| Summary: | Noted Pioneer Aeronaut Dies. Noted Pioneer Aeronaut Dies. Walter Wellman Famed for Attempt to Ely Atlantic New York, Jan. 31. ap)—Walter Wellman, 75, pioneer aeronaut and scientist, died today after an illness of three months. Wellman was noted principally as having been the first man to attempt to cross the Atlantic ocean by air. He and a crew of five took off from Atlantic City for London in 1910 in the dirigible America, but after 79 hours the airship settled to the water and the steamship Trent picked up the Wellman earlier had made several attempts to reach the north pole afoot and by airship. He was a distinguished journalist, founding the Cincinnati Evening Post at the age of 21 and serving for many years as Washington correspondent of the old Chicago Herald.
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