The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-29
BY WEBSTER K. NOLAN.

I. N. S. Staff Correspondent.
 Aboard the C-2., Aberdeen
 Proving Grounds, Md. July 2S-
 The Giant army GlrIg1bIe C-2
 landed here in splendid condition
 after a thirteen-hour aH-night
 battle with an electrical storm
 over New York city and after be-
 ing lost for two hours in the
 dense fog that wrapped the
 North Atlantic coast.
 New York city, Tor which the di- rigible headed, lay sheathed in an impenetrable fog. The city was in no wise discernible. The mighty roar of the dirigib1e's engines it blind ly sailed over the tip of the battery brought into play a huge searchlight which catching the dirigibIe in it's fierce light saved the C-2 from an imminent crash into the Whitehall building at the foot of Manhattan island. The great sharu Of light suda denly swung from the dirigible to the building, and the commander of the dirigible' sent his craft upwards with a cracking of gears and a jerk that sent its seven passengers off their feet.
 16,O0O Feet Up in Air.
 Rising to height of sixteen thous- and feet, the dirigible left the sky scrapers of lower New York only to, find itself under a star1ess sky and enveloped in fog. Hesitating to descend again to determine his whereabout, lest in descending he might again come in collision with tall structures of lower New York, Captain William Kepner sailed out over the fog dripped area for several miles.
 Descending again finally the ship came suddenly upon Coney Island, dropping still further in an effort to discern the elevated tracks as a pos sib1e guide line through the dark ness the dirigible managed to trail a speeding elevated train for. a mile or two.
 A sharp command from Captain Kepner and the dirigible made a fierce lunge at a steep bank to the left. It had missed a tall snaokestack by bare ly 20 feet.
 Lost Over Ocean.
 Refusing to be discouraged Captain Kepner drove the dirigible in what which New York city lay. The fog fooled him. After sailing for twenty minutes at great speed the command CT fousi he was far out over the toward Coney Island again believing he could take his tack from that point. But a severe electrical storm of great intensity broke upon the d1- rigible rocked by the wind that whis- tied through her stays the dirigible plowed on.
 The commander ventured to drop 1400 feet in his grim determination  flying at night under odds. A single glaring light gave the crew courage. The light puzzled the commander but he headed for it. When within 400 yards of the striking light it proved to be the Statue of Liberty. The dirigibIe cir1cled the statue. The crew gathered new spirit and de- fermined to ferret out Jersey City and sail over Boy1e's Arena where the Leonard-TendIer lightweight cham pionship bout was in progress. But there was no way in which the crew could determine Jersey City in the insistent maze of lights below them.
 Driven Over New Jersey,
 The electrical storm increased and liter ally drove the dirigfble before it in the battle to ttconquer'' Jersey City. The commander then headed the craft for Forty-second street and Broadway. Half way towards that point, Broadway itself being indis- cernibIe, the commander consulted his watch and discovered it was nearly l o'clock in the morning. He turn ed his ship homeward in the electri- cal storm and the fog continued it's grip on the dirigib1e and sent it wan dering through air lanes leading, the commander knew not where. His radio set failed him at this point With his compass the commander guided the vessel south by southwest