The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-10-15
He Is Accompanied by Five Men and at Last
Report Was Well Out at Sea===EFurricane
Now Passing Along the Coast Is
Alarming Ills Friends

Atlantic City, Oct 15,-The long
deferred attempt OF Walter Wellman,
Journalist, aeronaut and explorer, to
cross the Atlantic in a dirigible air
ship. was begun this morning at an
early hour when his balloonJ the
America, left the Hangar and disap.
peared to the eastward in heavy
fog.
At 1905 the first wireless dis.
patch from the America was received
here. Headed northeast" it said
"all well on board, machinery work
ing fine Goodbye. Irwin" "
Wireless Operator Miller, just be-
fore noon had again spoken to the
America: the purport OF the message
was that Wellman and his cr6w had
decided to make the daring attempt
TO reach Europe
I'VE are headed due northeast but
have taken no observations and VIII
not know our exact location until
noon" it read
The Americas wireless apparatus
has radius of 100 miles
Another message received here at
IL o'clock brought the news from
Wellman that the start had been
made for Europe The America is
making 20 knots an hour, according
10 Wellman. with the course laid east
by northeast
"Al well on board. Fog lifting at
11.15 and every bit of machinery
working smoothly" says the message.
What little wind that was blowing
at the time the America started was
from the west,
Six Men Aboard,
There are six men in the airship.
They are provided with provisions
sufficient TO last a month. The only
means Of cooking is on small oil
stove but this, Mr.. Wcllman says,
viii do all they require 1t was esti-
mated that the two engines would
push the balloon through the air at
the rate OF 26 miles an hour With
Europe 5000 miles away, il can
readily be calculated how long 1t viii
take them to reach the other side OF
the Atlantic ocean.
The crew aboard the America,
when she left the ground. included
. W dllPI NBlluJdu. AltlNiu dululdus
chief engineer. F hurry. ]. X. Irwin,
wireless operator. and Albert Louis
Loud and John ATbert. assistant en-
gl1eers
If 1t settles close to the water. the
wood blocks and the tanks would
float and relieve it OF some OF its
weight AS the gasoline is required
the steel cable will be pulled up into
the car of the balloon, and tank
emptled
The American carries 5000 pounds
Of gasoline She is thoroughly equip
ped with sextants. compasses and 9th
cr Instruments for locating positions
as are the big ocean liners.
After The airship rose and went
out OF sight IL developed that one
member of the crew had been left
behind He 10 Jean Jacon. the French
motor expert 1t is not known wheth
er he was at the hanger when the
balloon was brought out Jacon is
said 20 have had some differences
with Mr. Wellman over wages.
Description Of Airship.
The America is "a larger craft than
the one in which WeIman started
for the North Pole. The airship's gas
bag IS shaped like a cigar and is 22S
feet long Its width is about * feet
and Is said to be capable of NiftiDg
Ecarly twelve tons.
The passenger car is 156 feet long,
the floor OF which is a fiat in which
the gasoline is stored The America
carries three gasoline engines, one
is a donkey and the other two are
for motive power They are in The
center and are of about eighty horse
power Beneath the car hangs a
boat q feet long. TO be used II the
balloon is wrecked
Strung beneath the car is a $50
loot equilibriator which takes the
place OF drag rope used on balloons.
ne eouilibriator consists OF a lonf
steer cable 10 which are attached thir-
~ small steel tanks. each carrying I;
pounds OF gasoline and fourteen
blocks. about 20 inches long TIL,
cqullloriators make 1t unnecessary t
carry ballast 1t is Intended that tho
DalIoon shall sail along at a height
of about 200 feet.
a message timed 12:10 md signc
by Wellmap himself. said
All we. on board. Making exec
lent progress"
Exchange Of Messages.
The first message from Werma
and his crew TO the local men VIII
backed his enterprise was recelve
at p m. II was directed to .Josep
w. Slaus. president OF the local syI