First Regular Passenger Service Inaugurated When Deutschland Flew

DUSSELDORF, Germany, June 22.—The first regular air ship passenger service was Inaugurated today when Count Zeppelin’s great craft, the Deutschland, carrying 20 passengers, successfully made the first scheduled trip from Friedrichshafen to this city, a distance of 300 miles, in nine hours.

The weather was perfect and the motors worked faultlessly. The average time maintained for the complete course was approximately 33 miles an hour, but between Friedrichshafen and Stuttgart the 124 miles was covered at an average rate of speed of 41 miles an hour. The best speed for a single hour was 43 1/2 miles.

COUNT AT HELM

Count Zeppelin was at the helm when the Deutschland arose at Friedrichshafen at 3 o’clock this morning and sailed away on the trip that was to mark in epoch in aviation. The passengers were some of the directors of the Hamburg-American Steamship company and the German stock company, joint owners of the dirigible, and guests. They occupied the mahogany-walled and carpeted cabin situated between the gondolas and from the windows of which they viewed the scenery as the aerial car swept along. Count Zeppelin steered for the greater part of the distance.