16 PARTY FOR GRADUATE Rlain. Pa.. July 7.—A party was given by Miss Anna Waggoner at her home at Waggoner's Mill, in honor of Dr. Basil Nelson, who graduated in the class of 'l9, at the University of Pittsburgh, in the pro fession of dentistry and who has been visiting his sister. Mrs. Ira Neely, in Perry county. The even ing was enjoyabl.v spent in games and music. Refreshments were served to twenty or more guests. HOW IT HAPPENED It was a case of collision between automobiles, and the young lady witness was undeniably beautiful, says the Kansas City Journal. "Have you any idea what caused the accident?" asked counsel. "I think so." "State, what in your opinion, caused the collision." "Must I tell the truth?" "You have sworn to do so." "Well, I was standing on the cor ner. This gentleman turned to look at something and ran into the other machine." "What did he turn to look at? "Must I answer?" "You must." 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Main St. i ': MONDAY EVENING, VOYAGE OF ACROSS ATLANTIC, GREA T ADVENTURE Incidents of Trip Chronicled by General Maitland Show What a Gamble Against the Elements the-Crew of the British Dirigible Faced Mincola, Y., July 7.—Not in the mere record of miles covered is to be j found the real romance of the R-34's aerial voyage to America. The full j story of this great adventure, this j gamble against the elements, is re- j vealed only through the human in cidents of the trip, chronicled in the form of a log by Brigadier General Edward M. Maitland, official observer for the British Air Ministry. The R-34 anchored here at Roose velt flying field at 9:54 a. m. yester- ! day (1:54 p. m. Greenwich mean lime) after an aerial voyage of lOS j hours and 12 minutes which covered 5.634 miles. Will Return To-morrow General Maitland announced that j the return trip would be begun at i 8 a. m., Tuesday, as the orders from I the Air Ministry are to return as I soon as the ship can be made ready. Full supplies of petrol, oil, hydro gen, food and water were ready at the landing field and the work of putting them aboard was begun al most as soon as the dirigible was anchored. The work was continued through last night under the glare of huge searchlights. The story—a Jules Verne tale come true —was written while the giant dirigible was leaving the ground at East Fortune, while it was passing out of sight of land, while it was battling its way across the Atlantic and eluding electrical storms in the northland, while it was ; slipping safely down the short line of I.ong Island to its anchorage at Mineola. It is an intensely human story, set down in simple, unaffected style. But it is doubtful if the greatest master of English could paint a more vivid picture. Describes Men's Feelings In it is described the feelings of men starting on a great adventure — cheerfully, confident in the face of a hundred dangers. In it is des cribed the courage of red-blooded men lighting their way through an ocean of cloud and fog. In it is described the resolute during of men calculating coolly just how much fuel, already greatly shortened, they could expend in dodging tempests which might dash them to destruc tion. In it is described the fighting spirit of aerial adventurers com batting to the last a situation which might force them to call for assist ance. But nothing is to be found in the log of the great joy *hich must have surged up in every man's heart when they dropped anchor victori ously—safe at the end of a 5.634- mile voyage. "When flying at night, there is always a feeling of loneliness on leaving the ground." reads an entry made after the airship hardly had taken the air, but it is followed al most immediately by a description of the first breakfast in the air, which ends: "Jn the adjoining compartment the graphophone was entertaining the crews with the latest jazz tunes." Sleep ill Hammocks Then comes an account of sleeping in hammocks aboard a service air ship, with a word of caution for the unwary sleeper. "There is only a thin outer cover of fabric on the underside of the keel on each side of the walking way and the luckless individual who tips out of his hammock would in all p|^^haid r Rubber I W Process Gillette Tires Now Guaranteed Fabric 6,000 miles. Cord 8,000 miles. Solid 10,000 miles. "yOU'VE probably often thought A that somebody some time would produce Tires and Tubes that would leave no complaint as to costs. You were right. That time has arrived. The discovery of how to produce grester Tire and Tube reristance and etrmtth has been made. It is the Gillette Chiller! Rubber Process—the perfected method. Toughens rubber an iron is toughened by changing to Feel—building up endur ance and bringing down costs to the lowest figures of economy. Absolutely the biggest worth—in service in mileage—ever offered Tire and probability break right through this and soon find himself in the Atlan tic." There follows a series of word pictures of cloud formations, show ing that, as in the case of Alcock and Brown, the R-34 was at times floating between two layers; of wire less messages breaking through these < cloud banks to bring cheer to the adventurers; of meals cooked over 'exhaust pipes and engine repairs made with chewing gum. of the dis covery of a feline stowaway smug gled aboard by a superstitious mem ber of the crew —and then the fight ing of ice fields and Newfoundland with terse observations on aerial navigation. Instead of finding expressed at this point exuberance of captain and crew, it is remarked that the air men think they would like to stop at Newfoundland and Nova Scotia some time for shooting and Ashing, as the forests and lakes viewed from the air hold promise of much game and Ash. Then comes a more anxious entry: "The petrol question Is becoming decidedly serious." And again: "For some little while past there has heen distinct evidences of elec trical disturbances." Evade Tlinndorstorms Then comes a description of two thunderstorms successfully evaded —"set down quite simply as they occurred and more or less in the form of a diary" as General Mait land promised at the head of his log. The story of the Aight as entered in the log follows in part: "1:42 A. M. Wednesday, July 2. The R-34 slowly arose from the hands of the landing party and was completely swallowed up in the low lying clouds at a height of 100 feet. When flying at night, possibly on account of the darkness, there is always a feeling of loneliness im mediately after leaving the ground. "The airship rose rapidly 1,500 feet, at which height she emerged from the low lying clouds and head ed straight up the Firth of Forth toward Edinburgh. "It should be borne in mind that when an airship sets out on a long distance voyage carrying her maxi mum allowance of petrol she can only rise to a limited height at the outset without throwing some of it overboard as ballast and that as the airship proceeds on her voyage she can. if so desired gradually increase her height as the petrol is consumed by the engine. Anxious Hours "An airship of this type when most of her petrol is consumed can rise to a height of about 14.000 fetet, "For this reason the next few hours were one of the most anxious periods during the flight for Major Scott, the captain of the ship, who, owing to the large amount of petrol carried (4,900 gallons weighing 15.8 tons) had to keep the ship as low as possible and at the same time pass over northern Scotland where the hills rise to a height of-over 3,000 fCft. "Time 6 A. M.. July 2.—Airship running on four engines with 1,600 revolutions. Forward engine being given a rest. Air speed 38 knots land miles per hour made good 56.7 Course steered 298 degrees —north 62 degrees west course made good 39 degrees—north 71 west. Wind northeast 15 1-3 miles per hour. Height 1,500 feet. Large banks of fleecy cloud came rolling along from the Atlantic gradually blotting out all view of the sea. At first wq were above these clouds but gradually they rose higher and we plowed our way into the middle of them. "Seven A. M.—Nothing but dense fog estimated by Harris, the mete orological officer, to go down to within fifty feet of the water and up to a height of about 5,000 feet. "Suddenly we catch a glimpse of the sea through a hole in the clouds. "A few minutes later we find our selves above the clouds, our height still being 1,500 feet, and beneath a cloudy sky with clouds at above 8,- 000 feet. We are therefore in be tween two layers of clouds. Breakfast Menu "7.30 A. M.-—Breakfast in crew space up in the keel consisted of cold ham, one hard boiled egg each, bread and butter and hot tea. We breakfast in two watches, generally about fifteen in each. "Conversation during breakfast reverted to recent flight up the Bal tic and in the adjoining compart ment the praphophone was enter taining the crews to the latest Jazz tunes, such as "The Wild, Wild Wo men.' "11 A. M. Wind Is east seven miles per hour and so we are mak ing good 40 miles per hour and rest ing three engines. "Cooke is now on the top of the airship taking observations of the sun, using the cloud horizon with a sextant. The sun is visible to him but not to us, the top of the ship be ing eighty-five feet above us down here in the fore control cabin. "12 Noon. —Watch off duty turned in for their routine four hours' sleep before coming on for their next per iod of duty—only two hours in this case. "The sleeping arrangements con sist of a hammock for each of the men off watch suspended from the main ridge girder of the triangular internal keel which runs from end to end of the ship. , "Getting into one's hammock Is rather an acrobatic feut—preventing oneself from falling out is a thing one must be careful about in a serv ice airship like the R-34. There is only a thin outer cover of fabrlca on the underside of the keel on each side of the walking way and luckless individual who tips out of his ham mock would in all probability break right through this and soon And himself in the Atlantic. "3.15 P. M.—Sea now visible at intervals through the clouds—a deep blue in color with a big swell on. "Durant, the wireless officer, re ports he has just been speaking to St. John's. N. F., rather faint but quite clear signals. "4.30 P. M. —Still in fog and low clouds and no sea visible. "5 P. M.—Tramp steamer 'S. 8. Ballygally Head outward bound from Belfast, destination Montreal' picked up our wireless on their Mar coni spark set which has a range of thirty miles only. She heard us but didn't see us as we were well above and completely hidden by the clouds. "They were very surprised and most Interested to Mar we were R -3 4 boupd for New York and wished us every possible luck. "1,30 P. M.—Messages were re _ BXIUUSBDRO.4HIfTEXEQKXFfI ceived from both H. M. S. battle cruisers Tiger and Renown. Get Wide View of Clouds "Scott increases height to 2,000 feet and at this height we And our selves well over the clouds and with a bright blue sky above us. The view is ah enchanting one —as far as one can see a vast ocean of white ; fleecy clouds. ending in the most i perfect cloud horizons. "6.40 p. m.—We have covered 610 sea miles measured in a direct line in 17 hours at an average speed of I 86 knots or 40 milm per hour. Depth of Atlantic at this point 1,- 500 fathoms. "7 P. M.—The clouds have risen to our height and we are now driv ing away to them with no signs of the sky above or the sea under neath. "8.30 P. M.—Scott decided to go down underneath the clouds and in creases speed on all engines to 1,800 revolutions to do so. Dark, cold and wet in the clouds and we shut all windows. "We see the sea at 1,500 feet be tween patches of cloud. Rather b.umpy. "We now find outselvee between two layers of clouds, the top layer 1,000 feet above us and the lower layer 500 feet below with occasional glimpses of sea. "9 P. M.—The sun is now setting and gradually disappearing below the lower cloud horizon. Course steered 320 degrees. Course made good 299 degrees. Air speed forty four knots, speed made good fifty five miles per hour. "All through this first night in the Atlantic the ordinary airship routine of navigating, steering and elevating, also maintaining the en gines in smooth-running order, goes on, watch and watch, as in the day time. "The night is very dark. The air ship. however, is lighted throughout. "8.30 A. M„ Thursday, July 3. The clock has been put back an hour to correct our time to Greenwich meantime. Position—longitude 35, degrees, 60 minutes west; latitude 53 degres north. "We are well over half way be tween Ireland and Newfoundland and are back again on the great cir cle route, having been slightly to the south of it owing to the drift effect of a northerly wind. Chewing Gam Repairs "2 P. M.—Slight trouble with star board amidships engine—cracked cylinder waterjacket. Shotter. al ways equal to the occasion, made a quick and _safe repair with a piece of copper 'sheeting and the entire supply of the ship's chewing gum had to be chewed by himself and two engineers before being applied. "4.30 P. M. —We are now on the Canadian summer route of steamers bound for the St. Lawrence via Belle Isle strait and over the well-known Labrador current. There are already indications of these cold currents in the fog which hangs immediately above the surface of the water. "6 to 7 P. M.—We are gradually getting further and further into the shallow depression which was re ported yesterday coming up from the South Atlantic. For the last four hours the sea has been rising and now the wind is south southeast, forty-five miles per hour. Visibility only a half mile. Very, rough sea and torrents of rain. In spite of this the ship is remarkably steady. "At 8 P. M. —Scott decides to climb right through it and we evi dently came out over the top of it at 3,400 feet. "8.30 P. M. —We have now passed the center of the depression exactly as Harris foretold. The rain has ceased and we are traveling quite smoothly again. "9 P. M.—One of the engineers has reported sick—complains of fe verishness. Find Cat on Board "A stowaway has just been dis covered. a cat smuggled on board by one of the crew for luck. It is a very remarkable fact that nearly every member of the qrew has a mascot of some description, from the engineer officer who wears one of his wife's silk stockings as a muffler around his neck, to Major Scott, the captain, with a small gold charm called 'Thumbs Up.' "4.30 A. M.—Friday. July 4. Wonderful sunrise—the different colors being the softest imaginable, just like a wash drawing. "7 A. M. —Height 1,000 feet. Bright, blue sky above, thin fog partly obscuring the sea beneath us; sea moderate, big swell. "The fog bank appears to end ab ruptly ten miles or so away towards the south where the sea appears to be clear of fog and a very deep blue. "Standing out conspicuously in this blue patch of sea we see an enormous white iceberg. "8.15 A. M. —Fog still clinging to (he surface of the water—water evi dently must be very cold. Extraor dinary crimpy wave-like appearance of clouds rolling up from the north underneath it. Harris has never seen this before. Over Ice Field "9 A. M. —We are now over a large ice field and the sea is full of enormous pieces of ice—small bergs in themselves. The ice is blue-green under water, with frozen snow on top. "A message reaches us from the Governor of Newfoundland: " 'To General Maitland, Officers and Crew, R-34: " 'On behalf of Newfoundland I greet you as you pass us on your enterprising journey. " 'HARRIS, Governor.' "12.50 P. M.—Land in sight. First spotted by Scott on starboard beam. A few small rocky islands visible for a minute or two through the clouds and instantly swallowed up again. "Altered course southwest to have a closer look at them. Eventually made them out to be the norhwest coastline of Trinity Bay, Newfound land. "Our time from Rathlin Island— the last piece of lund we crossed above the north coast of Ireland— to north coast of Trinity Bay, New foundland, is exactly fifty-nine hours. Cross Newfoundland "2.30 P. M.—We ar crossing New foundland at 1,500 feet in thick fog, which gradually clears as we get further inland. A very rocky coun try, wth large forests and lakes and for the most part no traces of habi tation anywhere. "3 P. M.—Again enveloped in dense fog. Message from H. M. K. Sentinel giving us our position. We are making good thirty-eight to forty knots and heading for Fortune Harbour. "4.30 P. M—We have passed out of Fortune Harbour, with its mag nificent scenery and azure sea dot ted with little white sailing ships, and are now over the two French islands, Miquelon and St. Pierre, and steering a course for Halifax. Nova Scotia. The French flag was flying at St. Pierre and was duly dipped as we passed ov6r. "8.15 P. M.—Clear weather. Sea moderate. Making good thirty miles per hour on three engines. North ern point of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Just coming Into sight. Lighthouse four flashes. We should make Halifax 2.30 A. M. to-mor row. "Saturday, July 5, 2.30 A. M.— "Very dark, elear night. Lights Whit* Haven ehow up brig) our starboard beam and we make | out the lights of a steamer passing j up to the east. Strong head wind j against us. Making no appreciable i headway. "7 A. M. —Scott decided to turn inland to avoid southwest wind barrage flowing up the coast. I Crossed roust at Goose Island, 1 j Country Harbour. Miles and miles lof endless forests. "10.20 A. M.—We are down as low us 800 feet over huge- forests. Lovely resinous smell of pines, which we inhale with delight. Petrol Question Serious "12.30 P. M.—Lunch. The petrol question has become distinctly seri ous. Shotter has been totalling up our available petrol resources with anxious care. We have 500 miles to go to New York and if we don't get any wind or bad weather against us will do it all right with two engines, assisted occasionally by a third en gine. We cannot afford to run all five at once, owing to the petrol consumption. "Lieutenant Commander Lans downe, United States Naval Airship Service, sends signal on behalf of FOUR Voyage of, last take. R-34 to United States naval author ities at Washington and Boston to send destroyer to take us in tow in case we should run out of petrol during the night. "The iiiea is we would then be towed by the destroyer during the hours of darkness and at dawn cast off and fly to Long island under our own power. Let us hope this won't be necessary. "It is now raining and foggy, which is the kind of weather that suits us now, as rain generally means no wind. "3.30 P. M.—For some little while past there had been distinct evidences of electrical disturbances. Atmospherics became very bad and a severe thunderstorm was seen over Canadian coast, moving south down the coast. "Scott turned east off his course to dodge the storm, putting on all engines. In this, fortunately for us, he was successful and we passed through the outer edge of it. We had a very bad time, indeed, and it is quite the worst experience from a weajther point of view that any of us have yet experienced in the air. "During the storm some wonder ful specimens of cumulo mammatus were seen and photographed. These clouds always indicate a very highly perturbed state of atmosphere and look rather like a bunch of grapes. The clouds drooped into small fes toons. "7.30 P. M.—We are now in clear weather again and have left Nova Scotia well behind us and are head ing straight for New York. "Particularly fine electrical dis turbance type of sunset. "9.30 P. M. —Another thunder storm. Again we have to change our course to avoid it and, as every gallon of petrol is worth its weight in gold, it almost breaks our hearts to have to lengthen the distance to get clear of these storms. "July 6. Sunday, 4 A. M.—"Sight ed American soil at Chatham. "4.25 A. M.—South end of Ma honey Island. Scott is wondering whether petrol will allow him to go to New York or whether it would not be more prudent to land at Montauk. "5.30 A. M.—Passing over Martha's Vineyard, a lovely island and beautifully wooded. Scott de cided he could just get through to our landing field at Haxelhurst field, but that there would not be enough petrol to fly over New York. Very sad, but no alternative. We DIVES, POMEROY & STEWART ' Beginning Wednesday Morning THE MILL & FACTORY SALE■ 1 This merchandising event, renowned these many years for its economies, has ready for distribution a great variety of the best values in its history. Clearances of mid-Sum mer merchandise of all descriptions and fresh, new lots of goods bought to advantage before present-day advances went into effect, enter this sale and promise savings that are uncommonly good and impossible of realization under less important merchandising ( organizations. The Sale Opens Wednesday Morning * 0 For The Beach - Vacation Delightful Suits For Women All the individual and exclusive developments introduced with the summer season are to be found in our large stocks in addition to those ever practical fyf _> V? ever-in-demand wool Jersey swimming suits and separate slips. i" r ~" - ' Prices on beautiful color combination suits in all sizes for women, \ MM ?e.50 .0 sio.oo Children's wl® Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Second Floor , WM. lIW Jt M - - ' J * ♦ will fly over New York on start" of our return journey on Tuesday, i weather and circumstances permit ting. "Landed 1.54 P. *M., Greenwich mean time, or 9.54 A. M., U. S. A. summer time, at Hazelhurst field, Long island. "Total time on entire voyage, 108 hours, 12 minutes." Crew of R-3k Makes Sure to Chase Jinx Overboard Members of the crew of the R-34 I weren't going to take any chances! with bad luck. Hence, nearly every one of them had some sort of .a mascot or lucky j piece with him aboard the trans-i ocean air bus. . One brought a. cat along, another ! wore one of his wife's silk stock ings about his neck constantly as a muffler. Major Scott had a small gold charm called "Thumbs Up." And, as General Maitland dis closed in his. narrative of the jour- j ne.v, there were two carrier pigeons j brought over, which can "claim to be the first two pigeons to fly the At lantic." Steps Off R-M 2,000 Feet in Air With Parachute to See About Landing Roosevelt Field, Mineola, L. I„ j July 7—Stepping off an airship 2,000 j feet in the air merely to "go down and see what was happening" seems ! a rather ticklish piece of business to i the average layman, but not so with I officers of the R-34. It became nec- ' essary to do this when the great' dirigible arrived here. Major John Edward Maddock Pritchard, second officer of the air ship, tells in typical British way how and why he did it. | "We received word by wireless I VACATION LUGGAGE Here you have a choice of I the most varied types of leather goods obtainable. I WARDROBE TRUNKS SUIT CASES HANDBAGS TOILET SETS STEAMER TRUNKS WEEK-END TRUNKS HAT BOXES The grades are as varied as the styles, but the values are unusually good, all of them. May we help you with your vacation luggage problem? REGAL UMBRELLA CO. Travelers' Outfitters and Umbrellas SECOND & WALNUT STS. J ———— JULY 7, IYT9. i telephone," he said, "that Major Hugh Fuller had gone to Boston. As we did not know what arrangements had been mude to land, it was thought best that 1 come down to see that all was correct." And Major Pritchard came down, j landing safely and only slight bruis- I ed. AREN'T THE CIjOUDS WONDER FUIj TO-DAY? 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