Show HIGH IN THE AIR Stories of Ballooning Adventmes FataLand Otlierwis3 C AER A NAVIGATION UNCERTAIN It May Be That Some TimeFlying Will Bo a Safellethod of Travel butit I Now a Failure I I i i ERHAPS the Vi 1 tI I 1tti Twentieth century man i the problem of navigating the lViJIII a shall have been iYIII solved for him will Jook back upon the upn te balloon of the pres ent day and wonder won-der that it should have been chiefly useful in amusing a crowd There are earnest men constantly r con-stantly at work endeavoring en-deavoring to find c some method practical of navigating navigat-ing the air and 1tl1 many a man has r given his life In the I hi teL 1 te-L interest of this department lj t de-partment of practical cal science but it must be admitted that a large number of aeronautsnet upon the same motive a ono who jumps to catch the bar in the flying trapeze fet AN ADVENTURE THAT ENDED WELL Some sis years ago two men Gaston Tis sandier and Frederick Gower husband of the American prima donna Nordica ascended ascend-ed at Auteuill France on the day of a fete While at a great altitude they struck one of those chasms of rarefied a which are supposed sup-posed by aeronauts to exist at great heights i the atmosphere Suddenly said M Gower in relating the circumstance we felt a breath of cold and biting ai a though the world had revolved beneath us and brought us over the pole At the same moment mo-ment the needle upon a vertical scale from which I had been reading indications of level began to travel with a startling speed A sound like the roar of surf filled our ears for an instant and then gave place to the noise of the fete which now had swelled into a cry as it scouted from every living thing below be-low Tissandier threw out sand and the sand flew up in our faces Our breath came shortand hard and we felt the rushing air a on a steamer against the wind We were falling suddenly a though the great globe above our heads had given way Yet nothing visible had happened hap-pened save that the under surface of the envelope en-velope had all at once grown hollow and wrinkled like the face of an aged man The clouds were gone as by magic and the earth was rushing at u with its thousand voices in full cry Tissandier stood cool and firm dealing deal-ing out ballast with steady hand and counting the bags that remained Stand by the anchorho said quietly a if at his study table and b ready to cutaway cut-away when I tell you Down wo went the drag rope touched the earth trailed across the fields with scarcely perceptible difference in our fall The ground seemed alive with men hurrying from every side with here and there a horse man among them A meadow was just b neath nd a quick glance beyond showed the edge of a forest The balloon trembled as from a blow and our speed across the field was suddenly doubled We had fallen into a squall 1 lJJ i 11 liii 1 lliIll rROF HOQAif INVENTOR CAMPBELL THE AIR SHIP Cut away said the steady voice of the aeronaut and the anchor fell Over went a bag of ballast too and thus suddenly lightened light-ened by thirty pounds the balloon regained its pie at fifty feet above the ground and our fall of a mile through the air was safely ended I CABLOTTA One of the great dangers of ballooning is this grappling with the earth on the descent and many a balloonist has been spilt out after having made thus far a successful trip In 1884 Mme Carlotta went up in the Zephyr from Saratoga When she descended looking look-ing about for a favorable spot she saw three country boys standing gaping at the novel sight of a balloon She called to them to seize and hold tho balloon the moment it touched the ground Two of the lads obeyed her request when a sudden squall drove the bon bounding over the ground and fences for almost a mie At times it was fifty feet from the ground yet the terrified clung tenaciously to the edge of the Basket they were hurried along at railroad speed l A heavy piece of timber sped Into sight Ca otta l made a desperate effortto laudand a successful though I tree which the balloon grazed tore the Zephyr from top t bottom Marietta and the boys escaped unhurt But the boys declared that they would prefer not t attempt to anchor another balloon SAVED BY A FARJIEBS W Two years ago a ascent was made by a aeronaut named Moore with several others Ono of the party related the peril they were In upon their descent Hazen sings out Were going to fast There is much excitement but it calms i a minute for the instrument records a falling Again the signal officer give a warning Were We-re falling drtadf ullyand tosses out a hand I fu of circulars They shoot upward Moore I half aroused realized the peril and calls all hf arous re pri c i lands to drop ballast The sand falls scarce faster than the and the earth to ly fatr ta car ad tl erh seems t fly upward rivers fields houses spread out as a vast map growing terribly each minute More sings out Something wrong boys i we dont stop her wo are lost 1000 feet rbm earth and still tumbling madly 700 and the drag rope touches earth G and the heck is perceptible At 400 the balloon skims along falling BOfflore the 3 feet of lag rope resting on the earth gore the relief More ballast was thrown out and the air hip again ascended this time to 0000 fet the aeronaut then noticed that the bag was sagging and announced that a landing must b made When within a few hundred feet of hind the drag rope skimmed along the earth making a trail for four miles and in its wake followed a crowd of natives Several Sev-eral times they caught the rope and were hurled the hule roughly to ground At August Palms farm seven miles from Centralia His the farmers wife gave the drag rope I half dozen turns around an applet apple-t and brought the monster up with a jerk lie wind caught the folds of tho balloon and it soared le a kt For a hour the farmers farm-ers tugged at tho rope and when the aeronaut aero-naut pulled the rip cord to h is amazement he found it alreadyloose Undtnls wastno cause of the fearful fa s nearly disastrous t the occupants of the a ship Professor Henry Warner had a narrow escape cape at Niagara in 1SS4 He went on a trapeze In going up he Crushed past a church steeple and in a few minutes was down i the water above the falls He was dragged ten feet under water trapeze and a He reascended a short distance but when about a mile above the falls he was carried dow into the water about 250 yards from shore A fisherman rowed out and saved hm It would seem that sufficient danger could b met in a ballon st any tune without ascending above a cataract like Ni agora THE PARACHCTE One of the methods of amusing large num hems of without benefit to science hN people any beneft t sec adopted during the past few years by acrobats acro-bats i die jumping out of a balloon from a great height and descending to the earth by I means of a parachute A number of persons have risked their lives in this manner and Edward D Hogan the man who was lest with the Campbell a ship made good del of his with His firs reputation a parachute frst jump was a thrilling one I took place at Jackson Mich his home in April 18S8 He had red of Baldwins drop of 5000 feet and determined to drop himself twice a fa The ascent was madewith a hot air balloon which Hoganthought ought t carry him up about two miles when he would leave the car grasp the pendant bar of the parachute and swing of He calculated that he would fall 35i feet before tho chute would fet opn I n r 5 j rJ p Th 55 I i S ua A THRILLING INCIDENT A TnmLG IXCIDE The first trial was not a success but the second The balloon shot almost snd wa Te balon up almot straight to I distance of fully 10000 feet It then settled about 400 feet and hung like a bal in the heavens The anxious and excited excit-ed crowd of people on the ground watched the balloon with bated breath Tho reporters report-ers were provided with powerful glasses and saw Hogan make ready to jump Hell weaken said some one No cried another watcher he is getting get-ting ou t The chute was closed Hogan drew it up till he reached the ropes to which he lashed himself He did not expect the chute to open for the first 200 or 300 feet and he was afraid he might bo shaken off the bar by the rapidity rapid-ity of the fall unless he took the precaution to fasten himself When he stepped on the sdge of the car to spring off into space some of tho spectators grew pale and sick Surely this daring man was going t certain death A TERRIBLE LEAP A shout of terror goes up Hogan ha jumped Dow a cannon ball he fell for 50 fet The chute had not yet opened Down it came like n gigantic elongated bird He was falling like a meteor and the spectators specta-tors shut their eyes while still keeping their glasses elevated Suddenly a shout goes up The chute has caught the air It opens like the wings of a monster eagle Hogans flight downward was almost stopped with a jerk Then the chute settles down to a steady journey jour-ney earthward with its passenger and in three minutes from the time the reckless man left tho balloon he landed safely in a open field some little distance from where the ascent made acnt was mae I lost my breath said he t a correspondent correspon-dent when I shot down fast but I det Ihotdow fat caught it again after a time It was a great jump wasntitr wasatltrITh T j l < deYTh I I L n I dl 4 r l 1 A BIG DROP Hogan mae his first notable ascension in Slay 1SSO leaving the ground hanging by his toes to I piece of ga pipe which he called a rapeze The balloon was up two hours and twenty minutes landing at Stockbridge eighteen miles north of this city That trip node him Professor lae hm Profer I |