Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1919 — Atlantis’ Effort in 1873. [ARTICLE]

Atlantis’ Effort in 1873.

Although' the first successful passage of a dirigible across the Atlantic easily called to minh the attempted Journey in 1910 of Walter Wellman In the dirigible America, considerable t’me seems to have elapsed before anybody remembered the old-fashioned bailoon Atlantis and its effort nearly fifty years ago to cross ‘ the ocean. The Atlantis started from Brooklyn N. ¥., at nine in the morning of October 6. 1873, carrying as passengers Prof. Washington H. Donaldson, who was chiefly responsible for the enterprise. and two companions, Alfred Ford and George A. Lunt. The travelers were carried in a regular ocean lifeboat' suspended beneath tlie balloon, and to answer the purpose of modern wireless apparatus the'expedition was equipped with homing pigeons. The effort was short-lived, for the balloon came down the same afternoon in New Canaan, Conn., about 10C miles from the starting point, having made no progress toward Europe.