| Show How Balloons Aro Mado Mr Chauneey MGovern In the Spp S tom her Pom sons gives a detailed account ac-count of the construction of the ihia which sail through the air ITc says The silk used In balloons Is of va5 ilous grades but the bent balloons such ai uv mud by the War department depart-ment and the United States Weather bureau ire mack of the coarse silk which the ISuropein poaants obtain from th ° wild cocoons Ordinary balloons 1 bal-loons are made of cotton only but of lie most expensive kind It iu well known In commerce as long fibre South Sen Jxlnmla cotton And when a balloon Iii l In be made the raw silk or cotton Is run through a machine whose construction is ferret fer-ret where It receives from thirteen to tenlyono dlffcient coals of varnish This Is I the only place In the world where balloons are varnirhcsl by r1 Chlnory Hand labor Is I employed clne whcie and a double ooutln of varnish III about the UmlU Mnclilifc varnishIng varnish-Ing has this t great advantage in that none of the t oalH are thick enough to be artectod by the sharpest eyes It takes 30 030 coats to make a single Inch In thickness After the rolls of silk and colton have been varnished enough they arc hung up on lines to dry Next the rolls are cut Into segments and sewed together by the women of the neighborhood neigh-borhood A flnal vainlshlng of the teams only and time balloon ls I ready for fhlpmont It docs not talce long lo make a big balloon Mot o bug 10 Mr Myers received telegraphic order I for twenty large bfllloong for the United Stale Government Gov-ernment Signal Forvlce The whole batch of them was finished within tho phenomenally short lime of th Ice days It t IB I Interesting to compute this time with that required to build a single balloon for Andree AntI his balloon was varnished only thrice And besides these twenty balloons Mr Myers l has made hundreds of others oth-ers for use by tho United States Government Gov-ernment In the War department and In the Department of Agriculture |
