Show x ay r ca J D ij all A for a single balloon goldbeaters Gold beaters skin from six hundred thousand animals la Is necessary essary says spencer st louis mo alo building balloons from dead cattle startling it yet as percival spencer the hero of 1250 balloon ascents accents and parachute descents explained a few days ago it ft Is none the less justified in the first place sald sad the world famous aeronaut godl beaters skin is a wonderful gas holder it Is far better as well as lighter than varnished fabric india rubber covered silk cotton or any other odthe of the usual balloon fabrics every war balloon ordered by great britain is made of this material while the material itself is made from a certain portion of the intestinal membrane membra neof of an ox or cow which would otherwise be wasted thus you have the curious fact that balloons are built from from the waste ma berfal of dead eat cattle tie A great many cattle have to be killed to make one balloon said the aero aeronaut nauL six hundred thousand oxen for instance had bad to die before the balloons which my brothers and myself are malting making for count lins new airship could be proceeded with I 1 do not mean to say that we pad had to pay for the slaughter of over halt half a million cattle but we had to place orders for what is known as the peritoneal membranes of af that number of ani animals nials in order to secure what we wanted and then ihen mr air spencer took the in ter viewer across the lawn at ai the back bach of his High highbury bury residence into the balloon hall where dozens of men and girls were engaged in the evolution of the balloon for the zeppelin airship the skins reach mr air spencer direct from the slaughter houses in a rude crude form they are carefully sorted and examined and those regarded e d as sufficiently good for ballooning purposes are preserved in salt and stored in ili casks these as required are spread out on boards and by an ingenious and marvelous process are welded erin one homogeneous fabric it Is thus said mr air spencer that we construct an airtight vessel without seam or scar to hold the hydrogen gas within its confined area with no possibility of leakage or escape we provide an impervious envelope which contains within it the very lifeblood of the air motor without which it could not be e steered and could not even keep itself afloat the process Js s costly and that Is why goldbeaters gold beaters skin Is not used for ordinary balloons I 1 might mention however that we in this country are arenar far ahead of other nationalities in the manufacture of goldbeaters gold beaters skin for aerial purposes and that is why count zeppelin asked Us tie to make the balloon tor for his new airship |