Show SAVED BY HIS DREAM DAL balloonist TAKES STRANGE VI SION AS A WARNING gives up his HI vocation and his hi sue suc ce or Is I 1 killed within two weeks A dream la in buffalo five years ago following an exhibition in a locel park caused cart carl mcmanus to give up ballooning tor for a less dangerous vocation and as he believes probably saved his life mr mcmanus Is now a traveling salesman for a new york hou house se and was in buffalo recently on business at the lafayette hotel he be told his big story 1 I am only slightly slig hily superstitions said gald mcmanus but that dr dream eam proved too much for me im mighty glad that it did too 1 I had bad gone to bed rather early on the night ot of the dream following my exhibition at the park things had gone rather badly and I 1 was tired out A couple ot of narrow escapes had slightly unnerved me it have been more than ten minutes after I 1 had fallen asleep before I 1 started to dream I 1 was up in the he air sailing mailing along beautifully there was no wind and the balloon rose slowly and gracefully I 1 went higher and remained up longer than usual and then made ready to descend 1 I threw out the ballast and held tight to the parachute but the balloon failed to shoot up that was wa cords strange Bt range I 1 thought I 1 pulled the cord and let out the gas instead of falling the big bag remained stationary it was wa most unusual and inexplicable 11 1 1 thoroughly alarmed and mystified ty this time I 1 cut the cords ot of the Vara parachute chute there was nothing doing the balloon and the parachute seemed anchored in the air to lo stay there ahm I 1 awoke A cold sweat coy COT ered cred my body the more I 1 thought about the dream the more convinced I 1 became that it was an ominous warning it means I 1 told myself that some ome day I 1 will go up and never come down allys the rho next day 1 gave up ballooning my friends protested but I 1 told them I 1 knew what was waa best tor for me I 1 left for new york that evening A couple of weeks later I 1 was reading a paper when I 1 came across so an item telling about an accident at an ohio county fair in which a balloonist was killed when his parachute uti tailed failed to work the man who was killed was the th one who had stepped into my shoes hoes when I 1 quit the date was one I 1 had been scheduled to fill AIL if I 1 had kept my job I 1 would probably have been killed I 1 told myself I 1 am not very religious but you can just bet that I 1 got busy right then and offered up lap thanks and the following sunday I 1 attended church too |