Show I SANTOS ANios DUMONT IS THEIR HERO DERO S Excitable Frenchmen Fre Are All AI Up in InThe Tho The Air Over Him Hin TOASTS TO ro A t BALLOON Hit h ami lel lot lor t r Joy lo Tim Shut I Ithe the tho r t Wit Sim red fur Sot or Oilier New York Aug AU 0 IA fEA A dispatch lp tp the tho Journal and Advertiser AdI er from Paris gives tho the following additional details concerning M it II Santos Dumont and onti tho the recent trial of at his lila airship All Paris laris Is excited as ns only Paris can be bo over M Santos Dumont The Tho dirigible balloon has become tho the personal and Joy of Parisians They knew the tho whole world was as watching every eer flIght night of ot this balloon Ra So their disappointment was WIlS acute their chagrin Intense their excitement overwhelming when they the heard tho the balloon Was wrecked first reports mak making making ing It appear n pear that the young oung Brazilian aeronaut had been bean killed From l rom nit nil over the tho city people hurried taking the thc first firstI vehicle I at al hand running telling each ea other the tho pews news first toward tho the Eiffel Biffel r tower then to the Exposition I XI Trocadero hotel on whose roof root they soon ROon learned the balloon had crashed The Tue accident was wan bad enough but not nearly so BO bad badas badas as the fIrst Hying rumor had hail It Santos Santo Dumont was not hurt but only his as astonishing a coolness raved caved him front from deah In to tact fact was Infinitely cooler than the thousands that lint quickly surrounded him At As soon as os he found Cound himself safe he ho asked for tor a n cigarette which he lit Dumont In III the ascent wore worl a n religious modal medal given to him him by the tho Countess DEu daughter of ot the tho late Dom Darn Pedro emperor of at Brazil Half Jokingly Joking half reverently tho the aeronaut kissed the medal saying It was ns this that saved saed me Prince Bonaparte Lieutenant Noix nod other skilful aeronauts have not lost faith In the balloons balloon ultimate site suc success cess because they tha perfectly understand the tho cause of oC the tho accident to It I the failure allure of at the motor to pump air to nil fill the Inner balloon fo so as nil to compensate compensate sate for the gas which had bitt escaped and so 80 to keep the great balloon taut Inflated When WhIm the time stern fell tell In a II flabby nabby way the tho screw acre began to cut the wires and the time only chance I left to Dumont was waa to stop slop the ma machine machine I chine and drift with the wind M Deutsch was much gloomier that i his francs had bail not been won than i iwas was Dumont over oer the tho Occident accident Said Salt I the time donor I have feared an accident to some Rome one striving to gain kain aln my m prize I have wished to retire but the committee said saidI I could not honorably do so 80 So I Ire re remain remain main But certainly the course should be changed so 80 as ns to escape the tha danger of tailing falling Into Paris lInt But Paris Is U happy that the accident was not more Everywhere toasts are being drunk drank to The Tile balloon baloon thai lIM certainly will anti and to lo Dumont who will guide It It Is estimated that repairs to the balloon will with cost francs SI M I San Santos tos tea Dumont says 8 S It will be ready on September 1 and that be he will make an another another another other trial before beCore Sept 15 when the tho competition closes closeR for tor 1901 |