Show F LIES THROUGH THE UPPER AIR I r Amateur Balloonist Tells of His Bis Experiences A MORE DANGEROUS WILL GIVE EXHIBITIONS AT THE PORTLAND FAIR FAIRA I A chap with a pair or those peculiar cold g grey greye e oye that Invariably betoken absolute ute ignorance of Is George T TI I Tomlinson who sails among the clouds 1 for sport I Be Is an amateur balloonist just as asI I some ome men are chauffeurs for tor pleasure Just now he I s on his way to Portland with an airship which he is going to try tryout tryout out st at the big fair isn I navigation as dangerous a as he said and yet et people are ure afraid ot of It The They ought to tot t try It just for tor Its own sake It is the tho thorO rO rosiest lest ot of sports But he wag ans asked t a man apt to tome come down dOn pretty hard some He smiled slowly Not a bits of It Ithe Ithe he said I 1 never got more of a jolt than I could give by sitting down In that chair over er there ther pointing to one ot or the big wicker rockers that make mke the Knutsford lObby a pleas pleasant pleasant ant place for loafing Ive been heen at it seven years he went vent wenton venton on another question and andI I never neer got ot hurt possibilities In that way wore ere hinted at by his skeptical auditor The he young man took urn tim brage How can you ou got get hurt he queried when theros theres nothing around you but air Why with an auto for instance youve got fences and ditches and cows and all sorts of things to bump into In th the air you have It all to Unless you should happen to drop was as SUggested You can bund build your our basket high enough to prevent that said lie with witha 1 a trace of iron irony Anyhow youre oure not going to f fail ll out And when it comes 1 tM the sport of the thing wh why It is aim JI be beyond ond de p 1 Just tr try it iton on e when you get the chance k How He Got a Start l How did you OU come to go into it j 1 always wanted to he said and andone I one time at a county fair I saw the chance chanco A professional aeronaut was there thoro I got him to take me up with him Then I made ascensions for him just for the fun of it you vou know And finally I persuaded him to go Up one morning and to take a voyage It was m my first experience In this wa way We Ve traveled miles anti and crossed over 1 and rivers Then I became U VI h the sport have been scared ared by the parachute do de Now in France they dont have that sort of thing and people are beginning to realize the in inthis 1 this way a Some day we Will t then 11 we will have the grandet o all ll p pas pastimes s times He Be was asked about his airship 1 think said sald ho he that it will be a SUccess But I have not it yet et I just got it done and I shipped it on ahead I became imbued with the Idea and Charles B Knox the gelatine man manufacturer backed me I 1 buIlt the boat it does not go well try ther If Ill g go b improve it 1 r rAm Am beginning with the Idea of creeping first then walking Sonic Some day I shall make a sUf success SS of the thing It is a dirigible balloon Its biggest bulk is ahead of the tho center like an egg It has a high speed screw just the op opposite opposite of other airships jI believe that i a good feature He was going ahead with enthusiasm now and talking fast but the tho listener interrupted again it a bit riskY trying a thing of that sort for the first time In a place like the big bi exposition I should like to tried It out alone first lIe he admitted but It make much flinch difference only if It go through nicel nicely people wont under understand stand mand an any technical little improvements It needs But he was told that the point Supposing you ou were to get ditched or whatever you OU choose to call it In a place like that thit What then hOh Oh he said reflectively Well rell I r dont know I never noer had an any real 1001 acci accident dent dont yet ot those things arent 8 so bad Last year car at t the St Louis ex exposition exposition position I was In a 8 stationary balloon and it The big bag formed a regular and we came down ery nicely We Ve were up only a few hundred feet feeL the listener got through reflect lug ing over the sU possibilities he was asked Up Three Thre and a Half Miles How oIs the furthest OU over eer Thee and miles It H was But that is by no means the tho record A ii of four German professors recently went up seven and miles HoW long have you stayed er cr aloft was WK asked He showed a 8 big gold medal bc bearing the legend of oC the Louisiana Purchase expo exposition He had staYed i ir the air two da days S and traveled oer parts Of three states while he did It He went wenton on and told of the glories of moonlight above the clouds the pleasure re or of going up p up up without any feeling of mo me motion ties tion with absolute silence all about j you That is one of the pleasures we e wont get In he said regretfully There will be the rushing of the wind and the nol noise e of the Ballooning gives poc you ou a flin feeling of sublimity that no oth other r known knon sport can bt eto Mr has sent his airship on ahead He wm will go right to work 4 Putting it together as soon loon as he ar arrives arrives rives in Portland He left for city last evening |