Evening star., 1928-10-16
HOOVER MESSAGE
FIRST TO ZEPPELIN
Nominees Agent Breaks
Through Lakehurst Crowds
to Greet DR.. Eckener.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LAKEHURST, NJ j., October 49,
Herbert Hoover, being a good engineer
at home with log jams and floods, go
his man through the Zeppelin crow,
here ahead of everybody else.
AS the stylish With the sore fin SAM
wearily to earth Monday evening ther
was big scrimmage, blurred in tn
murky light, as sailors, Marines AM
police fought back the crowd, whicl
had been without hot dogs and zepps
Inns for two whole days. and SCENE,
ready to devour the ship.
Invitation to Visit Washington.
A plump but fleet runner in a ligh
suit suddenly shot around the righ
enc. He was tackled once, but will
reached The starboard chart room win
dow as the bow of the ship touched
ground. DR.. Hugo Eckener reached ou
ana received from him long persona
message from Herbert Hoover. touchins
on the international significance of DR.
Eckener's splendid achievement anc
urging him to visit Washington.
Mr Hoover's trusted messenger was
Edwin Emerson, well known author anc
Journalist OF international reputation
OF 1l8 East Eighteenth street. New
York. He is an old friend of DR.
Eckener, and when the latter brought
over the Los Angeles four years ago he
was, as on this occasion, waiting at the
cnart room window ahead of everybody
else. DR.. Eckener reached out, seized
his hand in steel grip and bounced
the Zeppelin up and down about 10
1eet, with Mr.. Emerson, rather fright
ened, dangling out the window.
Declared Champion Zep Greeter.
II see you are first again!" shouted
DR.. Eckener above the uproar as he
received Mr.. Hoover's message. This,
according to careful search of all ex-
1Sting records, makes Mr.. Emerson the
champion Yep greeter of America and
points up Mr.. Hoover's perspicacity in
always picking men of experience. In
cioentally, Mr.. Emerson Is an old friend
OF Mr.. Hoover as well as of DR.. Eckener,
and Mr.. Hoover summoned him to
Washington and personally gave him
the message, with an urgent request
that he get 1t into DR.. Eckeners hands
as soon as possible after the landing of
the ship. He did. The man who took
the message to Garcia did no more
workmanlike job.
With the ship long overdue and thou
sands way behind schedule on food and
sleep rations, the bored crowds were
driven to talking politics. The news
Uttered around that the Steuben So
clety, IN New York, had just indorsed
Gov. Smith. At this particular Ger
n1an-American klatch this was big
news. Prominent German-American
had been shushing politics and it was
noticeable that neither Hoover nor
smith buttons appeared on coat lapels.
however, there were q number of heat
ed arguments, and then Edwin Emerson
made his historic dash. It used to hap
pen that way when Herbert Hoover was
manager OF the Stanford foot ball team,
WITH q tie score carrying the game into
the late dusk, with everybody mad and
Sxclged, and then the Stanford right
ina1nack getting around right end for a
long run and a touchdown,
Grover Whalen Gives Up.
Grover Whalen, official greeter of the
City and County of New York, was there
with his high hat and his ornate
mustache, but he gave it up and few
back to New York. 1t now remains
for Mr.. Hoover to goal the visiting Yep
men with an eloquent speech of well
come in Washington
After DIR. Eckener left the ship. one
OF the first to greet him was his old
friend, DR. Earl Arnstein. designer of
the Los Angeles. DR.. Arnstein is vice
president of the Goodyear Zeppelin
Corporation of Akron, Ohio, which is
now ready to begin work on the two
largest zeppelins in the world, for
which the United States Government
has contracted. Other German Zep-
pelin experts, who also worked with
DR.. Eckener on the Los Angeles and
who are now at the Akron plant, we're
with DR.. Arnstein in receiving their
old friend, and it was a happy reunion
OF pioneers OF great new enterprise.
Leibert, p. Helman, L. Rieger, B. Schut-
zer, e. Schoetel, H. Keck, w. Mosebach,
p, Huertle and DR.. Klamperer.
Satisfied with Voyage.
The German technicians expressed
themselves as delighted with the per-
Torrance of the Graf Zeppelin, point
ing out that 1t had made new record
for distance and sustained fight, and
that it had proved the Seaworthiness
of huge dirigibles under the most try
ing conditions.
"The voyage also has shown the prac-
ticability of the Blau gas" said Mr..
Drummer. las we use helium in Amer
ica, the new Zeppelins being built for
the Government will use the water re-
covery system, by which the free HYDRO
gen from the engine exhaust is re-
formed into water, as it takes up oxygen
from the air, thus compensating for the
burned fuel and solving the problem of
keeping the ship level AS Germany
must use hydrogen, it was compelled to
develop the gaseous fuel, which requires
only air replacement for compensation
The performance of the gas is one of
the greatest technical triumphs of the
voyage"
The two new American Zeps will be
built on virtually the same model as
the Graf Zeppelin, but will be larger.
They will each be 785 feet long, with
$780, 900 cubic feet capacity. They will
be capable of carrying 100 persons. Mr.
Brunner and his associates all said en-
phatically that there was no question
but that the commercial practicability
of dirigibles had been abundantly DEM
onstrated and that the era of large
scale air transportation of the goods