Show MAY CROSS OCEAN IN BALLOON From the Now York World The feat of the Count do la Vaulx and the Count dOutremont in crossing the English channel for the llrst time in a balloon does not at list glance seem rernark able The distance traveled rom Purls to Mull was but 3GO miles the open channel crossing on a direct line between those points is but sixty miles In a period only about 1 thrice along a-long a balloon has traveled from Paris far Into Russia a distance or over J700 miles But Continental winds are quite different I ferent from those which play about great islands and open water Often as lilt channel crossing has been attempted i attempt-ed Jt has always been prevented by I baffling and contrary winds Because of the comparative < steadiness with I which the trade winds blow in the sub tropic regions the feat of crossing the Atlantic itself proposed by 11 Rcclus I is perhaps no more venturesome than that Just performed by the two daring Frenchmen wllh I a steady twcnty uiot wind 11 balloon should cross from the west coast of Africa to Trinidad in four days I |