| Show The Navigation of the Air as a Fashionable Craze Cral New Speed Diversion That May Become Popular N years he tho tJ 1 American public hug has t been Interested In ho tho thoi i navigation of ho tho air t only on un account of lt Its possibilities IIO l Its prom promises hm of oC mure or 0 IMS I s certain development Into something useful u fl has haf been ex es exceedingly I anil tho inputs of those who have ha devoted all 1111 energies to tho solution ot of tho problem havo had wl wide e exploitation In Inthe Inthe the press and been IJ clI followed 11 by 11 of or till clauses For Kor yearn a L revelation of ot the has lias seemed and each has hll been uc a 1 respectful hearing Of quite another character heen tho exploration of ot Count Henri dc why for Cor years has hall been beena a 1 missionary of ot to Jims mado frequent visits lo 10 America with willi tile ho benevolent Tho Iho count has lias poised us liS n utilitarian 11 It II 11 Ho h hns ms always g avowed with charming frankness Unit ho has no for 01 tho I of or mi 1111 original experimenter that lie he IB It content to himself of It tilt Inventions of ot others otillI adapting I hem to own pur anil anI modifying according II to 10 tobis bis hIli own needs II Tho of nr flying machines with propellers mid lles III I do II not at 01 Tho Iho only typo of nr ship that l appeals to 10 him Is till tho good old KM Inflated spheroid balloon with l n 1 comfortable car cm nt ot and he hl wants It to bo Untie of t good of or silk and Just jU 1 as HII per Im perfect unit 1111 nn liS may be Huch a II vehicle hu hI Is III prepared to recommend at nl atall all 1111 and In till 1111 1111 an HII tho very of or sport purt over unI overshadowing shadowing MO u a makeshift hICl as III tho automobile II II The most feature of ut the business s In III that In spite of t hili pro protestations the thc count ho I III c u very V l Impression 11 llIn In III the ul o of ot a 11 mure aerial l amateur a n MO HO flety man to hid hl J keen Ileen keenest est In III till tho open all air very high In III tho open nil air nt that he hu lias the thu title of ur commodore of II the ot ut tho air Scientific Moieties ami Individual observers oh have ho greatly Interested In what thoy persist t la In nailing mil I III his work worl Tho fount declines laughingly to accept their estimate of hl hii services to science and Invariably substitutes pleasure for their work 1011 Hut Henri do la III has done dollo things He lias not only cap captured record for fOl making the lofti loftiest est CHI ascent over ovel accomplished without aid alii hut hul he hc has remained r upper atmosphere than llulU liny other man outside of sacred his hili history tory Ho has studied tho Alps while sll impended comfortably over their sum m I IN ha hlll looked down on the thc steppes 11 from an elevation of four and has tho Pyrenees from a n vim VIII tase point never lIever attained by hy any other Once bo ho It also remembered ho nearly crowd crl s1 the Mediterranean In a n balloon Although he began lils ca career reer In Interest of sport tho count noon made e a 1 serious proposition tion Astronomers went aloft with him to better acquainted with the Meteorologist begged the privilege of ot lI with hint him In order to become intimate with tho all air current the tho French govern government ment placed cruisers at lit Ills hili disposal as CUI convoys In hlll attempts to cross the Mediterranean his most mORt I thrilling achievement wa his aerial u Journey from l to Kiev KuHnla HURla a distance dl of l 1 rO mile In III houis l l His JIh over was hulled hailed ax nil a triumph by bytho tho ho French military authorities and It II aroused the enthusiasm of or tho French nation to tile the highest pitch who have examined the counts papers prepared forthe French ROdet and experts who Iho havo admired tho accuracy of hi mathematical III tables may have hlo he to wears spectacles and goes gocs about with all tho traditional gravity of ot tho thu scholar chotI who have en Ill enJoyed Joyed Joed his hili bool n of ot adventure HillY inny V turo him as liS a n veteran of ot tho outdoor lire life Tho women who havo shed tears over one of or his hili romances may find to 10 think of at l hn other othe than thon young unit and poetical In of ot fuel fact ho In Is wholly different from uny of or thee the c al as Is s his hili vocation hl hit i hyx Ique does not 11 It Count do de la Vaulx I V In his thirty seventh Ic Is amo lo t a II Blant In and has hns tho of ot a avery very nattily attired athlete There Is It no affectation ot oC I In Ills hit dress IT lilt hl reputation anan dill did not overshadow all ull lesser distinctions ho might still derive considerable lo publicity from his hi sartorial successes He Is III devoted to good HOOlI clothes and de declares declines clines clares that he should feel Ceel miserable oven even la III the cloud If IC he were not 1101 well MesHed dressed This Thill to bp br practically a man who wh has hUI spent two to years among t and hau penetrated most of tho out of oC tho WilY way regions of tho globo When he h began to tn advocate balloon ballooning ing as lit a sport his hlll friends ot Uio Pa Parisian 11 lan bean hC lII mome young junK nobleman us u freak and found no of amusement In his hIli enthusiasm U II long however before Ills earn and prevailed and dukes duchesses savants and literary men became his hili ardent disciples The cult cull expanded to witch such that tho II Aerial club was Willi founded and it was not long loll until Parisian so society was committed to tho Iho now contests luncheons In III and balloon meets became I recognized an fashionable amusements file count constructed balloons und and regular Instruction In In galling them Tim O spread to other coun loun countries tries and In tho courso CoUl O of or time tho Aero club was formed 11 lit III New York city Do De la Villi Ix haH made several visits to this till country 11 II and has haM always met with an nil enthusiastic reception tWin from tho members of this organization He has hU made numerous ascensions hero and has made ballooning quite popular among the tho fashionable set lct of or Newport and Now New ork To 10 the tho count thero ar are no unrealized Ideals 11 1 sa Q far tal M iii navigation Is III concerned aa 1111 u IL Aerostatics of which 0 hi 8 the nc lie leader I makes it ro nowadays for the tho man ot f to possess a II balloon of or Its owner from New York to AVash or oven on Chicago Where the distances III ho count has demonstrated ill tho Journeys Jou may ilia bo Lo mado In III t absolute safety lie has lias mado of It ICO ascensions in which h ho has ha traveled more than halfway around the globo sl bo and hUll has never nevel had an nn accident The count IK III convinced that balloon Ing us a II has hai u II great glent future in Ht Ill declares that It IL is 1 fu III less dangerous than driving an auto mobile and greatly to be Concerning Its Iii commercial use ho I rather skeptical lie believe that the Ih time Is 18 very far distant when the m mIng fly Ing illg as designed by hy t Langley and hili aliI f t 1 tan mn bo hI made practical Ho lLe lias lia niilo faith In lit a It Her that Is so 1111 much heavier than the tho air 1111 Ho bis belief in tho superiority ot nr the tho spherical ri loon luon although ho hll In Inclined to Io upon 11 of tho motors recently o dr as ot or trial HO n h to tl America and anI models of ut his hili own contrivance one IIno of which Illustrates his hili Idea of a II propeller rho first balloon ascension under the His auspices of Q tho Aero Club of or n which was mado recently and was WlM a 1 notable has hu given tile the sport a Ij tremendous Impetus In certain fash quarters I II Atthe t the Invitation ot or ortho tho count Dr DI Julian p u II member of ut Aero CIO club took a I do aerial sail lall from a II point In up upper per litH New ew York YO city dl to the country resi lerI residence dence of or a Il friend In on hong Island where they dined after afterward ward returning to tho city by bile that day da there hll been such activity among those Im embraced tho cult cull thaI tho business or balloon making promises to 10 become one of C tho leading sporting Industries of or ortho tho country I |
