Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-29
Takes Off at LakehurSt at
1::54 This Morning-Left
Coast Behind at Cos After
Passing Over New York.
ONE WOMAN PASSENGER
AND so MEN ON BOARD
Three American Naval Officers
Making Trip-Message Reports
70-Mile Speed and Clear Weather.
Decision to Leave Is Quickly
Made by Comdr. Eckener.

BOSTON, October 90 o.
The Coast Guard Cutter Mo-
jave, on patrol duty off the
Nova Scotia coast notified head
quarters here by radio today
that the Graf Zeppelin had
been sighted at 8:45 am. off
Cape Sable. The location was
given as latitude AZ north and
longitude 66.05 west. The Graf
Zeppelin was heading Eastward
at good speed.
SOUTH DARTMOUTH, Mass,
October 90 GP).-The Graf Yep
pelin reported that it was about
10 miles southeast of Cape Sa-
BILE, Nova Scotia, in message
received today at the Massa-
chusetts Institute Of Technol-
ogy radio station here. The big
dirigible was then making
speed of about 10 miles an hour
and the weather was clear, the
message said.
NEW YORK, october 90 R.-
The Radio Marine Corporation
was informed by the steamer
Laconia that the Graf Zeppelin
passed over the liner at 1918
am. eastern standard time, at
a point about 80 miles south
west of Cape Sable, Nova Scotia.
PORTLAND, Me-. October 20
R-The Graf Zeppelin was in
communication BY radio with
a Massachusetts, commercial
station during the forenoon.
Private messages were belng
transmitted between 8 and 10
o'clock. The word from the
dirigible was "all's well"
BY the Associated Press.
GREAT POINT, Nantucket Is
land. Mass, October 29.-Th'
Graf Zeppelin, greatest ship tina
ever rode the air, babe farewell tt
the United States which for i
DAYS has been its host, ant
it's nose into the breaking
dawn and toward its distan
hangar at Friedrichshafen, Ger
many at sos o'clock this morn
ing.
After a speedy trip up the coast from
the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst
N J.. the dirigible left land behind a!
it few swiftly out over Nantucket Soune
nearly midway between Great Pom
/ ight on this island and Monomoy Ligh
on the long spur which juts out from
the southeastern tip of Cape Cod.
Tt was lust four hours and clever
minutes from the time it cleared the
Naval Air Station. Aboard were three
score men. including three officers o.
the United States Navy, one woman
and a variegated cargo Of freight.
Strikes Boldly Out to Sea.
After having Rugged the coastlint
since it quit the air station the Yep
pelin struck boldly out to sea, heading
southeast. A group of early hunters
who with the lighthouse keepers glimpse'
the big ship, estimated it was making
close to 80 miles an hour and that !
was flying at an altitude Of about 800
feet.
The group on either side of Nan
tucket Sound were not the last to sc
the giant craft. That honor went
Eugene Larsen, keeper OF the lionel
Santaky light, the first beacon sight
ed by incoming transatlantic liners.
Larsen reported that from his posi-
ton in the tower of his Lighthouse
which rises from precipitouS cliff o
the extreme eastern edge OF this lslant
he did not lose sight OF the Yep
pelin until it disappeared, on south
east course over the Rose and Crow
shoals, miles of shore.
Many See 1t Passing.
The Zeppelin was reported owe
Lower Manhattan at 3:15 am, an
from that time until it left the main
land there were but brief 1nterVa
when those on shore were out OF slgf
or sound of its progress.
1t held its course over Long ISlan
Sound, and then picked up the Rhoc
Island shore. A few minutes later Is we
steering course over Vineyard Scum
and for a short time it appeared as
it might head northeast for Province
ton, but it soon Strengthened out, picl
ing up its bearings and held east unit
it had passed through.