The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-10

I Roosevelt field, Mineola, Long Island,
the big dirigible passed over New
York City. ircled over the Times build
ing tower ut 12:45, remaining in sight
OF dense Broadway crowd for five
minutes before heading south over
lower Manhattan and disappearing in
an easterly direction at 1915 am.
| For more than an hour the naval
communications office sent wireless
reports OF weather conditions at sea
to the R-34 and the wireless stations
at the Mineola flying fields were in
communication with her until nearly
am, when the RIA radio operator
requested that further weather re-
port be sent from the Bar Harbor,
Maine. radio station.
Wireless Says All o. X.
The R-34 was going we'll at a
speed of forty-nine knots, according
to three wireless messages received
today by the naval communications
office.
One OF the messages flashed at 2:45
am, read: Everything o. X. Bound
for England"
A second message received at 8
am, read: Speed forty-nine knots.
Going well. Everything o. K"
The third message. caught at 3:45
such rapid progress that wireless sig
nails sent her had become unreliable. |
The message read: signs unreada- |
BILE, due to rapid increase of distance |
and speed and atmospheric statics."
Left Exactly at Midnight.
New York, July 10.-U. N. So
The official time OF the R-34s start |
from Roosevelt field at midnight to- |
day was exactly midnight. Maj. Scott |
had planned to get away at about 4
o'clock this morning but another
urgent message from Washington
last night gave warning of the ap-
proach OF a storm of considerable in
tensity from the Great Lakes Scott |
decided to take no chances and or
dered the crew to make the airship
ready for departure at once.
Provisions were taken aboard and
all hands were ordered ION ship" at
l1:12 p. m. Col. William N. Hensley,
the American observer who is making
The return trip, was one of the last
aboard. At 1853 the engines were
started, two minutes later the cables
hat held the air giant to earth were
released and five minutes later the
R-24, with the white ensign of the
British navy at her tan and the stars
md stripes tapping from her forward
scared away toward New
FORK City.
The R-34 will land at Paulham on
Ter arrival home.
Maj. Scott, the dirlgible's com
nander. has mapped a course that I
axes the airship in northeasterly
direction off the Atlantic coast to the 6
ifty-second parallel, when the R-34
will swing westward and head di-
ectly for Fastnet on the southwest
I'm tip of Ireland, proceeding from
rastnet to Paulham, a suburb of Lon
on.
Should Land Saturday, 2 p. m.
At her present rate of speed, the
t-S4 should reach Fastnet, a dis
ance of 2,750 miles, in fifty seven \
ours, arriving about O'Clock Satur- +
ay afternoon. She should reach
london early Saturday night in time y
o soar over the British capital and
i've Londoners something of the
brill experienced by New Workers
arly this morning
Climbed 1000 Feet High.
1t was nearly / o'clock before the '
IA was observed by n crowd of I
everal thousand gathered in plaza
! the Bronx, through the blackness
the northeastern sky the red, white
nd blue circled nose of the dirigible 7
ppeared and as the crowd cheered
he rest of the slate-c olored airship
anne into view. She was flying only
10 feet above the street and the roar
her engines was plainly heard.
AS she crossed the Harlem river at I
10th street the dirigible climbed to y
n altitude of 1000 feet to make GER y
lin that she would clear the down =
,wn skyscrapers. =
A big searchlight on a building at !,
orty-second street and Broadway y
'ached up to the great balloon and y
lthed her in golden light.
On the roof of the hotel Ritz4Carl-
n stood Mrs. Hensley wife of Col c.
ensley, with their ten months old +