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...Belmaison galleries at Wanamaker's have undertaken the responsi- bility of representing a collection the varied expressions of the marine in Art. There are ship models of all sorts; paintings, prints, watercolors of ships; a carved figurehead; odds and ends reminiscent of shipping...
...Hugo Eckener might have been businesslike, might have sailed his craft without a pause to Lakehurst. Instead?with plenty of reserve fuel? he chose to dawdle genially over New York City. The great ship was first sighted about 7:50 in the morning; commuters on the ferryboats cheered loudly; and, as the ZR-3 sailed over Manhattan to the Bronx and back, hundreds of thousands of busy New Yorkers forgot office and factory and stared skyward until their necks ached. By a curious trick of vision, explainable by the ship's tremendous length, the ZR-3 at one time seemed...
Route.-Taking the direct route from Friedrichchafen, the big ship passed over the French Midi, over Bordeaux, along the Spanish coast of the Bay of Biscay, and out to the Azores Islands. Thence she was to have flown to Bermuda and thence west-by-south to Lakehurst. A "local tornado" encountered an hour west of the Azores forced her to slow down to 25 m. p. h., however, and when the storm had passed, she veered northwest direct for Manhattan, a missing engine tuned in again to help hit up her pace...
Other Facts. The safe arrival of the ZR3 was insured by Dutch and German companies for $600,000. Some said her purpose in sailing direct to Manhattan was to aid the German loan, the securities of which were offered to U. S. investors just previous to the big ship's arrival. The only Americans on board were the four members of the U. S. Naval Commission, pictured by The New York World as sitting "like drummers in a Pullman car" playing cards in mid-air and mid-Atlantic...
...receiving stations began picking up intelligible wireless messages from the ZR3 soon after she passed "the top of the hill," as mariners call the halfway line between the two Continents. The first message ran: "Alles wohl an bord schiff" (All well on board ship...