Show rw FROCE AFTER THE GREA GREAT r ANDREE BALLOON READY FOR BUSINESS W WM start for ro the th worth horth pole summa the eption beins guarded from the puw IL A tr bardou Har adous dou ARIS letter to new york journal it if any reader of the journal should hap happen to find a strip of canvas bearing this stamp I 1 it t would be a public duty to lot let the world know tb the le stamp shown to is an exact tac fac simile of that with which tile the pieces of the great andree balloon which it Is ie hoped will journey to the north pole are marked it Is a wonderful balloon to which the daring aeronauts aero will trust their lives and great hopes the most moat marvelous air ship ever built will not compare with it for by means of this creation it is hoped to achieve the purpose which has urged countless undaunted men to death it represents the only means of rea reaching phing the north pole that has not proven an absolute failure if the project si eeds prance france will claim the glory for which english speaking nations have striven for more I 1 than a century if it fails it will he be one more to add to the wrecks that strew the path science has made to to ward what has proved the impassable barrier that bars us from no one knows what it la is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a nee needle dle than for a in works the journalist to get into paris where M JA lachambre chambre manufactures S A which M this balloon in andree and two comp companions anions MM nils nila ekholm and an d Stin dberg are to attempt the feat of reach reaching ing the north pole been able to penetrate I 1 have however it into M I Lach ac ham ambres bres building desolate quarter of in a lj la hidden away in an fortifications to the close paris corner of laugi almost inaccessible bark aar more of even is a man lach lachambre ag M the reason tor for than hl bis S fellows my s mill miji inheres interested ted in that he be is deeply every ballooning ing therefore tary tarr balloon within hail of his who passes stronger stranger german spy in taken to be la a jig ial works of an hour I 1 it t took a quarter disguise that my intentions gatekeeper the to persuade holies honest t at last he eon con tent ions ious were mme ame lachambre of inform canted to husband being ab her my iny Pres presence Guce sent the balloon in a spacious I 1 found balloons have been evolved shed bed where in to maturity appearance i amm babyhood resembles OUS one of car pe arance the pots in which french those cooking mg the national ahal dhal of make housewives ves convert into anarchists eon doup ft and constructed acted of wicker stoutly bombs covered with a waterproof Is and cane it it contains sufficient roof material days dam pl three W men en for provisions tor for scientific c instruments clothing aoud a supply of extra estr stuffed with bags and d three st beds as to serve rises wool there them of the car centre prom the axe tr traversing aveni the of wooden worx work 6 port eori of cover cor tygh tightly aly tiding fitting the voyager voyaged expect to beneath which bieh in thear beu beds at hea Us ue as aa snugly as important rope awk raw la aare 4 re of an the die protruding dw to the lust just IM U sze ax taa wd ed to which la ft obtained by means of rv ladders othet other ladders lead up to the lower of the three valves of the balloon this trio of valves Is a special feature the remaining two are fixed about halfway half halt way up the balloon one on an each side hl lachambre laughs at the idea of his bis balloon bursting nothing would burst it he la Is certain after the precautions he has taken the material of which it la is made is double everywhere and quadrupled where the pris sure Is greatest the two layese lay era of stuff are stuck together by a composition of M Lach ambres finding and in the adhesive qualities of which he has the greatest confidence the whole i j is to be covered with a varnish also ot of his discovery and used in this balloon tor for the first time other special int mentions vent veat ions are to be adapted to the bal loon and especially a system ot of WIS sails which the aeronauts aero declare will enable them to guide their vessel to a very considerable extent an all important feature of 0 the balloon Is its guide ropes three in number the entire success of the expedition hinges on these guide ropes it must not be supposed that the balloon Is to go careering through space at an enormous altitude it its ow owners ners can help it it will never be more than two or three hundred meters above the earth at this height the guide ropes will trail on the ground according as aa more or less of the rope trails the bali loon will rise or fall as the weight it has to carry will clearly increase or decrease in proportion to the length of rope dangling in midair mid air the guide ropes weigh about 1000 kilo grammes 7 eff A Y 11 1 THE BALLOON THAT WUL WILL TRY TO REACH TH THE E NORTH POLE they have been carefully made of the best obtainable hemp and thoroughly impregnated with vaseline so as to insure non absorption of water the fate of the travellers trav ellers dp d c ends on t these hese guide ropes because they are so constructed s ted as not to wear out M lachambre does not think there is any danger of this contingency he cointa out that the ire ice fields which surround the pole are to all intents and purposes smooth and at any rate present no obstacles in form of vegetation that are likely to damage the ropes it was at one time proposed to have recourse to a single iron chain as a guide in place of rope but it has finally been decided that hemp is the best beat material another much discussed point was whether the balloon should carry a sleigh on which the travellers trav ellers might effect their return were the balloon to anis precaution has ome come to grief been dispensed with as quite unnecessary ry the extreme confidence in the e expedition is shown b by y the tact that neither M lach lachambre ambre nor the three passengers co consider csider they have anything more than a pleasant aerial promenade before them in the course of which they will imbibe plenty of by making themselves fresh air amuse scientific observations and bring of photographs which back a collection will probably be wanting in anything more mora animated than an occasional polar bear but abich vh ach will introduce to the world landscapes of spaces if not of fresh fields and pastures new AL lachambre although he Is the father of a fam family ily would have liked to have made the journey himself but there was no room tor for him he Is ready to go ball bail however that his balloon will make the journey and will come without let or hindrance i back as right and tight as 83 the day it left his works As he explains w it nothing ts is simpler that fhe whole affair at the tha beginning ut of july when thel the will troad gleam ia JF A land near balmy southerly winds blo blow u und U that quarter ot at the globe glob e as 1 special e provision ot of the needs need 3 fi ba bals balits t a 1 fists ts velling travelling tra to the north pore all 11 three voyagers voyager win will have to do Is along impelled by friendly sar air currents As aa SL lachambre insists a baby could sail call hl his I 1 balloon where the wind goes there will go the balloon and as no one has reason to suppose that the wind will avoid the north pole po ae the balloon I 1 ought to reach there in due time better still when once the regions aimed at are gained the wind la is scheduled to continue to behave itself with exemplary docility and as if it were weira conscious that it should blow not where ti it listeth ll but in the interests ot of eclen explorers what does it do having witted wafted the travelers to their destination it sweeps round pound and carries them in a homeward direction which it la is thought will be by way of siberia M andree has no doubt whatever that by october at the tbt latest he will be in siberia all these theories in which those who have developed them devoutly believe will soon be put to the proof in a few days daya M vieillard will start from chantilly Chant Cham llly tilly near paris with the material tor for building the specially designed shed to be erected at nors korena in which the balloon Is to be inflated it will be a wooden edifice edielee tour four stories high and forming a regular octagon ot of twenty metres in diameter the root roof ot of canvas Is detachable and will be drawn off when the balloon filled with its cubic metres of hydrogen Is ready to catch the first favoring breeze breem BL lachambre Lae hambre Is going in person to super intend the mounting and inflating of j his balloon and to start it on what he calls its little excursion I 1 should add that the system of three guide ropes on the excellence ot of whick chic the success of M andrees expedition hangs has been carefully tested in the neighborhood of paris recently by commandant renard the head of the famous french military balloon lish ment at meudon deudon and by gaston sandler another of the most celebrated french aeronauts aero M lachambre Is enthusiastic at the results of these experiments which he dee larts place the success of the expedition beyond a doubt he knows what he I 1 Is talking about but to the stay at home folks who are not specialists a journey to the north pole will appear rather more dangerous in a balloon than in any other conveyance JULIAN RALPH |