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.GIANT Yep LEAVES halifax
ERGREAT ARC.OF UNDBERGH

appeared to be suspended at times
as she proudly circled the lights
atop the hanger and headed In .
northeasterly direction toward the
expansive Atlantic with New York
City directly in her path.
Cheers burst from the threats of
a little band of several hundred
thrilled spectators as gradually the
tights of the great air liner dis
appeared from view in the night.
For they had witnesses a spectacle
that held them breathless and
thrilled beyond expression.
They had seen every detail or the
dramatic departure. The farewell
kisses. The tuning up OF the
motors in the hangar. The removal
of the ship from the hangar. The
calm concern Of the crew. The
bravery of the passengers. And
they had joined in the cries of
'auf widersehen."
Exactly 1880
It was exactly 1880 a. m. when
the motors of the Zeppelin began
to hum in the hangar, signalling
that the departure was imminent.
Passengers and crew aboard, !"
was the order of Capt. F. Lehman,
third in command.
One by one the passengers
mounted the wooden platform that
had been built alongside the cabin
of the ship. Among the first to
enter was Mrs. Clara Adams, of
Tannersville, Pa, the lone woman
passenger.
I'm thrilled beyond words" she
exclaimed as she waved good-by to
a woman friend in the crowd.
She is a tall, slender woman, the
wife of George L. Adams, a retired
cannery magnate, and a close
friend of Comdr. Hugo Eckener.
She wore a brown ensemble suit,
a velour coat with fox collar and a
wine olored hat trimmed with
ostrich. Her husband was not
present. He had telephoned her
s'bon voyage from New York
shortly before her departure.
I'm not the least bit worried, I"
she told International News Service.
you'll hear from me from Ger.
many within three days. DIR.
Eckener and his men will see to
that
Knut Eckener, the commanders
handsome 24-year.old son. was
given a pleasant surprise when
Miss Doris Horowitz, secretary to
Joseph d. Jessel, one of the passen-
gers, dashed up on the platform
and without any ado planted 4 kiss
full upon his lips.
Eckener blushed furiously but he
returned the kiss.
Walked Out OF Hangar
kiss her again" the spectators
called out, amid applause.
Miss Horowitz. however. fitted
away before he could do it.
A pretty woman in a red hat.
Mrs. George n. Grouse, of Syracuse,
N. Y. dashed up the steps and en-
tered the cabin to say farewell to
her husband. A few minutes later
he came to the cabin door and gave
her a farewell kiss. .,
IT wish I was going with him, y
Mrs. Grouse remarked. Other fare
wells We're said and soon everything
was in readiness to move the ship
from the hanger where it had been
berthed beside the dirigible Los
Angeles.
The ground crew. of go men,
sailors IN Dlue UNIFORMS WIN Hdtty
white caps, had assembled at the
west end of the hangar. Three
blasts from the naval station siren
called them to the ship. They took
/ their positions at the spider" ropes
| which dangled from the dirigible.
| Other man removed the blocks from
beneath the Zeppelin.
Then the electrically propelled
doors, weighing thousands of
pounds. swung open at the east
end, and shortly thereafter the doors
on the west end were partly opened,
| too.
At 1927 a. m. the command was
given to remove the Yep" from the
hangar. The sailors seized the
ropes while about 80 others held
down the control cabin.
| Slowly the dirigible was walked
out. stern first, through the east
door. The ship moved out ack.
ward along a narrow railroad track
clearing the hangar at 1898. She
was walked directly for about 200
yards further.
Silhouetted against the moonlit
sky the 110.ton Zeppelin presented
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