Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-07
ceived from both II. NJ. S. battle
cruisers Tiger and Renown.
Get Wide View of Clouds

cruisers Tiger n RenoWn.
Get Wide View Of Clouds
Scott increases height to 1000
feet and at this height we find our
selves well over the clouds and with
a bright blue sky above us. The
view is an enchanting one-as far
as one can see a vast ocean of white
feecy clouds ending in the most
perfect cloud horizons.
$40 p. m.-We have covered 610
sea miles measured in a direct line
in II hours at an average speed of
BIG knots or 40 miles per hour.
Depth of Atlantic at this point L.
500 fathoms.
~ p. M.-The clouds have risen
to u height and we are now driv-
ing away to them with nj signs of
the sky above or the sea under
meath.
$50 p. M.-Scott decided to go
down underneath the clouds and in
creases speed on all engines to 1900
revolutions to do so. Dark, cold n
wet in The clouds and we shut all
windows.
I'VE see the sea at 1900 feet be-
tween patches of cloud. Rather
bunny.
I'VE now find ourselves between
two layers of clouds, the top layer
1000 feet above us and the lower
layer 500 feet below with occasional
glimpses of sea.
"9 P. M.-The u is now setting
and gradually disappearing below
the lower cloud horizon. Course
steered 800 degrees. Course made
good 29s degrees. Air speed forty
four knots, speed made good fifty
five miles per hour.
"All through this first night in
the Atlantic the ordinary airship
routine of navigating, steering and
elevating, also maintaining h en-
gines in smooth-running order, goes
on, watch and watch. as in the day
time.
THE night is very dark. The air
ship, however. is lighted throughout.
$3.50 A. M, Thursday, July a.
The clock has been put back an hour
to correct our time to Greenwich
meantime. Position-longitude 50.
degrees, so minutes west; latitude
SO degrees north.
I'VE are we'll over half way be-
tween Ireland and Newfoundland
and are back again on the great cir
Gle route, having been slightly to the
south of it owing to the drift effect
of a northerly wind.
Chewing Gum Repairs
"2 P. M.-Slight trouble with star
board amidships engine-cracked
cylinder waterjacket. Shotter. al
ways equal to the occasion, made a
quick and safe repair with a piece
of copper sheeting and the entire
supply of the ships chewing gum
had to be chewed by himself and
two engineers before being applied.
"4.30 p. M.-We are now on the
Canadian summer route of steamers
bound for the st. Lawrence via Belle
Isle strait and over the well-known
Labrador current. There are already
indications of these cold currents in
the fog which hangs Immediately
above the surface of the water.
&c to Z p. M.-We are gradually
getting further and further into the
shallow depression which was re-
ported yesterday coming up from
the South Atlantic. For the last four
hours the sea has been rising and
now the wind is south southeast.
forty-fve miles per hour. Visibility
only a half mile. Very rough sea
and torrents of rain. In spite of this
| the ship is remarkably steady.
"At s p. M.-Scott decides to
climb right through it and we evil
IDENTIFY came out over the top of it
at 3,400 feet.
$3.50 P. M.-We have now passed
the center of the depression exactly
as Harris foretold. The rain has
ceased and we are travelling quite
smoothly again.
80 P. None Of the engineers
has reported sick-complains of fe-
verishness.
Find Cat on Board
"a stowaway has just been dis
covered, a cat smuggled on board by
n of the crew for luck. 1t is a
very remarkable fact that nearly
every member of the crew has a
mascot of some description, from
the engineer officer who wears one
of his wife's silk stockings as a
muff1er around his neck, to Major
Scott, the captain, with a small gold
charm called Thumbs Up
"4.30 A. M.-Friday. July A.
Wonderful sunrise-the different
colors being the softest imaginable,
just like a wash drawing.
~ A. M.-Height 1000 feet.
Bright, blue sky above, thin fog
partly ~obscuring the sea beneath us;
sea moderate, big swell
THE fog bank appears to end alb
ruptly ten miles or so away towards
the south where the sea appears to
be clear of fog and a very deep
blue.
Standing out conspicuously in
this blue patch of sea we see an
enormous white iceberg.
"S.15 A. M.-Fog still clinging to
the surface of the Whitewater evil
IDENTIFY must be very cold. Extraor-
binary crimpy wave-like appearance
of clouds rolling up from the north
underneath it. Harris has never
seen this before.
Over Ice Field
"9 A. M.-We are now over a
large ice field and the sea is full of
enormous pieces of ice-small bergs
in themselves. The ice is blue-green
under water, with frozen snow on
top.
"A message reaches us from the
Governor Of Newfoundland:
Ito General Maitland, officers and
Crew, R-34:
ION behalf of Newfoundland I
greet You as you pass us on your
enterprising journey.
"'HARRIS, Governor
1880 P. M.-Land in sight
First spotted by Scott on ~starboard
beam. A few small rocky islands
visible for a minute or two through
the clouds and instantly swallowed
up again.
ALTERED course southwest to have
a closer look at them. Eventually
made them out to be the northwest
coastline of Trinity Bay, Newfound-
land.
"Our time from Rathlin Island
the last piece of land we crossed
above the north coast of Ireland
to north coast of Trinity Bay, New.