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OMAHA, SUNDAY MOIIXING, OCTOBKIJ Ifi, 1!10-Si:VKX SECTIONS -FOIMT-Forit P.U.KS.
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Dodder Buys
Big Tract of
Utah Land
D0LL1VEKDIES0F
HEAItTTKOUBLE
United States Senator Passes Away at
Home in Port Dodge After
Week's Illness.
Comincr and Going in Omaha
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UP TO HITCHCOCK
TO SETTU-: DOUBT
Publication of Edgar Howard'! Evi
dence in Bartley Money Matter
Stin Whole State.
DEMOCRATS AWAIT THE ANSWER
Recognize that Question Vital to His
Candidacy is Raised.
POPULISTS READY TO DITCH HEM
Chairman Manual Says Looks Like
Charge Proved.
WORLD-HERALD POLICY RECALLED
Politicians Dlaenea Alttrlu Made on
Candidates Involving; Identical
Raised Xow Dmmi
Pat to It br Eipoir.
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(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN. Oct 15. (Special.) "Cnless
Mr. Hitchcock can make some satisfactory
explanation of his tonectlon with Joseph
B. Hartley, former state treasurer, I shall
call the populist state committee, together
to take some action."
This wsji the statement of C. B. Manual,
chairman of the state populist committee,
who also sal J; "As It looks now Mr.
Howard hss proven' his charge, though of
course 1 will not call the committee meet
ing until Mr. Hitchcock gives his side of
the case." '
The documentary proof published this
morning In confirmation of the charge by
EJgar Howard that Gilbert M. Hitchcock,
democratic nominee for United State. sen
ator, was a beneficiary of the defalcation
of, State Treasurer Bartley was a terrible
shock to prominent democrats of this city
and a revelation to close personal and po
litical friends of the Omaha editor. While
rumors hud connected Mr. Hitchcock with
the treasury shortage, the cold, bald facts
have been locked securely In the famous
Bartley "cigar box" for years, and when
Edgar Howard made his charges there
were many who believed he would not be
able to make good. .'.specially were they
sure of this when Hitchcock denied the
alligation and defied Howard to submit
his proof,
lllteheoek'a Fla-ht on Goold.
Today In Lincoln there were many who
recalled the awful fight Mr. Hitchcock's
paper made on Treasurer Stuefer for fall
ing to publish each month a statement
Showing where the state money was kept.
They recalled, dnalt liu bean discussed
on the k tree Lb, the full page story In the
World-Herald of nine years ago, when the
leaders of Jhe republican party were ar
raigned under the caption 'Wlilted Eepul
rlinre Poss an Republican Leaders." The
story deslt with the nomination of H. L.
Goold of Ogalallai as a candidate for
regent of the stateunlverslty and alleged
he was a beneficiary of the Bartley
shortage.
There was no Intimation In. the Stuefer
storv nor the Ooold story that some dav
Mr. Hitchcock's own chickens would come
home to roost, or that the same demand
Would be made of htm that his paper made
of Mr. Ooold to withdraw from the stste
ticket.
Democrats were loath to discuss
story. Pome of them preferred to wait
until after Mr. Hitchcock had offered some
explanation for the existence of the docu
ments which Edgar Howard has. Others
felt that Judge Howard had Justified his
charges, but expressed themselves as being
too astounded to even think of the awful
exposure,
Metcalfe Is Silent.
Hlchard L. Metcalfe would not discuss the
story at all. He was a former employe of
Mr. Hitchcock and later was a candidate
against him for the democratic nomina
tion for ssnator.
"I ran make no statement now," said
C. W. Bryan, "until after Mr. Hitchcock
has replied to Mr. Howard. It would not
he right for us to take any action until
both men have had their say."
W. J. Bryan will not be at home for a
week, but C. XV. Bryan was sure he would
have nothing to Kay until he had seen the
reply of the editor of' the World-Herald.
"I cannot even think, and I certainly
cannot say a word," said Dr. P. L. Hall,
a member of the democratic national com
mittee, Mr. Hitchcock will have to make
publto a good explanation."
Joseph S. Bartley. the defaulting state
treasurer, Is now living In Denver, where
tie has, been In business the last summer.
He was In Lincoln previous to the primary
lection and rumors were afloat at that
time that proof existed that Mr. Hitchcock
was a beneficiary of the Bartley shortage
Those who were In a position to get the
facts and the documents to prove them
did their best to accomplish the defeat of
the Omaha editor without having to expose
hU past arts, but their efforts were futile
nd Mr. Hitchcock 'secured the nomination
by a large majority.
Maalnic Hartley Petition.
During the primary campaign when Mr.
Hitchcock ami Mr. Metcalfe were op
ponents for the democratic nomination, the
lory was set tfloat and' its origin was
Jiiuged against the friends of Mr. Hitch
nocks candidacy, that Itlchard L. Met
calfe would make a weak candidate be
cause he had. sl(;ucd the pelit.on unking
for the pardon of Hartley. Metcalfe made
no denial of the story, but no defense. came
to him from the World-Herald when this
fact was being used against Mm. Some
who had hard the rumors that Hitchcock
was a hei. ficlary of the Hartley shortage
expressed the opinion that Metcalfe ii
to be made the sc.ipcKoul and no won!
would ever be puM.shfd regarding Mr.
Hitchcock's connection with Haiti, y
In the alienee of any statement from Mr
H.tcl.rock today there has been some talk
that possibly his defense would be that he
hud borrowed money front ITarllvy pr
tonally and had not borrowed state money.
Others say that possibly Mr. l'.ltchcook
had paid back the money even If It was
late money.
Who Was Beneficiary f '
But Edgar Howard charged that Mr.
Hitchcock was a beneflc:ary of the Hartley
shortae and that some of that money has
not yet been ia.d to Bartley.
Kdsar Howard lias In his possesion many
documents bearing on the financial deal
ing of Mr. Hitchcock and the defaulting
state treasurer and unless the democratic
state commutes takes action on the docu
ment Mr. Howard has alieady produced he
will furnish the committee with others.
Much simulation has been indulged In
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Omaha Business Man Gets a Fine
Section Under a New
Ditch.
PROVO. Vtah. Oct. 16. needs, contract
j of sale, certificates of purchase to almost
l"" acres ot land amounting In price to
almost S-VUKin, lylrin on or near to the
I'nlted states Strawberry irrigation pro
ject Sll rlOHA 4ri thin fit.' .... I
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the register's office at Provo today. These
i'r"p irj.ii-M-ni me aK9ti3aiea purcnase
of K. L. Dodder of Omahu.
Mr. Dodder has been making a number
of Investments In western lands, but on
a recent visit to the west at the solicita
tion of W. H. Ray, the mayor of the city
of Provo, and formerly a resident of Mis
souri, Mr. Dodder visited provo and took
an automohlle trip over the farm lands
lying around this city, and over the
Strawberry Valley Irrigation project of the
United States government. The result is
that Mr. Dodder has converted a very
large part of his eastern holdings into
cash which he Is Investing In property
around this city.
While here Mr. Dodder declared to
Mayor Ray that he believed that Provo
and the territory immediately tributary
to this city will show the most wonderful
Increase In population, land values and
wealth within the next few years of any
city in the Inter-mountain west.
"I believe." said Mr. Dodder, "that
Provo will rapidly come to be a city of at
least Sfi.000 people. I am confident that If
the people of Omaha and of our section
were as well Informed concerning the
wealth and opportunities of this Inter
moumain west as I am that you. would
literally have tralnloads of homeseekers
and investors pouring Into the gates of
your city every day in the year. I believe
this so firmly and I am so confident that
the spread of this Information Is only a
question of time, that I am investing my
money at Provo and in the Utah valley,
because I am certain of doubling within
a short time every dollar that I put here."
Mr. Dodder has returned to Omaha and
before returning expressed his Intention
of making other Investments either for
himself or his friends In this scotlon'
Census Padded
in Pacdic Coast
Cities is Charge
Director Durand Gives Out Statement
Alleging Gross Effort to Pad
Returns in West.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-Censu Director
Durand tonight gave out a statement
charging a gross effort to Dad the cenaua
returns of Tacoma, Wash.', and other cities.
Including Seattle and' Aberdeen, Wash.;
Portland, Ore,; Minneapolis. Boise. Idaho.
and Fort 8mlth. Ark.
The population of Tacoma, Wash., In ac
cordance with the figures of the thirteenth
census Is 82,972. an Increase of 46,2o8, or 120
per cent over 87,714 In 1900.
Giving out the figures for Tacoma, Di
rector Durand issued a statement to the
effect that originally the enumerators
padded to tho extent of 33,20 names and
second enumeration was necessary.
Name of Church
Will Not Ch ange
Proposition is Voted Down in House
of Deputies of the Episcopal
Convention.
CINCINNATI. O.. Oct 15-The proposal
to change the name of the church was lost
by one vote in the house of deputies of the
Episcopal convention today.
Arguments for and against revision of
the title to the book of Common Prayer
by dropping the word "Protestant" and
Inserting tho words "holy Catholic church"
had been made by some of the ablest
speakers In the house of deputies.
tirlnnell Beats Simpson.
GRINNELL. la., Oct. 15. Orlnnell de
feated Simpson of Indlanola In a stubbornly
fought frame by a score of 20 to G.
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Man Who Brought a Big
Convention Home with Him
Getting an Interview from P. 8. Cowgill,
president of the Omaha Grain exchange. Is
no easy feat; getting Mr. Cowgill to go so
far as to talk about himself la almost an
impossibility. Mr. Cow-gill recently se
cured for Omaha the 1911 National Grain
Dealers' Assoolatton convention, but now
tries to sidestep the credit therefor.
"Go .write up Will A. Campbell," said
he. "Campbell did nearly all the work.
"What do you want to write alout me
for?" demanded Mr. Cowgill, almost Im
patiently. "I am not prominent. I'd really
much rather be left out of the papers."
It was suggested to Mr. Cowgid mat he
occupies a puslilun of some prominence as
president of the Omaha Grain exchange,
and Mr. Cowgill, who really thinks the
exchange a pretty important proportion,
was almost ten.pted to deny that Its presi
dency l-i a matter of much moment.
Mr. Cowgill is president of the Trans
Mlaslssippl Grain company, one of the
larger companies of omaht, and was a
director of the exchange for' some years
before he was elevated to the presidency.
He has been In the grain business tor
twenty-one years, beginning when years
of age in his native place, Springfield, 111.
"No, 1 wasn't born anywhere near the
Abraham IJncoln home nor law office,"
said he. In answer to a question.
He began by buying grain on cars lor a
company there and learned t.ie business
thoroughly In-fore he tame to Omaha In
l(s:7. His success here has not been of the
spectacular kind, but has not been slow,
either, although quite sttauy.
Mr. Cowgill ts a member of the Omaha.
Omaha Country and Commercial clubs,
and he and Mrs. Cowgill are active In the
society wvrld. Mr. Cowgill is a horse en
thusiast and so is his wlie. He was active
some years ago In the Horse Show associ
ation, and Mrs. Cowgill, who is an exert
whip, drove her own handsome tandem
KrU N I life?
END COMES AT EIGHT (
Famous Republican Leader Succumbs
Suddenly to His Disease.
WAS NATIVE OF WEST VIRGINIA
First Political Office Representative
from Tenth Iowa District
SERVED TEN YEARS IN SENATE
First Appointed to Fill Vacancy
Canned hy Death of J. II. Gear
Twice He-elected by His
. District.
FORT DODGE, la., Oct. 15,-Ppeclal Tel
egram.) Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver died
here this evening about 8 o'clock of dila
tion of the heart.
The senator has been confined to his bod
for about a week. Ills Illness followed an
nttack of stomach trouble and wh.le his
family knew his condition was sedlous, still
the critical nature of his illness was
scarcely appreciated outside the immediate
kfnmlly circle.
Senator Dolliver has been a constant
worker all his life and during his recent
illness, which resulted In calling off his
campaign dates, Mrs. Dolliver said he had
not had a vacation In thirty-five years.
Sketch of Ills Life.
Senator Dolliver was born near King
wood, Va., now In West Virginia, Febru
ary 6. lR.Vi. In ls;r, he was graduated from
tho West Virginia university, being ad
mitted to the bar three years later. Sen
ator Dolliver never held a public office
until he was elected to the Fifty-first con
gress as representative from the Tenth
Iowa district. He was a member of the
house in the Fifty-first, Fifty-second,
Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth and
Fifty-sixth congresses.
Recent Visit ) Omnbn.
Senator Dolliver added to his long list of
friends In Omaha last month when he was
here on the occasion of the visit of Theo
dore Roosevelt to this city. He was at the
station to meet Mr. Roosevelt, having Just
arrived from a trip through Iowa and re
mained, all day. being a guest of Omaha
along with the former president.
In the evening he visited the den and
witnessed the initiation ceremony and was
called upon to make a talk by the loud
calls of the thousands present. He re
sponded In his most happy vein and made
a most decided hit, as alway, with his
witty remarks.
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Three Lads in
Odd Quarrel
Two Report Theft of Same Wheel,
Meet and Come to Station and
Third Causes Arrests.
Several days after two small boys had
complained over the loss of an Identical
wheel, and follow-in? by a few hours the
report of a third that he had been robbed
of it, the first two boys came Into the
police station Saturday contending owner
ship and were arrested. Carl Fugerson, 12
years old, S14 North Seventeenth street,
was the first to report his loss. The de
tectives recovered the wheel for him the
next day. Two days later Abe Savak, It
years old, complained that he lost a wheel
and described tho same bicycle.
The lads met each other on the street
Saturday and had a heated argument over
the bicycle, finally ending up at the station,
each asking the other's arrest. Meantime
the police had heard from Tommle Kings
ley, another lad of 38r Faruaiti ktreet.
and the result was the arest of both war
ring lads. '
Two Aeeldenta at Seward.
SEWARD, Neb., Oct. 13. (Special Tele
gram.) Alex Halne had half of his right
hand torn off yesterday in a grain eleva
tor. Peter Gerkln, another farmer, had a
shoulder blade broken by falling under a
heavy wagon.
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1 In the arena. Violin playing is another of
Mr. ' Cowgill'a diversions
I Mr. t'owgills dislike of publicity Is not
i feigned and he cannot see why he should
be written about or Interviewed regarding
crip prospects, even though he be cne of
I the leading figures of the local grain world.
m LEVEL
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LIVE WIRE 0Mm
ME.PRILY WE 50G ALONG- gzgm.WH, U f samblir
MACHINE VOTE COSTS MORE
Make Elections More Expensive Out
side Original Cost
QUESTION ""OF PAY -MQffr.lS'f
Councilman Berks Is Determined the
Action of Members In Dnrlna; Ad
ditional Machines Will
Not Bind City.
Figures complied from bills for last
year's general election on file In the office
of the county clerk show that It will cost
the city of Omaha more to hold an elec
tion In November with voting machines
than without them, excluding altogether
from, considering the Initial cost of the
machines.
The following Items are excluded because
the expense would be the same no matter
which method it used: Tables and chairs
for clerks and Judges, delivery suppllos,
poll books and covers, clerk's stationery
and lights, which must be provided for
eitlur machines or booths.
The bills for the general election of 1909
which were paid for things necessary In
a voting- machine election are on record as
follows, figured for fifty-seven Instead of
fifty-four precincts:
Ballot labels at ll.W $102.80
( harts, (some left over from last
var) loo.Otl
Wages of Instructors and custodians. 37ti. 7S
Seals and envelopes and Instruction
books 45.60
Hauling machines to and from booths an.oo
Carpenter's bill for railing around
machines 122.50
Total S.0.46
Printed Ballots for Schools.
Added to this Is the expense caused by
the fact that the school board has decided
to use printed ballots and the booths will
have to be constructed for use whether all
the voting is done on them or not. This will
amount to something more than $400, Judg
ing by the $61J spent In the last occasion,
making the total cost of the election, if
machines are used, $1,300.
An Itemized account of the expenses of a
ballot election Is given, made up of esti
mates by the clerks of the county clerk's
office and based upon the average ex
penses of pOKt years.
The expense of printing ballots will not
he lurg because the county pays for every
thing exeent the cost of print upon the
ballets t!-o candidates for water board and
school board. Thu average ci.st of tnilots
during ihe Inst five yeiira has been Jn B0
per thoutand.
I'.allois, I'lX' at tf.li) p?r l.m'O SMeC
F'sper ballot hox-.s )
Putting up stal's fim
Total t'"k2.tJ0
Mcrhlnrn Vnmt Mora,
Iiy these fUiitfs a is dein. insrratei that
I here wiU be a slicing to the county of
Con-1 niied n Second Pago.)
Several articles
were found last
week.
Didyou lose them?
They are advertised in the Iost
and Found columns f The Bee
from day to day.
People hae learned to look for
such things here.
Thousands ure reading the want
ad a today.
Head them yourself.
They are newsy.
Everybody reads liee witut
ads.
Local Events as Viewed by The Bee's
Fire Sweeping
Over Village
. of Hay Springs
Reported to Be Beyond Control ai.d
Entire Business Section is
Threatened.
HAT SPRINGS. Neb.. Oct. 15. (Special
Telegram.) At an early hour this morning
fire broke out In the west part of town
and spread rapidly to the business section,
destroying several buildings. The loss Is
estimated at JiO.000.
At noon the fire was still bumMfe and be
yond control. The entire business section
of the town is threatened.
Employes ot the
Railroads Win
in Paris Strike
Directors of Lines Involved Agree to
Grant the Minimum Wages
Asked by the Men.
PARIS. Oct. IBThe directors of the rail
roads Involved In the strike agreed today
to grant a minimum wage of $1 a day to
the employes of all lines running out of
Paris. The new scale will am into effn
January 1 and constitute the chief conces
sion demanded by the men.
Omaha to Have Turkish
Consulate in the Future
If you should wish to learn how to Im
port your own Turkish cigarettes, see
Charles N. Wilhelm, the about-to-be Tur
kish consul for the state of Nebraska. Mr.
Wilhelm, who Is secretary, and treasurer
ef the Orchard & Wilhelm company of
Omaha and Des Moines, last week slnl
fled his willingness to take the place, a
purely honotary one.
His connection with the matter came
about this way. The Sublime Porte uskfd
Secretary Niel of the Department of
Commerce ami Ilor to nomli.ate a suit
able Oinuha business man. Mr. Nag'l put
It up to the executive committee of the
Cominrrcial club. That body referred the
matter to a special committee which d--cldr-d
uion Wilhelm.
He was chosen for various qualifica
tions, anionic them being a knowledge of
Tui kuy. In w hich country he was by coin
cidence traveling at the time the committee
determined to namo him. Since his re
turn the matter lias been laid before him
and he has acccptid.
Mr Wlllie'm s name has been sent to
the secretary at Wash ngtnn, who has In
turn forwarded the matter to the Wash
ington lefc-atlon ar.d tho formal commission
will be back heie so-tn. '
Mr. W!lhe:m has l-.-vn an active figure
on various committees of the Commerclul
cliiD kr.d hla own IhisIim-sh . one of Hie
leading houses of the city. As consul he
will l ave stipes vlvii.n ever all Torklh sub
jects in the state. Me will vise passport.-;
ui.l In general will t.an art ail bur. :,.
ior the Ottoman etnplie as Its authorize. 1
and risponiiil representative.
M-m- subjects of (lie sultan than one
would imagine live In Omaha ntid Ne
braxka. Some of these are Armen ans an l
others .Syrians and In uddl'.inn there a.e
quite a ftw real Turks.
The Syrians ars noiahiy cnacd in liu
rug vending business and their names ure
fairly often recorded here In the office of
the marriage license bureau of the county
Artist.
JOHN F, CHAD PASSES MY AY
Prominent Banker and Heal Estate
Man Dies.
WAS ILL FOR SEVERAL DAYS
Death Brinsrs to End Remarkable
Life, in Which Early Pioneering
nnd Adventnrinjc , Found
Romantic Chapters.
After a lingering sickness of several
weeks, John F. Coad, prominent In bank
ing and real estate circles, and one of the
pioneers of Nebraska, died at 4:15 o'clock
yesterday afternoon at his home, 3718 Far
nam street.
John F. Coad was president of the Coad
Real Estate company, the Packers' Na
tional bank of South Omaha, a director of
the Merchants National bank and one of
the pioneers of Nebraska. He was born In
Dublin, Irelund, In January, 1840. When a
lad of 8 years he came to America in com
iiany with his brother, Mark M., who was
then 20 years old.
Shortly after the arrival of the two In
America they went to Wisconsin, where
they remained until John F. was 12 years
old. at which time Mark moved to Des
Moines and took his young brother along
with him. During the year 18S9 things be
came dull In tho Iowa capital and Mart
decided to strike farther west, taking with
him a wagon and a pair of mules, which
comprised about all of his capital. They
arrived at Nebraska Cltv and earned a liv
ing as best they could doing odd Jobs with
their team. They secured a contract to
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Accordingly Mr. Wilhelm will keep wat'-h
and waid over a good many soft-voiced,
gentle mannered foreigners It being under
stood that one is lefertinir now to the
S; r.ac portion of the ottoman suhj-cte.
Mr. Wilhelm ami his family occupy an
env.ahle ion t,mi in (in. aha ko. iety ami
he is a member of all the leading clubs.
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WELLMAN BEGINS
TKIPTMUKOPE
Li the Airship Amciica Start is Made
from Atkntic City Early
lhis Morning.
CREW OF EIGHT MEN ABOARD
Dirigible Floats Through the Air Like
a Bird.
SOON OUT OF SIGHT IN THE FOG
Wireless Messag-e Comes Back Telling
of Progress Made.
YACHT FOLLOWS SHIP OUT TO SEA
Mock of rruvUlona on Hoard and I.lfe.
boats t arried No thnt In Case of '
Accidents Yoyaicers Slay
IOacnpe Death.
M'M.KTIX.
NFW TORK, K-t. l.v A wireless mes
simo from the stenmer I'oiimo was reoelved
b tho I'nitcil Wireless company tonlgtit.
reporting huMng sighted Wellman's bal
loon America i p. m., five miles south
southeast of .Scotland lightship, heading
northeast. The baloon appeared to be
nuiklnn fifteen knots an knur. Weather
very loKgy. Scotland lightship Is located
about four miles southeast of Sandy Hook,:
The latest wireless methane this after
noon iiom me airsntp America stated that
a course had been ln!d for the north
steamer track from Newfoundland and that
the speed had been reduced to fifteen miles
an hour to save fuel. Tho airship carries
enough Kaaollne for fifty days under low
speed pressure.
HI I.LKTIN.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J , Oct. lS.-Wlre-less
Operator Miller, Just before noon bad
spoken to tho America through a vessel
between the airship and the shore. Whllo
the message was not entirely plain, lit
purport was that Wellman and his crew
had decided to make the daring attempt to
reach Kurope.
"We are headed due northeast, but have
taken no observation and will not know
our exact location until noon," It read.
The America wireless apparatus haa a
radius of about 100 miles.
Bl'LLISTIX.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., Oct 15.-Word
was received here from the weather bu
reau at Washington that the West Indian
hurricane is coming up the coast
An attempt is being made by Wellman'
Mends to reach him and warn him to clear
from the track of the storm.
DILLETIX.
ON BOARD THE AIRSHIP AMERICA
CROSSING THIS ATLANTIC-1 ;4 p. m.!
Oct. 15. "The sea is smooth. We are not
crowding the motors hard. Averaging
about fifteen knots an hour. All going
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. Oct. 15.-The
long deferred attempt of Walter Wellman
to cross the Atlantic from the United
States to Kurope in a dirigible airship,
was begun this morning when his balloon,
the America, left the hanger here and
disappeared to the eastward In a heavy
fog.
After weeks of delay, which had aroused
doubt In the minds of all but the launch
tst of his supporters that any real attempt
would be made to start the flight, news
was flashed at 4 o'clock a." m. today that a
start would be made this morning. Mel
vin Vanlman, chief engineer, and K. Murry
Simons, navigator, had paced the balloon
shed throughout the night, halting their
work of examination of every foot of the
balloon only to look out of doore at the
weather.
Shortly after midnight the wind dropped
to a slow southeast breeze, followed by a
settling of one of the heaviest fogs known
on the coast. Friends of Vaniman who
had stood by him and declared
their belief that he would try
either with or without hit partner,
Wellman, were overjoyed . when at 4
o'clock Vanlman declared the America
would leave the ground within the next
few hours.
Martina- on the Jonrney.
It took more trian two hours to get thf
airship out of tho hanger with the assist-,
ence of policemen and firemen and It was
8:03 when the craft left the ground. It
floated out Into the fog eff shore and
within ffVO I! 1 1 n 1 1 1 a . . i . . . .
to signu
About 1,000 persons, who had not lost faith
In the expedition, saw the start
When the airship left the ground Mr.
Wellman did not know whether only a
test would be made or whether the trip
to Europe would be started at once. II
depended on how he found things when
he got into the air, he said. When he
left here It was his intention to go north,
following the New Jers y coast as far as
New York. If he found ths airthtp work-in-
to his HHtlsfuctlon and conditions re
mained right, ho Intended to follow the
route of tteamers tip to Nantucket and
then turn eastward and follow the tracks
of the trans-AUantlc llrors across the
ocean, lln expected to make every effort
to keep in the steamship tracks so In case
he m.t with accident he would he close to
steamtis with wlrelcsst. with which the
airship Is a!a equlpi-ed. and could be
quickly rescued if the cmw waa coinpolled
to take to the lifeboat attached to the
America.
Crew of the ftbljt.
The crew aboard tne America when she
left the Rrnund included Walter Wellman,
MeMn Vanlman, cl.lef engineer; F. Mur.
ray Simons, navigator of the exrjedltlon:
J. K. Irwin, wireless operator, and Albert
Louis Loud and John Aubett, assistant
engineers.
The America Is a larger crsft thsn (he
one In which Wellman started for the
North pole. Tho airship's gas bag Is
fchajied II. e a clar and is 2J feet long.
" wiuin is almoin rirty-two feet and i
said to he capable of lifting nearly
Itttivu Ions.
The j -ji..,Ker car is l.yl feet long, the
floor cf ui.l. 1, It. a flat tank In which gas
oline is stored. The America has three gas
oline, melius TI.ey ar in tie center and
are of urn i.t eighty horsepower, llencstli
the car hai.gs a liruhnst twenty-seven feet
long to be used If the bslloon is wrecked.
Strun; beneath tho cur Is a J30-fojt equali
biator wlili ii takm the piaco cf a drag
rope use,) on balloons. The eqiililbrat..t
consist:; uf a ling steel cable tu which ar
attuched thirty aumll steel tsnlis, each
earning seventy-five pounds of gasoline