The evening world. Newspaper, May 29, 1919, Page 13

\ ' f |) ql | { P \ ty q ; f i Across Atlantic in Air Climax to Human Book Of Achievements It Took Many Centuries to Write Eric the Red May Have Written First Chap- ter Nearly 1,000 Columbus Sailed Across the Atlantic in 1492. Cabot Crosse the North Atlantic in 1497. The First Steamship Crossed in 1819. The First Cable Was Laid in 1858. ee Conrright, 191! y the Prese Pbitening jstory. His exploit was of the stout 6f the transmitters of electrical waves, The great game which has been Played out this week in the air is pine centuries old. Those who first made the adventure fared out Into the unknown. It has been said their spirit was the more gallant because they faced the unknown+an un- known which in those days was filed with strange demons and hob- Foblins of superstition and ignorance. But in fairness to the men who have faced death in these last few days, it must be admitted that the gentle- men who undertook to cross on the great waste of heaving waters to the land on the other side had no idea thow stupendous was the task they had wet for themselves; the unknown which they met and conquered was fir harder of attainment than they had dreamed when they started, Hawker and Towers and their men knew just what chances of death they faced and none the less faced them. One Leif Ericson, an Icelander, son of Eric the Red, was commissioned by King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway to proclaim Christianity in Greenland where Eric the Red had already founded a settlement. He was driven far from his course by foul ther and came to @ land “of which he had previously had no knowledge.” Here were ‘‘self-sown wheat”. and vines and “mosur wood." And Tyrker, the Gert in, Leif's father-in-la drank the juice of the grapes and got drunk. He reported back to King Olaf Trygg- vason and Thorfinn Karlsefni was sent back with several lic slaves presented by the King, “incredibly went on shore Scientists say the land was Nova Scotia Along in the early 1840's Cristoforo Colombo and Glovann! Caboto, Geno- ese sailors who had dared sufficiently swift of foot,” who to scout out the land to go out of the Gibraltar straits upon the main, each in his own way deter- mined that the world was really round and that there was an all water route to the riches of the Ind, Both of them began hanging around the crowned heads of port to try out the thec Columbus, who believed the ocean was a narrow pool ending about in the latitude of the Azores and that the continent of Asia was on the reher side, had underestimated tho circumference of the earth by many housands of miles, Even then King ©o, HEN Lieut, Commander Albert Citing Bia ‘ American seaplane NU-4 into the s' day afternoon he added one more tou 04 men in crossing the Atiantic with men and messages on, over and under the water, which began back in the mists beyond the dawn of authentic San ‘ "FLIGHT OF THE'NC-4 NEW CHAPTER IN ROMANCE OF THE ATLAD Years Ago. ae, 2 SDAY, MAY 2 ‘Twentieth Century Begins. With Four Great Exploits, Huge Scientific Strides; Outstripping Former Records ete eiicsn Feats That Made Transatlantic History ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGY OF NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS qT ml | ee au 3 ays First Wireless Message Was Flashed Ac: Atlantic in 1901. , First Submarine Crossed Atlantic in 1916. A) First Wireless Phone Spoke Across in 19. First Transatlantic Flight Made in 1919. § [tien bad talked to the ship at the way across and while sbe was in |Brest Harbor. ‘The replies to these messages were sent by wirctess tele- dirigibio in 1910, and Capt. of Enginnd, whose elaborate ments for a Might in a heavier air machine were intertupted by vi pei Fiigtean wl The Viking ship ‘of Eric the Red, who may ill, have landed in Nova Scotia on one of his voyages nearly a thousand years ago. By Lindsay Denison. Hermes, wort U.N, atid te Lisbon Tues- Sige achievements hearted sort of Coldibus and John bot and the Norsemen rather than the no less momentous sclentific feats friends of Queen Isabela of Spain caught him just as he was about to give up his three years of waiting an her whims and take the plan back to France, In consideration of his willingness to find the western passage to the Indieg the Spanish crown fitted out three caravels and permitted Colum- bus the title of an admiral of the Spanish navy, They sailed Aug. 8, 1492, with the Santa Maria, a decked ship of 100 tons, and a crew of fifty- two men commanded by the admiral himself; the Pinta of fifty tons with eighteen men commanded by Martin Alonzo Pinzon, and the Nina, forty tons, eighteen men, and commanded by Vincente Yanez Pinzon. The crews mutinied, the variations of the compass scared them, Col- umbus was obliged to keep two sets of reckonings, one of which was for the inspection of the timid the other for his own guidance. An island which he called San Salvador and which is now identified as Watling Island was sighted October 12. Col- umbus took back some parrots and Indians and gold to Spain, and Ferdi- nand and Isabella could hardly do enough for him. They gave him the title of “Don,” made him a grandee of Spain and he was permitted to ride In public at the King’s bridle, Giovanni Caboto had his ambition started at Mecca when he saw the rich goods which the caravans brought overland. He went to Lon don to find backers for a trip td “West Asia.” King Henry VII. kept him waiting until 1493 when the news of the success of Columbus reached Great Britain; then he was provided with the ship Mathew, which sailed from Bristol May 3, 1497, and landed at Cape Breton Island, making him the first to solve the mystery of the North Atlantic. King Henry gave him ten pounds for the discovery of the “new isle," fixed him up with a pension of twenty pounds a year and gave him vast commercial rights in the future exploitation of the Grand Khan, Caboto’s name went down to history as “John Cabot.” Just one hundred years ago tne first steamship undertook to fol- low the trackless way which Colum- bus and Cabot and the later Vikings had found. It was the Savannah, owned by John of Portugal and the King of France thoug!.¢ but little of his plan, EY ie vice peddling the big idea when of Georgia, who ventured thé belief that there would be profit in @ tast “\pe between Savannah and England world war in 1914. Wellmaits sailed out from Atlantic City with crew of stx and a cat Oct. 15. Rwe il pets al |sraphy because there was not | sufficient power on the George Wash- ington to operate a transmitting ma- vane Lieut. A. C. Read. POLO $08) ivy ee Pye Paudgd at chin) k Beta sae! yet “hte * 4, in which Lieut. Commander Albert C, Read has just made the fiset air flight across the Atlantic. HII eee AT TT TIQUUQOVUNNNNNAUTUA AU MULLET TTT LAYING THE FIRST ATLANTIC wai CABLE IN 1868 ak ONC ia TTT wT iba uiahaTisCiaar ane nai Ta Landing the Irish end at Valentia, from lI H. M. S. Agamemnon. THETA sn THI baat Aner The Santa Maria, flagship of Colum! mbus, whose little fleet of three small ships navi- Beas the Atlantic in’ 1492, ‘landing a at. San \ Tt aia an Ns chine, The naval apparatus was the| struck by a storm when but a invention of E. F, Alexanderson of/ out and w buffeted and slat the General Electric Company. down until the Captain and crew According to Edward J. Nally, vice- | abandoned it for a lifeboat whit president of the, Marcoh! Company,| they had taken with them, and w picked up off Hatteras by the s there were conversations between Washington and Paris during the} ship Trent Oct. 18, Wellman attrite war, with the ‘el Tower and the| uted his failure to an equilibrator oF ‘Arlington wireless station as relaying|buge tail laden with food supplies, termini, and which he had fondly hoped The most ambitious efforts tocross| would steady the ship, growil the sea by alr in late years were|jighter as the machine leaked Tho storms played havoc with those of Walter Wellman, an ex- plorer and newspaper currespyadent, | equilibrator, which nearly caused death of adventurer and crew. Ignorant Essays {dU HHUAUUUUL EEA TTOTUEUL PUD ETUDE LUE EE = il Winn | Landing the American end at Trinity Bay, tM Newfoundland, from the U. S. §, Niagara. Ue gestae sony tu gn ~ ttind| ull Teitrrirsesereete TTT HULL Ill huis OU Ha Scarborough and Isaacs, i 4 PLL "uty qual Station at St. John's, New- The Si h, first st hip t the Atlantic. e Savanna’ rst steamship to cross the Atlantic. es aioe kh hig American vessel made her voyage just one hundred years ago. COUPEE eno mM ra M3 2 deg This SOUP Have You Heard All That’s to Be Heard About Soup? IfNot, Listen to Thig, You'll Learn Why It’s Sometimes Called “Con- — somme”’ and “Puree.” : By J. P. McEvoy Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co (The New York Evening World), OUP 1s limp food, It 1s very nourishing, especially when takem S internally. Some people wear soup in various rococo designs om their weskits, but this is’ not considered de rigueur. Soup was born to blush unseen, It was made to be absorbed, not flaunted ala} sartorial motif, These big words are no harder to look up than the? others, i to the disadvantage of the swift clippers sailing out of New York. Built on the plans of a full-rigged ship @ ninety-horse power engine) was installed in her and she was provided with seventy-fiv> tons of coal and tWenty-five cords of kin- dling wood as fuel for the voyage. The Savannah started on her first voyage for England after inspection by President Monroe May 24, 1819, She was in port in England June 14, having steamed eighty hours alto- first transatlantic wireless. message was received from Poldhu, 12, 1901, PUTO LL Dec. anc aan Sencase Cornwall, ; wether and sailed the rest of the ‘There are various kinds of soups, all damp and differing widely as = way. to color ard consistencies. Some are so thiy they might be justly # In 1851 Cyrus W. Field, having a accused of evading the issue entirely. ‘These are called consomme, } concession for @ cable from At, Johns } IVETE CRECERTTTTOLALERTTE from the French “Con,” meaning “Fake” and “Somme,” a body of wants a rn on eae ar. is Ge an The Deutschland, first submarine to cross the Atlantic. She ren water. Henn * Fake hv Chere are aint u pronounced ; . . ba My F 4 st “Poor” on the first syllable and always made that way. There & ranging for an American base for a il arrived in Baltimore July 9, 1916, from Bremen. qe m a at w ere la alse ¥ “Oyster Soup,” which is made by bringing the water to a boi! and then t cable which would bring wvrds under dipping: the oysters in, without removing the shells. the Atlantic by electricity, A eom- pany was organized with « capital signal could be had. Mechanism de-, transformers taking an alternating) having slipped under the keels of a How bean soup happens is a sad story, The beans are dropped br $860,000 in 1856; most of the| “ised for testing with a micro-indt-|current to charge condensers wi ich leet ind Freach warships| into the water, When they come up for the third time, they are pn gy ig here iy Ri ator however, produced a re-action| set up an oscillation of muttip! | Which were hunting for her, intent 0} pushed down and held under the surface until they cease to struggle, the American cruiser Niagara andj” hie ue o Aye bath the ‘ able, | aulenine, ; He (i mn orbened to New-| depr y of th great ip Usually, however, you can suspect by the taste of bean soup that it has | o xed by the high potential cur-|f idland and a John's sent p Tere of morale which suce he 1 3 the British cruiser Agamemaon|yont. became usclecs, pa eats wee bee ae el a ag i UP | crea , aa eae a oF ip had a sincul past ; ent, be ¢ useless, messages and|a box ki he € of 400 feet of | ventur 1 i r he , ! , ntu 11d gain Soup is not hard enough to take \ . started from opposite shores of the }wjgnain were exchanged. It was not|wiré Dec. 1 1901, the prearranged] Deutschland slipped out of Baltimore Soup is not -bar is h to. Lake ah 8 a i y neoven esd bares Atlantic to pay out the cable intend- | untit 1866 that the cable was com-|signal “B,"" three dots repeated at! Aueust. 1. thous vented bye a| fishes. With it come crackers, the Bolsheviki ot edibles, being § ing to join the two sections in mid-| mercially available. regular intervals, ticking in the ear | ling fleet. which ringed the| Bolsy, Unsubstantial and Hable to crack under the strajn and go to? ocean, The Niagara's end of the| Marconi, competing with other in-| pieces of his receiver told him that nouth of Cheasapeake Bay in a semi- pieces any time, 1 jeable broke, There were two other! on: Ay him the dream | had fe 1 the electric wave to carry lo, ‘The Deutschland was later The term “Soup Bone” is a misnomer, soap, like liver, being prac- + z failures due to persistent breaks in| of wireless electrical communications, | his signal from one side of the Atiin-|C4RtUFEd by time Beibinies | 8) tooity boneless. -- - nk pioneer ae va oie was convinced by experiments in 1899 | tle to the other without material con-|dato of the frst wire eee telephone Soups are served first at dinners, Ifke slide trombones in a parade, : met a Ca, b cable and| between the itish naval vessels | nection, us conversation. The Marconi b t $ . to get them finished with early, go that the rest of the : began paying ‘out towards opposite} Juno und Europa that oversea wire-| ‘The first underwater voyage across [company announced March 1% ebiy) OD on toyed 4 bi he Dastoreannn y | whores. August 5, 1858, the ends wero | toss was a possibility, In 1901 he sent |the Atlantic was that of the com. | Yea", that they had a a ‘ 7 . f j | landed, one’at Trinity Bay, Newfound-| messages from the Isle of. Wight to| mercial submarine Deutschland, Capt, | Nova Seotia and Clifton In closing, I am forced to admit this {s a remarkable dissertation’=s be land, and: one at Valentia, One|the Lizard 200 miles and was assured | Paul Koenig, Commander, leaving | Naval Radio Division on soup, even for me. Not once have | referred in it to the deep Wildman Whitehouse undertook to] that his (‘eorles were correct, He| Bremen, Germany, Juno 28, with |tn at once a breatnlag exercises which sometimes accompany its internment amé trip. of President Wilson ‘ York to’ Brest, ‘leaving ‘here “March & the Brunswick, N, J. wireless sta. }use a high potential current to carry | secured a site at Poldhu, near Muliign|« cargo of chemicals and dyestuffs seat pre deprecated so sweetly in the wordsy,“Soup should be the messages and not @ pulse of alin southern Cornwall, and erected|and arriving in Baltimore July 9 after a," ene