The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-07-07
Crew Of Giant Dirigible En-
Joyed All Luxuries in Trip
Across Atlantic.
THEY SLEEP IN HAMMoCKS
Steaming Hot Tea With Cake
Served Whenever Anyone
Gets Up Appetite.
HOUSE CAT IS ON BOARD
Everything but Smoking Car
in Blimp Which Bumped
Breezes to America.

hINEOTA. ~ Y, July 5.-No, In
the mere record ot miles covered Ia
to be found the real romance OF the
k-Sts aerial voyage 10 America. The
fun story of this great adventure.
this gamble against tho elements ls
revealed only through the human In.
cidents Of the trip ohronicled In the
form OF log by Brig Gen. Edward
NJ. Maitland. official observer for
tho British air miniAtry.
This story--a jules Verne tale
come true. was written while the
giant dirigible was leaving the
ground at East Fortune while IL was
passing out OF sight OF land. while Il
was battling It's way across tho At
lnntiC and eludlng electrical storms
In the northland. and while II was
slipping afely down the shore line
9f Long Island 30 the anchorage at
Mlneola.
II Is an intensely human story, set
down IN simple, unaffected style But
It Is doubtful II the greatest master
OF English could paint more vivid
picture.
In II II described the feeling Of
men starting on great adventure,
| choerfully confident In the face OF
"a hundred dangers In II Is de-
scribod the Courage OF red -hlooded
men fighting their way through an
ocean Of cloud and fog In Il Ia de-
Bcribed a rcuolute daring OF men cal
oulating cody Just how much fuel,
already greatly shortened. they could
oxpend In lodging tempeHs which
might lash them 10 destrilctlo In
II Is described the fighting spirit of
aerial adventures combating 20 the
laat a situation which might force
them 20 cill for assistance But
nothing is to be found In the log OF
the great Joy that nsuat have surged
up In every mans heart when they
dropped anchor victoriously--s safe al
the end Of 3, 500 mile voyage.
Have Jagz Music
when flying at night there is Al
ways feeling OF loneliness on loay-
INK the ground" reads an entry made
after tho airship hardly had taken
The air. but Il Is followed almost I'm
modiately by a description OF the
first breakfast In the air, which ends.
'ln the adjoining com mpartmeut
the Braphophone was entertaining
tho crews with the latest jazZ tune.
Next comes an account sof sleeping
In hnmmocka aboard a service a..
ship with a word OF caution for the
unwary sleeper.
There is only thin outer cover
of fabric on the underside OF the keel
on each side or the walking way and
the luckless individual who slips out
of his hammock would In all prob
ability break right through this and
soon find himself IN the Atlantic"
There follows series OF word pic.
lures ~ cloud formations. showipR
that Hs In the case OF AlCock and
Brown, the N-3l was a. times float
lug between two layers. OF wireless
messages breaking through these
cloud banks To bring cheer 20 the'
advcniurers. Of meals cooked over
exhaust pipes and engine repairs
made with chewing gum. of the dis
cUNery of felinO stuwawly SNUG
gIcd aboard by a superstitious Nom
bcr Of the crew and then tho sight.
ing OF ice fields ana Newfoundland
with terse observations on aerial
unviEntion
short of Petrol
Instead OF finding expressed A.
this point eXuberhnce nf captain ana
crew II Ia remarked thar mo airmen
think they would Ike to stop al New
foundlapd and Nova Scotia some
time for shooting and fishing. ns
tho forests ana lakes viewed from
tho afr hold promise OF much game
and fish Then comes a more ans
lous entry THE peUoI question N
becoming decidedly serious
And again. For some HtilN time
past there has been distinct evil
l,nu,a OF 'loc'rru disturbance"
Thru comes description of two
thunder storms successfully ovRded
"srt down quite simply as they ou-
cIIrui and more pr lysa In Tho form
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