The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-17
WELLMAN NOT
 HEARD FROM BY WIRELESS TODAY
WAITING FOR MESSAGE BY WIRELESS FROM B1G
 DIRIGIBLE BALLOON

Siaseonset,. Mass, Oct. 17.-With moderate westerly ~iaaS ID ef ntght. pf2w the the monster dirigib1e balloon 4Amerlca, with Walter Wellnan and ms crem W of five on board, is believed today 10 be sailing steadily Yeast py hoFlh to@ ward the Irish coast.
 LID in the big wireless tower here today. A. H. Gilman, the operator, IS anxiously listening s d TOT some oceen liner liner that will show the exact Wherea p0ues qrt,s of the navigators of the air Ine America is well outside or tne rans iatlsS now that she will hardly get close enough to Cape Sable to pick up that station at all not be more perfect had they been ordered by the men who are Iryias to establish a new record TOT Asnl- si- to husband their supply of gasoline, a fluid that will prove very precious should bad weather be encounleLeo later. while at the same time the DIE dirigible, according to last accounts is being held on her course at. d speed of not less than twenty knots
 No word has come from the dr1gl- bIe since the last faint G B.. DICK ed out of the air by G1nman at nooll yesterday. 1t was the g1ou-oyye syeb7 e,s of the very spot where some tune ago Irwin, as wireless operator on tne Baltic, caught the ''C. e. D- appeal for help of Jack Binns, sent from the iII-fated Republic. And, as on that occasion, Binns carefully huspanded his stjuice,'' so yesterday Irwin salo ille conversati6rl. But it was beaiev- ed this morning that oeIore Lalls fists Gay was over there would be an exact LID mI e e foe which has prevailed snice Satur- day was lifting along the coast to- day and the wireless station at Sap!e Island reported that severe re 5.e @teGerte Ia +e last night had cleared the ar there. This means that the Welinan airsnlp IT may get into communlcdtIooa M1elt M 'iio l . liners if indeed some or them do not actually sight the air Hlef, ana from them word of the progress Will be re1ayed to the shore statlon nere. It was estimated by the naV1gators here that the America was propably some seven hundred mnes noFrheast of the starting point at Atlantlc City based oT the speed of the wind and the speed of the cratt when last heard from Now that the wind IS blowing steadily out or the n0rtn- ward any sign or oei1S iS1 iAe1V . lessened materially. One cause of worry today was over the storm reported IFo4i s eaSte Uoz,r isIanu E land coast and thence northeastWard and if is hoped that 1t dld not ex- tand fo sea to reach the America Wbetber WeI1man and his men sue ceed G 'if1i-r in reaching Europe or not one tbine is certain, they have already es- tabiished record for flight in a dirigible.
 New York, Oct a-a;A 17mAdv1eeg re re | STercori station at Capertown, N. S!, stated that the operators there have | bean unable to get into communica- | lion with the dirigible America.
 The operators gave it as their opin- | ion that the big airship is now head | ing east. the wind at that time being 1 favorable for holding the America or l such a course
 Washington, oct. 17--Practfcal11 | Darfecf weather prevails today in the | course of Walter Wellman's balloon
 America, and according to tht
 weather bureau they could ask nc l hetter treatment from the clement 1 For the transatlantic voyage. I'm | of6ciaI forecast follows:
 1sEair weather, with moderate west
 ar1v winds, will, prevail today in tn
 stea rner lanes supposed to be follow
 ed bv the Wellman balloon. The con
 ditiofs are highly favorable for tn
 airship.