Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-19
WIND, A|RSH|P'S FUEL:
Trade Breezes Excel Gasoline For
Ocean Flight, Says Bruoker.
MECHANICS ARE SECONDARY.

FORMER Vhtcaaoan 60tl0ve9 ne WIT
Set New Record With Dirisibls IN
Atlantic Trip Next Year-For Safety
tho Car Of His Airship Will Resemble
Submarine Boat.
Joseph Brucker. who is going I %
cross the Atlantic next summer inSan
airship, dropped into Chicago the other
day on his way to the International
Aeronautic exposition at Frankfort-on-
the Main, where he is going to select
his dirigible for what he hopes WIN be
a history making expedition.
Mr.. Brucker has his trip all planned
out and sees no possible logical reason
why he should not succeed. Although
he Is going to use dirigible, a.ship
about one-third the size Of Count Yep
pelin's, it is the northeast trade wind
and not gasoline that he IL depending
on for power, and it is meteorology
and not mechanism that he will make
the scientific basis Of his trip.
IT am not a mechanic" he said. Il
am q meteorologtst. have been max
ing study Of the trade winds, and,
while little Is known Of them in high
attitudes, believe it viii be simply q
matter Of keeping in the current to
make the passage in four days It
didn't take mariners long to discover
that the air and ocean currents were
Of the greatest Importance to them.
Well, surely the air currents are Of
vastly more Importance to the aero
naut- That is exactly the trouble with
most of our aeronauts. They are me.
chanics, and when they have built
their ships or balloons they consider
their work finished. As a matter OF
fact, It is only begun.
II shall start probably from Cadix.
Spain. next May or June. Then, II I
can land on any one Of the West In
dies, that is all am looking for; then
shall have made record that will
be hard to beat. It may be Cuba,
Barbados, Martinique-any of them.
IT have been laughed at, to be sure.
But why? They tell me no airship
can carry enough gasoline for four
days. Perfectly true. Ny gasoline
will be used only in an emergency To
all intents and purposes shall be a
balloonist, depending on the air cur
rents for my motive power. Theyatell
me also the trip is dangerous. NY
dear sir, Mr.. Wellman,sF expedition to
discover the north pole, with all its
possibilities Of freezing and starvation.
Is infinitely more dangerous. But they
do not laugh at Mr.. Wellman."
AS a precautionary measure M.
Brucker will have the 'car" Of his ship
built on the plan Of q submarine boat
looking, as he said, q good deal like
the Monitor Of civil war days.
Eve can make the trip in bathing
suits, and II we fall We win pau the
manhole shut. There Is no particular
danger, really"
Mr.. Bructer Is O Chicagoan himself,
though recently he has not been living
there. For ten years be was editor Of
the Illinois Staats-Zeitung and suhse-
quently was made commissioner to
Germany for the st. Louis exposition.
He Is friend Of Count Zeppelin. the
German aeronaut and expects yalua.
Bile aid from him in the Transatlantic
trip.
"The Wright brothers and Count
Zeppelin agree with me" he said. that
1t is perfectly within reason that's bal
loon or airship properly constructed
would Cross the ocean safely"
At Frankfort on. the Main Mr.. Bruck.
er will confer with builders, aeronauto
and meteorologists, select his airshin
and plan the details Of his fight.