message, however, waa a cheerful, "We aro keeping up the tigbt." No Word Received. Siasconsett. R I.. Oct. 17. The Marconi wireless station here has spoken to a number of steamers and was In communication this morning with the Finland, bound for New York but none of the steamers has seen or heard anything of the airship America. The Finland reports that a heavy storm occurred carlv Sunday even, Ing. with vivid flushes of lightning and n heavy downpour of rain At 0 p m , the weather cleared and light northerly winds prevailed. This tuorr.ing the weather has been clear. Wellman Was In Trouble. Now York, Oct. 17. Somewhere between be-tween Siasconsett and Sandy Hook, the liner, Arabic, which arrived here early this morning, must have passed Walter W'ellman's airship America, salllus rapidly eastward through tho fog. But. though a sharp lookout was kept for the big balloon, and though the liner's wireless operator was listening list-ening alertly for the "w ' code signal of the airship, not a sign of her was seen or heard. From the Siasconsett wireless station, detail? of the start and copies of messages sent landward bv the aerial voyagers and informed I the officers and passengers of the Arable early on Suuday that the new ocean-going airship was likely to cros3 i their path during the day and everybody every-body was on deck eager to catch a view of her through a lucky rift of the clouds, or if no rift came, to hear I he throb of her engines as she passed. pass-ed. The Arabic Is the first of about a dozen incoming ships, whoso course must have crossed that of the America Ameri-ca during the last 24 hours. It is I regarded as unlikely that any of them f!iv the balloon or heard the engines for the fog has hung persistently all day and miiRt have prevented any, sighting of the Wellman craft while dispatches from Siasconsett indicate that tho engines were silent for much ! of the time while the balloon drifted before a 23 knot breeze toward berj destination. Equilibrator Is Jerking. I Perhaps the most significant of1 Die messages from Wellman before hs got beyond reach of the wireless apparatus ap-paratus at Siasconsett was the follow.", ing. received shortly before noon yes-, teidav I "Tho equllibiator is jerking on the' airship as It leaps from wave to wave, ! but no damage has been done. Tho : weather Is thick. Wooellove we are 1 south of Nanturkett. The outlook Is not so favorable, but o aro keep-1 1 1 1 ir up the fight "' J The rerRon for shnttine off the America's motors while running be- j fore the wind Is made appareut to ex-: ports in 1he Information thus given a to the conduct of Ihe cquilibrator. ' The cquWhrator is the line of Iron gasoline gas-oline tanks strung on a steel cable ' and reaching down to the sea, where' It I rising and falling with the pan? ion and contraction of the hydro-1 gen gas bag. due to differences of night and day temperatures. It Is sunnofled to keep the airship w-ithlu a narrow range '-f altitude and to avoid the nec"saltv of letting gas out of the bag when the beat of the mld-d.iv mld-d.iv sun would carry it to too groat a helcht. This device Is the Inven-' tion of M'-lvIHe Vanlman. chief ennln-rcr ennln-rcr of the America. His Idea In filling fill-ing the iron t.tnks of the equlllbrator with giiKoline was, as the bnuyanev of 'he aii ship crew less, tbe tanks could be hauled up and their contents |