Evening star., 1924-10-08
Passes Alabama Line Early
This Morning at Speed of
IS Miles an Hour.
THOUSANDS SEE SHIP
ON TRIP OVER SOUTH
Spiendor of Sunrise From Craft
Described by Correspondent
on Board.
By the Associs ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
ABOARD THE U. S. S. SHENAN-
DOAH, Alabama Mississippi Boundary,
October Sat speed of 65 miles an
hour, $500 feet in the air, the Shenan-
doah, at 8 o'clock. central standard
time, today slid into the State of
Mississippi over Columbus with it's
course laid directly west across the
State to the Mississippi River. Green
willie, Miss, is expected to be reached
before noon.
Crosses Mountains Early.
Sailing smoothly at an altitude of
$500 feet the Shenandoah crossed the
lower tip of the Allegheny Mountains
at speed of As miles an hour at 6
o'clock am.
Atlanta was passed at 4:45 am. just
as day was breaking and the Georgia
metropolis was awakening. The
salvo of locomotive whistles echoed
up into the clouds to the wonder of
the ship. Carrollton, Ga, was passed
at 5:32 am.
The sun, a golden ball, was peeping
over the eastern horizon Of the Blue
Ridge foothills at am.
The haze broke away from their
tops, the rays of the morning sun
ripping in long lines like a neN
cloud field Banks of clouds Ia.
heavy in the valleys, the reddish dir
roads looking like ribbons among tn
green far below interlacing hill tops
and hidden valleys.
In some of the scattered homes O.
the hills, farmers entire families
were gathered, and in the early
morning wagons driving to the towns
while the occupants gazed aloft as
the ship emerged from the dawn.
Toward dawn the head wind which
the ship had been bucking died down
and while the ships speed through
the air and the speed of it's motors
did not change, its speed over the
ground increased from 35 to IS miles
an hour due to the dying out of the
wind.
Watch Kept Generally.
All during the night as the Shen-
andoah roared over Virginia, the
Carolinas and Georgia, countless
watch night" parties waited for her
to arrive.
Ideal weather marked her passage
from Washington. There was Just
the whisper of a breeze into which
she majestically headed and which
cut her speed slightly.
The Shenandoah followed the South
ern Railway almost all the way from
Washington well into South Carolina.
Just before reaching Greenville, S. C,
she steered slightly east and foated
over Anderson, S. c., on her way to-
wards Athens and Atlanta, Ga.
The Fort Mcpherson Army post at
Atlanta established radiophone con-
versation with the Shenandoah and
was informed the vessel might COM
municate with the fort frequently to-
day The Shenandoah also gave the
fort two official messages for the Navy
Department in Washington.
Lieut.. Palmer did most of the talk
ing in the conversations with Fort
Mcpherson. He said that when they
passed over Atlanta, the ship was
about 1900 feet up and was travelling
about As knots, which speed 1T would
keep up indefinitely.
The course which was laid to At
lanta is about equal in distance to
flight from Lakehurst to Chicago.
With head winds a year ago, the
Shenandoah speeded back from Chica-
60 to its New Jersey harbor at speed
of IS miles an hour. Head winds
stretched the Atlanta voyage to near
ly 20 hours.