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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1919)
0 TIIE 3IORMXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1919. ALL FICTION OUTDOWE By DIRIGIBLE'S TIE Big Airship's Log a Jules Verne Story Come True. elite bftnjc gjven a rest. Air speed 38 kauts land miles per hour made good 3. 7. Course steered 298 decrees north. 27 degrees went, course made good 33 dgres north 71 west. Wind northeast 9 1-3 miles per hour. Height 1500 leet. "Larce banks of clouds came rolling along from the Atlantic, gradually blot ting out all view of the sea. At first we were above theaa clouds, but they gradually rose higher and we plowed erai observation. Seven A. M. Nothing but dense fog. (estimated by Harris, the meteorological officer, 'to go down to within SO feet of the water and up to a height of about 5ooo feet. but did not dee us. as we were com-1 .pletely hidden by the clouds, I "They were -very surprised an t;it ; interested to hear we were thr ii-34 bound for New -York and wisned eVry possible luck. "5:30 P. M. Messages received from H. M. S. battleships Tiger and Renown, which had been purposely sent by the admiralty out Into the Atlantic to as sist us with weather reports and gen- PERIL ALWAYS VERY NEAR "Suddenly we catch a glimpse of the the clouds, .and I sea through a ftole Tale? Tell; of Ke1ute Irtng or Red -Blooded Men Battling With Cloud, tog, and Morm. fortinu-d Kmm f!t slight Bnost immediately by A description of the first breakfast In the air, which nds: In the adjoining compartment the g rap hop hone was entertaining the crews with the latest Jaxs tunes." Then comes an account of sleeping tn hammocks aboard a service airship, with a word of caution for the unwary alee per. -There Is only a thin outer cover of fabric on the under side of the keel on each side of the walking way and the luckless Individual who tips out of his hammock would In all probability break right through this and soon find himself in the Atlantic" Tale Kail mt -Feature. Then follows a series of word pic tares of cloud formation. ahowinK that as in the case or Alcock and Brown, the R-34 was at times floating between two layers: of wireless messages break ing 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 discovery of a feline stowaway smug gled aboard by a superstitious member of the crew and then the sighting of Ice fields and Newfoundland, with terse notations on aerial navigation. Instead of finding expressed at this point exuberance of captain and grew. it Is remarked that "the airme they would like to stop at Newfound land and Nova Scotia some time for shooting and fishing, as the forests and lakes viewed from the air hold promises of much game and fish. Petrol Qaestloa Serloaa. Then comes more anxiety: "The petrol question is becoming de Cidedtr serious. And again: "For some little whit past there "has been distinct evidence of electrical disturbances. Then comes a description of two thunder showers, successfully evaded set down quite simply as they occurred and more or less In the form of a diary, as General MailUnd promised at the bead of his log. The story told In the log as recorded by General Maitlan follow s: "Instances covered were as follows: "East Fortune to Trinity Ray. Nfd JftiO sea miles: Trinity Ray. Nfd., to New York. lOSrt sea miles. Battle rwl Heealle4. "It was originally Intended that this flight should have taken place at the beginning of June, but owing to the uncertainty of the Germans signing the peace terms, the Krllih admiralty decided to drtain her for an extended cruise up the Baltic and along tiie German coast line. This flight occu pied 5i hours under adverse weather conditions, during m hWh time an air distance of roughly I'joO miles wa covered. "At the conclusion of this flight the hip was taken over from the admiralty by the air ministry and the airship was quickly overhauled for the Journey to the I'nited States. "The date and time of vailing de cided upon was 2 A. M. on the morning of Wednesday. July 2. and the press representatives were notified by the air ministry to be at Kast Fortune the day previous. "At 1:30 A. 51. on the esrly morning of Wednesday. July 2. the airship was taken out from her shed and actually took the air 13 minutes later, thus starting on her long voyage exactly IS minutes in advance of scheduled time." Flight lry la Tld. The story of the flight as entered In the log folloms: "143 A. il. Wednesday. July 2: The R-34 slowly arose from the Hands or the landing party and was completely swallowed up in the low lvtng clouds at a height of 100 feet. When flying at night, possibly on ac count of the darkness, there is always a feeling of loneliness, immediately leaving the ground. The loneliness on this occasion was accentuated by the faint cheers of the landing party com ing upward through the mist, after all Signs of the earth had disappeared. "The airship rose rapidly Ijmo feet. ft is now easy to see we have drift to the south. t'loada Abtve a ad Below. "A few minutes later we find our selves above the clouds, our height still being 1500 feet, and beneath a cloudy sky with clouds at about 8000 feet. We are therefore in between two layers of clouds, a condition In which Alcock and Brown found themselves on more than one occasion In the recent flight from west to east, "An excellent cloud horiion now pre sents itself on all sides, of which Cooke at once takes advantage. These ob servations, if the cloud horixon is quite flat, ought to prove a valuable rough guide but cannot be regarded as ac curate unless one can also obtain check on the sun by day or the moon and the stars by night. "Cooke reckons it is only as much as a 50-mile error in locating one's post tion when using a cloud horixon as sub stitute for a horixon. "7:30 A. M. Breakfast In crew space trp tn the keel consisted of cold ham one hard-boiled egg each, bread and butter and hot tea. We breakfast in two watches, generally about 15 In each. Jaas Tuaes Kallvea Breakfast, "The first watch for breakfast wa? ncott, cooke. l'ntchard. admiralty air ship expert; Lansdowne. lieutenant commander U. S. airship service; Shotter. engineer officer; Harris, meteorological officer; myself and half the crew. "Conversation during breakfast re verted to the recent flight up the Baltic and in the adjoining compartment the graphophone was entertaining the crew to the latest jaza tunes, such as 'The Wild. Wild Women. ll A. M. Still plowing our way through the fog at 1300 feet. Sea com pletely hidden by clouds and no visi bility whatsoever. Stopped forward and two aft engines and now running on only the two wing engines at 1600 rev olutions. These are giving us an air speed of 30 knots or 33.6 miles per hour. This is the airship's most efficient speed, as she only consumes on the two engines 25 gallons of petrol per hour. "Wind in east, seven miles per hour, and so we are making good 40 miles per hour and resting three engines. Sum Observations Takea. "Cooke now on the top of the airship taking observations of the sun, using the cloud horixon with a sextant. The sun is visible to hfm but not to us, the top of the ship beinj? 85 feet above us down here in the fore-control cabin. "Our position is reckoned to be lati tude 55 degrees 10 minutes north and longitude 14 degrees 40 minutes west, which is equivalent to 400 miles from our starting point at Kast Fortune and 2i0 miles out in the Atlantic from the northwest coast of Ireland. We are In wireless touch with Kast Fortune. Clifden, on the west coast of Ireland, and Ponta Ielgada. Axores. and messages wishing us good luck are receiver from air ministry, H. M. S. I Queen Klixabeth and others. 11:45 A. M. Lunch. Excellent beef stew and potatoes, chocolate and cold water. The talk as usual was mainly 'shop' dealing, with such problems as the dis tribution of air pressure on the west ern jtide of the Atlantic, what winds were likely to be met with, what fog we should run Into, the advantages of directional wireless for navigational purposes, cloud horixon and the like. Brief Me la Allowed. 12 noon Watch off duty turned In for their routine four hours' sleep be fore coming on for their next period of duty, only two hours in this case first of the two dog Ship Rlaea Above C loo da. "6 P. M. Scott increases her height to 2000 feet and at this height we find ourselves well over the clouds and with a bright blue sky above us. The view is an enchanting one as far as one can see a vast ocean of white fleecy clouds ending in the most per feet cloud horixon. "Two particularly fine specimens of wmay or cirrus clouds of which Pritch- ard promptly obtained photographs ap pear on our port beam, also some 'cir rus ventosus' clouds little curly clouds like a black cock's tail feathers all of which Harris Interprets as a first indi cation and infallible sign ol a depres sion coming up from the south. "6:40 P. M. Put back clock one-half hour to corrected Greenwich mean time. Time now 6:10 P. M. Position latttude 53 degrees 50 minutes north, longitude 20 degrees west. "We have covered 610 sea miles measured in a direct line in 17 hours at an average speed of 36 knots or 40 miles per hour. Depth of Atlantic at this point 1500 fathoms. At this rate if all goes well and if that depression from the south doesn't interfere we should see St. Johns about midnight tomorrow, July 3. Harris Forecast Com finned. "6:55 P.' M. Wireless message from air ministry via Clifden states: 'Conditions unchanged in British Isles. Anti-cyclone persistent in east ern Atlantic a new depression enter- ng Atlantic from south "This confirms Harris forecast and Is an admirable proof of the value of cloud forecasting. n,s Simply Good Sense This is the inexpensive and attractive machine-made paper pack age which is responsible for the low price of the LORD SALISBURY Turkish Cigarette. This is the expensive CLEVELAND CARMEN QUIT MOTOR M E X AXD CONDUCTORS strike: for higher wage. Wire Cutters Block Attempts to Start Cars; Company Refuses Demand for 12 Cents an Hour Rise. CLEVELAND. O.. July 6. Street-car traffic was tied up here today for the second time in eight months when ap proximately 2600 motormen and con ductors of the Cleveland Street Rail way company went on strike to enforce their demands for a wage increase of 12 cents an hour. Several attempts were made to start cars but in most cpses they were un successful owing to the stoning or wire cutting by strikers. Several persons were injured by fly ing glass during the disorders, follow ing which six strikers were arrested. Both sides remained firm in their demands today. Union officials have refused a 6-cents-an-hour increase, de claring the men would remain on strike until granted the 12 cents. John J. Stan ley, president of the company, announced he would not grant the men their increase unless the city council advanced the stock holders' dividend from 6 to 7 per cent yearly. hand-made cardboard box which is re sponsible for the high price of other brands of Turkish cigarettes of our own manufacture as well a the manufacture of others. These are the 5 extra LORD SALISBURY cigarettes which you get because of the difference in the cost of the package. EX-SOLDIER ATTACKS WIFE VANCOUVER RESIDENT CUTS WOMAN WITH RAZOR. the as it i; watches. "The sleeping arrangements consist of a hammock for each of the men off watch suspended from the main ridge girder of the triangular internal keel which runa from end to end of the ship." In this keel are situated the 81 petrol tanks, each of 71 gallons capac- ty. also the living quarters for offi cers and men and storing arrangement for lubricating oil for the engines, wa- er batlast. food and drinking water for the crew. The latter is a consid erable item as will be seen from the following table of weights: "Petrol. 400 gallons. 35.300 pounds. 15.8 tons. "il. 2070 pounds. .9 tons. "Water, three tons. "Crew and baggage, four tons. "Spare. 550 pounds. .2 tons. "Prinking water, 800 pounds, .42 tons. Total. 24.32 tons. George Biulet Charges .Male With Unfaithfulness and Slashes Own Throat After Quarrel. Life Aboard ot I aaleapaat. at which height she emerged from thej "I,ife In the keel of a large rigid low-lying clouds and headed straight . airhtp is by no means unpleasant up the frlrth of f orth toward Kdin- burgb- A few minutes after 2 o'clock the lights of Rosyth showed up through a break in the clouds, thus proving bril liantly that the correct allowance had been made for the force and direction of the wind, which was 2i miles per buur from the east. A a laws 1'erlod Pafd. "Tt should he borne In mind that when an airship sets out on a long dis tance voyage carrying her maximum allowance of petrol, she can only rise to a limited height at the outset with out throwing some of it overboard as ballast and that as the airship pro reeds on her ovase she can. if so de sired, gradually increase her height as the petrol is consumed by the engine. "An airship of this type when most of her petrol is consumed can rise to a hetcht of about H.oOO feet. "Vor 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 i4v,n gallons) weight ii ic 13.$ tons, had to keep the ship as low as potMe and at the same time pas over northern Scot land. wh-re the hills rise to a height of over 3i feet. Air at Oiiiaet "Humpy." Owing to the stormy nature of the morning the air at lft feet the (heisht at which the airship was trav eling was mo!t disturbed and 'humpy. due to the wind beinr broken up by the mountains to the north caus ing violent w ind currents and alr pH-ketA." I "The most disturbed conditions were met in the mouth of the Clvde. south of l5ch Lomond, w hich, surrounded by j h tan mountains, looked part icularly i beautiful In the gray dawn Itrht. "The l.land at the mouth of the Kirth of Clyde were quickly passed. The north coast of Ireland appeared for a time and shortly afterwards faded away as we headed out into the At lantic "The various incidents of the voyage arc t down uuite simply as they oc rurrd and more or less in the form of a diary No attempt has been made to write thtn a connected story. It is frit that, by recording each incident la this way. most of them trivial, a few of vital Importance, a truer pie lure of the voyage will be obtained-" W-a lew matte Owt. Time A. M.. July 2: Airship running- on four engines with lv resolutions. Forward en- There is very little noise or vibration except when one is directly over the power units a total absence of wind and. except in the early hours of dawn, greater warmth than In the surround ing atmosphere. t Jetting into one's hammock is rath er an acrobatic feat, especially if it is slung high, but this becomes easy with practice preventing one's self from falling out. a thing one must be careful about In a service airship like the R-34. There Is only a thin outer covering of fabric on the underside of the keel on rach side of the walking way and the luckless individual who tips out of his hammock would in all probability break through and soon find himself in the Atlantic. "It is surprising the amount of exer cise one can get on board an airship of this sise. The keel is about 600 feet long, and one is constantly running about from one end to the other. There are also steps In a vertical ladder to the top of the ship for those who feel energetic or have duty up there. By the time It comes one's turn to go to j oeu one tr ur i 1 1 j i mun ib crj sleepy and the warmth of his sleeping bag and the hum of the engines soon .-end him to sleep. - at. Jaaaa Wire lews C'awght. 3:13 P. M. Durant. the wireless offi cer, reports he has just been speaking to St. Johns. Nfd. rather faint but quite clear signals. As we are still In touch with Kast Fortune and Clifden and have been exchanging signals with the Axores since reaching the Irish coast, our com munications seem to be quite satisfac tory. "Remarkable rainbow effects on the clouds, one complete rainbow encircled the airship itself and the othet smaller one encircled the shadow. Both are very vivid in their coloring. "3:45 P. M. Excellent tea. consisting of bread and butter and green gage jam: also two cups of scalding hot tea, which had been boiled over the exhaust pipe cooker fitted to the forward en gine. The whole assisted by Miss Lee White on the gramophone. We would, one and all. give anything for a smoke. At la a tie Rarely !eew. "4:3 P. M. Still in fog and low clouds and no sea visible. We have hardly seen any sign of the Atlantic since leaving the Irish coast and we are beginning to wonder if we shall ee It at all the whole way across. "S P. M. Tramp steamer Ballygally, outwsrd bound from Belfast, destina tion Montreal, picked up our wireless on its Marconi spark set. which haa a rane of only 30 miles. ue heard us VANCOUVER. Wash.. July 6. (Spe cial.) George Biulet, who recently was discharged from the 4th engineers after spending nine years in the military service, today attacked his wife, who lives with her mother in Vancouver. striking her on the head with an iron and cutting her with a razor. "My wife has been untrue to me; she has deserted me." Biulet Is said to have declared be fore going to the house. The woman was rescued by her mother. Biulet. apparently thinking he had slain his wife, slashed at his own throat. He was removed to the Vancou' ver hospital where his wounds were treated. His recovery was expected. Mrs. Biulet's condition was said to be not serious. 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Otherwise, he duns to his original story; he reiterated how he had taken her for an automobile ride Friday night and In lonely spot in Topanga canyon. 25 miles from Los Angeles, had shot her. Then he covered her eyes, he said, and driving the car with one hand while the other he clasped one of hers, traveled about for several hours before arriving at the polled station and sur rendering himself. New was visited In his cell today by his half-sister. Miss Edna Clancy, who. he said, had promised "to stick by him." His mother, Mrs. Lulu Burger, is expected to arrive home from Indian apolis Tuesday night. An autopsy will be performed on Miss Leaser's body tomorrow. CHICAGO, July 6. Mrs. Lulu Burger of Glendale, Cal., passed through Chi cago today en route from Indianapolis to Los Angeles to go to the aid of her son, Harry S. New, who surrendered to the police yesterday and told them he nad shot and killed his fiancee because she had refused to marry him. 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