Show CONQUERORS OF OP THE AIR AIU j M Tells of His dig I Many Experiments Eq F I New Kew York ork Her j jI I II I I have hae only to look out f m my win window window I dow and see what are ace the weather either con conditions conditions j and if they prove favorable I Iam Iam Iam am in my ballon ballo on Cn n an hour afterward I II I am perfectly happy in my mv balloon I Is it surprising that a man i iwho who in all al aU mod ty makos nak s sueh h a af I f statement tat m nt should i 11 x ti 11 h n rite he rr man manI n i would gain suii SU ll i na zt at elu I j ji i 3 3 h iii c F i I over over his hi flying machine that th t he h might alight Ight I force it It to circle the Eiffel tower Yet even at the time he spoke and nd that lat latwas was was two years ago II M had bad Sailed around the big bi structure though at that time his experiment X did not achieve the popular notice noti that his recent air voyage did The Brazilian who has haJJ made Paris his home does not court the approval of the populace even though he be is only I Ia a years yesra ye old For his hili own pleasure for Jor or the te advancement of aeronautics he heIMS helaS has IMS laS made macle his many voyages far above the surface of the earth with the re suit that he has bas at last la t a airship hip For F or the last Must five years he be has been making then the air Journeys hav bay nIt ins prefaced this by many months of ot I arduous sous study And not without per personal tr unai risks has he prosecuted his work Once when he was far above aboe the th clouds his balloon it was his first burst in two and he fell tell 1300 feet with frightful rapidity before the frag fragment fragment he clung became MO so I ment m nt to which buoyant that be he landed on earth a as I throws himself down ona on ona I Ia gently as one a I Read what this enthusiastic member I Automobile and the Aero clubs of the I Ij to say of the future of air I Irli cf c j Paris Pans has I I Ibe At the present time the adapted only to sport and be Hoon is I pastime but I believe the time is com coming coming coming ing when nhen the navigation of the air with ith flying machines will wm be universal I 1 die T r fee f e I shall see th the da day I when vilen w lien aerial locomotion will b be as pop fOP popular i ular as is at present and a an anS nil some seine S me day surely surety some one will wiH I New York to o balloon from I bate ute lIt a lans I Nearly all aU of M In as ascensions a ascensions have been n made from the tl t te e I hounds of or M 11 I ambre s factor factory in n 1 liu nu in Paris Pari where Aria i balloon and many Others ver nr er u n in lv ll to made mad r as a asee w ons and rn on n one occasion he re I l above the clouds fo for fop twenty enty Louis toul the longest perio period l on n tc o Marry Many titer nON flights flight hate hat hJ b bd I i j taken om te ie Jardin d u ini i sUn sUnA a if t j n A elf reliant met hani i it wa man v a na i j i if ion of f the muter usi a ivr is t Ou I IM M 0 i c E c Li LiC C B c Ing tricycles ye cles es that Induced i him to em employ I ploy play it in the propulsion of a gas gdS bal balloon balloon loon Hie HI balloons are with a 8 volume of or o cubic meters The petroleum motor revolves a screw atthe at atthe the stern stem capable of ot from 1200 to 1530 1600 revolutions a minute This reserves all the power for ng the direction direction direction tion of the airship ai no matter atter what the direction of the ae I 1 currents Forthe For Forthe Forthe I the uplifting of the Itself common com common commOD mon mOD illuminating llIn has gas g is used u ed and M is the third aeronaut to have a fire in tha th balloon with the theet escape et ape tubes far re removed noved from the basket backet and aad the engine Speaking af of f his experiments and his bis f in 1 speeding 18 on n regardless te of ot the thea a at or Ute tie wind M lit pont said saki My Idea irta 8 to w work rk on the principle principle pie of aeroplanes The T e propeller sends the It at the rate of twenty mites an au hour just Juat fu t as a steamer Reamer is forced h t Ute tine water rater er To cause cau e etu tn tu airship all u o 0 re rie er or fall taU I bring brin e f hta into imo r n At each ae end I attach reps ropes to the ties ies t of which is fa fifty pounds of halh hal bal halU h U t i The These e i lOpes hopes ore are re controlled by a ay system y tem stem of gay g JY ropes rope If I wish ish to get to higher strata I throw out ou the rope at the stern stem of the balloon When It reaches its limit Umit the fifty pounds of ot ballast draws down the stern of the balloon b and the bow of course is I pointing Award Then the propeller Is te sent ahead ahead at full speed and the balloon shoots sho ts up toward the sky When J I desire Ho tto descend I pull Dull cullin Dullin in the stern ballast throw out that at the forward end which deflects the bow and down I Shoot It was on an Nov 13 1890 that M San Sant t first demonstrated his ability to steer his balloon in the upper air and so complete was his bis success SS that speculators who had been skeptical skeptical cal at were wre convinced He went up at and his first was toward the Eiffel EUrI tower t Without the slightest apparent difficulty he encircled encircled cled d it and aRd though the wind Rind was from the southwest he went nt off oft toward the thee ther r e eL eLJ I J d 1 n near ar the V Sl oun tu u n at Bag cue in IQ the B Bois ii de Boulogne and Jt C then it was eras learned that previously Iv i had arranged a with many mRY of his bis friends fr s sto 1 f to land kind itt alt that th place Indeed so 80 eon COH co if d nt was he that he e made a heavy wager that on one ascension a he Ite would come down on tie the roof rOI t garden of at the tile Automobile club in the place d Is Concorde |