The evening world. Newspaper, July 2, 1912, Page 1

WILSON THE NOMINEE WEATHER—Fatr Te-Night; We iy Uni ettled. FINAL eal _PRICE ONE CENT. by jew York World). NEW YORK, TUESDAY, “JULY ry 1912, VANIMAN SHE BURSTS IN Al FIVE KILLED Thousands See Big Dirigible Balloon Explode at At- lantic City. ——<— WAS 1,000 FEET HIGH. Aerial Tragedy Costs Lives of Two Vanimans and Crew of Three. (Spectal to The Evening Worl.) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 2.— Melvin Vaniman, his brother Calvin anc his crew of three men perished in midair over Absecon Inlet at 6.38) o'clock this morning, when the im- mense Vaniman dirigible balloon] Akron was blown to atoms by the explosion of her gas bag. ‘The dead are Melvin Vaniman, Cal- vin Vaniman, Fred Elmer, Walter Guest and George Bourtillion, This greatest of aeronautic disasters fm America was witnessed by thou- sands of persons, who had gathered on the beach to watch Vaniman manoeuvre the vast balloon in what he planned as one of his last ex- perimental flights preparatory to his attempt to fly across the Atlantic. A remarkable coincidence was the fact that just before leaving the! hangar Vaniman and his young! brother had been reading of the tragic death of Miss Harriet Quimby | and William A. P, Willard, who tum- pled from a Ulerlot aeroplane to the mud flats of Dorchester Bay, Mass., yesterday, in sight of a throng of 6.000 people. The Vaniman traged more harrowing spectacle for the throngs that lined hores of Absecon Inlet, among ther s, Vatiiman and) the wives of two inembers of the crew. | The disaster came with the sudden-| (> ness of a flash of lightning, while the! balloon was salling at the height of about 1,000 fest above the surf WILSonw ee ee was an even! EW Gov. WOODROW, b/ | WINSON HY (© AM.PRESS A. | vas water, Vania his eq . ve young kinsman, Calvin Vanima the three members of the crew were but tiny mannikins to the vision of the epectators, but they were all yiainiy| — Visible on the platform of the car, sus pended by the great bag, when the air above them was 8 rent by ilaa and there was 3 xplosion. PULITZER SCHODL [Baseball ScoresTo-Day!™™*swmis rmonea as, | > enya First there was a puff of smoke from | ] NATIONAL LEAGUE. {Bryan <Aantan On man Henry one end of the 258-foot gas envelops o | . 4 i if silk and rubber. Almost in the same i AT NEW YQRK. { or Some Other Far V ern instant there was a blinding flash |B { ssive, against the sun and sky, followed by a a 0 00 | < roar. The wreckage became a mass of | GIANTS fame and smoke and plunging dots that . were the bodies of the hapless victims. 2 EXPANDING GAS THOUGHT | CAUSE OF EXPLOSION | Widow of Benefactor Offici- AT PHILADELPHIA, Only theorles are offered to account| ss |BBROBLYN = j ) ie for the disaster. Tho most plauaivlo in| ates at Ceremony at ee ea ee \brating gear failed to| PALADELPHIA ‘ work and the balloon tilted at te} ! big i 022000 ‘ tude where the rarified air and eat | Columbia. : " of the sun caused # spontan ___ pirrs | AT PITTSBURGH. Diosion of suddenly expanded gas In the presence of President Nicholas | «14, ie The Akron was out over the wate: above a point about a quarter of a mil off Brigantine Beach. Below the water had a depth of elghteen feet with a vot. | t tom of soft mud, Vaniman had been entertaining the ever-increasing throngs on shore for alinost twenty minutes by a neouvres over Grassy Bay ¢ secon Inlet, As he rode out over inlet and attained an altitude of 100 feet or 0, he sevmed to have the enor- mous dirigible under perfect control, ‘A fleet of fishing boats was making out to sea, thelr Occupants sivaining thelr eyes as they gazed into the sun- Hght to watch the circling balloon, The crews of the fishing boats were cheer- GO: | Murr 3 74 00 0 * | AMERICANS AGAIN. WIN Be OLYMPIC SHOOTING HONORS AMERICAN LEAGUE. —, AT BOSTON. ! HIGHLANDER 0400 sgh , Vaal ae | J urnaiism branch ll, the corners} as in Team Conte vith Pi 200 truly held in her hand , as she ven her 0 1tng ver of the sruc erick A, Gootxe, who In also rts tatituts’ CONGRESSMAN UNDERWOOD |" "7000000 8 0 00" dultefoformaly as CONGRATULATES WILSON. orem en 10 firl died to-day in th nonia which hook the, Jacob Ruppert Brewery at Ninety-second pedis 4 Third avenue last week, He) the new s iy! fired ac Wo, 608 Hast Eighty-thisd sireot, | nextcundeys World, Naas Wilson, Democratic Nominee for President; Mrs. Wilson and Their Three Charming Daughters WILSON WANTED 10 QUIT ~ WHEN CLARK RAN AHEAD; TiS DELEGATES REFUSED Governor Wired to Bente to With- | draw His Name, But Workers Voted Proposition Down—How He Received Good | News. candidate of the withdraw his 1 from the consideration at Baltimore last Friday night, and he so ordered his here to do so If they thought such aetion would be in the harmon much Coy. Wilson told son his lawn this afternoon With a ninutes after he had r ews of his nomination. ribed the minute when b he ¢ of the warring delegates Clark wot 2 majority on one of tho bal- e At the election, J authorise you to notify all delegates pledged | at Z rel them from thelr pledges. Do this if you can find tho ey vaan for them to tnn to," | VERSBY LEADERS REFUSE TO DESERT GOVERNOR, i theae orders McCo the Governor's prop ously and M nbs Aasne tion because of t tertul t th h was displayed Ce walking back and rth under a b shade tree on th c * house, telling a story to the knot of newsnaper y that were with him, One reporter ran breathlissly up form the news erying: ‘Good news, Co ) ignored the messenge until the end D TO INTERRUPT STORY FOR GOOD NEWS, Now you may tell me,” he turning to the news ompletely and continue! with ayer correspon: (Continued on Second Page) 16 PAGES #, one of his manegers at Baitimorer, on| “I Hope the Democratic Party Will Never Have Reason to Regret My Nomination” al PRICE. ONE CENT. 990 ON LAST BALLOT, - ROLLCALL 1S FORCED | BY CLARK MANAGERS | Nomination Unanimous First Blocked, Then Put Through by the Missourians. SMITH OF NEW JERSEY FIGHTS WILSON TO END. Wild Scene on the Floor and in the Galleries as Other Candidates Are Withdrawn. BY MARTIN GREEN. (@taft Correspondent of The Bvening World.) | CONVENTION HALL, BALTIMORE, July 2.—Woodrow Wilson jof New Jersey was nominated for the Presidency by acclamation this afternoon at the close of the forty-sixth ballot. The nomination was greeted with a riot of applause, in which former Clark men, former | Underwood men, former Harmon men and former Marshall men joined. While more than half a hundred Clark delegates, including the thirty-six fram Missouri, stuck to Clark until the close of the last rollcall, there | was every appearance of harmony in the demonstration that followed / i‘ chairman James's announcement of the result. It was generally admitted that the best campaigner had been nome inated, and whatever bitterness had been engendered was hidden in the great jubilation in which 15,000 persons took part. BRYAN CONGRATULATED. During the final victorious roll call, William Jennings Bryan heft a reception in his place in the Nebraska delegation. He was simply swamped with congratulations and men who have been watching Ding for years never saw him so plainly happy. And he had a tight to Se happy. He had landed his candidate without the ninety votes of New: York, He had bossed the proceedings, pretty effectively throughout, and he had the platform, largely written by himself, in his pocket, The convention took a recess until 9 P. M., when a nomination fos Vice-President will be made and a platform adopted. Mr. Wilson's nomination was practically settled by the withdrawal of Oscar Underwood after the close of the forty-fifth ballot. Senator Bankhead, a fine old figure of Southern statesman with a top and rear head like Bryan and a face of the Indian type, made an eflective withdrawal of the candidate of his State. He said Mr, Undere wood entered the contest because he thought he could win. He had hoped to show that sectional feeling between the North and South was jead and believed he had demonstrated that fact, “Mr. Underwood,” said Senator Bankhead, didate, party, “is not in this fight to His purpose is to fore and he will work for the prevent unination of any oth interests of the Demoer le of the Democratic nominee of this convention, whoever he may ae No, no. the Senator, raising his arms in a g eas of horror, “No friend of the Democratic party would dare sug taking that man from } nt py uld be to n to the highe: y it in the nt’s chair, Mr y where he is and continue his labors for the Deme ink uri can t, announcing, uld fast. The Clark mo \ i 1 final chee was nothing but Wilson FOSS OUT OF THE WAY. Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston then appeared at the side of Mr, James t told ot his own love and that of the Democracy » Nob! le Foss, hey first went to the support of was a time when t mbitions of individuals must not stand in the way Vi tt loyalty of » its favorite of a victory for the Democratic party. Gov, Fogs had re |gates from any obligation to him and hoped for the electior New York’s Move to Make the ;