aoe oe FP te P= Or YY ae us iS Ge Nene one 3) SOF AEA LS SOI THe NATIONAL “as GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE JANUARY, 1925 @ CONTENTS FOURTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR Seeing America from the “Shenandoah” Witte 41 Htustration JONIUS B. WOOD The Palace of Versailles, Its Park and the Trianons With 41 FRANKLIN L. FISHER Versailles, the Magnificent 14 Autochron GERVAIS COURTELLEMONT Chichen Itz4, an Ancient American Mecca Wit 36 ntotiatlon SYLVANUS GRISWOLD MORLEY Interviewing the Stars With 21 Iitumiratior WILLIAM JOSEPH SHOWALTER PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY cA HUBBARD MEMORIAL HALL s t WASHINGTON, D.C, idein the nap of you n out! You naculate you c Sweeps vning attach: g with ease vorized Hoover D: lars and Tu The HO OVER, It BEATS... as it Sweeps as it Cleans al s need beating e bure os tly cleaned by & irface by the powerful suction lifts This bs Hopwer, THVou. XLVII, No. 1 WASHINGTON January, 1925 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE SEEING AMERICA FROM ‘THE “SHENANDOAH”™ An Account of the Record-making 9,000-mile Flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast and Return in the Navy's American-built, American- manned Airship By Jusivs B. Woop Avro if (Tee An Kgrtaai Sten ano “A Vaatr to ‘fainee Anan Rico," N THE morning of October 7 last O the big Navy airship, U.S. 5. Shenandoah, was starting fram Lakehurst, New Jersey, on its record- making cruise of more than 9,000 miles, twice over the Rockies and twice around three sides of the Uniterl The autumn sin was peeping over the at §:3§ a. m., as the Shenandoah fed ont of the tig hangns, Every fon the station beljwedl, 300 1F them— 5 marines, Filipino mess hays, and Selig “Tieytane miewlagyics, ie drear, misty morn like Hitle ants palling an immense gray worm out of its nest, ‘The run slackened to a walk when she was safely clear of the shed, Nase to the wind, she was led farther into the field wward the mast, the crew stumbling and slipping in the Ibose sand, ‘They stopped and waited. MOGRED TO THR MAST, READY row THE START ‘The sun's tars were warming the cells in the tig tube and the gas was expand- ing Tike 2 moming-glory. ‘The ship tugged to tise higher, The men braced themselves, held and Jed her closer to the mast. Wao an ( rie Ina ‘UN ie Jarawin Mbaviaen” A long cable dropped from the ship ahd was hooked tw its trailing ot the ground from the mooritig mast. A winch rumbled and the big, docile craft was pulled dows until the swivel pear on its nose nestled into the cup on the tower, It was moored, ‘That was at 7 a, mand all hands stopped for breakiast. jock the ship was ready to cast off. During the three hours, the sun had been warming the helium gus as if it were in a hothouse. With each degree that its espe rose aboye that of the surroméding air, the ship was lifting another 300 pounds. More fuel, more sopplies, and more officers. and men had gone aboard, one by one-and each to a Particular spot in the loag keel turmel, While the ship's nose rests on the mast, the delicate lalance must be maintained. With a mast only 160 feet high and a hig tbe 682 feet long, not many degrees! drop is possible before the tail fins scrape the ground. The earth was beginning to radiate the heat of the sun. The start must be made avhile the ship: held its handicap of super heat. ‘The little elevator in the mast had Lrought up its last passenger. ‘The fuel was being piped on in driblets, valves