Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-12
ship SWINGS

jump across the water, after a trip
Of 1900 miles mostly over land.
After the airship passed over Tar
ragona, Spain, at 3:15 p. m, eastern
standard time, yesterday and con-
tinued along the Mediterranean
coast three hours and % minutes
went by until she was heard from
again. Then advices came that she
had passed Castellon de Ia Plana, 10
miles from ~Tarragona, ard 400 miles
from Gibraltar. at $40 p. m. Indi-
cations were that the ship was buck
ing strong headwinds.
Expectations az the ships destina-
ton, the United States naval air sta
ton at Lakehurst, N. j.. are that
she will arrive Sunday noon.
Los Angeles 4 Years Ago
Four years ago today another air
giant, the Los Angeles, left Fried
richshafen, Germany, and was off
the southeast coast Of Nova Scotia
at midnight on October Il, 1924, but
rs a moro southerly route was map
ped out for the Graf Zeppelin, IL
was thought that her first landfall
might be either the Massachusetts,
Islands of Nantucket or Martha's
Vineyard, or the Long Island shore
sometime Sunday.
Passengers today had their first
experience at breakfasting in the
alr@unless they were too airsick to
eat. The menu was coffee, tea,
bread, butter and eggs or sausage.
The twenty persons lucky enough
to obtain passage on the airliner,
some of them at a fare Of $4,000,
viewed from the air the lights OF
cities on the Spanish Mediterranean
coast as the airship passed over
them during the early hours OF the
night at a speed Of about 80 miles
an hour. They slept in the ten
cabins which line the ganrvay Of
h ship, five on each side. Each
cabin was equipped with two berths.
the upper one being a hammock.
Largest Passenger List
Aboard the largest diriFible are
so persons in all. the greatest num-
Der ever to cross the Atlantic BY
air. When the R-34 flew from
East Fortune. Scotland. to Mineola.
N. y, in 1919. she carried a crew
of % and the Los Angeles. then the
IRIS, brought 80 men over four
years ago.
Among the Graf Zeppelin's passen-
gers Is Lady Drummond Hay. Eng
lish writer. who hopes to be the
first woman to make the east to
west crossing of the Atlantic BY air.
There are also three Americans
aboard, Lieutenant Commander
Charles Z. Rosendahl, u. s. n. Rob
ert Reiner. Of weehawken. n. j.
and Frederick Gilfillan. who resides
in Switzerland.
Besides the so passenger there
Is one other living being aboard the
sirship-a canary. The bird was one
of five presented BY well wishers
and was chosen as mascot for the
voyage.
Weather Retards Flight
Starting from Friedrichshafsn at 2
r. m. eastern standard time yester-
day. DR.. Hugo Eckener found that
u~nfavorable weather 70 the north
and west forced him 10 take a long
detour and at a speed or around so
miles an hour he swung south
across France. Adverse winds cut
down the mileage and when the ship.
was passing over the Mediterranean
shore Of Spain the speed was esti-
mated to be around so miles an hour.
The dirigible nosed her way
through clouds blanketing the
Rhone valley and then left the
French coast behind her heading into.
more favorable weather. Reports
to the Paris weather bureau showed
good weather over the Atlantic south
OF the 40th parallel.
Wireless Silent
The dirigible came in sight OF the
Spanish Mediterranean coast at twi-
light and passed over Barcelona at
$50 p. m, 1850 p. m. eastern stand
ard time). AS il flew in a large.
circle yer the city the rosr Of the
motors could be heard and crowds
turned out to cheer the air giant.
The ship turned west with the coast
and soon was sighted passing over
De Llobregat, 10 miles west Of Bar
celona, at n height Of 500 meters.
Keeping out yer the water to avoid
the mountains OF Catalonia, the air
ship passed over the city OF Tara
gona on the coast about so miles
from Barcelona at Sis .. M, (3:15|
p. m, eastern standard time). The.
dirigible continued down the Medi-
~tsrranean coast in a southwest d.
rection.
In the meantime Spanish wireless
stations made futile efforts to get
in contact with Graf Zeppelin. They
were hampered by not knowing the
airship's wave length and il was
thnucht that a Aha d;riOih1a ~.s