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Show were cheered by thousands of spectators. specta-tors. The balloon made a safe aud easy landing at Wormwood Scrubs. The dirigible curried M Clement of the Clement-Bayard firm. In command; Rnudry and LePrlnce, steersmen, Se-batier, Se-batier, engineer and designer; two mechanics and Arthur Phillip Du-Cros, Du-Cros, member of the British parliament, parlia-ment, representing the British parliamentary parlia-mentary aerial defense committee. I Only these seven were aboard, although al-though the airship can accommodate S9 passengers In addition to the crew. The course was by way of Ameicns, Abbeville and Boulocno and the bal- j loon was steered readily by aid of tho compass. The French government provided three torpedo boat destroyers destroy-ers which followed the dirigible across the channel. The Clement-Bayard reached Boulogne at 10-20. and Foolk-estonc Foolk-estonc at 11:20. The balloon arrived over Iindon just as tho streets were filled with tho great Sunday crowds leaving the churches. The appearance of the monpter over the housetops caused the people to wonder and hundreda of thousands gathered to watch the aeronauts. The aerouauts now experienced some trouble with the varying air currents. cur-rents. On this account they circled St. Paul3 and the tower bridge twice, dipped several times and flew closo to the tops of buildings. They passed river the houses of parliament par-liament and along ro Hyde Park, whero there was a wild scramble of spectators The dirigible landed safely safe-ly after describing largo descending circles, aided by a-detachment of soldiers. sol-diers. M. Clement declared he was exceedingly pleased with the behavior of the ship. DIRIGIBLE FLIES ACROSS CHANNEL LONDON, Oct. 10. nother chapter was added to the history of aviation t.day when the French dirigible bal loon Clement-IS.iyard made the voyage from Compeigne lo London in the ro-maikable ro-maikable time of six hours, a Journey icquirlng seen hours bj tho fastest express trains and boats. Coniegne Is 43 miles northeast of Paris and about 1 JU 1 niles by air route to London. Lon-don. It was tho fii'bl occasion on which a dlrlgil.de balloon has crossed 'he English En-glish channel. The over-water roulo occupied 43 minutes. The Clement Bayard with a crew of six left Com-peigue Com-peigue at 7:13 o'clock this morning and reached London without u stop nt about 1:13 in the afternoon. The atmospheric at-mospheric conditions were perfect and the big airship traveled with a slight breeze behind The behavior of tho dir'.clblo was splendid and the 4 4-horse 4-horse power motor worked to perfection. perfec-tion. The passeiigoYs experienced no discomfort and wote only troubled by the mist in crossing the English channel. chan-nel. A most uneventful voyage It was, with nothing to Interrupt the smooth swinging motion of the balloon which averaged 32 to 33 miles au hour. An altitude varying from 3U0 to 700 feet wis , maintained and all along tho flight over tho land tho aeronauts, |
