The evening world. Newspaper, July 2, 1912, Page 4

THRONG SEES FIVE DIE AS VANIMAN AIRSHIP I$ WRECKED (Continued from First Page.) fag and waving their arms at the long, wnderhanging working platform on which the Vaniman brothers and their | erew were moving about. From a epestator's standpoint, the @how was ideal. The sun had come Up Ike @ brazen ball from the morn- fing hase on the horizon, There was! @carcely any air stirring and the whir! of the propellers of the dirigible had | been audible to the watching thou- wands ince the Akron took the 6.15. CTATORS ARE STARTLED BY @UDDENESS OF EXPLOSION. ‘The temperature had been steadily rising and the sun had just blazed ita way through the films of mist, when the balloon seemed to rush up suddenly to a much higher altitude, remaining, how- ever, on an even keel. There was noth- hg in the sudden ascent that occasioned Ct ie ee every person who witnessed the tragedy had a different story to tell of just what | occurred. } Chief Black of the Atlantic City Fire Department, who assisted in launching } the balloon, this morning, sald: “I had no idea there was anythini wrong, until I suddenly saw the smoke change to flame and then (he entire rear end of the bag meit into fire. Probably the gasoline tank went next, but after the first flash and before the roar of the explosion came to our ears, only chaotic flame and wreckage blotted against the oe “It seemed to me I heard the @ereeme of the doomed mon, but this was probably only imagination, as Geath happliy must have come to them instantly. ‘For « few seconds the air where the great dirigible had been seemed . to be on fire, The understructure of the airship tore away from the bias- ing mass above and decended like a plummet to the waves below. I im- | agined I saw a body falling clear and sinking faster than the working plat- form, but thia may have been part of the engine. The heavy masses simply went down in @ blur. Above, the bag, @till containing some unexploded ¢ fluttered for a while like @ live thi then curled up in smoke and streaked down, through the air.” ire and + AGRONAUT! WIVES WITNESS i ; DEATH FROM SHORE. ‘or @everal minwtes following the explosion, scarcely a sound was heard om shore. Then hysterical women . vreke the silence and men rushed about @ the beach yelling commands, Mra. ( Melvin Vaniman and the wives of two { ‘members of the crew had been wit- | messing the flight from the porch of § the Vaniman cottage, They were just ) going down the porch steps to mingle with @ throng of women, when the flash came. Mrs, Vaniman j deck and seized the rail of "Her cheeks blanched and she seemed shout to awoon. By an herolo effort Hohe mastered herself and rushed fore {ward and joined the men, who were \ ordering Doats sent out to the wreck- Jame. She begged to be taken out in ome of the boats, but a friend of her husband dissuaded h “ed back to the cotti A. T. Bell, eecretary of the Ameri: @Micial photographer of the Vaniman ‘| enterp.lee, and Councilman Cook we: + bands came by motor and boat | foot to Brigantine Beach. The w yom with the debris of the airship. {bart of the morning. ) WRECKAGE OF AIRSHIP. Vaniman w of @ fishing bo: @ral men in bathing suits went fwas buried in the mud. @imost in the middle, by a gu tended adout one hundred fect. @mly for favorable winds, Las @onditions app: RMotified the city authorities he prob Would make a Might at sunrise to-day hundred policemen and fire \eent to the inlet to a Out of the big shed. 8 LAST FATAL TRIP, wes a simple one ani the big bi (Jeon once clear of the »! flour men already had «0 alarm to the onlookers. The explosion | came with such startling suddenness | and was followed eo ewiftly by a rain | of wreckage to the eea, that almost | fan Exhibition Company, Walter Crail, | the first to put out from the beach in ]® Motorboat. As the nows of the } tragedy awept over Atlantic City, thous 4 on {Was soon black with 4 fleet of craft Fiding out to where the water was fore 9 o'clock it was extimated fully { fifty thousand people were congregated ‘along the wharfs of the inlet and on S the boardwalk near the inlet. All ousl- | Ress was suspended for the greater BODIES GO DOWN WITH THE Councilman Cook's motorboat war the p, first craft to arrive at the floating ;Mase of wreckage, The body of Calvin recovered by the crew It was caught fast fm the rear of the tangled and twisted Working platform of the airship. Sev- vers Board and swam down toward the bot- Htom. One of them reported seeing a body, covered by) a anass of twisted Wire, near a spot where the engine (Further in toward shore, floated what was lott of the burned and shattered gas Rag. It seemed to have been rent open h that ex- For a week, Vaniman had been pian- Ring to make a flight and had waited | compressed—just as stout Leht, red satisfactory and he bly GAS daybreak, the conditions were still j favorable and the word was given, Aline ¢ ere |to keep the big sh t in getting the |air, and tt had ton PRalloon out of the immense hangar, | tee During the ‘Their duty was to hold on the ropes of the ahip as she wae carefully warped THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY,’ -JULY4 2,81912 Vaniman Airship Before and After fter Wreck; ~ |HORSETURNS MARKET |. and Crew Who Perished in Aerial Tragedy THE VeNIM4SN DRIG! BLE UNSERWUIOD AND UNDERWooR noeuvring of the great alr craft drew crowds from every direction and the upper end of the beach and boardwalk were thronged with people when the disaster occurred, On the morning of Ju ‘Akron narrowly missed through a broken propellor. lor became tangled in the gu: and the big alreraft plunged, ward, Into the sea, Vaniman acted qi ly, however, and with the assistanc his crew and a boat that had been cruls ing nearby, got his ship into the air the ragged edke of the splintered pro: pellor hindered the ship's progress, although Calvin Vaniman craw twenty or more feet from the side car while in mid-air and whittled the rough edges of the that day, over an hour and except for the interference of the rop. Pronounced the trial successful, To-day's catastrophe was particularly Unexpected in that Ito explosion of gas, For it was to the Ing of the gas, rather than to t machinery, that most of his efforts, York, last February, new method of holding gas dirigibl MADE “REAL AIRSHIP.” “At last T have the rational airship, wounds toc means no more equili no more baast pro! drag-rope or sinking 1 midnight. We have a priso! of hyd heat it and it can't expand; it be The fight, this morn’ proved the ship through lessons learn: in that flight THRONG SEES START OF AIR.! Wei , Mundreds of persons who expected the fight saw the Akron come off the) collapsed to-day, The *hangar for the last time, Tho operation | thirty feet longer was | America, b Drought out without difficulty, The bal- od, Vaniman Jemped into tho car, where his other! and he Veulman appeared to have complete | © gentrol, and afier circling about over the inlet and on the mainiand the nip’ | not unitke in wht attempte Jeross the Atlantic Ocean in October, | ferences », but there were many the construe! on of the alrehip wht | at was @ ‘The dimeniosns were: L | 288 fect; a a | wae r again, Further flight was attempiod but] and, cided to wbandon further fight just then, All told, the craft remained in the air, Vaulinan me through an his Briefly, the plan called for a fabric fifty times ms strong as any balloon cloth used before, With the nected to the gas bag by steel tubing of Mght construction. On top of the tank was built a platform of two-inch boards and on this rested one 100 horse- power motor, two 0 horse-power motors, one 17 hors nd "la small dynamo, The 100 horse-power motor was used for the two forward vertical propellers and the other two e motors for the two pairs of orlent- _Juble propellers. ‘These propellers could be turned from the horiaontal to the d were to be used to raise the airship, The small motor were used for electric to furnisi power to the om the so were stored on this plat form, the forward end of the plat- form were the steering wheels and levers. It is estimated there had been spent on the Akron, at her ineeptio ething like half a milion dollars, was eup , this morning, to be ry latest and most up-to-date in. dirigible ships. nim ‘ame promin- before the public eye as for Walter Wellman, — the Journalist, When he essayed to cross the Atlantic In the dirigible balloon, Amerie iT Atlantic navi City, Oct 16, 1910. The erat re- mained in the alr seventy houra and travelled approximately | 850 miles, when tho so-called equilibrator, trail: . cuused trouble and auls Were regeued at xen, mishap, by t ) Moyal Mat! ing in the wat the with Wellm n to comma hydrogen thus strongly imprisoned, Vaniman predicted he could use alr f bailast, that is, he eould pump air into @ compartinent within the balloon until the hyd "s vol had shrank enough to bring the big dirigible to the ground VANIMAN DECLARED HE HAD! said Vaniman, “I feel xo happy over ft that T can hardly discuss it yet. It Ito be true, What the new cloth does is simply this: It tor problems, ond the lil-fated airship had taken this year, T fight the batioon | made when {t spent the eat day tn air in he vicinit ty at time sumMetent In general appearance, the Akron was Ww Dag was at of th Her tn Atameter, ngth of bax, The baw ¢ of & compoaition of rubber, | DESCRIPTION OF THE FITTINGS gave the word to “let go.’ Inmantly | OF BIG AIRSHIP, “the ship rose, slowly at first and away-| i pine from end to end, Then she rose) Rar-shaped an had an adventurous career He was about forty-three ye ja native of Mlinols |butider and dalloonist he fon on to the which t fs not a q any longe t perfectlo Des an airship to stay r rica en gen, at last, that will hold it. Put alr for thirty days if necessary. The hydrogen in a strong steel case and! success of the trip will be due to the wut to prevent his extreme height ¢ ® sun will un expand A ay make VANDALS PICK AT WRECKED SHIP FOR SOUVENIRS. gathered abou® the wreckage of the idle and an organized mang looters began to cut up the wreckage to well tt ao souventra baw wan the ao- fainting ti | whape to the A t longer, per < hapa 18 foot bottom of the Heyer Into custody and charging the about 100 fest long, In th! car was compored of & round atoel tank about two feet tn diameter and ank was ) vandalism, ‘The thieves ware a 1 as fast a they came a Pr loot, Motor boats F officers, who are patrolling the sceno,! apprehend the vandals. +: +1+i+ sre oree F ing to Chief Woodrum, f the supplies of +i++ WALL ST LSE ong undertone} riod, the mar-| ehtef DR. McBRIDE| throughout the midday p ket indulged in a spirite lowing the announcement ¢ late run off pric int from the 1 vklyn Rapid Transit, | American Can and U Wero the leaders in the reaction at the | n aerial voyage to} Practicallybottom prices were estab: | fic dat closing time. rs old and & practical ave his por- reat craft in his death, and at ally hopeful of reaching ij and vitae 50: ‘i hey pe oT fra Gol Crane Work $5 a Tooth All Work Guaranteed 10 Yegra FR. McBRIDE’S 8 0 and | Bridge PEOCE * Our Patent Suction Teeth! re tore Away sections of the gis, kon the top flor of premit eh ryt earl a ee sy ma ley, ; INTO RIOT IN A DOUBLE |: RUNAWAY FROM COPS : Pushcarts, Peddlers, Buyers and Loungers Turned Topsy- Turvy in Wild Dash. An unidentified peddler left his horse and wagon in Madison street, near Jet- ferson, where the push-cart market has| one of its most profitable stands, this afternoon, and while he was absent an- other and craftier individual unhitched the horse and made off with the was The horse stood there idly for a few moments, apparently pondering his changed lot. Then he proceeded to give a onstration of his speed. The horse plungee suddenly at full gallop down the middle of Monroe. Pushcart men, bargainers and bystand- ers broke right and left, bowling each other over. A couple of street cleaners made @ futile attempt to stay the} horse's course, but he galloped on his career of destruction unimpeded. Sov- eral policemen from nearby posts and from the station house in Madison street joined efforts in a mass-play and, finally succeeded in stopping the horse at the foot of Jefferson street, Just ax he was on the point of diving into the East River. | They led him back, past the scene of devastation he had wrought, to the sation house. ‘Two ambulances had al- dy arrived and numerous minor in- Juries were being attended to. Nathan » thirty-one years old, 0} e sireet, and Emma Wort twenty-elght, of No. Monroe street, were sent to hospit \ Apparently, the excitemant was over, | but the officers who escorted the horse to the station house had just gone inside, leaving him in the custody of a small boy, when they heard a yell of fear and ga battering of hoofs. Led by Pa- trolman Gaston Lepinsky, the whole room gave chase. A block or two distant, in Jefferson street, Lepinsky nailed the horse, but he was unable to stop him until Patroi- man Cummings and several others had given assistance. Then the weary and battered detachment of police and the ‘horse etarted back toward the station house. “Whom does this confounded beast be- long to?” demanded Lepinsky. j “You've got me,” said Cummin, They asked the bystanders. body knew. Half a block from the station- house, they were met by a messen| “Hey,” the called, “the Lieutenant says don't bring that horse here again. Take him to a stable.” So the horse, thoroughly worn out and tamed, was dragged reluctantly to a wearby stable. Here’s what it means— If an Emperor Shirt ever fades—no matter how many times laundered, and no matter why—take it back to the dealer. He’ll gladly .return what you paid.” We stand back of him. All three of us want the shirt We are masters of style, fit and finish, We have produced neck bands—strong, close woven goode—cuffe that can’t ravel—ocean pear! buttons—all the best features in shirts, cut coat style. New Fire Service io Plans Have also been filed for the con- Headquarters Repalr sure fire service the west side north of Franklin str a frontaxe of 68 feot with an exte it Will be fire- MATCHLESS LIQUID GLOSS It gives the shine won't come off. For office or home—automobile bodies — all fin- ished surfaces Cleans, Disinfects, TORIISH OTT! jet trial can. rdw and saree stores Standard Oil Company of New York HE blend that caught the metropolis— Fatima, Turkish- blend. Preferred to an all-Turkish tobacco by the great majority of smokers to-day. “Distinctively in- dividual’”’—You'll like them! Being in a plain pack- age, we can offer This Home on oan ire? ales curing dil TI BASY PAYMENT ™ i WE PAY FREIGHT AND RAILROAD FARE, FARE, ] Weite | tor mia 1912 malted a thee Grand Rapids Furniture sci | 3-ROUM OULEIT | j | s-RooM OUlFIT ie '225| 2 allen Below Kesner’s 120 Wess 23° St .NEAR‘’G™ AVE Now, Look on Shirts for “Laundryproof” Shirts at $1 and up, made with fabric that will never fade and that wears twice as long—due to the Phillips-Jones Process. We treat all our goods with this process. We own it. We cannot explain how it operates, for tha? is a costly secret. But we point to the Laundryproof label and to the guarantee-slip with each shirt and say, “Make Us Make Good” De. Dileos Facial Rejuvenator. to make good—we, more than anyone else, for we have a 51 years’ reputation at stake Let your next shirt bear the labels below. See what they ‘The Fecia of Constipation Caz quickly be overcome by CARTER’S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Purely vegetable 4 1,008 Patterns» Dealers can carry an extensive assortment. over a thousand exclusive your dealer's today. ow wes, and Indigestion, Genuine mare Siguature Ss: colors laundryproor, 1 “Always Early With the Latest”’ For Emperors at $1, ask for Emperor Gold Labels For Emperors at $1.50 and up, ask for Red Labels Emperor Shirts are made with plain or plaited bosoms—box, medium or knife plaits. Cuffs separate or attached. All shirts AT YOUR DEALER'S “You have litted a burden from the poor laundryman," said a well-known laundry head, “for you've taken the fading blame trom our shoulders and placed it on the shirt maker's, where it belongs, Here's yours and the Emperor's health.” PHILLIPS-JONES COMPANY—Manufacturere 7 NEW YORK = CHICAGO READERS WORLD 2Giging. gus of town for the sume it Bend F remittance te the Cashier iy NEW YORK